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- 31 Oct 2023
- HBS Case
Checking Your Ethics: Would You Speak Up in These 3 Sticky Situations?
blurred as to what is considered to be appropriate behavior.” Fubini, who discusses a variety of ethical briar patches with students at HBS, has written a series of mini-cases stemming from real predicaments his former students have...
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Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni
Emma Bloomberg Co-Chair of the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative The greatest challenge to the sustainability of our current era of globalization comes from within the US. Most Americans now reject globalization. What can we learn from parts of the View Details
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Online Finance & Accounting Courses | HBS Online
investments, including private equity and real estate. 5 weeks, 6–7 hrs/weekApply by July 29$1,850Certificate Complete any three courses within this subject area to earn a Certificate of Specialization in finance and accounting Why Should...
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- 14 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Polluters, Encouraging Protectors
and interpreting data about industrial environment performance because it brings together information about companies' environmental management, provided voluntarily by managers in real time, with companies' pollution data from the U.S....
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- December 2005 (Revised March 2010)
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William Levitt, Levittown and the Creation of American Suburbia
By: Nitin Nohria, Anthony Mayo and Mark Benson
Demand for low-cost housing after World War II far exceeded supply. Was this a profitable new market? New York developer William Levitt had to decide. During World War II, Levitt was eager to build basic housing for the working class—otherwise, Levitt & Sons would have...
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Demographics;
Construction;
Business History;
Housing;
Leadership;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Product Development;
Business and Government Relations;
Real Estate Industry;
Real Estate Industry;
United States;
New York (state, US)
Nohria, Nitin, Anthony Mayo, and Mark Benson. "William Levitt, Levittown and the Creation of American Suburbia." Harvard Business School Case 406-062, December 2005. (Revised March 2010.)
- July 2014 (Revised May 2015)
- Case
Making Room for the Baby Boom: Senior Living
By: Charles F. Wu, Joseph Beyer and Arthur I. Segel
Tom Alperin's National Development has purchased a building site in affluent Wellesley, MA, and is in the process of deciding whether to build apartments, a combination of independent living and assisted living units for seniors, or perhaps even higher acuity...
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Senior Living;
Assisted Living;
Independent Living;
Property;
Finance;
Real Estate Industry;
Boston;
Massachusetts;
United States
Wu, Charles F., and Joseph Beyer. "Making Room for the Baby Boom: Senior Living." Harvard Business School Case 215-003, July 2014. (Revised May 2015.)
- Program
Families in Business
foundations. All three types of businesses will benefit from this program. Details Address the complex dynamics of a family business Manage expectations for the family's involvement with the business Develop plans for onboarding the...
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- 11 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
Is Amazon a Retailer, a Tech Firm, or a Media Company? How AI Can Help Investors Decide
Traditional investing classifications consider Walmart a consumer staples retailer, but the company owns more than 6,000 retail and distribution properties around the world—the portfolio dwarfs those of many commercial real View Details
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Re: Sarah Carson (MBA 1971); By: Christine Speer Lejeune; photo by Christina Gandolfo 01 Jun 2024 HBS Alumni Bulletin Turning Point: On the Line Re: Leonard Dick (MBA 1990) 01 Jun 2024 HBS Alumni Bulletin Crash Pad Can the glut of vacant commercial View Details
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Alumni Bulletin - Alumni
Firm Foundation Action Plan: Role-Play Turning Point: On the Line Ideas Crash Pad Can the glut of vacant commercial real estate supply answers for America’s urban housing crunch? Case Study: Ready for an...
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The China Rules
To achieve growth and profitability in the world's third-largest economy, multinationals need strong leadership--but China is tough on top executives. Pulsating with opportunity, China attracts foreigners, yet HR professionals continue to rank it as one of the most... View Details
- March 2019
- Article
Economics of Converting Renewable Power to Hydrogen
By: Gunther Glenk and Stefan Reichelstein
The recent sharp decline in the cost of renewable energy suggests that the production of hydrogen from renewable power through a power-to-gas process might become more economical. Here we examine this alternative from the perspective of an investor who considers a...
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Clean Technology;
Renewable Energy;
Energy Storage;
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Green Hydrogen;
Green Technology;
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Shipping Industry;
Steel Industry;
Technology Industry;
Transportation Industry;
Utilities Industry;
Africa;
Asia;
Europe;
North and Central America;
South America;
Middle East
Glenk, Gunther, and Stefan Reichelstein. "Economics of Converting Renewable Power to Hydrogen." Nature Energy 4, no. 3 (March 2019): 216–222.
- 2022
- Article
Towards Robust Off-Policy Evaluation via Human Inputs
By: Harvineet Singh, Shalmali Joshi, Finale Doshi-Velez and Himabindu Lakkaraju
Off-policy Evaluation (OPE) methods are crucial tools for evaluating policies in high-stakes domains such as healthcare, where direct deployment is often infeasible, unethical, or expensive. When deployment environments are expected to undergo changes (that is, dataset...
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Singh, Harvineet, Shalmali Joshi, Finale Doshi-Velez, and Himabindu Lakkaraju. "Towards Robust Off-Policy Evaluation via Human Inputs." Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (2022): 686–699.
- 05 Jul 2023
- HBS Case
What Kind of Leader Are You? How Three Action Orientations Can Help You Meet the Moment
contextual, or relational. The challenge for leaders is to develop a style that blends elements of all three, because “an overreliance on any one orientation can lead to poor action plans that may derail your ability to execute,” the note...
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by Ben Rand
- 05 Sep 2023
- Book
Failing Well: How Your ‘Intelligent Failure’ Unlocks Your Full Potential
In the 1990s, after drugmaker Eli Lilly spent more than a decade and millions of dollars developing the new drug Alimta to treat lung cancer, the medication came up short in effectively treating cancer in expanded trials. While the...
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by Michael Blanding
- October 2014 (Revised June 2021)
- Teaching Note
Making Room for the Baby Boom: Senior Living
By: Charles F. Wu and Ben Eppler
Tom Alperin's firm National Development is an experienced multifamily and commercial developer in the Northeast. It has a strong track record for working on challenging projects, delivering high quality products and generating strong returns for his investors. The firm...
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Housing;
Age;
Investment Return;
Real Estate Industry;
Real Estate Industry;
Massachusetts
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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni
and to honor his late father, William L. Bennett (MBA 1976), and late uncle, Robert E. Bennett (MBA 1986). William H.G. Bennett is a partner at Irongate, a full-service luxury real estate View Details
- 02 Apr 2024
- What Do You Think?
What's Enough to Make Us Happy?
leave the world a better place than they found it. For example, an inspiring acquaintance, Jack Bogle—founder of the Vanguard Group, comprising over $8 trillion in funds placed there by investors, and author of a book entitled Enough—died with an View Details
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by James Heskett
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Online Leadership Principles Course | HBS Online
intelligence, and communication methods to establish a personal leadership style Apply or adapt your leadership style to meet specific challenges Manage the conditions that drive team performance Coach colleagues and share feedback in ways that enable them to View Details
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Programs & Events - Alumni
Workshop Acquire insights you can apply to your business as you explore recent changes in the industry, emerging strategies, and best practices. Jun23 23–28 JUN 2024 Executive Education HBS Campus Growing as a Purposeful Leader Orient your business around a greater...
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