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- 12 May 2023
- Blog Post
Independent Project: The Rise of Electric Heat Pumps
years as a call to action for consumers to take charge and switch to a 100% electric platform as a pathway to decarbonization. Electric heat pumps are appliances that use an electrical input to move heat between the air inside and outside... View Details
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
products offered to customers—has recently been used as a competitive advantage for both brick-and-mortar and online retailers. Fast-fashion retailers have differentiated themselves by rotating their assortment multiple times throughout a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Partners - Case Method Project
Partners Partners AK HI WA OR CA ID NV UT AZ MT WY CO NM ND SD NE KS OK TX MN IA MO AR LA WI IL IN KY TN MS MI OH WV NC AL PA VA SC GA NY NJ MD DC FL VT MA CT DE ME NH RI 1000 teachers across the country See if teachers are already using... View Details
- 22 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day: Recent Research on Sustainability
underscored the importance of employee engagement, contributing to the community, and creating sustainable environment strategies. Harvard Business School at the Kumbh Mela In this video report, Senior Lecturer John Macomber visits the Kumbh Mela in India to discover... View Details
- Web
Thomas Murphy | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Skip to Main Content HBS Entrepreneurs Collection Profiles About This Collection Contact Us Special Collections Search Paul Baier PurchasingCenter.com/Excara Frank Batten Weather Channel Steven B. Belkin Trans National Group (TNG) Hakeem... View Details
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
intra-organizational partnerships, facilitating alignment and partnership with external constituents: customers, suppliers, and communities. The Balanced Scorecard: From Measurement To Management We introduced the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) in 1992.1 The BSC measures... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 18 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Banks Ditch Coal: The Impact Is 'More Than Anyone Thought'
Consumers who are eager to mitigate climate change can take many actions, such as reducing the number of airline flights they take or installing solar panels on their homes. But the planet is in a race against time, and individual action alone won’t help most countries... View Details
- 09 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
War in Ukraine: Soaring Gas Prices and the Return of Stagflation?
extensive research of Russia, Ukraine, the politics of oil and gas, and sanctions. He has written case studies about the Russian government after the fall of the Soviet Union, energy politics in Europe, and modern-day Ukraine. This... View Details
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
exceeding that percentage of actual revenue. Other expenses—insurance, credit card processing, marketing, utilities, repairs—mount up. Assuming adequate working capital upon opening, a restaurant’s cash from daily sales is used to pay for... View Details
- 23 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
A Lifelong Friendship: From Classmates in Cameroon to Roommates at HBS
dormitories. When we graduated, we set our sights on studying in the US and - as your typical nerds - we both went into engineering. I studied Electrical Engineering at Georgia Tech, and Kevin went into Chemical Engineering at the... View Details
- 14 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Pay Attention To Your ‘Extreme Consumers’
What do Porsche fanatics, a video game hater, and a person who cooked two weeks' worth of meals in a rice cooker have in common? They are all "extreme consumers"—those whose tastes are so out there that mainstream market researchers tend... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Web
Historical Data Visualization - Business History
Commodities Coffee Movement, Pre-War (1938-39) Historical Maps Commodities Coffee Production and Consumption (1907) Historical Maps Managing Distance Commercial Highways of the World (1907) Historical Maps Commodities Crude Oil Flow... View Details
- 28 Nov 2023
- Book
Economic Growth Draws Companies to Asia. Can They Handle Its Authoritarian Regimes?
call it “looting,” drawing on a well-known paper on US firms in the savings and loan crisis, among other episodes. That paper shows that firms loot their own assets in expectations of bailout, but I show that expectations of vulnerability... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Confronting Climate Change - Business & Environment
about 14% of the world’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and about half of global oil consumption. Transportation infrastructure is particularly at risk of disruption from climate change. Finance & Investing Identifying Risk & Opportunity... View Details
- 1 PM – 2 PM EDT, 10 Sep 2015
- Webinars: Trending@HBS
America's Unconventional Energy Opportunity
In this session, Professor Michael Porter along with co-authors David Gee and Gregory Pope from The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) will discuss the research HBS and BCG have jointly conducted on the opportunities and challenges presented by the United States'... View Details
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Howard E. Cox | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Skip to Main Content HBS Entrepreneurs Collection Profiles About This Collection Contact Us Special Collections Search Paul Baier PurchasingCenter.com/Excara Frank Batten Weather Channel Steven B. Belkin Trans National Group (TNG) Hakeem... View Details
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
PublicationsConcentrating on Governance Authors:Dalida Kadyrzhanova, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract This paper develops a novel trade-off view of corporate governance. Using a simple model... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Is Wikipedia More Biased Than Encyclopædia Britannica?
psychology and politics over the centuries. Are two heads better than one, or do too many cooks spoil the broth? Does the collective will of the majority lead to democratic consensus or fundamentalist groupthink? The massive, ongoing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Rounding the Bend
Illustration by Fernando Cobelo To help people visualize what a circular economy could look like and bring the challenges down to a closet-sized scale, Emily Bolon (MBA/MPA 2007) recommends the following exercise. First, make a mental tally of the number of garments... View Details
- 20 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The 5 Strategy Rules of Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs
would move beyond the computer to use a range of electronic devices for entertainment and communication and then systematically rolled them out one step at a time—the iPod, iPhone, and iPad. Building an Ecosystem Gates was the first of... View Details