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- 01 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #6: Climate Change, Peacebuilding, and Business: Lise Grande and Dr. Teagan Blaine, USIP.
conflicts.” Her solution could provide answers for the policymakers about to gather in Stockholm. “Our experience in Northern Kenya has taught us that the best means of conflict prevention is building resilience through inclusive and...
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- 06 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything
Hyman Minsky, whose analysis was used to show how banks overreached themselves before the 2008 financial crisis. He warns that those companies and industries that failed to adjust to climate change might cease to exist. Jeremy Grantham,...
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- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
as Greece, Israel, and Spain. Between 1978 and 2001, however, Venezuela's economy went sharply in reverse, with non-oil GDP declining by almost 19% and oil GDP by an astonishing 65%. What accounts for this drastic turnabout? The editors...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Much Can You Ask of Your Customers?
raised questions for us to think about. As Jill Malleck said, "Many (customers) do not want to be artificially attached to a company Organizations would do well to pay more attention to their employees." Mark Bright asked,...
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by Jim Heskett
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
investment houses could use their funds to promote corporate social responsibility and that such investments could be profitable. This was considered extremely unorthodox in the industry at the time. In the wake of the giant View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
There Are No HBS People, Just People Who Happen to Go to HBS
engineering internships near my hometown to spend time with my family while I figured it out. I didn’t get Nielsen; however, I did get all the engineering internships at big oil and gas companies and an internship at one of the biggest...
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- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making the Most of Government Upheaval
According to Oliva and Suarez, YPF, Argentina's formerly state-owned oil company, is one example of a company's transformation following economic reform. Unlike Chile, which modified its economic policies gradually under the Pinochet...
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by Nancy O. Perry
- 07 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Green-tech Entrepreneurship in India
but determined to lead it, especially in tropical countries, by the dawn of 2030. From its nascent stages focusing on the multifaceted applications of graphene, Log 9's trajectory has been nothing short of meteoric. The company's foray into Aluminum-air fuel cells,...
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- 18 Mar 2014
- News
The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
personal data collection have a surprising ally: Scott Howe. Why? Because it's good for business. "How people think about data is going to change seismically in the coming years," says Howe. "Each of us will manage the data that is...
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- 01 Apr 1998
- News
New Releases
Sense & Respond Stephen P. Bradley and Richard L. Nolan, editors (Harvard Business School Press) In the Network Era - where access to and use of information technology is increasing at an ever-faster pace - the way companies interact with...
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- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
efficiency? What if cars weren’t made up of 25,000 different parts? What if, instead of giant factories that operate on economies of scale, forced to produce millions of the same cars to make a profit, we produced cars in small batches, allowing View Details
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
trends. Happiness Adaptation to Income and to Status in an Individual Panel Authors:Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch Publication:Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (forthcoming) Abstract We study adaptation to income and to status View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
law faced such bitter dissent from taxi drivers that Samaras thought it might never get off the ground. “Structural changes were very difficult because people had gotten used to playing with the old cards. Nothing was changing,” he says....
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 24 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 24, 2006
paper, we examine the impact of the AIDS epidemic on African nations through 2002 using the male circumcision rate to identify plausibly exogenous variation in HIV prevalence. Medical researchers have found significant evidence that male...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Courses by Faculty - Course Catalog
Management Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Field Course: Field Y: Projects in Business Management Finance, Entrepreneurial Management Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Jacob Cook Digital Marketing Workshop Marketing Fall 2024 Q1 1.5 Ben Creo Innovating in Health...
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
fuels such as oil and gas, but also with wind and solar, whose costs have plummeted over the past decade. Competing power sources are often compared using levelized cost of energy, or LCOE, which is...
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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
Alexandre Menard (MBA 2005), a senior partner at McKinsey Paris. Menard, who led the conversion to 4G and today heads the McKinsey Center for Advanced Connectivity, says that 4G was more of a step change by comparison. The advent of mobile video “unlocked completely...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
of innovative consumer products, using personal videos created by product makers, had led to its initial success. In 2014, the company launched The Grommet Wholesale, a similar platform targeting retailers. Was this the best way to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
organization to a new level. And at home, rebels are more engaged partners, parents, and friends. Packed with strategies for embracing rebellion at work and in life as well as illuminating case studies from a wide range of industries, Rebel Talent encourages all of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2023
- News
Balancing Acts
Kewalramani: My tips for harmony: Do things every day that make your heart sing. Take random Wednesdays off. I go to Target, I go to the bank, I go to get my nails done. And it is super fun. Random Wednesdays are key. DM: The answers—from bubble baths to drinking olive...
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