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- 01 May 2020
- In Practice
COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change
sustainability programs will need to be reimagined to include resiliency programs that anticipate the impacts of long-term climate change, short-term weather extremes and the reactions—“under stress”—of host governments on View Details
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by Danielle Kost
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Browse All Articles, Research, & Case Studies - HBS Working Knowledge
Sandra Sucher, author of the book The Power of Trust: How Companies Build It, Lose It, Regain It, discusses how Twiddy leaned into trust to weather the COVID-19 pandemic in her case, “Twiddy & Company: Trust...
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- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
Initiation to Graduation By: Raisch, Sebastian, and Michael Tushman Abstract—Large companies initiate many new businesses, but few of them reach scale. The ambidexterity literature describes how companies...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
10 Trends to Watch in 2024
The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to...
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by Rachel Layne
- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
a sense of purpose, then it is very difficult to see beyond today's controversy. CEOs of vanguard companies know this sense of purpose helps them even when the stock price is down. They have a longer-term vision that keeps them focused...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?
Should eco-conscious investors support a company that’s developing innovative solutions to climate change—even if that company is also a major polluter? The market’s answer to this question has been a...
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- 28 Apr 2023
- Cold Call Podcast
Sweden’s Northvolt Electric Battery Maker: A Startup with a Mission
- 15 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat
it does in most of the rest of the world since per capita consumption is an order of magnitude higher in the United States. Coke is therefore a cautionary tale of a company getting carried away with globaloney and paying for it—but is...
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by Martha Lagace
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Podcast - Business & Environment
university’s efforts to reduce its carbon footprint. They’ll also discuss various methods to measure carbon emissions, including the e-liability approach Bob Kaplan lays out in a recent Harvard Business Review article. Helping Companies...
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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research
volume and constituted a key lever for the company to increase its positive impact on sustainability. IKEA Group Management therefore had to decide how to manage its portfolio of wood sustainability initiatives, especially in the context...
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- 11 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Economic Jitters Push Pandemic Job Seekers to Big Companies, Not Startups
The coronavirus pandemic is spurring job applicants to seek positions at big companies and avoid startups in what new research calls an economic “flight to safety.” Job applicants using AngelList Talent, the largest online recruitment...
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by Rachel Layne
- 30 Nov 2021
- In Practice
What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?
The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental...
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by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman
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Craig Husa
the CEO of multiple innovative, break-through companies including SuperCritical Technologies, a manufacturer of distributed power generation units, and 3TIER (acquired by Vaisala, NASDAQ OMX Helsinki). 3TIER’s big-data, View Details
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research
which funds are used are subject to frequent debate. This paper examines empirical data from the Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation (DNATF), an agency that funds partnerships between universities and private companies to...
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- 29 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
Do Disasters Rally Support for Climate Action? It's Complicated.
Environmental disasters like wildfires can ignite awareness of climate change and boost eco-friendly politicians’ careers. But do voters perceive a tradeoff between environmental policies and local economic growth? In Brazil, home to a majority of the Amazon tropical...
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by Rachel Layne
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HBS - The year in Review
celebrates the extraordinary achievements of graduating students who have made a positive impact on Harvard, HBS, and/or broader communities through exceptional acts of leadership. Aaron Hancock, Peter James Kiernan, Bethany Rolan, and April View Details
- 18 Jul 2023
- News
The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)
What inspired you to launch Forby Entertainment Partners? I started working on film and TV shoots in New York City during college. My first boss, an executive producer, recommended Edward Jay Epstein’s book, The Hollywood Economist: The Hidden Financial Reality Behind...
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Robert Bochnak
- 18 Jul 2023
- Research & Ideas
Will Global Demand for Oil Peak This Decade?
Is the globe’s thirst for oil finally topping out? A major international energy watcher says yes, predicting last month that demand for global oil for transport will peak around 2026, plateau for all uses by 2028, and possibly hit a zenith by the end of the decade....
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- 18 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Banks Ditch Coal: The Impact Is 'More Than Anyone Thought'
Consumers who are eager to mitigate climate change can take many actions, such as reducing the number of airline flights they take or installing solar panels on their homes. But the planet is in a race against time, and individual action alone won’t help most countries...
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- 09 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
Could Clean Hydrogen Become Affordable at Scale by 2030?
Hydrogen is poised to move from the sidelines of global clean energy as the industry learns to produce it more efficiently and at lower cost, according to newly published research led by Gunther Glenk, a climate fellow with Harvard Business School's Institute for the...
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