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Finalists - New Venture Competition
managers in corporate America. DoriVac Kevin Emancipator (MBA 2023), Claire Zeng DoriVac (DNA Origami Vaccine) is a biotech startup for improving cancer treatment using a novel DNA nanoparticle platform. We develop treatments that teach...
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Effects of Climate Change - Business & Environment
change will make safe drinking water less available in many regions, increasing the risk of water-born disease, famine, and draught [7]. Air Pollution Burning fossil fuels causes air pollution that is responsible for killing 7.3 million...
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- 01 May 2020
- What Do You Think?
Does Remote Work Mix with Organizational Culture?
of remote work. On the other hand, remote work can provide an alternative to a toxic office culture resulting from management neglect. Armando Del Bosque commented, “Organizational culture helps us find what we love, love what we do and...
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by James Heskett
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Women Leaders and Organizational Change
way things are, like water to a fish or the air we breathe. What's to notice? What's to change? To make progress on this problem, people must take risks, learn new ways, experiment. The notion that the basic organizing principles that...
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by Mallory Stark
- 11 May 2022
- Blog Post
MoMBAs: The Inspiring Student Mothers of HBS
year and my water broke around 2 hours after the class ended. I don’t think I will ever forget the name of that case (“ofo”) because it helped me realize how close I was from meeting my baby. Marie Jimenez Year: Second Due Date: August...
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- 10 Sep 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Branding Yoga
larger audience," Deshpandé says. Creating Value "Branding Yoga" is one of five branding cases Deshpandé uses in his classes to explore how companies create brands that are differentiated and worthy of a price premium. In...
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- 10 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone
contributions to society, says Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Frank Nagle. Doing so will encourage companies to spend more time working to make the world a better place, he says. Nagle points to the use of free and open...
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by Lane Lambert
- 14 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures
the insights and feedback from their cohort. We talked to a few participants in the Accelerator to hear more about their experience: Teresa Danso-Danquah, Rea Savla, Benjamin Schedl, and Sophy Wang, (all MBA 2024). Tell us about your...
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- 28 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Harvard Team Wins Second Place in MIINT Impact Investing Competition
presented Kumulus, a Tunisian startup that provides an innovative water purification device for the MENA region. The team included three students from HBS (Katjana Kammin, Vugar Abdullayev, and Vaibhav Sharma) and three students from HKS...
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Career Support - Business & Environment
Development. Events Agribusiness Seminar Networking Session An opportunity to network with alumni working in agribusiness. Open to members of the Food, Agriculture, & Water Club. (January) Career Panels (login required) BEI partners with...
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- 14 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: SELCO - Last Mile Solar Powered Energy for Rural India
expanded services to include the supply and distribution of sustainable energy through solar lighting, thermal water heaters, and inverter systems, enabling the underserved sector to receive sustainable energy at affordable costs. SELCO...
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- 04 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them
Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to...
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Climate Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society
HBS and leverages the expertise of our faculty. Current Climate Fellows Omar Asensio Associate professor in the School of Public Policy; director of the Data Science and Policy Lab, Georgia Institute of Technology Using AI to ensure an...
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- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition
With more people working remotely right now, many of us have experienced a videoconference interrupted by barking dogs or hungry kids demanding snacks, punctuated, perhaps, by cabinet doors slamming and ice makers grinding in the...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Enron’s Lessons for Managers
five-legged cow; it doesn't really make sense. I think that Enron's pathologies are not unique, save in their collective occurrence and collective impact. Very few of us who engage in competitive endeavors have not in some way been...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
Corn likes people. It benefits from human contact, when it’s thinned out and hand-pollinated, explains Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997). Corn thrives when sung to and spoken to—something Keen does in the language of his mother’s Omaha Tribe, where he is known as Bison...
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- 29 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism
Most of us tend not to think of capitalism as a moral system. The prevailing view of the free market, among laypeople and economists alike, is that it's one step removed from the law of the jungle. But the fact is that capitalism has...
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by Michael Blanding
- 12 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Student Portraits - Armed Forces Alumni Association
stick with me for the rest of my life. BAKER FLAGG /3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division / US Army ENTERED SERVICE FROM: Frisco, TX REASON FOR SERVING: I joined the Army because I felt called to it. This calling came from the confluence of...
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- 21 Nov 2015
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Stella McCartney Combines High Fashion with Environmental Values
chemicals and water that you use to produce the items, but also the waste. People throw away 90 percent of what they are going to buy in the next two years. So it’s just amazing. In the View Details
- 29 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: JSW Steel and Cement and the Quest to Capture Carbon in Hard to Abate Sectors
such as Cement and Steel, the hardest challenge is to balance the need for infrastructure and the need to build it sustainably, when it currently grows emissions at 1.5% per annum. Priority to Abate After an early ferry ride and bus journey, that took View Details