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- 27 Apr 2023
- News
Life Preserver
of the world's population but only 0.5% of transplants are performed there. Giwa and his colleagues at the Global Solutions Program investigated ideas for creating more organs: Could technology be developed to 3D-print organs? Could pig organs be genetically View Details
Keywords: April White
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
qualities, achieved through the controversial technology of genetic modification. Genetically modified foods, also known as GMOs, are a confusing topic for consumers. In the United States, 95 percent of the soybeans and 85 percent of the... View Details
- 17 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’
genetically modified corn to manufacture it, and only consumers in locations with municipal composting facilities could compost this packaging. Most of the company’s compostable plastic would wind up in landfills, or even worse, consumers... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 10 Nov 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Making Lincoln Center Cool Again
that historically made up a significant share of ballet, symphony, opera, and theater audiences. "What do you do is the big question," Levy said. "It gets at a central tension. Do you modify your programs to attract a young... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Generation Next
a modified version of the Families in Business program will be offered in partnership with the Universidad Adolfo Ibañez in Santiago, Chile, and in São Paulo, Brazil. View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Measured Approach
sophisticated monitoring and evaluation tools that could make a huge difference in how organizations implement and modify their projects, but they simply weren’t being used by decision-makers on the ground. A big reason they decided to... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 13 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
happy hours, and if possible, having a physically distancing picnic. Social connection doesn’t always mean a Zoom call; sometimes even a text message can be enough. Use ‘job crafting’ to let employees modify their roles Jayanth Narayanan,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
and Tesco. The case introduces the tools of Dupont and Modified Dupont Decomposition. While performance as measured by return on equity has been similar for the two companies, Ahold has had significantly better stock market performance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Strategic Financial Analysis Online Course | HBS Online
Statement Analysis Assessing Company Performance Traditional DuPont Analysis Show Hide Details Concepts Introduction to Assessing Strategy Execution Drivers of Profitability: Traditional DuPont Drivers of Profitability: Modified DuPont... View Details
- 17 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #14: Bonita Stewart (MBA 1983) – A Career Devoted to Creating the Future
with greenhouse gas protocols, and work with our supply chain partners to reduce energy consumption.” Bonita added: “At Deckers, we are continually modifying our strategies, adding to our targets, reallocating our resources, and... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Professors Introduce Valuation Software
have extended its generality and output to really help a broader user to take advantage of the insights that it provides. Q: How does the tool work? A: The tool requires users to input financial statements for a company, enables the user to standardize those... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 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... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Vital Signs
disrupted far more negatively than health care. The demand for health care has only gone up. The impact of the quarantine is really just shifting a bulk of the care remotely, and providers are being forced to become more efficient. For example, in prenatal care we’re... View Details
- 09 Oct 2015
- News
Balancing Progress and Preservation
housing. “The plan added a significant number of windows on the façade that faced Central Park West,” he relates. “In my view, it was a respectful attempt to give a beautiful historic structure a useful second life, but the community board made them View Details
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
ratios. Students can apply the traditional DuPont decomposition framework to drill down into the business model of the two companies. The case then allows students to use the modified (also known as additive or alternate) DuPont approach... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Ray A. Goldberg
issues," he beams, "from land reform in Mexico to the development of the genetically modified tomato." "The genetic research revolution is changing our global economy and society more dramatically than any other single... View Details
- 03 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Is It Even Possible to Dam the Flow of Misleading Content Online?
think the social media company is biased, but its action still reduces the potential for a bad outcome. General: For example, “don’t eat GMOs.” With a more general expression, such as a post that genetically modified foods are... View Details
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Software Environments via Conda - Research Computing Services
conda environments already installed with conda env list This command will list any you have created along with environments that are centrally installed on the HBSGrid cluster. Creating, Activating, and Modifying Conda Environments Conda... View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- What Do You Think?
Dot.Com Shakeout: Chess or Roulette?
survival. The question is whether the form of survival will meet even their modified expectations. What do you think? Original Article In recent weeks the media have covered a number of stories about the merging, closing, or bankruptcy of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley
companies, although it was ultimately deferred for companies with market caps of less than $75 million and made permanent in the Dodd-Frank Act. Audit standards also were modified in 2007, a change that reportedly reduced costs for many... View Details