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- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
processing line at Calera's R&D facility in Moss Landing, California. It was late May 2009, and Calera was an early-stage venture-backed company headquartered in Los Gatos, California with a promising vision to reverse global View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
It's Climate Week in New York City. The schedule features a UN Climate Summit, a People's Climate March, the Clinton Global Initiative, substantial criticism of the whole endeavor, and plenty of agitated interaction. There is a lot of...
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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
OPM Celebrates 21st Anniversary at Gala Florida Reunion
a towing company in Alabama, a medical services business in Saudi Arabia, a publishing company in Greece, a drilling firm in Canada, and a New York-based broadcasting company, to name a few. Hayes's talk on the second day of the Reunion, "A View Details
- 18 Oct 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech
sector. This is a big problem when product development cycles and election cycles don't mesh; government funding may be available with one administration and gone with the next. Consider California's Global View Details
- 05 Apr 2021
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t More Leaders Teach?
on longer term leadership development.” The growth of remote work resulting from the global pandemic has affected both the importance and nature of middle management. Esther Derby asserts that the “role for middle managers is more...
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by James Heskett
- 21 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 21
for our entrepreneurship measures and find a persistent link between entrepreneurship and city employment growth; this connection works primarily through lower employment growth of start-ups in cities that are closer to mines. These effects hold in cold and View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #12: Vehicle to Everything - Claire Broido Johnson (MBA 2002), Chief Operating Officer of Fermata Energy
The research firm BloombergNEF found that “As of midyear, there were 318 fully electric and 145 plug-in hybrids on the market globally. There were 84 models available in the U.S. in mid-2022, up from 59 at the end of 2020.”Bloomberg also reported that the View Details
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
World Wildlife Fund US Harvard Business School Case 308-035 World Wildlife Fund US is a leading international conservation nonprofit that operates within a global network of WWF organizations. This case examines WWF US's strategy to...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Sep 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics
A few years ago, Joseph B. Lassiter traveled to San Francisco, Houston, and New York to hold discussions with Harvard alumni on the topic of business and the environment. Each time, he surveyed the audience about the touchy subject of climate change and how society...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)
wants to understand the barriers to effecting change on global issues such as health care." Under Ray Gilmartin's leadership, Merck has launched an unprecedented number of new drugs and forged partnerships with the public and nonprofit...
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- 29 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 29
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/111003-PDF-ENG Cree, Inc.: Which Bright Future? David J. Collis and Mary FureyHarvard Business School Case 711-457 When global warming concerns caused governments...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Unlocking Your Investment Capital
warm shareholders to the benefits of the risk management tools you suggest? A: Whenever the firm is undertaking new strategic directions, including implementing strategic risk management that may use derivatives, it is wise to communicate...
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- 19 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers...
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- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
among adults around the world, and the warm glow of giving can be detected even in toddlers. These benefits are most likely to emerge when giving satisfies one or more core human needs (relatedness, competence, and autonomy). The rewards...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
Representative in war-torn Sierra Leone, eventually returning to Khartoum and her current post in 2002. “I’ve never specifically chosen Africa over other continents,” Van Gerpen reflects. “But I do love Africa. It is so full of life — bright colors, View Details
- 10 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 10
capabilities across markets: no learning, local learning, and global learning. Three equilibrium strategies arise: accommodate, marginalize, and collocate. We identify how these strategies emerge depending on the tradeoff between the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
Shaky Ground Senior Lecturer John Macomber Because of a housing shortage in Williston, oil worker Glenn Robinson, from Missouri, sleeps in his car, staying warm by idling the engine and using a fan heater connected to the car battery....
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- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
We are in a unique moment in time, where the United States’ chance to make a difference on climate is greater – and more necessary – than ever. With the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in August, business leaders have a nearly $370 billion opportunity to...
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- 13 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Students Reflect on COP28
otherwise attended.” The Harvard global health delegation at COP28 poses for a photo at the Salata Institute event. Lucas Peilert, Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School “My focus is on sustainable cities and transportation,...
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- 01 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #6: Climate Change, Peacebuilding, and Business: Lise Grande and Dr. Teagan Blaine, USIP.
shortages. The extinction of a million species of plants and animals. This is not fiction or exaggeration. It is what science tells us will result from our current energy policies. We are on a pathway to global View Details