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- 30 Jul 2024
- Blog Post
Alumni Career Journey: Rob Self (MBA 2021) – Integrating Climate into Consulting
help making an action plan that is both sustainable and profitable. I've also become an official part of the climate and sustainability practice area at BCG. I’ve worked on internal thought leadership such as offshore wind market... View Details
- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
how much to bid for the loans. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209088 The Suzlon Edge Harvard Business School Case 708-051 With prices of oil, coal and gas at historically high levels, the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Grolsch Brewing Company: Drink Sustainably
powering their brewery in 2008 to one back-up boiler today by switching to sourcing “green heat” from nearby sustainable energy producer, Twence, which uses renewable energy sources to deliver piped hot water to the brewery. Grolsch is... View Details
- 10 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures
The ResourceAyanda Heita, MBA 2023The Resource aggregates and curates the best secondhand fashion online. Our vision is to eliminate fashion waste. Clean Energy, Buildings, & Transportation Contestants AGAPEGraeme Johnson, MBA 1995 Armenian Gas and View Details
- 12 May 2015
- News
A Flash of Insight
across the East River from the Twin Towers. Hearing the news of the first plane strike on the radio, he stepped outside in time to see the second plane fly into the South Tower and within 90 minutes both structures collapse. It didn’t take long for the prevailing View Details
- 03 Sep 2020
- Op-Ed
Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC
in-network and out-of-network providers, and disclose consumers’ cost-sharing liability. Hospitals and insurers lost their lawsuit to block these rules from coming into effect, but say they will appeal. Their lobbying clout is powerful... View Details
- 21 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It
To illustrate how Cisco uses these three layers, Cunningham cites a hypothetical example. Assume that for a given year, the average score for product reliability has slipped a bit. Drilling down to the bottom two layers of data, Cisco discovers a problem with the View Details
Keywords: by Jean Ayers
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything
across the sands of the Sahara, it is formally located in Tunisia, or Algeria, or Libya, depending on to whom you talk or which way the winds are blowing. It is an ancient place, Partenia, a remnant of a world that hardly anyone can even... View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
- 29 Apr 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
Why is the mission of ArtLifting so important? “We’re demonstrating how something as simple as optimism can change lives and create jobs. This is very powerful and very personal to me. My older brother has a rare metabolic disorder that... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
The Sparkles in Our Skies
modern shoppers want is the sense of power and romance that has been associated with diamonds since the 15th century, but without the environmental and ethical concerns of mining. How to give them that is the $80 billion question for the... View Details
- 07 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Looking to Leave a Mark? Memorable Leaders Don't Just Spout Statistics, They Tell Stories
Harvard Business School. People are more likely to recall information over a longer period when it’s wrapped in an anecdote as opposed to statistics, according to the study, "Stories, Statistics and Memory.” Graeber’s research validates what CEOs have long known: that... View Details
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
incentives make a difference in whether global warming and its fallout are contained. A growing number of climate solution startups count on government spending to give their customers purchasing power and a reason to buy. State and local... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
existential problem—as an investor, an advocate, and a philanthropist. Fifteen years later, despite breakthroughs in batteries, electric vehicles, plant-based proteins, and solar and wind power, global warming continues to get worse. Its... View Details
- 31 May 2016
- HBS Case
Who Owns Space?
rapidly-evolving space sector, he argues, society will have the opportunity to determine the proper roles for government and the private sector nearly from scratch. “The idea of leveraging the private sector and its efficiencies to help achieve public sector goals is a... View Details
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) via a vote of the public. The RPS requires utilities to produce a specific percentage of power from renewable sources, and because of the ballot measure's popularity and success, the legislature... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Giving Amazon the Boot
since people preferred Amazon’s free two-day shipping. Occasionally, scammers would return cheaper, used boots in Ranch Road boxes for a full refund, and Ford was anxious that an unwitting customer would wind up with the wrong product and... View Details
- 06 Dec 2013
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Remember Nelson Mandela
[He has] created a monument more lasting than bronze And loftier than the pyramids' royal pile, One that no wasting rain, nor furious north wind Can destroy, nor the immeasurable succession of years and flight of time. (Book III. Ode 30)... View Details
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier
forthcoming book Digital Marketing (John Wiley & Sons), edited by Jerry Wind and Vijay Mahajan, John Deighton and coauthor Patrick Barwise of the London Business School identify three qualities that distinguish the Web from other mass... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
or relax. There are also important environmental benefits—no local emissions, flexible power sources, and reduced energy consumption thanks to lightweight vehicles and automated guidance to prevent unnecessary starts and stops. All this... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
follow. “The Long and Winding Road” In 1968, Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce left Fairchild Semiconductor, where Andy Grove was employed as assistant head of R&D, to start their own company. Grove’s response when Moore told him the news?... View Details