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- 06 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: Sustainability in Action: Inside Hindustan Unilever’s Public Sanitation and Plastic Recycling Facilities
Professor Vikram Gandhi’s Immersive Field Course (IFC) “Development while Decarbonizing: India’s Path to Net-Zero" delved into the critical aspect of decarbonization and sustainability goals amid India's rapid development. The course presented an opportunity for... View Details
- 19 Jan 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing the Economic Crisis
Perspectives from the Boardroom—2009 To understand what transpired in the boardrooms of complex companies during the financial crisis, and to offer a prescription to improve board effectiveness, eight senior faculty members talked with 45... View Details
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- 03 Nov 2008
- HBS Case
Economics of the Ethanol Business
capable of producing 40 million gallons a year can be built for an initial cost of between $55 million and $60 million. In 2003, the group fans out to test the idea with some 2,500 farmers in the area; after this outreach, MME has 729... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Farming for Fuel
protagonist Ryland Utlaut (the group’s president) and ten other farmers, who put together seed money of $25,000 in 2002 to launch the project. A feasibility study shows that an ethanol plant capable of producing 40 million gallons a year can be built for an View Details
- 26 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Tap into Top Talent with the HBS Leadership Fellows Program
around the country, and he credits the HBS Leadership Fellows Program as the springboard that launched his career. Now he is back at Harvard Business School as the Director of the Social Enterprise Initiative helping develop more leaders... View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise
- 22 Nov 2016
- Blog Post
Memoirs of an International First Year Student
on the career front. As an RC, our initial professional priority is to secure that coveted summer internship offer. There are some firms willing to hire only American residents or international students who already have an authorized work... View Details
- 19 Jan 2016
- News
Electric Avenues
on a Tuesday at 2 p.m., who’s going to show up?” Agora, the online platform Sze launched last year, offers a place for citizens to interact with their elected representatives using everything from message boards to streaming video chats.... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- Web
Buy Now, Pay Later: The Secondary Credit Market
The Rise of Installment Selling Home Finance Cars on Time The Secondary Credit Market The Usurer's Grip Research Links Credits “We must divorce the three golden balls from the three Furies.” — Charities Review , 1892 Installment plans, home mortgages, and auto loans... View Details
- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
sense that the observer cannot distinguish between the settings in which different plays occur. If the observer does not believe that he will be able to offer beneficial advice then he must believe that the players are playing a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 May 2018
- Blog Post
Internship Success: Mutual Growth Brings Intern and Enterprise Together
Francisco and Silicon Valley in December 2017. “We visited quite a few companies I liked,” Czapski says. Not only did he make new contacts, but through TechCrunch, he found an HBS alum mentor who proved helpful. Meanwhile, Zillow’s Melissa Tran was engaged in a new... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Two Kinds of Green
with video "chapters." HBS Business and Environment Initiative - Check out HBS faculty research and news on sustainability efforts on the HBS campus With the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) now well established,... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Short Takes
Smoking Gun When impressionable teenagers light their first cigarettes, they initiate what all too often becomes a lifelong, life-threatening habit. The vast majority of smokers begin in their teens, yet the tobacco industry has... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Disruption: The Art of Framing
offered by the CMOS technology. And he committed additional resources only when the management team identified and began developing new markets. Rather than pour money into the initial framing, he helped... View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
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Impact Stories | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Nicole Bucala As a student at HBS, Nicole Bucala (MBA 2015) could not stop thinking ... Activating a Legion of People Bertina Ceccarelli When a company I was working for relocated to Omaha, I knew I wanted t... Alumni Clubs Supporting & Connecting Amelia Angella Local... View Details
- 05 Oct 2021
- News
Launch Signals
Zárraga told Fortune. “It fits into your life instead of you having to do something new or different and connects you to others, so you are never alone.” “With creating Flare, we wanted to offer an effective, practical tool, not a... View Details
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Create Winning Streaks
on-time performance, and offered to share equally with all employees 50 percent of the cost savings achieved by better service. Employees were motivated to achieve this goal and showed initiative in taking... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel
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Educating Business Administrators - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
other active calling,” he wrote. “The classical schools and the colleges do not offer what I want. . . . Here is a real need and a very serious problem.” 1 By the turn of the twentieth century, a rising managerial class was overseeing the... View Details
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IT Strategy: Building a Smarter, Scalable Future in the Cloud | Information Technology
essential for HBS’s technological evolution. The Solution The Cloud Program will establish clear cloud principles, architectural standards, and governance processes as well as invest in the skills of our staff to support a way of working within the cloud. This View Details
- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
Applied Corporate Finance Investors as Stewards of the Commons? By: Serafeim, George Abstract—Over the past few years, there has been a significant increase in the number of initiatives seeking to mobilize investor voice towards positive... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces 2023-24 Leadership Fellows
fellows—are offered once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to experience high-impact management positions in nonprofit and public sector organizations for one year at a competitive salary. At the same time, the hiring organizations leverage the... View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise