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- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
cheaper than the current Gen III+ plants or the proposed Small Modular Reactors, even though much work needs to be done before we know that these Gen IV designs will actually be cheap enough to beat coal in India and China and safe enough... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Meal Plan
restaurants? And Keith, what has the situation been with Act III’s smaller, fast-casual portfolio of restaurants? Christian Charnaux: We established our first task force in late February; at that point, the virus wasn’t hitting our... View Details
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier
scale in the United States and is being introduced in many other countries as well. While transmitting digitally offers many significant advantages over the current analog method, it also requires specially designed broadcast equipment... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
iStock The faculty, students, and staff of Harvard Business School are thinking about the people of Turkey and Syria who were impacted by the recent earthquake. We have all been touched by the loss of life, the hopeful stories of survival, and the rapid response of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
delivers a message of hope for a better world where no social mission is impossible. Cindy Ko (MBA ’05) Endeavor www.endeavor.org POSITIVE IMPACT: With help from Endeavor, Drillco Tools has become a leading designer and producer of mining... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
it far because there’s a lot of air you’re moving around,” he explains. “This is very much a local business.” Consumer preference for plastic and the marketing trend toward rejuvenating a brand with new packaging designs have been pushing... View Details
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
completion of repetitive tasks is critical to many organizations' success. Yet research points to two different work-design-related strategies for accomplishing this goal: specialization to capture the benefits of repetition and variety... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
engage in open communication. Because open communication is vital to any project, these perceptions can hurt team performance. These negative effects of leader power can be virtually eliminated simply by clearly communicating the idea that every team member is... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
their best moments, can lift people up, and in their worst, let them down.” Teaching by Heart isn’t designed to be an academically rigorous analysis of teaching, he adds. It’s personal, based on decades of classroom experience and his... View Details
- 19 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 19
wealth of data it provides about agents' behavior and about the Bitcoin system itself. This article presents the platform's design principles and properties for a non-technical audience; reviews its past, present, and future uses; and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
investors and entrepreneurs need, optimize both technological sophistication and financial sophistication-approaches designed to attract capital by offering different levels of risk and return, different cash-flow priorities, and... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
the Racial Equity Plan (REP), which was developed last summer by members of the Dean’s Anti-Racism Task Force and launched in September. “There always have been people dedicated to diversity, equity, and inclusion at HBS, and the new... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
progress and enhance inner work life every day. The book shows how to remove obstacles to progress, including meaningless tasks and toxic relationships. It also explains how to activate two forces that enable progress: 1) catalysts—events... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
Europe. "The NFL has the difficult task of trying to introduce a sport that people don't understand, into cultures where soccer is an obsession," Alcacer notes. "For MLB, the NBA, and the NHL, the globalization strategy was to bring in... View Details
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
prior experience with case-method teaching. As we engage in the task of supporting their development in the classroom, there is no doubt in my mind that the work Chris did is still vital and will be for many years to come." Early... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
board next year,” continues Emmons. “Many of them have no prior experience with case-method teaching. As we engage in the task of supporting their development in the classroom, there is no doubt in my mind that the work Chris did is still... View Details
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy
maximizing regional opportunities. Ghemawat discusses five regional strategies while leaving the meaning of a "region" open for interpretation. This excerpt describes the challenges of designating a meaningful definition of... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions
requiring folks to come back. I’ve been talking to the largest technology firms about this: They’ve created task forces to think about how they want to bring people back to the office, when, and why. Based on my own research, especially... View Details
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
dangerous, and male-dominated—because these settings have undergone radical operational and cultural changes designed to increase safety and effectiveness. In the particular company we studied, these changes resulted in a decline in the... View Details
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
small open economy, final goods production is carried out by foreign and domestic firms, which compete for skilled labor, unskilled labor, and intermediate products. To operate a firm in the intermediate goods sector, entrepreneurs must develop a new variety of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne