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- 22 Apr 2020
- Research Event
How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities
Until a few years ago, climate change’s potential impact seemed abstract for many investors. Now, as sea levels rise, hurricanes intensify, and droughts threaten food supplies, many investors are confronting its financial realities. But it’s not a simple calculation.... View Details
- 20 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Moving from Supply Chains to Supply Networks
economically manage product supply in manufacturing, distribution, and retail environments. Another audience segment is the investment community. Shapiro: Quite often, companies looking for funding compete primarily, if not totally, in... View Details
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf: A Manager's Responsibility in the 21st Century
individual action, against which individual biases can be lessened and competing interests balanced. At BP, the overriding concern was economic efficiency. What was not considered, argue the authors, were external costs: the potentially... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Banishing Balkan Ghosts
as a Nonprofit Management Fellow at a UN economic institute in Belgrade in 1990. “And with so many international students at the School, one truly becomes a world citizen through one's HBS friends.”... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Sorting Out the Patent Craze
include bodies as varied in scope as the Financial Accounting Standards Board on one end to the DSL Forum on the other. On the tech side, SSOs work both with technology sponsors and users to develop a set of standards for products to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
biotechnology. The prospect is exhilarating, but the road to this brave new biotech world has more than a few bumps. With an average time line of ten years required to bring a drug to market - and the potential for failure looming every... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Blockchain for Good
people across the world access to affordable financial services. Dyer says the United Nations has identified digital financial inclusion as a key catalyst for global sustainable development goals, and her aspiration is that Millicent,... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
strategies, virtual workplaces, results-only work environments, babies at work programs, and on-ramp and off-ramp opportunities. Get the Job You Really Want by James Caan (AMP 164, 2003) (Portfolio) To land the job of your dreams, Caan explains how to stay positive in... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Books
the world as an economic miracle driven by better approaches to management and a seemingly superior form of capitalism. As HBS professor Michael Porter and his coauthors Hirotaka Takeuchi and Mariko... View Details
- 11 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives
The price predictions did not come true because the idea of an oil reserve is an economic concept as well as a physical one, Reinhardt says. As the price of oil goes up, it becomes profitable to extract it from sources that require more... View Details
- Profile
Amy Sennett
Americans experience. And one that reflects where the world is really going.” After her first year of law school, Amy went to Geneva to work with thirty-four lawyers on the U.N.’s International Law Commission. Amy served as research... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
world of possibilities open up. An option is a fundamental security now - whether linked to interest rates, stock indexes, currencies, commodities, or real estate. But that's only part of it. There are other financial things that have the... View Details
- 16 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
D’O: Making a Michelin-Starred Restaurant Affordable
problem. “Following the season is the most important thing to do in the applied economics of a restaurant" — Davide Oldani "The people who work at this kind of restaurant are not part-timers coming in for four hours a night or... View Details
- 03 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Faculty Spotlight: Professor Jurgen Weiss
every general manager understands the role of energy in the world. Part of the course will explore how energy enables our prosperity, enables our economic activity. But I want to spend the bulk of the time thinking about what kinds of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
this first wave of economic fortune tellers: Roger Babson, Irving Fisher, John Moody, C. J. Bullock, and Warren Persons. They thrived in the boom years after World War I, and yet, almost to a man, they... View Details
- 02 Dec 2019
- News
A Long-Standing Commitment to Global Understanding
of economic development,” recalls Barry of his post-graduation years. He wanted to understand why people in some regions do well economically and improve their standard of living while others do not, and was... View Details
- Profile
Roniesha Copeland
needs; in bridging a community’s economic gaps.” Balancing two compelling interests Throughout college at Howard University and in her subsequent professional career, Roniesha sought to develop skills relevant to both interests – business... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Books
approach that takes both ethical and economic imperatives seriously. Paine's book speaks directly to those responsible for a company's performance —executives, entrepreneurs, directors, managers — but any stakeholder in the global economy... View Details
- Fast Answer
Taxes worldwide
(Organization for Economic Development) In the OECD iLibrary database, click the menu to Browse by Theme then click Taxation. On the left-hand menu under Statistics, click Databases then click OECD Tax Statistics. Click to... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
report from the Global Center on Adaptation suggests that more than $100 billion per year is needed to invest in infrastructure, weather forecasting, and protecting agriculture in Africa to address both poverty and climate stresses. Yet the entire annual View Details