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December 15, 2023
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What Every Leader Needs to Know About Carbon Credits

By: Varsha Ramesh Walsh and Michael W. Toffel

Many companies have begun to look into credits to offset their emissions as a way to support their net zero goals as their target years get closer and closer. As it stands, the carbon credit market is too small to bear the brunt of reducing companies’ impacts on the... View Details

Keywords: Carbon Credits; Climate; Accounting; Carbon Offsetting; Carbon Abatement; Carbon Emissions; Carbon Footprint; Climate Change; Environmental Accounting; Environmental Regulation

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February 1998
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Computer Software Company Earnings Revisions may be Needed

By: David F. Hawkins

Keywords: Applications and Software; Business Earnings

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Health Care Providers Need a Value Management Office

By: Robert S. Kaplan, Catherine H. MacLean, Alexander Dresner, Derek A. Haas and Thomas W. Feeley

Many health care organizations are striving to implement a value agenda that delivers better patient outcomes at lower cost, medical condition by medical condition. To accelerate the dissemination and adoption of the value agenda, across many more medical conditions,... View Details

Keywords: Service Delivery; Value; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry

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07 May 2013
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'Microsoft Needs to Get Into the Game': Pro

08 Jan 2009
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Why You (Yes, You!) Need a Cool Office

21 Jun 2010
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Entrepreneurs need to know when to let go

01 Oct 2020
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Does Your Company Need a Chief Medical Officer?

29 Jun 2020
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What Black Employee Resource Groups Need Right Now

23 Oct 2014
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Why We Need to Outsmart Our Smart Devices

Keywords: smart devices; productivity; transparency; human resources; privacy

14 Oct 2014
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"We Need a New Field Manual for Business"

24 Apr 2014
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Meeting an essential health care need in India

When his mother became ill in 2008, Krishna Mahesh (MBA 2005) came face to face with India’s deep deficit of quality hospital beds. It inspired him to launch Sundaram Medical Devices, which develops high-tech, low-cost hospital beds that will help transform the quality... View Details

22 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business

them powerful competitors in the new marketplaces, but institutionally they need to be nimble and aggressively study the appeal of the new entrants and develop new capabilities. The Role Of Regulation Although the online small business... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking; Financial Services

15 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Calderón: Economic Arguments Needed to Fight Climate Change

growth are mutually exclusive endeavors. "We believe it's possible to do both," he said. "We need to switch from talking about carbon emissions to talking about economic growth, jobs, and profits for companies." Time... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

21 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now

When our team reached out to 600 CEOs during the pandemic’s early stages to ask them about their greatest concerns, many cited communication with employees. While the right communication strategy has been critical during the pandemic, it will remain just as critical—if... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Robin Abrahams, and Katherine Connolly Baden

02 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

Do Online Dating Platforms Help Those Who Need Them Most?

answers depend on the platform. Some products help those who need the most help. Some help only those who have little trouble interacting in the real world anyway. And some platforms offer certain features that help those who View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology

2018
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Trump's Populism: What Business Leaders Need To Understand

By: Rafael Di Tella

In the 2016 United States presidential election, candidates from both major political parties used anti-establishment messaging to appeal to Americans, a theme that had been on the sidelines of US political discourse for decades. Donald Trump, in particular, played... View Details

Keywords: Populism; Globalization; Public Opinion; Social Issues; Government and Politics; Demographics; United States

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2012
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The Need for (long) Chains in Kidney Exchange

By: Itai Ashlagi, David Gamarnik, Michael A. Rees and Alvin E. Roth

It has been previously shown that for sufficiently large pools of patient-donor pairs, (almost) efficient kidney exchange can be achieved by using at most 3-way cycles, i.e., by using cycles among no more than 3 patient-donor pairs. However, as kidney exchange has... View Details

Keywords: Networks; Complexity; Performance Efficiency; Medical Specialties; Health Care and Treatment; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving

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