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- 10 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Innovations to Address the Global Water Crisis
sprinkler irrigation systems. Since its incorporation as a public limited company in 1986, the company has played a leading role to advance the use of drip irrigation technology as a water-saving alternative to traditional flood... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Honoring a Legend
he says. “Right now in the world, a billion people have no electricity. But the cost of clean energy is falling. My mission is to drive broad awareness to the business side of solar energy.” He adds that solar is a real alternative to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
explained by several potential alternative hypotheses, including differential changes to the preferences of American investors, differential changes in investment opportunities, differential time trends in investment or changed... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
A Better Way to Go on Strike
No-Fist should be an attractive alternative for both sides. Like a strike, it permits an unfettered war of financial attrition; unlike a strike, it ends with a windfall, competitive advantage intact, innocent bystanders upright, and... View Details
- 26 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Alumni in Climate Networking Series: New York City
EnergyHub offices in Brooklyn to network with each other and discuss their career goals. While there, I met alumni working on a wide range of issues such as investing in the circular economy, starting a company focused on sustainable View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
Jacek Makowski (MBA 1960)
strategic vision. He was a founding partner in a Lawrence, Massachusetts, hydroelectric plant which was the first venture to take advantage of the 1978 National Energy Act’s alternative energy incentives. Later, he and his team at J.... View Details
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
methods for exploring layoff alternatives (such as furloughs, retraining, and reassignments), and determine options for three scenarios: a healthy present, short-term volatility, and an uncertain future. As firms like AT&T, Michelin,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/717497-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 717-498 Imprimis (D) This case is a supplement to Imprimis (A, B, & C). It describes Imprimis’s 2015 decision to develop a $1 per pill compounded View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
are used to evaluate investments creates a systematic bias against successful innovation. The authors recommend alternative methods that can help managers innovate with a much more astute eye for future value. Why Mentoring Matters in a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Mar 2022
- News
Clubs Mark a Milestone and the Lunar New Year
with other alumni clubs around the world and had some fantastic speakers. We’ll continue with some virtual programming, since Houston is a very spread-out city and sometimes our members can’t make some events. It’s nice to have an View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 23 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
Leaving an Unhappy Job: How to Look Before You Leap
What do you enjoy that's not there? What alternatives would energize you?" But no one can rest on internal reflection alone. "You need an interactive element because the mind needs external input and information. Your... View Details
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
If you ask any given environmentalist to identify the biggest threat to the planet, you may expect to hear about man-made climate change, consumerism, or overpopulation. But if you ask Harvard Business School's Joseph B. Lassiter, he'll toss in another: single-issue... View Details
- 07 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies
The steep market drop in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis is being used as a laboratory to study the importance of companies investing in stakeholder relations with their employees, suppliers, and customers, and how those investments could be strategic resources... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Challenges of Investing in Science-Based Innovation
profoundly." Scientific innovation is moving into companies such as BofA that you wouldn't expect, she adds. "We think of automakers focusing primarily on design, but the growing emphasis on alternative fuels is causing some of... View Details
- 19 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Expensing Options Won’t Hurt High Tech
alternatives, be expensed. Are companies that choose those alternatives any less deserving of an accounting subsidy than Microsoft, which, having granted 300 million options in 2001 alone, is by far the largest issuer of stock options? It... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
'Rooted' In Innovation
team, novel biotechnology that extends cassava’s shelf life from three days to 18 months. The process transforms the cassava tuber into nutritious food products that provide alternatives to wheat flour. The first product CassVita... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
A For-Profit Business That Makes Education Accessible
“I believed a social enterprise company could provide free education to everybody profitably, so that it would be sustainable and scalable.” For Feerick, the pandemic has highlighted the urgency of building an alternative to the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 17 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
The Fifth Year of Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) at HBS
alternatives for feeding the planet. He founded the GFI, he said, to answer a single question: How do we feed 10 billion people by 2050 without burning the planet to a crisp? For Friedrich, finding View Details
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Negotiation is Like Jazz
alternative approaches. Tentative solutions on single or multiple issues are framed as building blocks. The parties confirm their understandings and recap periodically. Opening-up improvisations rely on full, complete honesty. Parties in... View Details
Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn
- Profile
Raymond Hwang
same interests that brought you to HBS will lead you to opportunities where that knowledge will be useful.” In an alternate universe, Harvard and MIT are playing against each other in football. Who do you root for [Hwang also holds... View Details