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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Alumni Books
or e-mailed her after an online flirtation, and extracted honest, raw answers. It turned out men leave women hanging for clear, consistent reasons. Citing anecdotes and case studies, this book examines the most frequent date-breakers and... View Details
- Profile
Paul Wang
the kind of thing I couldn’t do outside of the university setting. The schools give us the necessary resources and support.” Digging deeper Paul has also developed an interest in African mining. “Mining and extractive technologies are... View Details
- 28 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #4: Erika Myers, World Resources Institute Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
are skilled workers.” She noted the parallels between the skills demanded by the oil extraction and the utility industries and those needed in new, clean energy industries. “Job training can help the workers... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
proposed Pebble Mine project is an important one that would create many hundreds of jobs in an area where jobs are few. But if I’m not satisfied we can proceed without harm to the local people and the environment, then we simply won’t do it. We will not go where... View Details
- 04 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Lose Money With Customers
at the market level, then translate these into strategies at the market segment level. A paper mill's marketing strategy, for instance, might call for selling newsprint to the publishing industry segment and paperboard to the packaging... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 05 Dec 2017
- Research & Ideas
What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets
not just relying on the printed word—why can we not do research by referring to video, sound, and the like? There is so much mathematics devoted today to extraction of quantitative data from all sorts of data sources that a move in this... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
easiest place to get that carbon dioxide today is through bio-fermentation, but the long-term goal is to be able to extract carbon dioxide from industrial emission sources and through direct-air capture.... View Details
- 11 Mar 2020
- News
Making It Rain
weather services. “This market is not very innovative, and it’s one of the last industries where governments still lead the technology,” Elkabetz says. Most of the industry relies on data from three public... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- Profile
Cristina Ros Blankfein
mixers and classmates offered invaluable suggestions along the way. “Jen and I always say that it’s wonderful to be involved in an industry and with a product that’s about people enjoying their lives,” Blankfein said.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
companies like International Harvester and US Steel. But over time, automation steadily reduced the number of workers required to extract the mineral, while competition from natural gas and cheap, low-sulfur coal from out west did the... View Details
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
Abstract—Multinationals exhibit distinct agglomeration patterns, which have transformed the global landscape of industrial production (Alfaro and Chen, 2014). Using a unique worldwide plant-level dataset that reports detailed location,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Helping Hands for HBS
the Student Association, Herrero was impressed by what he saw of HBS as an institution. After graduation, he served as a president and board member of the HBS Club (later the Harvard Club) of Argentina. Following a long and successful career in the textile and paper... View Details
- 06 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels
something into mechanisms within that machine that allow the process to become routine and repeatable. Let’s use an example. Many of us have seen glassblowers who manipulate a glowing hot lump of molten glass and shape it into a bottle or some other shape. That artisan... View Details
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IFC India 2025: Sustainability in Action: Inside Hindustan Unilever’s Public Sanitation and Plastic Recycling Facilities - Blog - Business & Environment
Our visit to the MRF, however, revealed that “greening the economy”, can in fact aid development by supporting the formalization of informal workforces. Also, in consolidating fragmented waste supply chains, as the MRF does, HUL is also enabling more of the value View Details
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/919412-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 819-003 ProdEng: Services for Oil & Gas Extraction ProdEng is a venture created as part of a PE fund and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
compete on the basis of brands and reputation, and in sectors where companies' products significantly depend upon extracting large amounts of natural resources. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-035.pdf The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 8, 2008
of luck is the share of the oil industry in the state's economy multiplied by the price of oil. The correlation is negative, suggesting that more reliance on luck is correlated with less individualism. We provide three short models that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
almost any business action, especially in tough and uncertain economic conditions when price is a key and visible strategic choice. Conventional wisdom has firms cutting price in these circumstances. But most industries typically allow... View Details
- 27 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Potential Downside of Win-Win
are creating societal value in the process or simply helping each other extract as much money as possible from the customer base. Avoiding Parasitic Integration The term parasitic integration is not intended to insult most value-creating... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details