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Transportation Infrastructure - U.S. Competitiveness
the needs of America's transportation and infrastructure systems, and to prioritize: PPBs —pain points and bottlenecks—that can be removed Innovations that can be applied—vehicles, connections, finance, technology Opportunities for...
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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Feedback
Collins (MBA 1984) via LinkedIn We have removed almost all price signaling from health care. The only way to align supply and demand is by correcting this. A bureaucracy will never get it right. Only a political bureaucracy could have...
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Health, Social Assistance
- 15 Oct 2001
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the Rubble
the advent of the virtual economy does not remove the constraints of the physical. Planes smashed into buildings on September 11, and information was incapable of stopping them. Firms lost physical assets—computers, files, desks, and...
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by Debora L. Spar
- 03 Apr 2009
- What Do You Think?
How Much Obsolescence Can Business and Society Absorb?
revolution. The facts are undeniable. Watch an old movie in which people remove the telephone receiver from the wall, type (either manually or electronically), and even begin to email (as in "You've Got Mail!"). It's always good...
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- 05 Dec 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is Growth Good?
decline"? Growth at the organizational level opens up opportunities for new customers, new hiring, acquisitions, increased profitability, and generally more liberal policies as a result of the removal of constraints associated with...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
to weeding bias out of banking and lending, essentially removing from the picture human beings and their inherently biased decision-making processes. He understood that his father, a Black business owner in the Deep South, was repeatedly...
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- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
traditional theories of leader selection describe organizations as picking leaders with particular characteristics, LFT sees organizations as having a filtration process that evaluates a pool of candidates and iteratively removes them...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
in the United States, in the 1980s. They started exerting direct pressure on the boards to remove the management of under-performing companies. By the early 1990s, we saw a further rise in institutional investor power and their...
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by Martha Lagace
- 05 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
Corporate Leaders Need to Step Up on Climate Change
Green initiatives are ubiquitous these days, implemented with zeal at companies like Dupont, IBM, Walmart, and Walt Disney. The programs being rolled out—lighting retrofits, zero-waste factories, and carpool incentives—save money and provide a green glow. Most large...
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by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler
- 05 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Student Conferences at HBS: The 2021 Climate Symposium
space right now. While most climate solutions at scale will require a public-private partnership in the end, there is so much innovation and progress that businesses are uniquely positioned to bring, from spearheading voluntary corporate carbon View Details
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The Role of Government in Market Economies - Course Catalog
environmental protection, education, health care, and fiscal and monetary policy. We may want the government to do more than remove inefficiencies, so the second module tackles questions of economic justice and their implications for the...
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- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Debbie Cohen Scales Her Mountain
young, had recently had a baseline mammogram, and was told by her doctor that 80 percent of tumors are benign, she was surprised to learn that hers was malignant. Eight days later, she had surgery to remove the tumor and began six months...
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Morgan Baker
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Joss Kent (MBA 1997)
effort to relocate 100 rhinos from South Africa, where poaching is a constant threat, to safer havens in Botswana. “It’s a very raw experience to be close with a large wild animal,” he says. “Our lives are often very removed from the...
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April White
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Eligibility | New Venture Competition
entrepreneurs and investors who have agreed to maintain confidentiality of all submissions. We have asked them to treat your work product with the same care and respect for confidentiality. We also ask them to remove themselves from...
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Community Values & Honor Code | HBS Online
you may be removed from a Harvard Business School Online course or program and be ineligible to earn a certificate. Examples of Honor Code Violations The following list highlights current situations and scenarios that are not permissible...
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- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Short Takes
soccer balls stitched by twelve-year-old Pakistani workers. Levi Strauss, Macy's, Liz Claiborne, and Eddie Bauer all removed their operations from Burma amid frequent citations of human rights violations on the part of Burma's repressive...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
The Meaning of Ramadi
servant leadership is the only leadership model that works over the long run. Simply put, servant leadership demands that a leader place the mission’s goals and values first, the team and its individuals second, and the leader’s own welfare a distant third. After all,...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Broad Range of Interests Among Nine New Faculty
Environmental Management, which, she says, is not incongruous to what she’s been researching and teaching for years. “To me, the move into the environment seems like a relatively smooth one,” she says. “If we think about removing...
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Margie Kelley
- 22 Nov 2013
- News
A Passion for Film
Massachusetts, he went to see Small Change, a 1976 drama directed by Francois Truffaut, with his middle school French class. "My parents had taken me to Young Frankenstein and independent films, but that blew me away," he says. But Hollywood's silver screen seemed "so...
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- 09 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The UK Needs a Bold Strategy Around Competition to Survive Brexit
remove obstacles and improve local capabilities, and recruiting foreign companies to deepen local capabilities. “There need to be new reasons for companies to do business in the UK...” Finally, the UK needs to take pragmatic steps to...
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by Michael Blanding