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- 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
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Multimedia Development | Information Technology
Multimedia Development Blending technology, storytelling, and the HBS case method About Us Meet the team, take a peek behind the scenes, and hear more about the impact of our work. Catalog of Products Browse... View Details
- 16 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?
others from innovating in specific product areas. Patents secured by traditional energy firms are frequently cited by newcomers to green innovation from outside the traditional energy industry. "Everyone cares about [investing in... View Details
- 11 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: HelloFresh
they came to HBS, what makes them get out of bed every morning and what will get them excited post-HBS. Give us your elevator pitch – what is the one thing students should know about working for you?We work in a dynamic, high-energy, high-growth environment where you... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 11 Apr 2018
- News
The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)
of The Mission Continues? “I knew about The Mission Continues through my membership in the veterans group at the Kennedy School. A year after graduating from HBS, I was living in San Antonio and looking for a geographic change. I wanted to find a job that would allow... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
development, we strongly believe that the delivery of water and sanitation services to the city of Manila significantly affects the quality of life of the public, especially those in marginalized communities. This opportunity to have a developmental View Details
- 21 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store
Frequent shopping programs that reward customers with discounts or other perks are commonplace in grocery stores, but many are not as effective in influencing buying behavior as they could be, argues HBS professor Rajiv Lal. "The View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Thirteen years ago, Marcelo Claure, founder of wireless services company Brightstar, discussed with a reluctant Steve Jobs the idea of launching a trade-in and recycling program for iPhones. It was a business move that expanded the market and created a new profit... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Meyers
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IFC India 2025: Decarbonizing Rice Paddy Farming - Pioneering Sustainability in Indian Agriculture - Blog - Business & Environment
Careers Climate Rising Climate Stories Clubs Courses & Curriculum Creating Emerging Markets Entrepreneurship Event Faculty Faculty Research IFC Decarbonization & Sustainable Production 2023 IFC Decarbonization & Sustainable View Details
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Hummy Song
and the productivity of the health care workforce. I am currently working on several projects that examine various operational and organizational factors that may affect worker productivity and quality of... View Details
- August 2021
- Supplement
Danone S.A.: Becoming a Mission-Driven Company (C)
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Emilie Billaud
Describes the events that took place in the first year after Danone became France’s first “entreprise à mission” (mission-driven company). View Details
Keywords: Business and Stakeholder Relations; Corporate Governance; Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Environmental Sustainability; Goals and Objectives; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; France; Europe
Esty, Benjamin C., and Emilie Billaud. "Danone S.A.: Becoming a Mission-Driven Company (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 722-356, August 2021.
- August 2021
- Supplement
Danone S.A.: Becoming a Mission-Driven Company (B)
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Emilie Billaud
Describes the events that took place in the first six months after Danone became France’s first “entreprise à mission” (mission-driven company). View Details
Keywords: Business and Stakeholder Relations; Corporate Governance; Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Environmental Sustainability; Goals and Objectives; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; France; Europe
Esty, Benjamin C., and Emilie Billaud. "Danone S.A.: Becoming a Mission-Driven Company (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 722-355, August 2021.
Otto Haas
Along with chemist Otto Rohm, Haas founded one of the world’s largest specialty chemical producers. Under his leadership, Rohm and Haas discovered two major products that have had a significant impact on... View Details
Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness
charity, instead of having them buy a product and then 10 percent of that goes to charity, as is typical. Giving customers money to give to others makes them happier and is a strong signal that the company is really genuine. This question... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 20 Feb 2006
- HBS Case
Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive
rejections personally because their requests were merely a few among the thousands of pieces of mail that Harpo Productions received every week. The experience also taught them the value of teamwork and the necessity of not allowing each... View Details
- 08 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp
if city regulators wanted to see the impact of licensing three new businesses on a particular block, they could monitor changes in Google Street Views, cross-referencing that data with online reviews in the neighborhood and housing... View Details
- Mar 2012
- Article
Does America Really Need Manufacturing?
Too many U.S. companies base decisions about where to locate production largely on narrow financial criteria. They don't consider whether keeping manufacturing at home makes more sense strategically or take into account the View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Seeing glass in a new light
Rao Mulpuri (AMP 171, 2006) wants to transform the building industry by disrupting a common product: glass. View Dynamic Glass brings smart windows to buildings, and is gaining rapid adoption in North America—the California-based company sold out of View Details
- March 2014 (Revised November 2020)
- Case
The Novartis Malaria Initiative
By: Michael Chu, Vincent Marie Dessain and Emilie Billaud
The Novartis Malaria Initiative was designed, as a result of a precedent–setting agreement with the World Health Organization in 2001, to provide a breakthrough treatment for malaria—"at no profit"—for public health systems. What had begun as an exemplary act of... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Product Marketing; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Enterprise; Pharmaceutical Industry; Switzerland; Africa; Nigeria
Chu, Michael, Vincent Marie Dessain, and Emilie Billaud. "The Novartis Malaria Initiative." Harvard Business School Case 314-103, March 2014. (Revised November 2020.)
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace