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  • 03 Jul 2015
  • Blog Post

What is HBS Bridges?

generation: climate change, the future of the internet, and income inequality to name but a few.   The gravity of these issues goes without saying, but the real message was clear.  We, the Class of 2015, can and need to become leaders... View Details
  • January 2023 (Revised June 2024)
  • Case

Elon Musk at Tesla

By: George Serafeim and Amram Migdal
This case gives an overview of Elon Musk’s career arc through the lens of the 2003 founding of Tesla and its growth through 2022. Background information is included on Tesla’s unique strategic decisions, its operational and reputational struggles and successes, and the... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Decision Making; Design; Energy; Renewable Energy; Engineering; Entrepreneurship; Environmental Management; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Values and Beliefs; Governance; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Leadership; Leadership Style; Management; Goals and Objectives; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Society; Social Issues; Strategy; Transportation; Value; Auto Industry; Transportation Industry
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  • Web

2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

open new pathways, forge new coalitions, and find sources of personal nurturance. Professor Rosabeth Kanter will outline five tactics for coping, transcending, and contributing to solutions to respond to health and wealth gaps, ethnic tensions and cultural conflicts,... View Details
  • 08 Mar 2021
  • Blog Post

International Women's Day Featured Stories

With this in mind, I choose to challenge to hold those in power accountable. I choose to challenge to protect the rights that so many people before me fought for. Most importantly, I choose to challenge to be true to myself. Megan Murday Harvard MBA Student, Class of... View Details
  • 01 Jul 2015
  • Research & Ideas

A Bank That Takes Parmesan as Collateral: The Cheese Stands a Loan

wheels of cheese. MGT's warehouses sport state-of-the-art climate controls and a staff of trained inspectors. (The case notes that MGT also offers a profitable warehousing service for non-collateral cheese aging.) During the maturation... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Food & Beverage
  • September–October 2020
  • Article

Social-Impact Efforts That Create Real Value

By: George Serafeim
Until the mid-2010s few investors paid attention to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) data—information about companies’ carbon footprints, labor policies, board makeup, and so forth. Today the data is widely used by investors. How can organizations create... View Details
Keywords: Sustainability; Sustainability Management; ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; ESG Disclosure; ESG Disclosure Metrics; ESG Ratings; ESG Reporting; Social Impact; Impact Measurement; Social Innovation; Purpose; Corporate Purpose; Corporate Social Responsibility; Strategy; Social Enterprise; Society; Accounting; Investment; Environmental Sustainability; Climate Change; Corporate Strategy; Mission and Purpose; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Financial Services Industry; Chemical Industry; Technology Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; North America; Europe; Japan; Australia
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  • 30 Jun 2023
  • Blog Post

Finding Pride

Someone had written, “Ric, I wish we’d known.” —Virginia Smith (MBA 1982) 1990s “I assured them I was a lesbian, and I wasn’t there to out them. That’s what the climate was like at the time.” By second semester of my first year, I was a... View Details
  • 14 Jun 2023
  • News

Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in East Asia

Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS), which he described as an interdisciplinary research enterprise that will position HBS as an intellectual hub for examining the most critical issues and opportunities of our times—from climate... View Details
  • 28 Apr 2022
  • Blog Post

Harvard Team Wins Second Place in MIINT Impact Investing Competition

valuable learning experience. Swapan Mehra (MC/MPA 2022) explained “I have a background in climate project finance and policy and felt that MIINT would help me enhance my repertoire of skills. I learned about the process of innovation... View Details
  • 19 May 2022
  • Blog Post

HKS Policy Analysis Exercise Showcase

April 26, students presented projects focused on a range of topics—female representation in the start-up ecosystem, anticipating climate disasters in Yemen, a community-based approach to early childhood education in Brazil, analyzing... View Details
  • 09 Jun 2024
  • Blog Post

The EC Formula: MBA Class of 2024 Looks Back

During their Elective Curriculum (EC)—or second—year, MBA students register for courses based on their interests. With more than 100 offerings in 10 subject areas, these classes provide an opportunity for depth and breadth while helping students gain more concentrated... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

Future Vision

out of poverty, providing products and services that have improved people’s standards of living, and creating fulfilling jobs and careers. But the challenges facing the world today require business to do even more—to address persistent economic inequality, to advance... View Details
Keywords: Brian Kenny; Educational Support Services; Educational Services
  • December 2023
  • Case

Santa Elena: Table Grape Production in Chile’s Water-Challenged Regions

By: Forest Reinhardt, Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago and Mariana Cal
In the fiscal year ending in September 2022, Santa Elena, Chile’s fifth-ranking table grape exporter, a grape producer and exporter since 1980, had exported around 3.5 million boxes (18-pound each). But, due to a 13-year-long drought that plagued table grape-growing... View Details
Keywords: Plant-Based Agribusiness; Climate Change; Environmental Regulation; Environmental Sustainability; Natural Resources; Food; Environmental Law; Problems and Challenges; Weather; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Chile; South America; Latin America
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  • June 2022 (Revised August 2023)
  • Case

Strategic Innovation at the United Nations: A Network of Ecosystems

By: Frank Nagle, Elizabeth J. Altman and Amy Klopfenstein
In 2021, Gina Lucarelli, leader of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Accelerator Labs, prepared for a meeting with UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner. The two planned to discuss the future of the Accelerator Labs, a network of social innovation labs located... View Details
Keywords: Change; Disruption; Transformation; Change Management; Education; Learning; Environmental Management; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Geography; Geographic Scope; Global Range; Local Range; Geopolitical Units; Country; Human Resources; Recruitment; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Employees; Employee Relationship Management; Information Technology; Information Management; Innovation and Invention; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Knowledge; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Dissemination; Knowledge Management; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Organizational Design; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Social Enterprise; Non-Governmental Organizations; Social Psychology; Social and Collaborative Networks; Society; Social Issues; Welfare; Strategy; Cooperation; Adaptation; Public Administration Industry; North and Central America
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  • 30 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition

Layoffs with Compassion (Harvard Business Review) Organizational Responses to COVID-19 and Climate Change: A Conversation with Rebecca Henderson (Environmental Insights) COVID-19 Business Impact Center (Harvard Business School) Read... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 24 Nov 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach

Companies can create shareholder value through more effective governance, and through boards that do not simply ensure compliance, but focus their time and efforts on the most critical strategic areas. Past board results have often not been outstanding, and the... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu
  • 10 Nov 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Globalization: The Strategy of Differences

returning to Atlanta." If the business climate can force Coke, which historically was (and is) more profitable internationally than domestically, to seesaw back and forth on globalization in this way, think of the pressures on the... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
  • 04 Apr 2023
  • Blog Post

Maersk’s Journey to Decarbonize Shipping

rather than just those in countries like Denmark where it is already a priority. In fact, Maersk’s government affairs director expressed disappointment in the fact that shipping was not included in the Paris Climate Agreement, which he... View Details
  • Web

Charts & Statistics - Leadership

restrictions Increase in divorce rates Influence: Medium-Low 30 1930 s 19 Westward migration of midwestern farmers and laborers for employment and better climate Massive dust storms uproot millions Smallest ten-year increase in... View Details
  • 08 Nov 2021
  • News

New Director Named for Mid-US Research Office

in shaping a more inclusive capitalism, tackling complex challenges such as climate change and racial equity, or building and leading a more diverse workforce,” said Professor Spar. “I look forward to working with the new Mid-US Research... View Details