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- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
feeling pressure from green investors to take steps that can cost them billions of dollars. But if you go to a coal company or most utilities or big railroads that carry coal,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 18 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Likes' Lead to Nothing—and Other Hard-Learned Lessons of Social Media Marketing
five years, or 18.5 percent of the total by then. “All brands, big and small, are firmly in social media today,” says Jill J. Avery, senior lecturer at Harvard Business School. “Social media has become a... View Details
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
The New Global Business Manager
The other is free. Through Project Hope, they seek out people who are suffering from this disease, in Africa or China, for example, and provide the therapy. This approach is in stark contrast to some of the View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 10 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know
along lines of race, class, and geography.”[2] Policy Summary The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022Contains about $40 billion in benefits for environmental justice.[3] Three main areas of effect (identified by Senate Democrats) [4]Reduce... View Details
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The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership
steam engine, electricity, and openhearth furnace allows businesses to expand nationwide Influence: Medium 10 1910 s 19 First widespread use of auto assembly line Self-starter increases popularity of automobile Influence: Medium-High 20... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
The Dow's high for the year was 891.66, there were long lines at the gas pumps, and Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Lehman Brothers were essentially one-office firms. "Most of us who went into banking thought it was going to be a... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
Spend a day or two in Chattanooga, Tennessee, asking longtime residents about the city’s history, and it’s sure to come up: that less-than-wonderful moment in 1969 when America’s beloved news anchor, Walter Cronkite, proclaimed it to be... View Details
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
Professor Stefan H. Thomke + More Info – Less Info When it comes to improving customer experiences, trying out business models, or developing new products, even the most experienced managers often discover that intuition, experience, and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
author Rick Teller explains many mysteries of economics, without needing any graphs, statistics, formulas, or models to do so. Teller answers the big questions: Is macroeconomics even a science? Why have... View Details
- 26 Nov 2001
- Op-Ed
Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed
encourage customers to place orders by year-end so they could hit their annual sales goals. But the price increase was out of line with the competition and undoubtedly ended up costing the company sales and market share. Even more... View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
to organizations seeking to improve creativity and innovation. Researchers and businesses want to know what factors facilitate or inhibit creativity in a variety of organizational settings. Individual Creativity in the Workplace... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Sep 2022
- News
The Beauty Guide
lipstick or big earrings, which is such a part of who I am as a Latina.” In her current capacity at Clinique, Freyre works to foster a culture of inclusivity and diversity, not just in seeking talent but... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 18 Jan 2018
- News
The Lessons of All-Day Breakfast
And so I think that's how we've been able to move the line with a lot of our operators. Morrell: Was this a big lesson internally for McDonald's? Cunningham: Yeah, I think it was. And it's allowed us to do... View Details
- 26 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way to Go to Market
repository of lost opportunities" that serve neither end users nor channel partners very well. Why is this? A: That is because most channels are constructed from the supplier out, rather than from the customer in. In other words, the product View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory
next? Key Themes: As a public pension plan, CalSTRS operates in the context of a complex array of stakeholders, who from time to time push for divestment or other values-driven investment decisions. And yet, as a fiduciary, CalSTRS must... View Details
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
multinationals, everyone seems to agree that it’s too early in this story to predict how big the segment could get or how long consumers will angle for these products. Professor Israeli, who wrote the case... View Details
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Electricity - Business & Environment
hydropower, and nuclear that emit far less or even no greenhouse gases. Yet 20% of the world’s population currently lives without access to electricity [21] , and meeting their needs and the growing global demand for electricity—while... View Details
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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog
Operations Management) Suraj Srinivasan Spring 2025 Q3 1.5 Reimagining Capitalism: Business and Big Problems (also listed under General Management and Strategy) Ethan Rouen Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Risks, Opportunities, And Investments In The... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody dropped the girl off the bridge. And so John D. MacDonald (MBA ’39) begins another book, with an opening line so deft it makes other writers want to give up and call it a career.... View Details
- 13 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Managers, Here’s How to Bond with New Hires Remotely
For senior managers at many firms, the shift to remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic came with a huge concern: Would the loss of in-person conversations keep them from mentoring or simply establishing rapport with employees,... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert