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- 29 Jul 2013
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Opening New Markets for Black South African Winemakers
notable recent addition is the House of Mandela portfolio of wines, produced by the family of Nelson Mandela. The Mandelas and Cuffes both recognized South Africa's burgeoning fair trade wine movement, which promotes equitable trade and labor practices, community... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Making a Difference
manager at Procter & Gamble, Haacker loves the outdoors. His goal at Denali was to explore a potential long-term career in environmental conservation and to get a sense of how nonprofits and government agencies work. “Everybody tells you... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Profits and Purpose
measure the environmental and societal impacts of companies, how we can analyze them, and then how do we standardize them to create a race to innovation instead of a race to the bottom. Because then you can... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Capitalism’s New Agenda
benefits of growth increasingly will be enjoyed only by the top quintile, and mostly by the top 1 percent. The business leaders we spoke to were disturbed by the environmental challenges of climate change, scarce water, and depleted fish... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
Angie Hicks, MBA 2000
success is important, Hicks is particularly proud of Angie’s List’s impact on the Indianapolis community. The company is one of the largest employers in town, and its charitable foundation supports educational and View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 15 Apr 2020
- News
How Sarah Kauss Built S’well
on her recent HBS Reunion, where she had listened to Harvard Professor Daniel Schrag discuss the impacts of climate change and the looming global water crisis. “I had this idea that if there was a company that was creating a better water... View Details
- 21 Jan 2021
- News
New Menu
burgeoning consumer trend, as people are become more aware of the impact of dietary choices on climate change as well as personal health and animal welfare. Twelve companies joined the accelerator’s first cohort, including a company... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Funding His Purpose
concept proved successful—nonprofits and for-profit social or environmental impact companies did benefit from access to loans—but the model did not. SITAWI did not see the necessary volume in deals to be... View Details
- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
make an impact on climate change. So now he's exploring how to apply that same machine learning approach he used to design golf clubs to design sorbents—these molecules that can bind to carbon dioxide and make carbon capture more... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: A Timely Tension
Thoren believes there doesn’t need to be a divide between for-profit and nonprofit missions. In December 2020, she joined outdoor-clothing brand Patagonia as director of Environmental Action and Initiatives, EMEA, a position that unites... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Recognizing the Value Proposition
my life,” he says. Now chairman emeritus of Greylock, McCance is focused on giving back. He and his daughters run a family foundation that supports K–12 education, environmental conservation, and medical research. “Being a good... View Details
- 26 Mar 2015
- News
Improving the environment through green spaces and commercial buildings
Daniel M. Gilbane (MBA 2005), senior vice president of Gilbane Building Co., a family-owned commercial construction company, is helping Houston become a greener city. “We in the commercial construction business have become much more aware of the View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Understanding Challenges Across the Supply Chain
nearly 20 times. During classroom discussions, presentations, and talks by guest speakers, participants explore topics ranging from climate change and the environmental impact of agribusiness, to the demand... View Details
- 01 Jul 2013
- News
The Nature of Business
protecting Adirondack parks, improving fishing practices—in his new book, Nature's Fortune: How Business and Society Thrive by Investing in Nature, coauthored by conservation biologist Jonathan S. Adams. One of TNC's strategies, as discussed in the book, is to recast... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Porter Directs New Institute at HBS
impact of Harvard's intellectual capital." Research at the ISC will span a wide array of topics, such as regional cluster development, the impact of the Internet on competitive positioning, antitrust policy,... View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Podcasts Engage New Audiences with HBS
criticism of its early social media marketing campaign targeting teens. Then Toffel, who is the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management, poses a tough question: “What should JUUL do now, given the pressure that it’s under... View Details
- 26 Nov 2018
- News
New York Alumni Explore Risks and Opportunities in Climate Change
climate change and its impact on their industries. They want to talk about it.” Alumni explored investment risks and opportunities in climate change at HBS Club of New York panel discussion. To get the conversation started, Lassiter sent... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Short Takes
of internal and external factors have an impact on their pay, and that, in fact, today's CEO compensation packages are tied very closely to company performance.Lorsch began his study by looking at the proxy statements of 72 companies... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 08 Oct 2013
- News
The Green Giant
The old-fashioned assumption of the environmental movement was that business and industry were the problem. World Wildlife Fund President and CEO Carter Roberts (MBA 1988) is bullish that they can be part of the solution. A new breed of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Up on the Green Roof
but living roofs aren’t a new idea. They’ve been used in Europe for hundreds of years and were common in 19th-century sod homes across the American prairie. The recent surge of interest in green roofs stems from a modern-day concern for mitigating the View Details