by John Macomber and Joseph Allen - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Oct 2019
News

Solving for Climate Change’s Impact on Urban Water: Flooding, Sea Rise, and Drought?

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The Role of Finance and Private Investment in Developing Sustainable Cities

Three trends will drive urban investment, development, and entrepreneurship in the next two decades. This article provides tools to identify the situations and circumstances that will be most favorable for private sector involvement in consideration of these trends.... View Details

Keywords: Trends; Demographics; Private Sector; Investment; City; Infrastructure; Opportunities; Urban Development

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01 Dec 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019

and the Underground Economy edited by John Edmunds (DBA 1977) Greenwood This easy-to-use guide covers the history, development, and current... View Details

February 2012 (Revised September 2013)
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Edward Lundberg and the Rockville Building: Energy Efficiency Finance in Commercial Real Estate

By: John D. Macomber and Frederik Nellemann

A commercial landlord analyzes options for funding and accomplishing energy efficiency retrofit. The situation is complicated by lease terms and uncertain effectiveness of the intervention. Students must grapple with obstacles including changing energy prices,... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Real Estate Industry

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05 Sep 2012
What Do You Think?

Will Business Management Save US Health Care?

Summing Up What Role Will Management Play in Saving US Health Care? The verdict is in, according to respondents of this month's column: Problems confronting health care in the US are much larger and broader than those that can be solved... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health

01 Jun 2017
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017

species. My Name Is Melvin: The Life of an Extraordinary Ordinary Man by John A. Ehlert (OPM 23, 1996) (Telemachus Press LLC) In this biography of his father, Ehlert tells how Melvin was born in hardscrabble... View Details

03 Dec 2014
What Do You Think?

Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?

"make sure he is upsetting things for the wrong reason rather than for the right reason." Joseph Seiler recalled that in growing companies where he worked, "I came across a few of these Type 4 people. What seemed to help... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

15 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

academics talk a good game about the need for interdisciplinary thinking, but we usually fall back on the strengths (or prejudices) of our primary discipline. Chandler was heavily influenced by sociologists such as Max Weber View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

indoor air quality—notably involving fresh air and filtration—directly impacts productivity of healthy people and helps mitigate the onset of sick people. As Dr. Joseph View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

07 Jul 2003
What Do You Think?

Can We Have Too Much Productivity Improvement?

global economy and the Internet were cited by some as being responsible for the current dilemma. John van Heteren paraphrased several respondents when he opined that "I... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Mar 2021
News

Alumni Honor Nitin Nohria and Support His Legacy

low- and middle-skill workers, particularly those considered essential during the recent pandemic, and offers companies strategies for reaching them (coauthored by Professor of... View Details

16 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

The Times Captures History of American Business

From the dawn of the U.S. transcontinental railroad in 1869 to the widespread embrace of consumer products like cell phones and iPods in our time, the story of American business is in constant motion, never at rest—or at ease. A new... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News

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Business and Climate Change Course | HBS Online

Change John D. Black Professor of Business Administration "Companies will have to play an active role if we, as a society, are to have any realistic hope of managing the challenges presented by climate... View Details

02 Jan 2014
News

The Power to Change

by Ralph Ranalli Talking about his ambitious plans to create a safer, cleaner type of nuclear power plant, Russell Wilcox says, quite matter-of-factly, that he was "looking for a project that would have an impact on the world." There... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Business and Environment Initiative; Scientific Research and Development Services

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After the Opium War: Treaty Ports and Compradors - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Related Collections Site Credits I must say the Comprador has come out like a brick. I can count upon . . . certain $23,000. — Albert Heard to John Heard, Hong Kong, February 28, 1863 22 After the Opium War: Treaty Ports View Details

23 Oct 2019
News

Exploring Big Issues at the Intersection of Business and Society

otherwise meet. The day concluded with a panel discussion on how to build and maintain society’s trust in business. Panelists included Bethany McLean and John... View Details

Keywords: Educational Innovation

02 Dec 2018
News

An Investor’s Guide to Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities

On the 50th floor of a global law firm, overlooking a cold and rainy Manhattan skyline in November, more than 70 Harvard Business School alumni gathered to learn from each other and confront the business... View Details

Keywords: Allison Webster; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services

12 Jul 2020
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The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

humans have become an indoor species, so buildings have a major impact on our health. say John Macomber and Joseph Allen. Teaching View Details

Keywords: by Staff

30 Jun 2015
First Look

First Look: June 30, 2015

audits yield fewer violations when the audit team had been at that particular supplier before, when audit teams are less experienced or less trained, when audit teams are all male, and when the audits were paid for View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 May 2020
In Practice

COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change

The coronavirus pandemic caught the business world by surprise, but the catastrophe might force companies to face a crisis that has been unfolding in plain sight: climate change. We asked faculty members affiliated with the Business and Environment Initiative at... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

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