Teacher and investor; Harvard Business School faculty looking at cities, urbanization, resource efficiency, emerging economies.
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Why Boston’s biggest institutions should co-invest in climate protection
Welcome to CommonWealth Beacon, your free, non-partisan source for in-depth news and opinion on policy, politics, and civic life. Sign up for The Saturday Send to get the latest news and commentary on the stories that matter to Massachusetts. DURING THE BLIZZARD OF ’26 in late February, Boston narrowly escaped a costly reminder of its climate vulnerability – the storm surge arrived hours after high tide.
Harvard-Fallstudie: Strategiewechsel im Familienunternehmen gefordert
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How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
African people, businesses, and nations are becoming increasingly stressed by climate-related perils like droughts, river flooding, extreme heat, and rising sea levels. This is leading not only to the destruction of assets but also challenges to lives and livelihoods—not to mention disturbing the area’s peace, stability, and national security. And the situation is getting progressively worse, partly due to people migrating out of suddenly unlivable situations.
Case Study: Should a Family Business Accept a Returning Daughter’s Radical Proposal?
Koffi and Yao Assoua and their driver stood together in the back of the arrivals hall at Félix-Houphouët-Boigny International Airport. Though trying to maintain their dignity, the two brothers occasionally rose on their toes to see over the heads of the crowd. Koffi’s daughter, Aminata—or “Amina,” as they affectionately called her—was coming back home to Côte d’Ivoire, and they were hoping to offer her a role in the family business.
Our Global Chemical Experiment
Your dust is hormonally active. (Yes, you read that correctly.) Over 200 industrial chemicals are now readily detectable in the blood, breast milk, or urine of Americans and of most people in industrial nations around the world. Many of these chemicals come from the products we use in our buildings. These chemicals migrate out of their products and into the air and dust in our homes, offices, and schools.
Climate Risk Is Growing. Is Your Company Prepared?
The recent images of damage in Florida following Hurricane Ian are heartbreaking and terrifying. What’s scarier still is that at the societal level we don’t have a strategy for how to handle the worsening perils of flooding, wildfires, and extreme heat.
Employers Must Ensure the Safety of Home Workspaces
The February 2021 freeze in Texas carries enormous long-term cleanup and health costs. Such climate-related disasters will be increasingly common in the coming years. As businesses shift to work-from-home, the line of responsibility for the workplace also changes — and goes outside “the office” or “the factory.” Investments should extend beyond traditional workplaces right into people’s houses and apartments.
mPharma (A) - Case - Faculty & Research - Harvard Business School
Abstract mPharma pioneered electronic prescriptions in Ghana, and aimed to increase drug affordability and accessibility in Africa, but the company remained unprofitable. Following investor concerns about mPharma's business, CEO Gregory Rockson considered alternative business models and services that could increase mPharma's profitability and impact.
Büros: Wie Sie Mitarbeiter vor Ansteckungen schützen können
Die Serie "Ice Fishers" des kirgisischen Fotografen Aleksey Kondratyev zeigt Arbeitsplätze der besonderen Art - die von Eisanglern auf dem Fluss Ischim in Kasachstan. Bei Kondratyevs ersten Aufnahmen war es so kalt, dass die Batterien seiner Kamera einfroren. Die Angler nutzen Plastiksäcke, um sich vor Wind und Wetter zu schützen. Die warme Atemluft bleibt in den Säcken und hilft gegen die Kälte.
Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe For Return?
Building health is today a top priority for owners and tenants, but how do we know our offices are ... [+] safe to re-enter? gpointstudio by John Macomber and Joseph Allen As we start to think about returning to work, shopping, and recreation, there is much talk about transformed workplaces and innovative social distancing designs. But how will companies, workers, and customers have confidence that these new measures will actually be effective at protecting them?
Tenants and Investors Will Be Looking for Healthy Buildings
The world, the real estate industry, and individuals continue to be rocked by the direct impact and resulting shock waves from the COVID-19 outbreak. The pandemic’s costs to public health and economic activity are colossal. We are worried about our families and communities, we fret about our investments, and we want to know about the near- and long-term prospects for returning to work and repopulating buildings.
Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?
As we start to think about returning to work, shopping, and recreation, there is much talk about transformed workplaces and innovative social distancing designs. But how will companies, workers, and customers have confidence that these new measures will actually be effective at protecting them? Beyond what we can do as individuals to reduce our risks of exposure, are there objective measures employers can use to validate what is effective? The answer, fortunately, is yes.
