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- 23 Apr 2024
- In Practice
Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now
With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 16 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Can Consumers Be Saved From Their Misguided Decisions?
on a number of products and services including health insurance plans, generic versus brand drug choices, copays and medication use, mobile phone plan choices, and even better methods for farming seaweed. “If you’re thinking about using... View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
- Book
Can the Global Food Industry Overcome Public Distrust?
JamesBrey Food is the largest segment of the global economy. It is also widely recognized as more critical for human health than any pharmaceutical drug on the planet. But significant changes in the industry are making people lose trust in many institutions involved in... View Details
- 22 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Pulling Campbell’s Out of the Soup
responsibility efforts, including investing in solar energy and environmentally friendly farming with his sights set on reducing the company's carbon footprint. "The more we leaned into development in the community, the better we... View Details
- 25 Mar 2015
- HBS Case
Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum
Avery, it is essential for organizations diving into digital not to give in to the temptation to farm out blogging and social media to outside companies. "You have to be confident that whoever is speaking on behalf of the institution... View Details
- 18 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Internet of Things Needs a Business Model. Here It Is
advantage of changes in wind direction. Knowing the economic loss from downtime for each turbine on a wind farm allowed GE to determine a better maintenance schedule for turbines, figuring out which should be fixed first, and utilizing... View Details
- 01 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Bank That Takes Parmesan as Collateral: The Cheese Stands a Loan
that farmers have access to credit lines. However, it's understandable why lenders might hesitate to grant loans to the cheese producers. Trichakis explains that farms are essentially small- and medium-sized enterprises, helmed by farmers... View Details
- 18 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization
smallholder farmers capitalized on existing infrastructure to farm rubber around the edges of established groves, creating a rubber supply parallel to that produced by the foreign direct-invested estates. This increase in supply drove... View Details
- 28 Apr 2008
- HBS Case
Negotiating with Wal-Mart
perspective. There are numerous media accounts of the corporate monolith riding its suppliers into the ground. But what about those who manage to survive, and thrive, while dealing with the classic hardball negotiator? In "Sarah Talley and Frey View Details
- 17 Oct 2016
- HBS Case
Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste
his career, Alvarez would visit farms after they had been picked over for the best fruits and vegetables to be sold in stores and was astounded at the amount of edible food that was rejected. “If you could get consumers to go to a View Details
- 02 Aug 2024
- HBS Case
How a Mission to Cut Food Waste Launched a Multimillion-Dollar Venture
On a hectic Friday in October 2016, Josh Domingues wondered if he had made a mistake quitting the security of a well-paying job managing contracts for professional hockey players to start a new venture selling nearly expired groceries at discount prices. After all, a... View Details
- 12 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs
and development, Jones says. California was another major player, offering wind firms fixed energy prices and guaranteed income streams for several years. These had the effect of luring major manufacturing companies from other industries into the turbine business,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Renewable Energy: Winds at Our Back?
When American energy entrepreneur Jim Gordon envisioned the first offshore wind farm lining the horizon a few miles off the coast of the eastern United States, he perhaps did not factor in blowback from almost every angle. Gordon's nearly 10-year battle to gain... View Details
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/516076-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 516-074 Employee Health No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/516074-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship’s Wild Ride
Willard Marriott. He was a young guy from a farming town who created the Marriott hotel chain. Everybody talked about how wonderful his success was. Also, entrepreneurship is greater in communities that see change as positive and in which... View Details
Keywords: by William Mahoney
- 08 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Will the Japan Disaster Remake the Landscape for Green Energy in Asia?
inherent advantage in the country's political system. But that is beginning to change, albeit very slowly. "It was only in 2010 that the first non-recourse project financing was closed for a wind farm in China by an international... View Details
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
prevent hunters from moving into the wildlife reserve. The fence, however, also prevented traditional east-west migration of animals across the region. Through the 1980s and 1990s, the farms within the Sabi Sand Game reserve converted... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?
investors in some of the largest renewable projects worldwide, such as Shell’s involvement in NoordZeeWind, the first wind farm with capacity to generate over 100 megawatts, built in the Dutch North Sea. The researchers found no evidence... View Details
- 11 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives
You may think that being an energy executive—especially a manager in a leading oil company—might be the easiest job around. Just flip the production switch, and watch gas prices head toward $4 a gallon. But students enrolled in Harvard Business School professor Forest... View Details
- 04 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City
there is rapid and massive urbanization everywhere as people leave farms for cities in search of opportunity. Half of the world is urban today, and the urban population will double in the next three decades. Second, this migration is... View Details