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  • February 1992 (Revised April 1993)
  • Case

Acid Rain: The Southern Co. (A)

By: Forest L. Reinhardt
The Southern Co., an electric utility, is planning its compliance with the 1990 amendments to the Clean Air Act. The Act established a system of tradeable permits for sulfur dioxide emissions. The company must decide whether to install pollution control equipment and... View Details
Keywords: Energy Generation; Business Strategy; Environmental Sustainability; Cost vs Benefits; Financial Management; Strategic Planning; Investment Return; Government Legislation; Wastes and Waste Processing; Utilities Industry; Energy Industry; United States
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  • 13 Jun 2017
  • News

Finding Common Ground

pesticide exposure, diet, or perhaps complex interactions among all those factors and others. “With honey-bee health problems there are multiple possible causes,” says Crespin, who also works on sustainability issues as a senior fellow... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
  • 01 Dec 2008
  • News

Business at the Summit

start-ups, made an impassioned plea for the environment. “We can bail out the economy,” he said, “but we can’t bail out the environment,” eliciting sustained applause. Citing the country’s lack of an energy policy, he continued: “America... View Details
Keywords: leadership; alumni events; Centennial; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Finance; Management
  • 09 Feb 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times

Commitment, High Performance: How to Build a Resilient Organization for Sustained Advantage describes organizations that, Beer says, "are diametrically opposite to the firms we saw fail on Wall Street. The book's perspective also... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 07 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 7, 2015

business model as decisions enforced by the authority of the firm; this definition enables the analysis of business models through the analysis of individual firm choices. We situate negotiation outcomes within the strategy literature by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 9

liberalism" and argue for their relevance to the contemporary global economy. The most essential principle is the need for markets to enjoy social legitimacy, because their political sustainability ultimately depends on it. From this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 22

practitioners alike now recognize that a firm's capacity to assimilate and use know-how from external sources-what Cohen and Levinthal (1990) called "absorptive capacity"-plays a central role in innovation performance. In recent years, a common View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Nov 2021
  • Blog Post

How HBS Supported My Career Transitions During and After Graduation

important foundation, as I work with a large variety of platforms in different verticals. EC (second) year, I took Strategy & Technology with Professor Yoffie, which was my first introduction to the power of the platform business... View Details
  • 03 Feb 2021
  • News

Power Play

a partner with Energy Capital Partners, saw it as the perfect foundation on which to build a dedicated private equity firm. So in 2018, he founded SER Capital Partners, which focuses on sustainable investments, and brought in partners... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
  • 23 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 23, 2007

balance between the efficiency of a global entity and the speed of local businesses. What would be the best strategy for Bunge to respond to the external changes imposed by high energy prices and increasing demand from emerging economies?... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Sep 2004
  • Research & Ideas

IBM Finds Profit in Diversity

which executive leadership is often ineffectual. Executives' espoused beliefs are frequently inconsistent with their behavior, and they typically underestimate how much the corporation really needs to change to achieve its diversity goals. That's because diversity... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
  • 16 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One

each knew, not just intuitively, but strategically—and after a time, financially and organizationally—that they had to create a sustainable market for their offerings. If Wedgwood could parachute forward into our time, or if we could go... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • January 2014
  • Case

CleanSpritz

By: John A. Quelch and Alisa Zalosh
Sales of CleanSpritz all-purpose cleaning spray have been steadily declining for the past five years, and management believes the decline correlates to a growing environmental concern among U.S. consumers. CleanSpritz's management is considering several options to... View Details
Keywords: Product Positioning; Competition; Marketing Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance Improvement; Environmental Sustainability; Product Launch; Product Development; Consumer Products Industry
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  • Career Coach

Doug Lester

a career. Coaching sessions with Doug can range from broadly conceptual, touching on issues related to meaning in work and life, to highly focused and tactical, including formulating effective networking strategies and following through... View Details
Keywords: Auto/Transportation/Logistics; Consumer Products; Education; Emerging Markets; Entertainment / Media; Entrepreneurship; Government; Health Care; Hospitality; Insurance; Publishing / Communications / Advertising; Real Estate; Retail; Social Enterprise; Technology
  • 13 Jan 2015
  • First Look

First Look: January 13

highlight the traits of cities (e.g., size, industrial diversity) that theoretical and empirical work link to innovation, and we discuss factors that help sustain these features (e.g., the localization of entrepreneurial finance).... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Jan 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009

thinking of ourselves this way. Therefore, when people behave in ways that might appear selfish, prejudiced, or perverted, they tend to engage a host of strategies designed to justify questionable behavior with rational excuses: "I... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 01 Dec 2009
  • News

Broad Range of Interests Among Nine New Faculty

1985) in getting the bank online. With a deep interest in information technologies and how organizations differ in management practices and structure, Assistant Professor Raffaella Sadun joins the Strategy unit. She earned a Ph.D. in... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 18 Nov 2021
  • Op-Ed

5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation

illustrates the importance of embedding a scale-up strategy in the initial design of a program that aims to solve a widespread problem. In the following discussion, Kanter and Litow talk about the process through which creative,... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • February 2010
  • Case

Amyris Biotechnologies: Commercializing Biofuel

By: Gary P. Pisano and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld
In 2009, Amyris Biotechnologies was building a plant in Brazil that used synthetic biology to convert sugarcane into both renewable fuels and renewable chemicals. The Amyris' marketing team was investigating the commercial interest for both types of products, while the... View Details
Keywords: Renewable Energy; Chemicals; Risk Management; Product Marketing; Product Development; Production; Environmental Sustainability; Commercialization; Biotechnology Industry; Brazil
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  • 29 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 29

restaurant's margins to make it a more sustainable business. But the question was-how? What options really were available? Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/noma-a-lot-on-the-plate/an/814097-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne