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- 25 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Will Machine Learning Make You a Better Manager?
when he angrily stormed into a store clutching a circular for maternity clothes that had been sent to his teenage daughter, only to later find out that the store had accurately predicted she was pregnant. Such examples represent a... View Details
- 24 May 2023
- Blog Post
Innovating, Funding, and Scaling Climate Solutions at Harvard Business School: Day Three of Harvard Climate Action Week
circular economy. The breakout sessions following lunch featured smaller case studies and topical discussions: measuring and reducing climate emissions with Professor Robert Kaplan and Assistant Professor Shirley Lu; battery producer... View Details
- 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
- 12 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Amager Bakke: I Like This Waste Incinerator in My Backyard!
insights into modern, innovative, and sustainable waste management. Notably, the facility follows several best practices to maximize the sustainability of its operations like first extracting recyclables such as paper, glass, and metals, aligning with View Details
- 09 Mar 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
In This Classroom, Beer Can Improve Your Grade
In a large circular classroom called The Hives, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell is roaming the floors this week as he oversees the second running of Strategic Brew, a computerized business simulation designed for first-year MBA students at... View Details
- 20 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: Building Resilience - Mumbai’s Journey to Sustainable Water Management
300,000 residents, the plant converts sludge into resources for electricity generation, showcasing a circular approach to waste management. Operated in partnership with Suez, a private contractor, the plant uses advanced treatment... View Details
- 21 May 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: From Trash to Treasure: Inside a Waste Management Site in Mumbai
biodegradable alternatives are vital steps toward a circular economy. On Dalmia and HUL’s side, scaling the current plastic processing facilities requires significant investment and reliable long-term contracts for the increase in... View Details
- 10 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures
Tan, MBA 2023 Komo is a food delivery platform that combines sustainability with beautiful & reusable foodware. ---------------------------------------------------- Circular Economy Contestants MoveItCarmen Marin de Leon, MBA... View Details
- 15 Feb 2023
- News
Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains
potential new uses for captured carbon. Todd Brix (MBA 1997): And that's what we aspire to—to enable a circular carbon economy using humankind's CO2 emissions or the CO2 that's already in the air. DM: That's next time, on Skydeck. This... View Details
- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
receiving JCP Cash coupons and circulars advertising the week's specials, were slow to embrace the new pricing format and began leaving the retailer in droves. Under enormous pressure to turn things around as the all-important... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
position in the non-voting shares, had filed a dissident proxy circular recommending that shareholders vote against the proposal based on both procedural and substantive grounds. With the success of the vote in doubt, the board had to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
2024 Summer Internships in Business & Environment
surplus food to build a more equitable, inclusive, and circular food system by feeding those in need. Carina's role prior to HBS was Brand Manager at Little Leaf Farms, an indoor agriculture startup. View Details
- 14 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 14, 2009
Competition Between Differentiated Products with Demand for More Than One Variety Author: Andrei Hagiu Abstract We analyze the existence of pure strategy symmetric price equilibria in a generalized version of Salop's (1979) circular model... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
these two relationships may operate in a circular fashion. Second, we consider whether advertising these benefits of charitable giving—asking people to give in order to be happy—may have the perverse consequence of decreasing charitable... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What Your Competition is Telling You
writes Yoffie, "you move to weaken your opponent's position by using his momentum to your advantage." Wal-Mart successfully used this strategy against the then- much larger Kmart in the 1980s, Yoffie writes. "They posted Kmart's weekly View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
Cash coupons and circulars advertising the week's specials, were slow to embrace the new pricing format and began leaving the retailer in droves. Under enormous pressure to turn things around as the all-important back-to-school and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
the box in terms of being green. I think there’s been a lot of lazy lending because you plunk your money into a renewables project because you know renewable power is green. But the money is needed as much in areas to do of sanitation, in water efficiency, in the View Details
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Art Nature Business
United States and Mexico. Cabeza de Baca—whose ancestry is Spanish, Mexican, Apache, and Zuni—describes his paintings and process: "Last time I was in New Mexico the idea of working in abstract circular planes came to me. The... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
tallow, and creating a win for farmers, consumers, and the environment. “We need to stop looking at food and ag as a supply chain, which implies a one-way street, and think of it in a more circular way,” Lambert says, citing HBS professor... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
atmosphere. We set the bar at nature. Plants breathe in carbon dioxide, and they extract water from the soil to make a variety of molecules. But then when the plant dies, carbon dioxide is inevitably released. It’s a circular carbon... View Details