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Judges - Alumni

Start-up culture and operations · Business model development · Team building and coaching · New business development Industry Consumer Products and Services (B2C), Technology Verticals Beauty, E-Commerce, FemTech, Lifestyles of Health and View Details
  • 08 Sep 2008
  • HBS Case

The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities
  • September 2021 (Revised October 2021)
  • Case

Dream: Impact Through Real Estate

By: Michael Chu and John Masko
The Canadian city of Toronto had one of the largest housing affordability problems of any city in the developed world. One company trying to address this problem was Dream, one of the largest real estate groups in Canada. In 2021, Dream had just launched a new system... View Details
Keywords: Impact Investing; Real Estate Development; Renewable Energy; Energy Conservation; Income; Values and Beliefs; Borrowing and Debt; Equity; Private Equity; Public Equity; Financing and Loans; City; Government Legislation; Immigration; Housing; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Property; Business and Government Relations; Civil Society or Community; Human Needs; Sustainable Cities; Environmental Sustainability; Social Enterprise; Real Estate Industry; Canada; Toronto
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

impact ventures. Sustainable Investing: What Does the Research Say? Professor Shawn Cole No additional materials available + More Info – Less Info Asset owners, investors, and advocates are increasingly using financial tools to support... View Details
  • 09 Sep 2013
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics

A few years ago, Joseph B. Lassiter traveled to San Francisco, Houston, and New York to hold discussions with Harvard alumni on the topic of business and the environment. Each time, he surveyed the audience about the touchy subject of climate change and how society... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

    James J. Ling

    Ling was a maverick in the development of the conglomerate business model, building in 14 years the 14th largest industrial corporation in the United States. A major risk taker, Ling extensively used debt to View Details
    Keywords: Fabricated Goods
    • 02 Jul 2015
    • Op-Ed

    The Future of the Greek Economy

    offer their thoughts on the Greek economic crisis. Their answers were written before last week's referendum vote by the Greek people, but their insights remain valuable. The Need For Sustainable Growth Calling for a referendum asking the... View Details
    Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Dante Roscini & George Serafeim; Banking
    • 29 Jan 2015
    • Op-Ed

    The Fall of Greece

    in the country. (Note, this has nothing to do with the discussion around whether the debt level is sustainable; I actually agree with Syriza that the debt level is not View Details
    Keywords: by George Serafeim
    • 24 Jun 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: June 24

    innovation is attracting exceptional creative talent. Or making the right investments. Or breaking down organizational silos. All of these things may help-but there's only one way to ensure sustained innovation: you need to lead it-and... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 30 Sep 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: September 30, 2008

    optimal foreign reserve holdings take the level of international debt as given. However, given the sovereign's willingness-to-pay incentive problems, reserve accumulation may reduce sustainable View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
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    John Smith-Ricco

    experienced." Sustainable ambitions During January term, John returned to Africa via the Rwanda IXP, focused on "enterprise and nation-building in a post-conflict society." John and three other HBS colleagues worked with an... View Details
    • 06 May 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: May 6

    August 2013 Management Science The Impact of Corporate Sustainability on Organizational Processes and Performance By: Eccles, Robert G., Ioannis Ioannou, and George Serafeim Abstract—We investigate the effect of corporate View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 15 Aug 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: August 15, 2006

    reserve accumulation may reduce sustainable debt levels. In addition, assuming constant debt levels does not allow addressing one of the puzzles behind using reserves as a... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 24 Sep 2014
    • Op-Ed

    The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)

    something? Based on my experience as a real estate and construction CEO and my academic research on urbanization, new cities, and the finance of sustainable infrastructure, I propose these simple ABCs (actually A-F) for business leaders... View Details
    Keywords: by John Macomber; Energy; Utilities
    • 08 Nov 2024
    • Op-Ed

    How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis

    the findings to colleagues at the Harvard Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability in March. Why organizations are investing in adaptation to climate stresses In August, Pippa Armerding, executive director of the HBS ARC, and I... View Details
    Keywords: by John Macomber; Green Technology; Energy
    • 08 May 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: May 8

    sustain competitive advantage: learning by doing, learning by exporting, learning from competitors, users, and alliance partners. In this paper we focus attention on another locus of learning that has received less attention from... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 01 Sep 2015
    • First Look

    First Look -- September 1, 2015

    Debt Redemption and Reserve Accumulation By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—Foreign participation in local-currency bond markets in emerging countries has increased dramatically over the past decade. In light of this trend, we... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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    Loan Assistance Programs - Alumni

    scheme Certified educational loans from a bank or credit union (e.g. HUECU, etc.) Applicants must not be delinquent or in default on their loans at the time of application. If in doubt, please ask HBS MBA Financial Aid before committing to a loan. View Details
    • 22 Apr 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: April 22

    to European banks, we evaluate a variety of interventions to reduce their vulnerability to fire sales during the sovereign debt crisis. Publisher's link:... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 12 Jul 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: July 12

    debt for firms in the vicinity of financial distress. We show that this ruling increased the likelihood of equity issues, increased investment, and reduced firm risk, consistent with a decrease in debt-equity conflicts of interest. The... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel