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Curriculum - Business & Environment

environmental issues as they relate to business. Here are the offerings for 2024-2025. Your Second Year Core Business & Environment Courses Cities, Structures, and Climate Shocks (Fall 2024) John Macomber This course prepares students to... View Details

    Waze Connected Citizens Program

    Di-Ann Eisnor, Director of Growth at Waze, founded the company’s Connected Citizens Program (CCP), a data-sharing partnership that provided officials with traffic incident and congestion data in exchange for data on anticipated road closures, re-routing, etc.... View Details
    • June 2024
    • Case

    Vinalhaven: The Downtown Project

    By: Richard S. Ruback, Matthew Preble, Ruth Page and Dave Habeeb
    Vinalhaven is an island community located approximately 12 miles off the coast of Maine. The island has a year-round population of about 1,300 people as of 2022, with an additional 3,000 people who reside on the island in the summer months. The two largest industries... View Details
    Keywords: Climate Change; Environmental Regulation; Environmental Sustainability; Natural Resources; Natural Environment; Weather; Sustainable Cities; Forecasting and Prediction; Construction; Property; Infrastructure; Capital Budgeting; Projects; Project Finance; Negotiation; United States; Maine
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    Past Issues - Alumni

    is racing tech’s biggest names to make a long-promised future a reality. Complete Table of Contents March 2024 The War Within How three HBS alumni are helping Ukrainians process their trauma—and prepare for a rebuild Game On As investors... View Details
    • Portrait Project

    Adan Acevedo

    Every evening my father walked through the kitchen, caressed my mother’s shoulder as she prepared dinner, and headed to the backyard. He unraveled the hose, screwed on the attachment, and started to water the plants he loved so much. I... View Details
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    Brice Fodouop

    products more expensive.” With a goal of establishing a food & beverage company in his home continent, Brice has pursued a career path that prepares him for leadership in manufacturing. “That’s why I studied engineering, then joined... View Details
    • 16 May 2023
    • In Practice

    After Silicon Valley Bank's Flameout, What's Next for Entrepreneurs?

    process. Today, it’s SVB, tomorrow it may be something else. While they can’t prepare for every possible scenario, founders should at least know what general processes are in place. Don’t wait for the inevitable. Julia Austin is a senior... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman; Technology; Financial Services
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    4 Things You Need to Know about Immersive FIELD Courses at HBS - MBA

    Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details
    • 01 Sep 2023
    • News

    Startup Success Beyond Silicon Valley

    Throughout this ambitious effort, he is tapping the expertise and resources of HBS’s network of 18 global research centers and offices, which facilitate faculty research and support a variety of the School’s activities (read related story). Read more about View Details
    Keywords: Jennifer Mele
    • 14 Sep 2021
    • Blog Post

    Top 5 Myths About HBS

    on? We have this belief that all of us are still working on getting better at some things. So who are the people that have worked closely enough with you that they can share those examples with us? “It is impossible to prepare for your... View Details
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    The HBS Classroom Experience: Inside the HBS Case Method - MBA

    school. All HBS courses primarily use the case method of instruction. The cases describe actual management situations in a variety of companies and organizations. You must analyze the situation and be prepared to recommend a course of... View Details
    • 15 Mar 2017
    • Blog Post

    An Average Day at HBS

    with an earlier alarm than I ideally would want, followed by discussion group. At discussion group, you have the chance to meet with five other first-year students (who aren’t in your section) to talk through that day’s cases. It is a great resource and one that truly... View Details
    • 05 Feb 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: Feb. 5

    perhaps extremely severe, that are routine because they can be anticipated and prepared for) and "true crises" (which, because of significant novelty, cannot be dealt with exclusively by pre-determined emergency plans and... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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    Sample Student Projects - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    MOC Student Projects on Country & Cluster Competitiveness The competitive assessments listed on this page have been prepared by teams of graduate students mostly from Harvard Business School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government... View Details
    • 20 Dec 2022
    • Op-Ed

    Employee Feedback: The Key to Retention During the Great Resignation

    That is, let the whole organization know the whole truth—both the good as well as the embarrassingly bad and sometimes ugly. Talk about what you heard and what changes you are making. 6. Check in regularly. Repeat the process periodically for continuous improvement and... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Beer
    • 28 Feb 2018
    • Sharpening Your Skills

    Master the Team Meeting

    take less than 15 minutes. Solicit agenda items, prepare agenda, communicate agenda. Long slide decks and spreadsheets created just for the meeting is a total waste of time. If those materials already exist and can add value to the... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Austin
    • 12 Jan 2016
    • First Look

    January 12, 2016

    business units—professional tax software, sold to accountants, and the consumer focused TurboTax product. The new product—TurboTax Personal Pro—connects consumers with professional accountants online, allowing them to have their taxes View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • September 2008 (Revised October 2008)
    • Case

    Shareholder Activists at Friendly Ice Cream (A1)

    By: Fabrizio Ferri, V.G. Narayanan and James Weber
    Two activist investors, one a founder and one a hedge fund manager, seek to improve board oversight at a chain restaurant company. Prestley Blake founded Friendly Ice Cream in 1935 with his brother, and the two created a chain of full-service restaurants. In 1979, they... View Details
    Keywords: Investment Activism; Governing and Advisory Boards; Lawsuits and Litigation; Business or Company Management; Business and Shareholder Relations; Conflict of Interests; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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    Adding a Social Dimension to Strategy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    business strategy—and identified a set of customers who were willing to pay a premium for healthy, environmentally friendly food. Shared Value and Company Strategy: Whole Foods Markets Natural, fresh, organic, and freshly prepared foods... View Details
    • July 2020
    • Supplement

    Instabeat—Crossing the Finish Line

    By: Shikhar Ghosh, Nicole Tempest Keller and Alpana Thapar
    Lebanese entrepreneur Hind Hobeika was just 21 years old when she launched her startup, Instabeat, which had developed the first real-time bio-feedback device for swimmers to monitor and improve their performance. It had been an extremely testing 10-year journey to... View Details
    Keywords: Start-up; Wearables; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Information Technology; Information Infrastructure; Strategy; Operations; Management; United States; Lebanon
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