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- 01 Sep 2011
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The City Solution
governments (Abu Dhabi’s Masdar City); dual-government ventures (Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City, near Beijing); and company-led projects (PlanIT Valley, developed in Portugal by a high-tech company as an R&D center for View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Students Serve as Consultants
Twelve HBS students spent their January Term as volunteer consultants to USAID projects in Bangladesh, Jordan, Morocco and Uganda. Only in its second year, the student-led Global Impact Experience program, the brainchild of Rich Chung (MBA ’10), screened more than 100... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Future of Cities
Having trouble finding parking? Consider this: In forty years, there will be 3 billion more citizens on Spaceship Earth, mostly in the developing world’s cities, as the planet’s population hits 9 billion in 2050. To consider how cities... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow
first Jakurski Family Associate Professors of Business Administration. Their chairs are funded by a gift from André R. Jakurski (MBA 1973) and his wife, Maria, and are part of a new effort to invest in the development of the School’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Faculty Books
think about these subjects. High Commitment, High Performance: How to Build a Resilient Organization for Sustained Advantage by Michael Beer (Jossey-Bass) Drawing on many management studies and his work with senior managers, Professor... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
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A Juicy Story
In the context of the computer industry at large, Professor David Yoffie explores the ups and downs of a company that’s always been a bit different in “Apple Computer, 2006.” The case poses this question: Given its 2 percent computer market share, can Apple find View Details
- 14 Jun 2018
- News
Catalyzing Social and Economic Change in Rural Africa
We can invest in areas like agriculture, sustainable forestry, conservation, and tourism, and blend together development capital and financial capital so that everybody has the right risk-reward profile for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Faculty Books
Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, and his coauthors examine the practices of diverse companies such as Infosys, Nokia, Tata, and Campbell Soup to identify specific leadership goals essential for achieving sustainable value... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
scenarios early on in the product development process, while the financial and organizational costs of changing course are still relatively low. In Experimentation Matters, Thomke defines six principles that managers should keep in mind... View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
cofounder and CEO of Ocochem, a startup developing an electrochemical process to turn carbon dioxide into formic acid. Now, formic acid is not something most people are familiar with, but it's a pretty important chemical compound. It's... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
is an independent foreign aid agency with the mission to reduce poverty through sustainable economic growth in some of the world's poorest countries. "Farmer training was at the heart of the Ghana program," says Jonathan Bloom (MBA 1972),... View Details
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- 24 Apr 2014
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A commitment to conservation supports the bottom line
firm, achieves that balance, in part, through a vehicle known as a “conservation easement.” The firm buys land and then sells the development rights to conservation groups. The sale of these rights generates an early, partial return to... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Q&A: The Post-Pandemic Path
associate dean for Faculty Development and Research and faculty director of the Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability Project. “The national unemployment rate early in the pandemic had jumped to over 13 percent; the standard prediction... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Entrepreneur’s Rwandan Start-Up Gets HBS Support
SCHARPF: Seeking cost-effective raw materials in Rwanda. Elizabeth Scharpf (MBA ’07) is on a roll. Determined to put her MBA skills to work addressing socioeconomic and public health problems in developing nations, she has launched a... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
full glory of their wealthier pasts. The point is that they are becoming places where people want to live, shop, run businesses, and go to school." At HBS, a number of faculty are engaged in research and teaching projects that treat these recent View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
INCAE Making Global Impact
to its core MBA programs, an important part of INCAE is its Latin American Center for Competitiveness and Sustainable Development (CLACDS), a pathbreaking, action-oriented research center devoted to issues... View Details
- 09 Oct 2015
- News
Balancing Progress and Preservation
development should stop, but we also don’t believe that the city is a vast template where the real estate community should exercise its greatest fantasies at the expense of our architectural heritage.” To illustrate, Zuckerberg notes his... View Details
- 20 Apr 2016
- News
Steps to Success
among all they’ve accomplished.” As remarkable an achievement as Fass Koffe is, it’s but one of several the Oregon-based nonprofit has completed since its founding in 2008 with a mission to empower poor and displaced communities in the View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Apr 1999
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Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
process, quite different from the market research traditionally employed to guide sustaining innovation. The implication is that the initial concept for a new product or service is probably going to be wrong. Therefore, View Details
- 01 Aug 2022
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