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13 Sep 2019
Blog Post

An Uncommon Summer: Project Management at an Education Non-Profit

simultaneously and meeting personal due dates and quality standards. More importantly, we have the skills to coach teams to meet their deadlines and standards as well. Second, I learned that I love helping teams that are making real... View Details

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think

standards in the design and construction of new buildings increased construction costs by less than 1 percent while reducing energy costs by between 5 and 30 percent over the life of the building. Between 1990 and 2012 IBM reduced... View Details

Keywords: by Rebecca Henderson; Energy; Utilities

01 Mar 2018
News

Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?

Refined metals like gold and silver have a standard quality and are priced on global exchanges like the London Metal Exchange. But concentrates vary widely in terms of quality—some rocks have more copper than others, some come with... View Details

Keywords: Nicole Torres

01 Jun 1996
News

Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course

evaluations, notes McCraw, "were an overwhelming collective valentine to the course." The Dynamics of Capitalist Revolutions — Cases in Point British Capitalism How the first industrializer set a standard for others to match Josiah... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

26 Apr 2011
News

BioMine Strikes Gold

affordable and standardized medical appointments to low income families that are uninsured and underserved by the public system, in the poorest districts of Brazil’s largest cities. Spendwisor.com enables consumer electronics purchasers... View Details

Keywords: Mining (except Oil and Gas); Mining; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

24 Jul 2019
Lessons from the Classroom

Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?

central role in a variety of corporate settings ranging from strategy and marketing to finance and human resources. Behavioral economics provides frameworks for knowing where and how to augment standard economic analyses with more... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Sep 2008
News

Letters to the Editor

from the wisdom and experience of the General, imparted by him through frequent contact and regular visits. Deryck Tweedley (MBA ’58) Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Doriot Taught Standards of Behavior Your article on Professor Doriot brought... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Government; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

17 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

billionaires than the United States. Behind that fairly startling statistic are troubling related issues such as corruption among China’s elite and very wide variance in income, standard of living, and opportunity gaps between urban and... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg

23 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 23

Context: How States, Markets, and Civil Society Shape Adherence to Global Labor Standards By: Toffel, Michael W., Jodi L. Short, and Melissa Ouellet Abstract—Transnational business regulation is increasingly implemented through private... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Aug 2010
First Look

First Look: August 3

on a standard set of demand-side product features. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-007.pdf A New Paradigm of Individual, Group and Organizational Performance Authors:Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, and The... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Jun 2009
First Look

First Look: June 23

a surcharge for tall ones? The standard Utilitarian framework for tax analysis answers this question in the affirmative. Moreover, a plausible parameterization using data on height and wages implies a substantial height tax: a tall person... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2010
News

Sole Mates

relationship with France. Yet at the same time, we lack a vision of where to go as a small territory. We have the highest standard of living in the Caribbean, but we miss a collective sense of pride in common achievement. Clearly,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Forestry and Logging; Agriculture; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government

01 Dec 1999
News

From the Editors

Lowell, and the School's famous benefactor, George F. Baker. "I hope and believe that this school is to be the standard for all others," stated Baker, "but it must be remembered always that the standards of... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jun 2010
News

M.I.A. Boards

business judgment rule, directors must have “knowingly and completely failed to undertake their responsibilities” or had “an actual intent to do harm” — a standard that has let thousands of failed boards off the hook over the years. While... View Details

Keywords: John Gillespie;David Zweig; Finance

09 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’

Standard of Butte. While entrepreneurs and academics developed the industry, the American government also became deeply involved. Herbert Hoover, in particular, proved to be a big advocate of forecasting. He pushed the Department of... View Details

Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman

23 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Corporate Sustainability Reporting: It’s Effective

significant amount of money." Difficult To Measure After analyzing government websites, NGO publications, and investor reports, the researchers found 16 countries, ranging from Australia to the United Kingdom, that mandated sustainability reporting. A more difficult... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

Greed, Fear, and The System Hinder Corporate Reform

percent decline in Standard & Poor's last year, the median CEO pay is up 14 percent this year. Moreover, there's been an incredible diffusion of what some people are calling the stealth-wealth pay system. This was evident, for... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

Web

Mental Health Awareness Month | Baker Library

Edmondson further clarifies her argument around psychological safety by stating it is: not about being nice not a personality factor not just another word for trust not about lowering performance standards Black Women & Mental Health In... View Details

Web

Software Environments via Conda - Research Computing Services

person modules/packages, we recommend instead using the standard Python / R installation methods, as outlined on our R and Python page. This page is intended for those working on multiple projects and would like to create separate... View Details

26 Sep 2018
News

Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure

environmental issues, a stance that had sparked protests at its annual meetings. This led the U.S. Congress to use its influence by demanding that the World Bank set environmental standards as a condition of the nation’s capital... View Details

Keywords: April White

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