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  • 02 Jul 2009
  • Research Event

Business Summit: The Role of Social Entrepreneurship in Transforming American Public Education

Editor's Note: This is a summary of an HBS Business Summit presentation. View a full summary and video of the event on the HBS Centennial Web site linked below. Date of Event: October 14, 2008 Moderator: Stacey Childress, HBS faculty Speakers: Steven Barr, Founder and... View Details
Keywords: Education
  • 06 May 2021
  • Blog Post

The Extraordinary Things We Do on Ordinary Days: A Mother’s Day Tribute

attend Harvard Business School as a family was an easy one for us. Having dated since we were 16, we’ve experienced much of life’s offerings together and have always known attending business school was a goal. We grew up in Green Bay,... View Details
  • 04 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 4

activities, as well as supporting economic data. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/512017-PDF-ENG Albert 'Jack' Stanley in Nigeria (A) Lena G. Goldberg and Chad M. CarrHarvard Business School Case 312-034 An international joint venture... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 2021 (Revised December 2021)
  • Case

Cedar Environmental: Innovation vs. Corruption in Lebanon?

By: Nien-hê Hsieh and Youssef Abdel Aal
The case follows Ziad Abi Chaker, founder and CEO of Cedar Environmental, as he weighs options for how to grow the company in the face of growing economic and political instability in Lebanon in 2019.

Founded after the Lebanese civil war, Cedar... View Details
Keywords: Waste Management; Recycling; Corruption; Leadership & Corporate Accountability; Business And Government; Social Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Pollution; Entrepreneurship; Business and Government Relations; Crime and Corruption; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Strategy; Expansion; Corporate Accountability; Green Technology Industry; Middle East; Lebanon
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    George Serafeim

    George Serafeim is the Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He co-leads a Lab, within Harvard's Digital, Data, Design Institute, and serves on the faculty steering commitee of Harvard University's Salata Institute. He... View Details

    Keywords: green technology; green technology; green technology; green technology; green technology; green technology; green technology
    • February 2024
    • Supplement

    Seeds of Innovation: GALY’s Quest to Cultivate the Future of Agriculture in the Lab

    By: George Serafeim
    In 2023, Luciano Bueno, CEO and founder of plant cell culture agriculture company GALY, was considering the best path forward for his company as he planned to pitch Series B investors. GALY, founded in 2019, aimed to produce cotton and other crops from cells grown in... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Green Technology; Goods and Commodities; Growth and Development Strategy; Science-Based Business; Entrepreneurship; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Business Startups; Decisions; Technological Innovation; Production; Entrepreneurial Finance; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Technology Industry; Boston; Sao Paulo
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    • September 2023 (Revised March 2024)
    • Case

    ReMo Energy: Sizing Up Investors

    By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Tom Quinn
    In 2023, executives with ReMo Energy (founded 2020) were deciding which size ammonia plant to build as their first project. Their innovative model produced ammonia—useful for making fertilizer and for energy storage—from renewable energy, and they had received funding... View Details
    Keywords: Factories, Labs, and Plants; Business Startups; Cost vs Benefits; Design; Energy Conservation; Energy Generation; Renewable Energy; Venture Capital; Investment Return; Goods and Commodities; Size; Infrastructure; Risk and Uncertainty; Science-Based Business; Commercialization; Technological Innovation; Green Technology Industry; Green Technology Industry; Green Technology Industry; United States; Boston
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    • 10 Jul 2023
    • In Practice

    The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2023

    the Second Half of Life, as well as the forthcoming Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier, coauthored with Oprah Winfrey. Hise Gibson: Leadership and habit formation My summer reading list comprises books that... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 30 Oct 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

    2018 Northamption, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing Varieties of Green Business: Industries, Nations and Time By: Jones, G. Abstract—Published at a time of ever-increasing warnings that the pace of climate change and other environmental... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • Web

    Business & Environment

    roadmap: sharpen the core cement portfolio, accelerate low-carbon products and aggregates, build a tech-driven innovation engine and empower country units while tightening performance accountability. Two years on, TITAN posts record... View Details
    • Web

    Podcast - Business & Environment

    impact investing is agriculture is helping smallholder farmers build climate resilience. Jacqueline shares insights from two decades of investing in poverty alleviation that includes climate resilience and adaptation social enterprises... View Details
    • 14 Jan 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: January 14

    surveys at one office of the firm. They discovered four keys to building a help-friendly organization that leaders of other organizations could learn and apply to similar effect. Publisher's link:... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • February 2021
    • Article

    A Dynamic Theory of Multiple Borrowing

    By: Daniel Green and Ernest Liu
    Multiple borrowing—a borrower obtains overlapping loans from multiple lenders—is a common phenomenon in many credit markets. We build a highly tractable, dynamic model of multiple borrowing and show that, because overlapping creditors may impose default externalities... View Details
    Keywords: Commitment; Multiple Borrowing; Common Agency; Misallocation; Microfinance; Investment; Mathematical Methods
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    • 29 Apr 2016
    • HBS Seminar

    Richard Freeman, Harvard University & NBER

    • 22 Aug 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23

    different lens—it focuses instead on the perspective of a middle-to-upper-level manager contemplating a potential assignment to lead an internal venture in a large company. Befitting this series, we build lists of important considerations... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • September 2010 (Revised November 2010)
    • Case

    Ze-gen: Commercializing Clean Tech

    By: Lynda M. Applegate, Kaitlyn Lyons and Scott Prozeller
    The Ze-gen case covers the first five years in the life of a clean-tech start-up. Ze-gen had developed an innovative technology that converted solid waste into synthesis gas (called syngas). This technology was in testing at the company's pilot plant, built next to the... View Details
    Keywords: Business Startups; Renewable Energy; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Environmental Sustainability; Commercialization; Green Technology Industry; New Bedford
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    • 05 Mar 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: March 5

    Essentials: Building a Global Service Business with Local Operations Applegate, Lynda M., William R. Kerr, and David LaneHarvard Business School Case 811-078 Chris Exline founded Home Essentials, a furniture rental business targeted... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

      Michael A. Wheeler

      Mike Wheeler joined the HBS faculty in 1993 and has taught extensively in its MBA, Executive, and distance learning programs. His highly interactive 8-week/40-hour HBS Online Negotiation... View Details

      Keywords: green technology; green technology; green technology; green technology; green technology; green technology; green technology; green technology; green technology; green technology; green technology; green technology; green technology; green technology; green technology; green technology; green technology
      • March 2024
      • Teaching Note

      Teaching Note: Transforming a Region: Gothenburg's path from Shipyards to E-Mobility

      By: Christian H.M. Ketels and Orjan Solvell
      This TN provides guidance on how to leverage the case on Gothenburg's economic evolution and the role of the regional economic development agency in this process. Gothenburg is an old industrial city that has been hit by a number of deep shocks in its history. Its core... View Details
      Keywords: Regional Policy; Regional Growth; Cluster; Economic Development; Transition; Economy; Auto Industry; Green Technology Industry; Sweden
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      • Web

      Impact Investments

      investing and green bonds. The UN launched its six Principles for Responsible Investment in 2006 in order to promote greater commitment to ESG issues amongst global investors, garnering 100 signatories. By the start of 2020, more than... View Details