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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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- 25 May 2011
- News
Race to the Finish?
and Environment Initiative noted that the climate’s future requires that cities, the dominant settlement model of the 21st century, be much cleaner and more energy efficient. Cutting urban vehicle emissions...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group), Bloomberg sees cities as focal points in the struggle against global warming and climate change. Urban areas are now home to half the world’s population, consume half the world’s energy, and,...
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- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business
interrelated socioeconomic factors. "A lot of businesses that are concerned about the problem have concluded that the best way they can help is by supporting the schools and thereby creating an incentive for people to stay in urban...
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- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
sisters, and mothers-in-law ready to step in along with easily available domestic help. However, despite these advantages in the urban middle class in India, women are only now entering the corporate world in a significant way. For my...
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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
urban neighborhoods," says Poorvu. He also notes that it is very difficult to build sound but less costly housing because of constricting regulations, building codes, and bureaucracy. "When all the various levels of subsidiary costs are...
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Garry Emmons
- 18 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Heroic Entrepreneurs
donation-only models, with 40.6 percent proposing a mixed model. And 5.2 percent intended to run entirely on revenue generated by the business; among these was fellowship recipient Joel Jackson, whose for-profit venture manufactures inexpensive off-road View Details
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by Carmen Nobel
- 17 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2024: Business and Environment Ventures
intensity fuel of the future. Integrated Dynamics - Jake Sweed (MBA 2024), Henry Markarian, Niranjan Kulkarni - Turning food waste into green hydrogen using hyperthermophile archaea. Latent - Rourke Pattullo (MBA 2025), Tom Walkinshaw (MBA 2025) - Enabling electric...
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- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and...
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- 11 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
ZONE DEFENSE: These self-driving, AI-powered drones do recon so soldiers don’t have to
but have accounted for over half of combat casualties in recent conflicts. Most of those occur in close, urban combat, as service members go building by building in search of hidden threats. “We hear things like, ‘This product made a...
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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
too. Perhaps they can offset the upfront cost of capital until order volume reaches the appropriate tipping point. The company can purchase inventory with a traditional financial vehicle from there. —Brad Cowdrey (OPM 49, 2017) I...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
models, and partnerships involved in eight early "ecocity" projects to begin to identify success factors in this emerging industry. Ecocities, for the most part, are viewed as a means of mitigating threats to the natural environment while creating View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
world. The numbers tell the story: There are approximately 1.2 billion vehicles on the road worldwide, and more than 250 million—roughly one in six—are in the US. Each of them spends more time than their drivers would like, either moving...
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Impact Stories - Business & Environment
biggest, challenges facing my generation. Shared, electric, autonomous vehicles will enable urban areas to become more sustainable and more livable by providing a better alternative for first and last mile...
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- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
behavior. We propose that envy and empathy lead employees to discriminate in illicitly helping customers based on customer wealth. We test for this hypothesis in the vehicle emissions testing market, where employees have the opportunity...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Harvard Business School’s First-Ever Climate Fellows: Research to Range from Data-Driven Approaches for Equitable EV Charging Infrastructure to Airline Decarbonization Strategies - Blog - Business in Global Society
Decarbonization Strategies Barbara DeLollis Author HBS Staff BiGS actionable intelligence: To stay on top of HBS’s latest research, ideas and business opportunities at the intersection of business and society, join the BiGS LinkedIn community. BOSTON – APRIL 20 – As...
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- 30 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 30
sweetriot to be the number one natural chocolate company in the world and to thus be a vehicle to drive change globally. How can she meet that objective while also keeping the company true to its social roots? Purchase this...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2023
- Blog Post
Zone Defense: These self-driving, AI-powered drones do recon so soldiers don’t have to
up just 3 percent of the US armed services but have accounted for over half of combat casualties in recent conflicts. Most of those occur in close, urban combat, as service members go building by building in search of hidden threats. “We...
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- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
Urban Waste Entrepreneurs John D. Macomber, Chad M. Carr, and Fan ZhaoHarvard Business School Case 211-086 Private sector entrepreneur in China with advanced solid waste management capability competes with state owned enterprises and also...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
goods and services — from a second or third vehicle to health clubs to text messaging — that their great-grandparents could hardly have dreamed of. At the same time, the underlying sources for all this consumption — our wealth and income...
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