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Social Innovation
My intellectual agenda addresses this question: How to innovate to solve the world’s toughest challenges? Out of the earth’s population, about 2 billion can afford good products whereas the remaining 5 billion are poor and therefore are nonconsumers.... View Details
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Podcast - Business & Environment
features Jay Koh who co-founded the Lightsmith Group, the first growth private equity firm focused on climate adaptation. Jay discusses the firm’s investment strategy, the sectors his firm invests in and their investment criteria process....
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- 20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20
case study of a multinational firm in the biotechnology sector to illustrate how the core-periphery framework works in multiple emerging markets across institutional differences. The analysis is based on 32 interviews conducted with the...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni
technology sector at the Capital Group Companies. After earning a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and a master's degree in computer science from MIT, he worked at Intel until he returned to...
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- 19 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 19
broad interest, especially in "knowledge industries" and "knowledge economies." It is also a topic filled with frustration on the part of practitioners, and the level of resource commitment to this function waxes and wanes. This note focuses on a...
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Sean Silverthorne
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About - Business & Environment
Sustainability Manager for HBS where she was responsible for engaging students, staff, and faculty in sustainability initiatives across the HBS campus. Prior to working at Harvard, Courtney worked in both the private and public sector on...
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- 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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Japan - Global
meetings. How should Olympus navigate these challenges to deliver on its aspiration to be a leading global MedTech player? August 2023 Case BYD, China, and Global Electric Vehicle Rivalry By: Cynthia A. Montgomery and Max Hancock In 2023,...
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Confronting Climate Change - Business & Environment
scientists over 50 years ago — business is vital. Managers have a key role to play in confronting climate change in the market sectors in which they operate and in the political and civic circles in which they hold influence. Policy...
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Risks, Opportunities, And Investments In The Era Of Climate Change (ROICC) - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Risks, Opportunities, And Investments In The Era Of Climate Change (ROICC) Course Number 1324 Professor George Serafeim Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits27 SessionsPaperQualifies for Management Science Track Credit Course Description The MBA course on...
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- 31 Oct 2023
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Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
Sijh Diagne (photo by Michael Bucher) In March 2020, Sijh Diagne (MBA 2017) was asked to serve as an advisor to Senegal’s minister of economy, planning, and cooperation. He was charged with leading the country’s private-sector development; but just as became the case...
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Case Research & Writing Group - Faculty & Research
concentrations include art history, East Asian studies, electrical engineering, finance, government, history, political science, public policy, and sociology. Additionally, members of the CRG are fluent in Chinese, French, German, Hebrew,...
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- 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
- 19 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment
response services by connecting customers’ distributed energy resource assets (DERs) to every wholesale electricity market in North America. The Product Partnerships team is responsible for conducting market research for partnership...
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Faculty & Advisors - MBA
for IBM, Bain & Company, and was a General Partner at Cardinal Ventures. Eric has served on the board of directors for dozens of companies. He is also a helicopter pilot and flies a Robinson R44. Victor Echevarria MBA ’08, Harvard University; BS ’02, View Details
- 23 Jan 2024
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A Wide Net
Growing up in Mumbai, Navroz Udwadia (MBA 2005) spent most of his time on the tennis court, where he was an internationally ranked athlete. Today, as cofounder and partner of Alpha Wave, a global investment group with a multibillion-dollar stake in India’s startup...
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April White
- 23 Apr 2024
- In Practice
Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now
With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate...
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by Rachel Layne
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Business for Social Impact | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Since its inception, the Social Enterprise Initiative has explored the role of business in creating social value. Early efforts in the late 1990s included hosting a research conference on business leadership in the social sector and...
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Curriculum - Business & Environment
confront the bigger decision of whether or not to invest in solar panels to generate electricity for her home. Although pre-disposed to pursue environmentally friendly alternatives, the project entailed significant up-front expenses and...
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research
space will tend to underestimate real growth if customers are paying lower prices for better services over time. In this paper, we use price indexes that apply techniques to the space economy that have been used for decades to adjust nominal measures of output in View Details