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  • 29 Aug 2024
  • Blog Post

Leni Peterson R. (MS/MBA 2023): Solving Big Problems Through Entrepreneurship

simple products like the Hippo Roller (a device used to carry drinking water) and insecticidal nets, realizing their potential to significantly improve communities. This revelation shaped my guiding principle: to use design and engineering to solve complex View Details
  • Web

Trade Catalogs - The Art of American Advertising

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership Networked Business Research... View Details
  • February 10, 2015
  • Article

Nonprice incentives and Energy Conservation

By: Omar Isaac Asensio and Magali A Delmas
We investigate the effectiveness of nonprice incentives to motivate conservation behavior. We test whether tailored information about environmental and health damages produces behavior change in the residential electricity sector. In a randomized controlled trial with... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Energy Conservation; Environmental Sustainability; Pollutants; Health Disorders; Knowledge Dissemination; Behavior
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  • April 2010 (Revised November 2010)
  • Background Note

Moral Decision-Making: Reason, Emotion & Luck

By: Michael A. Wheeler and Julianna Pillemer
This extensive note synthesizes current psychological and neuroscientific research on how people make decisions with moral implications. Research summaries and scenarios illustrate critical issues. View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Moral Sensibility; Leadership; Science; Emotions
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  • 2017
  • Working Paper

Nowcasting the Local Economy: Using Yelp Data to Measure Economic Activity

By: Edward L. Glaeser, Hyunjin Kim and Michael Luca
Can new data sources from online platforms help to measure local economic activity? Government datasets from agencies such as the U.S. Census Bureau provide the standard measures of economic activity at the local level. However, these statistics typically appear only... View Details
Keywords: Economy; Analytics and Data Science; Local Range; Social and Collaborative Networks
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  • 28 Jun 2016
  • First Look

June 28, 2016

forthcoming Management Science The First Deal: The Division of Founder Equity in New Ventures By: Hellmann, Thomas F., and Noam Wasserman Abstract—We examine the trade-off between efficiency and equality within the context of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Fast Answer

Workplace Diversity: Data Sources

conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis, and other empirical social science research. Includes polling on work and employment, mostly focused on issues relating to women... View Details
  • 21 Dec 2015
  • Op-Ed

Without Immigrants, We Wouldn't Have Google

Brin had graduated from the University of Maryland, he was such an academic star that the National Science Foundation helped fund his Ph.D. studies. It turned out to be a good bet. Brin teamed with Larry Page while the two pursued their... View Details
Keywords: by Shane Greenstein; Information Technology
  • 01 Jun 2022
  • News

Students Ready to Make an Impact

those who have a passion to found, work at, or invest in a startup, HBS’s Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, the Harvard Innovation Labs, and HBS’s close ties to the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences are... View Details
  • 06 Jan 2010
  • What Do You Think?

Is a Stringent Climate Change Agreement a Pot of Gold?

financing, a socially positive attitude toward entrepreneurship and the failure that it often entails, and a market for new ideas). If that's the case, countries that should be at the forefront in advocating more stringent rules regarding... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Energy; Utilities
  • September 2011
  • Article

The Empire Struck Back: Sanctions and Compensation in the Mexican Oil Expropriation of 1938

By: Noel Maurer
The Mexican expropriation of 1938 was the first large-scale non-Communist expropriation of foreign-owned natural resource assets. The literature makes three assertions: the U.S. did not fully back the companies, Mexico did not fully compensate them for the value of... View Details
Keywords: Natural Environment; Assets; Value; Motivation and Incentives; Government and Politics; Strategy; Interests; Revenue; Non-Renewable Energy; Energy Industry; Mexico; United States
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  • 16 Jun 2015
  • News

Michael Porter on America's Historic Energy Opportunity

  • Fall 2020
  • Article

Climate in the Boardroom: Struggling to Reconcile Business as Usual and the End of the World as We Know It

By: Rebecca Henderson
How does one witness to businesspeople about climate change? Climate change is a problem for the collective and the long term, whereas business often requires a ruthless focus on the individual and the quarter. Climate change is an ethical catastrophe whose solution... View Details
Keywords: Sustainable Business; Climate Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability
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  • 04 Dec 2019
  • Working Paper Summaries

Pathways to Materiality: How Sustainability Issues Become Financially Material to Corporations and Their Investors

Keywords: by Jean Rogers and George Serafeim
  • December 2010 (Revised March 2013)
  • Case

Asian Agri and the Future of Palm Oil

By: David E. Bell and Natalie Kindred
For Asian Agri and other Indonesian palm oil producers, the future promised rising demand from fast-growing Asian populations, but also intensifying criticism from environmental groups. With the highest yield and lowest production cost of any edible oil, palm oil... View Details
Keywords: Plant-Based Agribusiness; Social Marketing; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business Strategy; Supply Chain Management; Natural Environment; Marketing Strategy; Environmental Sustainability; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Indonesia; Malaysia
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Wendi Zhang

development policies and analysis in the public sector. Wendi attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she received Bachelor of Science degrees in both Mathematics and Management Science, along with minors in Economics... View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise; Social Enterprise; Social Enterprise; Social Enterprise; Social Enterprise; Social Enterprise; Social Enterprise; Social Enterprise; Social Enterprise; Social Enterprise; Social Enterprise; Social Enterprise; Social Enterprise; Social Enterprise
  • 20 Aug 2019
  • Cold Call Podcast

Should a Pension Fund Try to Change the World?

Keywords: Re: Rebecca M. Henderson & George Serafeim; Financial Services
  • 24 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

The Watsons: IBM’s Troubled Legacy

IBM's artistic contribution to the fair. Watson was described in the New York Times as taking "a bold and potentially constructive step" by displaying works from seventy-nine countries in his Gallery of Science and Art in a... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
  • 20 Dec 2019
  • Blog Post

Top 10 MBA Voices Blogs of 2019

classmates simply by participating in activities organized entirely by incoming students. They range anywhere from walking tours of Boston to skydiving! Even the section reveal itself was a suspenseful social experience. Read... View Details
  • 23 Apr 2018
  • News

Sowing the Seeds of Leadership

socially responsible development projects in economically challenged communities. Students come from 48 countries, predominately in Latin America and Africa. The admissions team and faculty personally conduct up to 1,000 interviews in... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg