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Managing & Investing in a Fast-Growing Emerging Market: India

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25 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Advancing a More Sustainable World with an MBA/MPA-ID

change was a reality we lived with every day – experienced in wildly fluctuating rains that flooded my house, turbulent storms that eroded roads, and increases in sea levels that caused thousands of Maldivians to migrate to my city. This reality drove my decision to... View Details

04 Nov 2014
News

Fundación México en Harvard Celebrates 25 Years

Santiago Ocejo (MPH 2010/MBA 2014) wants to improve health care in Mexico. He always thought he would do that, one patient at a time, as a surgeon. But, today, the medical school graduate is a social entrepreneur, working with the Mexican... View Details

Keywords: April White

24 Feb 2011
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in 2010 when, at peace and surrounded by her family, she took her own life under Oregon’s assisted-suicide law. Curtis, who had a modeling career before attending HBS, worked for many years as an administrator and lecturer at Oregon Health and View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

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Bibliography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership Networked Business Research... View Details

26 Apr 2011
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

600 urban centers accounting for roughly 60 percent of global GDP. The creation of this economic and social value, however, involves the consumption of considerable natural resources. For example, cities today contain 50 percent of the... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities

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Student Spotlight: From Nigeria to HBS: Reigniting My Passion for Healthcare Innovation - Blog: Health Supplement

dove into research on medical devices and the social determinants of health. But I quickly realized that while science could solve problems, it was the intersection of healthcare and business that could... View Details

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Online AI Course | HBS Online

diverse applications of AI, machine learning, predictive modeling, and data science Explore ethical AI-related challenges to implement it responsibly and manage risks Develop the skills and frameworks to shape your organization’s digital... View Details

2008
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The Evidence Does Not Speak for Itself: Expert Witnesses and the Organization of DNA-Typing Companies

By: Arthur A. Daemmrich

During the past 15 years, new biotechnology companies have promoted DNA typing as a sophisticated criminal and paternity identification technique. Private testing laboratories produce results that link individuals with crime scenes and fathers to their children.... View Details

Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Courts and Trials; Organizational Structure; Practice; Genetics; Science-Based Business; Trust; Commercialization; Vertical Integration

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15 Mar 2017
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May 2011
Article

The Growing Power of Non-financial Reports

By: Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim

We are exploring the value of forcing corporations to issue sustainability reports, which provide information about corporate performance in terms of social, environmental and governance issues. In a breakthrough study they asked, what is the effect of mandatory... View Details

Keywords: Value; Reports; Performance; Management Practices and Processes; Globalization; Power and Influence; Natural Environment; Governance; Social Issues

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January 2025
Case

Negotiating with Data: Analytics FC (A)

By: Jillian Jordan and Livia Alfonsi

Analytics FC was a UK-based sports consultancy that focused on international football (soccer), leveraging cutting-edge data-analytic techniques to support clubs, federations, and players. In 2022, Alex Greenwood, an elite female defender, approached the company for... View Details

Keywords: Negotiation Preparation; Gender; Analytics and Data Science; Reputation; Value Creation; Consulting Industry; Sports Industry; Europe; United Kingdom

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2022
Case

Interface: The Journey Toward Carbon Negative

By: Andrew J. Hoffman

Interface has been a leading innovator in the carpet industry, specializing in the manufacturing of carpet tiles for commercial flooring. This case describes the history, context, and technology behind the company's development of its newest sustainable... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Innovation and Invention; Environmental Sustainability; Environmental Accounting

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28 Mar 2018
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Fueling the Future

biology, and chemistry. But it was an introductory geology course captivated her. “Building bridges, building roads, finding oil––so many practical things are related to geology. I knew this is a science I can use to make and build... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

October 16, 2023
Article

How a Defined Purpose Drove Unilever’s Turnaround

By: Ranjay Gulati

Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability

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January 2024 (Revised May 2024)
Case

PortageBay and ESG Analytics

By: Vikram S. Gandhi and Radhika Kak

In 2023, sustainable investors faced several challenges. The first was the lack of access to standardized and vetted environmental, social, and governance (ESG) data, and equally, the interpretation of this data into investment-useful insights. Reducing reliance on... View Details

Keywords: ESG Ratings; Investment Funds; Governance; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact

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November 14, 2022
Article

Policies for Adapting to the ‘New Normal’ of the Anthropocene

By: Andrew J. Hoffman, P. Devereaux Jennings and Nicholas A. Poggioli

Keywords: Natural Environment; Environmental Management; Economic Systems; Behavior; Technological Innovation

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Spring 2018
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The Next Phase of Business Sustainability

By: Andrew J. Hoffman

The era of corporations integrating sustainable practices is being surpassed by a new age of corporations actively transforming the market to make it more sustainable. View Details

Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Trends; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Corporate Disclosure

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winter 2003
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Massively Categorical Variables: Revealing the Information in Zip Codes

We introduce the idea of a massively categorical variable, a variable such as zip code that takes on too many values to be treated in the standard manner, and show how to use it directly as explanatory variables in an econometric model. In an application of this... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Analytics and Data Science; Behavior; Marketing; Standards; Finance

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