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- 24 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Managing Alignment as a Process
reviews—with the strategy. Case Study: Sport-Man Inc. We illustrate many of the alignment issues with a disguised case study, Sport-Man Inc. (SMI). The company founded in 1925 to manufacture and market men's work boots. Its early success...
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- 21 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Grundfos: Innovation & Inspiration for Sustainable Product Design
different companies we visited and the challenges they collectively face to meet planetary needs for decarbonization. Grundfos operations and climate targets Day three of the trip transported us from a focus on renewable energy and power generation to sustainable...
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- 19 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Investing in Breakthrough Technologies to Lead the Energy Transition
highlighted above. Here are three of my favorite things about my internship. 1. Investing in forefront technologies to reduce the global carbon footprint Shell has set ambitious goals to invest $25-30 billion annually and to reduce its...
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- 05 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
Corporate Leaders Need to Step Up on Climate Change
governments can provide, firms serious about addressing it have a critical role well beyond greening their own operations. They must spur government action. But few are. "Green business" as currently practiced focuses on limited operational...
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by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler
- 08 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy
coffee drink sold from a vending machine. Where do we compete? "What should a company's global footprint look like? How should it allocate resources across countries?" Collis asks. In the eternal battle between Coke and Pepsi, should...
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by Julia Hanna
- Web
IFC India: Renewable Energy - CleanMax - Blog - Business & Environment
Blog Blog Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author HBS Staff Author Students Topics Topics Accelerating Climate Solutions Conference 2023 Alumni Alumni Programs Alumni in Climate Networking Series Business & Environment Initiative Careers...
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Industrial Production & Materials - Business & Environment
leaks and implementing more robust strategies to recover, recycle, and destroy refrigerants at the end of their useful life can mitigate climate change impacts. [43] Cement The manufacturing of cement generates 5%–6% of global GHG...
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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
And government officials are furiously promoting what they call new energy vehicles (NEVs)—a catchall term that includes electrics, hybrids, and fuel-cell vehicles—through a variety of means. As a result, local EV manufacturers have...
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Exploring China's Belt & Road Initiative - HBS Fund Investors Society 2020 Report
and toured a number of companies, including the Midea microwave oven manufacturing facility in Foshan. China To better understand the BRI from an operations perspective, the students met with executives and toured a number of companies,...
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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
Issue Focus: Leadership Illustration by Craig Frazier What HBS Learned from West Point The Evolving Case Method Issue Focus Li & Fung's Global Footprint Making the Leadership Case Related Faculty Research What Top Scholars Say about...
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- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS
Nohria explained his belief that people's life stories deeply influence the way they conduct themselves as leaders. In his own case, he described the profound effect his father, the CEO of a large electrical equipment manufacturing...
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- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
argues that it is not the business plan but the personality behind it that counts. Behind the Mask: Embrace Risk and Dare to Be Better by Don Hastings (MBA 1953) and Leslie Anne Hastings (Xlibris) In this memoir, Hastings relates how, as CEO, he turned around an...
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- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=809019 AMD Dresden: Copy Inexactly! Harvard Business School Case 609-004 The establishment and growth of AMD's Dresden, Germany View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
These Are the Good Old Days
Selectric typewriter. But soon desktop computers were introduced, and they revolutionized the way business was done, helping the economy evolve from a manufacturing base to one driven by services and information. The Information Age had...
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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Innovation Takes Center Stage
note. Nohria explained his belief that people’s life stories deeply influence the way they conduct themselves as leaders. In his own case, he described the profound effect his father, the CEO of a large electrical equipment manufacturing...
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Roger Thompson
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
Issue Focus: Leadership Issue Focus Li & Fung's Global Footprint Reimagining the MBA Leaders come in all colors, ages, shapes, and sizes, with all manner of skills and temperaments, a variety and diversity seemingly matched only by the...
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- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
humble beginnings as a local Chinese dairy company, the Inner Mongolia Yili Group has become one of the largest dairy companies in the world. To achieve this, Yili has aggressively expanded its footprint overseas including building the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51028 Harvard Business School Case 316-002 N12 Technologies: Building an Organization and Building a Business N12 Technologies was a startup founded in 2010 that employed nanotechnology to View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
becoming CEO of Slim Jim manufacturer GoodMark Foods, this book shares the stories and lessons learned of an ordinary man who achieved extraordinary success by believing in himself. Despite nearly losing his job at General Mills several...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
other labor markets, but also other regulatory and other regimes?Hancock: Absolutely. So in our domestic footprint in our facilities in Ohio and Florida, the approach is very similar. Yet, there’s some uniquenesses to those markets. But...
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