How to Create a Healthy Building for Returning Employees
Editor's Note: SHRM has partnered with Harvard Business Review to bring you relevant articles on key HR topics and strategies. In a typical year you will take two million breaths in your office. This, however, is not a typical year. The pandemic spawned by the novel coronavirus has forced a global reckoning with the awesome power of infectious diseases to grind economies to a halt.
What Makes an Office Building “Healthy”
In these difficult times, we’ve made a number of our coronavirus articles free for all readers. To get all of HBR’s content delivered to your inbox, sign up for the Daily Alert newsletter. In a typical year you will take two million breaths in your office. This, however, is not a typical year. The pandemic spawned by the novel coronavirus has forced a global reckoning with the awesome power of infectious diseases to grind economies to a halt.
Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings
Will you ever again step onto a crowded elevator without hesitation? Reach for a doorknob without concern (or gloves)?
Even For Non-Believers, These Are the Next Steps On Climate Change
Goddard Space Flight by John Macomber It was a dramatic contrast on our screens last summer. As Hurricane Dorian unleashed nature’s fury on the Bahamas and danced with a wide swath of the East Coast of the United States, CNN held its Climate Town Hall, where Democratic presidential candidates discussed very expensive plans for taming global warming and other environmental threats. These intense juxtapositions must leave many wondering what we should be doing in the face of these perils.
Climate Change Is Going to Transform Where and How We Build
As fires, floods, and droughts increasingly threaten homes, businesses, and other institutions, climate risk has become financial risk. A National Bureau of Economic Research paper recently concluded that mortgages written on homes in exposed locations are being shed by banks and absorbed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, government-backed mortgage guarantors.
Even for Non-Believers, These Are the Next Steps on Climate Change
It was a dramatic contrast on our screens last week. As Hurricane Dorian unleashed nature’s fury on the Bahamas and danced with a wide swath of the East Coast of the United States, I flipped to the CNN Climate Town Hall, where Democratic presidential candidates discussed very expensive plans for taming global warming and other environmental threats. These intense juxtapositions must leave many wondering what we should be doing in the face of these perils. Just what are the next steps?
Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them
Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to write a big purchase order for a lot of hardware and software, in the same way an industrial company like Procter & Gamble buys a multimillion dollar SAP install. But most cities don’t work like corporations.
The Smart Way To Build Smart Cities
Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to write a big purchase order for a lot of hardware and software, in the same way an industrial company like Procter & Gamble buys a multimillion dollar SAP install. But most cities don’t work like corporations.
The Export-Import Bank costs nothing and boosts jobs
If our country is going to create jobs and expand the economy at a faster rate, we need to increase exports. That means that President Trump and Congress should find a strong leader for the U.S. Export-Import Bank so that it can do its job. The chairman's office has been empty for nearly a year. And its board lacks a quorum to approve deals worth more than $10 million. That means about 80 to 90 percent of its activities are shut down.
How to Gauge Your Inventory Management Health - Multichannel Merchant
Every day, small and midsize businesses face inventory risks that, if left unmanaged, can negatively impact the bottom line. Too little inventory will result in lost sales and unhappy customers, while too much increases space, transportation and handling expenses. However, these issues can often be diagnosed well in advance with the right preparation.
What Africa Can Teach America About How To Create A Good Infrastructure Plan
President Trump’s infrastructure plan and a counterproposal by Senate Democrats are rising toward the top of the national agenda. All agree that there is a pressing need to fix the collapsing bridges, potholed roads, crashing trains, and embarrassing international arrivals terminals at airports in the great cities of America. But there will likely be massive arguments about how to raise the money and how to invest it.
The 4 Types of Cities and How to Prepare Them for the Future
The prospect of urban innovation excites the imagination. But dreaming up what a “smart city” will look like in some gleaming future is, by its nature, a utopian exercise. The messy truth is that cities are not the same, and even the most innovative approach can never achieve universal impact. What’s appealing for intellectuals in Copenhagen or Amsterdam is unlikely to help millions of workers in Jakarta or Lagos.
The Future of Cities Depends on Innovative Financing
Today’s mega-cities have a footprint problem. They are developing horizontally, not vertically, with vast areas of low sprawl reaching out for miles from Sao Paolo, Lagos, New Delhi, Guangzhou, Jakarta, and many others. A central question our civilization must address is how we can avoid becoming a planet of informal slums. Every year, hundreds of millions of people across the globe move from rural to urban environments in search of opportunity.
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