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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Pricing Paradise
How much is the Grand Canyon worth? What would you pay to prevent developers from building condos on the Cape Cod National Seashore? As difficult as it may seem to answer those questions, Linda Bilmes (MBA 1984) has made it her business... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
says Bailey. “If we lose these, we have nothing.” Accordingly, green technology and sustainability are not just nice add-ons but business imperatives. Yet traditional bottom-line considerations pertain as... View Details
- 30 Apr 2021
- News
Revealing the Rules
was your experience? I remember sitting beside a colleague in the office one day, early on in my career. Both of us were minding our own business when a higher-up from the company walked by and said to my colleague, “Are you so-and-so?... View Details
- 14 Feb 2019
- News
Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change
inaction. That was the message delivered on February 12, 2019, at “Confronting Climate Change: Boston-Based Ideas that Can Change the World,” a panel discussion at the Spangler Center moderated by HBS Professor Michael Toffel and organized by the HBS View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Mr. Coffee
2018, Keller left his position as global president of the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company to become CEO of Peet’s Coffee; in January, he was named CEO of JDE Peet’s, a merger that added a portfolio of coffee and tea brands represented in more than 140 countries. “It’s fun to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
professor Sumner Slichter (the School’s first University Professor) wrote in 1945, “Something should happen to men who come to the Business School which could not happen to them anywhere else in the world, and which will leave its mark on... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Short Takes
Green Stuff: Value, Risk, and Environmental Management Environmental issues increasingly influence companies in their approach to fundamental business concerns. How these matters play out in terms of... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Why Layoffs are a Losing Strategy
company takes in the face of a short-term decline in revenues,” Sucher notes. Business owners who take a different tack—such as Malden Mills CEO Aaron Feuerstein, who chose to continue paying his employees while the company rebuilt after... View Details
- 02 Jun 2011
- News
Serious Fun
green pigs. If the ultimate outcome of that frantic gaming also teaches us something (probably not the case with Angry Birds), our brain is likely too engaged in the task of winning to rebel against some higher purpose. Nick Maynard... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
ultracompetitive business world, the difference between success and failure lies in the ability to get every employee to think and behave like a strategist. This book helps business leaders expand strategic... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
spend. Don’t get us wrong, these costs are critically important, but this has been the sole focus of the building sector for far too long. Think about it this way: the entire green building movement, with billions of square feet of office... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
so, we could connect the dots maybe in ways that other people couldn't. So that's number one. Number two is, from the get go, our notion was green is green. Right? So this is not a feel good marketing campaign. This is really because this... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Accelerating Allston
Dean Nitin Nohria. “This generous gift will support future leaders who will bridge the worlds of business and engineering, spurring innovation and the commercialization of new discoveries to address many of society’s most exciting... View Details
- 11 Dec 2019
- News
A Righteous Path
recent study found that children who arrive at the southern border unaccompanied have an 85 percent chance of receiving a green card and a path to citizenship, but only if they have a lawyer representing them. Children in the same... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
history. As the 68-year-old real estate developer navigates the central business district, he sketches an idiosyncratic map of the city—almost three decades of knowledge of what each piece of property used to be, what it could have been,... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
Issue Focus: Business and the Environment Zobel de Ayala Photographs by Tom Epperson Issue Focus The Business and Environment Initiative at HBS The City Solution Green Day... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
book explores whether profits and environmental sustainability are compatible through the lens of a global history of green entrepreneurship from the nineteenth century till today. It tells the story of the extraordinary men and women who... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
Related Links Ten Amazing Facts about Beauty Register for a Club presentation with Professor Jones on October 19 In his new book, Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry (Oxford University Press), HBS professor Geoffrey Jones explores how the beauty... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Natural Fit
who is hypothermic and certain to die. Do you stay with this person or continue to the summit? Today I’d stay. But then, I’m pretty sure I said I’d go to the summit. We were young, and not everyone is at their best in business school.”... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
the company-and never left. The original business model reflects how far the world economy has come in just over two decades. "Mainland China was just opening up," Yang says. "Although joint ventures, not to mention private ownership,... View Details