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  • 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

By: John D. Macomber
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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Macomber, John D. "The Role of Finance and Private Investment in Developing Sustainable Cities." Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 23, no. 3 (Summer 2011): 64–74.
  • 01 Dec 2019
  • News

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)
  • Case

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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Macomber, John D., and Frederik Nellemann. "Edward Lundberg and the Rockville Building: Energy Efficiency Finance in Commercial Real Estate." Harvard Business School Case 212-067, February 2012. (Revised September 2013.)
  • 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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