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- 03 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion
laid-off employees? Maintain employee engagement in the midst of a challenging work environment. One way to boost engagement: Utilize two-way communication tools such as virtual forums to allow employees to voice their concerns. While we remain hopeful for an improving... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 10 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone
incentives that encourage them to give back, as skepticism about corporate America remains high and the world faces widespread global challenges brought on by COVID-19 and climate change. “In economics we talk more about how to deter the... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 23 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Arla Foods: How Sustainable Can A Dairy Company Be?
Arla had an appreciation for the natural resources that allowed their business to thrive, but we had several questions about how they anticipated resolving that tension long-term in a world where dairy production and animal agriculture more broadly is seen as a key... View Details
- 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
- 11 May 2022
- Blog Post
MoMBAs: The Inspiring Student Mothers of HBS
First Due Date: September 17, 2022 Pre-HBS Industry: Energy Summer Internship: Climate Tech What is it like to be pregnant at HBS? Being pregnant at HBS is quite an adventure! The MoMBAs’ support system makes a huge difference, as does... View Details
- Portrait Project
David Chan
rather than accepted as scientific fact. It's not an option to believe in climate change: It is something that has been conclusively observed by the scientific community. And it is happening right here and right now at a rate faster than... View Details
- 16 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Has COVID-19 Broken the Global Value Chain?
transparency through data sharing in order to better track the chain of subcontractors. THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS More Business-Related Pandemic Coverage from Around Harvard and Beyond How to Manage Coronavirus Layoffs with Compassion (Harvard Business Review)... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Contemporary African Art | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
of ancestry and identity; archives and history; memory and trauma; legacies of colonialism and apartheid; globalization and trade; and climate and natural resources. The works in this exhibition offer another view of the continent, one... View Details
- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
- Book
Can the Global Food Industry Overcome Public Distrust?
JamesBrey Food is the largest segment of the global economy. It is also widely recognized as more critical for human health than any pharmaceutical drug on the planet. But significant changes in the industry are making people lose trust in many institutions involved in... View Details
- 14 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: SELCO - Last Mile Solar Powered Energy for Rural India
while aligning with the nation's ambitious goals for achieving net-zero emissions by 2070. Poor communities are usually at the receiving end of the worst impacts of climate change, coupled with unreliable energy, lack of timely... 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
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
The week before starting at 500 Global, Enan was still recovering from two intensive weeks at COP27, the UN Climate Change Conference held last year in Sharm El-Sheikh. As a host-country representative for the World Resources Institute,... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Brice Cutrer Jones
regardless of cost. Recounting his early years in this quixotic business, Jones notes, "When I first came to this area, the prospects were not encouraging. No one was growing premium grapes, and I was warned that the climate might be too... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
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Ratnika Prasad
life to balancing public mandates with the realities of environmental conservation. For me, climate change was a reality we lived with, experienced in wildly fluctuating rains that flooded my house, turbulent storms that eroded roads, and... View Details
- 14 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Strategy For Steady Leadership in an Unsteady World
The world’s uncertainties can feel like a tsunami washing over your business. Bill George recommends navigating with a compass pointing to your own True North. Source: iStock With the events of 2016—Brexit, the election of Donald Trump, threats from terrorists and... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- Web
Sustainable Business Strategy Course | HBS Online
purpose-driven leader to management, leadership, and other key stakeholders Explore why collective efforts matter and how business can be a catalyst for system-level change in the face of significant global issues, such as climate change... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
End Game
Illustration by James Steinberg In the 1960s and 1970s, as the environmental movement dawned in the United States, a new generation of activist-minded entrepreneurs appeared. Among them were companies like Body Shop, Aveda, Tom’s of Maine, and Whole Foods—all founded... View Details
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Research - Race, Gender & Equity
2023 (Revised November 2023) Case The Miccosukee Tribe and the Battle to Save the Everglades: A Miami Climate Action Story By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Joyce J. Kim The Miccosukee Indians, a small tribe of indigenous people in South... View Details
- 30 Jun 2021
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021
What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details
Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland