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Confronting Climate Change - Business & Environment
Cities Deploying resilient infrastructure The world is currently undergoing the largest wave of urban growth in human history. These population centers are especially at risk from sea level rise, hurricanes, and flooding. Transportation...
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- 28 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
Remote Workers Spend More on Housing. Do They Deserve Higher Pay?
To executives expecting to save on office space when some employees continue working remotely post-pandemic: Not so fast. Makeshift desks and kitchen tables have sufficed for many people working from home to avoid COVID-19. However, permanently remote workers tend to...
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by Kristen Senz
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Economist Intelligence Unit | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
automotive, consumer goods, energy, financial services, healthcare, and telecommunications industries. Data tool can be used to compare economic data across or within countries or to report on prices of commodities in major cities...
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- 09 Nov 2022
- In Practice
COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?
The US government’s newly passed Inflation Reduction Act will direct $370 billion toward advancing renewal energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—the country's largest investment in fighting climate change so far. As business and government leaders around the...
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by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
The Musts of 2023
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. At fall reunions, we set up shop on campus and ask the alumni about what media moved them this year. What changed their minds or their hearts. And their answers ran...
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1.18 Field Global Immersion (FGI) - MBA
visiting or residing in the FIELD Global Immersion city may not participate in course activities (e.g., Global Section sessions, field work, cultural activities, meals, etc.) nor may they stay in GEO-provided accommodations, whether a...
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Alumnae Circles - Alumni
would not be possible without our incredible alumnae leaders. Within each Region, there are four volunteer Regional Committee positions that help manage the program. The Regional Chair, Event Lead, Facilitator Lead, and Member Lead work together to launch the program...
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Pursuing a JD/MBA Joint Degree - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Rounding the Bend
Stockholm-based company is on track to redirect 40 million garments in its first year, with ambitious plans to scale. Bolon envisions a not-too-distant future in which textile recycling is as routine as trash collection. Garbage trucks are already visiting View Details
- September 2015
- Case
GovDelivery
By: Mitchell Weiss
Is government the biggest, worst customer in the world? And is that a reason for venture investors to back companies that sell to government or to stay away? It had been seven years since Scott Burns joined his friend Zach Stabenow to get a company called GovDocs off...
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GovDelivery;
Public Entrepreneurship;
B2G;
Business-to-Government;
Scott Burns;
Entrepreneurship;
Government Administration;
Venture Capital;
Information Technology Industry;
Public Administration Industry;
Web Services Industry;
Minnesota;
United States
Weiss, Mitchell. "GovDelivery." Harvard Business School Case 816-020, September 2015.
- 28 Jan 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Digital Discrimination: The Case of Airbnb.com
- 2009
- Working Paper
Negotiating the Path of Abraham
By: Kimberlyn Leary, James K. Sebenius and Joshua Weiss
In the face of daunting barriers, the Abraham Path Initiative envisions uncovering and revitalizing a route of cultural tourism that follows the path of Abraham and his family some 4,000 years ago across the Middle East. It begins in the ancient ruins of Harran, in...
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Development Economics;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Negotiation;
Business and Community Relations;
Business and Government Relations;
Religion;
Environmental Sustainability;
Tourism Industry;
Middle East
Leary, Kimberlyn, James K. Sebenius, and Joshua Weiss. "Negotiating the Path of Abraham." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-049, December 2009.
- November 2007 (Revised March 2011)
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Mubadala: Forging Development in Abu Dhabi
By: Rawi E. Abdelal and Irina Tarsis
In 2007, Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak, the CEO of Mubadala Development Company (Mubadala), had every reason to be optimistic about the future of his home, Abu Dhabi, one of the emirates comprising the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The tiny, sandy, and dry emirate with a...
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Development Economics;
Economy;
Non-Renewable Energy;
Globalization;
Leading Change;
State Ownership;
Diversification;
Abu Dhabi
Abdelal, Rawi E., and Irina Tarsis. "Mubadala: Forging Development in Abu Dhabi." Harvard Business School Case 708-033, November 2007. (Revised March 2011.)
- 04 May 2017
- HBS Seminar
Nicholas G. Hall, The Ohio State University
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By: Meg Rithmire
Land Bargains and Chinese Capitalism: The Politics of Property Rights under Reform
Published October, 2015
China since the 1980s has been the scene of unprecedented efforts at urban construction and growth, even in the absence of privatization of ownership... View Details
- 25 Apr 2024
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Origin Stories
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up...
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- 18 Mar 2016
- Blog Post
What is an IFC?
An IFC (Immersive Field Course) is a class for second year students where the vast majority of content consists of an on-the-ground assignment to learn about and advise on real problems. I enrolled in an IFC focused on building cities...
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- 22 Feb 2018
- Book
The New History of American Capitalism
workers, sharecroppers, and other nonwaged workers and shift attention from the industrial cities of the Northeast to the nation as a whole. That approach allows scholars to interrogate the connections between slavery and the unfolding of...
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Manufacturing
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Partners & Fellows | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Center Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) Boston Redevelopment Authority Boston Symphony Orchestra BRAC USA Calvert Foundation The Children's Investment Fund Foundation Citizen Schools City of Boston, Department of Neighborhood...
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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
defining moments before and we've let them go by. Corporate America says all the right things, we'd make a few donations. You know, when I was growing up in the inner city and it was burning in the 60s, we used to call those pacification...
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