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- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
contactless curbside pickup options. Investors are helping shore up distribution networks by injecting cash into distributors to keep products flowing. Franchisees are being offered more generous payment terms. Every player in the fragile View Details
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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni
Energy, US Department of Energy Gordon Jones, President, College of Western Idaho (CWI) Building the workforce is critical to scaling climate ventures, to valuation, and to public uptake of climate technologies both existing and new. The...
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- 13 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk
with technology take longer, they're harder to follow. I'm involved, in addition to running Merck, I co-chair the commission in New Jersey about re-opening the state. Corporate America is asking what it needs to do about racial...
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HBS Entrepreneurship Summit - Alumni
Sessions on the technologies that will define the next decade Small-group discussions built to provide intimate support on personal challenges Programming addressing the unique challenges facing underrepresented founders For additional...
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- 02 Aug 2022
- Blog Post
From HBS to Cutting-Edge Tech
Gaurav Singh (MBA 2022) grew up in Varanasi, India. He completed his Bachelor’s of Technology in Instrumentation and Control Engineering from NIT Trichy, India before moving to the US to pursue his M.S. in Electrical and Computer...
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Effects of Climate Change - Business & Environment
vulnerable areas more resilient and decide when to rebuild, restrict development, or retreat Economic development and innovative technologies have contributed to climate change—and are also essential to address it. Government policies can...
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Your Social Entrepreneurship checklist | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
HealthLab: A new University-wide accelerator for student ventures, HealthLab brings together students and postdocs from across the Harvard ecosystem to solve challenges in public and planetary health. Legal support: Harvard Law School...
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- 06 May 2021
- HBS Case
How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups
creating an inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystem can be seen through the stories of four women—two of them Black, one Latinx, and one white—who launched new enterprises in Miami with an eye to diversifying tech jobs in the future....
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by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 13 Jun 2011
- HBS Case
Mobile Banking for the Unbanked
needs food. We need education, and so do the poor. We need banks, so they must need banks. But that's the wrong way of approaching it. The ecosystem in which they live is very different from ours. They're on weekly or even daily wages,...
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- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
are being caused by rapid technological changes on the one hand and tectonic shifts in customer preferences and societal behaviour on the other. Marketing knowledge and practices have to advance at a significantly higher pace to address...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
buell) is the Finnegan Family Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Management Unit. Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury: Remote work will become strategic I’ve been studying remote work for years now,...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018
analyses suggest that the surge in liability risk had a large and negative impact on downstream innovation in medical implants but no significant effect on upstream polymer patenting. These findings show how tort laws may affect the development of new View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software
Commonly used free and open source software (FOSS) is one of the most significant technological trends of the decade. After all, 80-90 percent of a typical application contains FOSS components. And that trend is only increasing with its...
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- 10 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone
easily shared more broadly. Limit the power of gatekeepers. Look to Antarctica, not the Amazon. Both ecosystems are of vital importance to the global community. In the case of Antarctica, a 1961 agreement known as the Antarctic Treaty...
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by Lane Lambert
- 14 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures
impactful product. Personally, I learned the immense emotional resilience that is required to work in this ecosystem – change horizons are long, traditional startup benchmarks for scale must be rethought, and interventions require immense...
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- 14 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: SELCO - Last Mile Solar Powered Energy for Rural India
impact within the community is designed to build ecosystems that deliver quality livelihood, health, and energy services at the last mile. During our visit, we had the chance to see and learn about several of their solar powered...
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- 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...
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- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
at the circumscribed scale, achieving transformative impact. Lastly, quadrant #4, refers to organizations that have both expanded reach and created comprehensive change in the ecosystem to achieve systemic impact. We illustrate our...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
Currently an adjunct associate professor at NYU’s Stern School, where he teaches about commercializing carbon-reduction technologies in the course Disruption, Entrepreneurship, and Social Impact, Carty points to the significant potential...
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Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by;
energy;
environment;
sustainability;
entrepreneurship;
Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation;
Transportation;
Water, Sewage and Supply Systems;
Utilities;
Construction of Buildings;
Construction;
Waste Management and Remediation Services;
Corporate Services
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
when the Omaha lived here are gone—and that soil is gone.” There are three layers to the soil, Leiserowitz explains: a rich, dark topsoil, teeming with microbes, decomposed organic material, insects, and the mycorrhizal fungi that come together to create a vast, unseen...
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