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Impact Stories - Business & Environment
solving climate change by setting high environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards in farmland management and investing in regenerative agriculture.” Pat Coady MBA 1966 | Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure "We’re finally... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
the School a "living model of the highest standards of integrity, respect for others, and personal responsibility." Clark's intranet tour included a visit to HBS Publishing, where he scrolled through an online case; a stop at the course... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
mechanism, progressively raises the standard of life of the masses.” As James Tobin, one of Schumpeter’s best Harvard students and himself a Nobel laureate, later wrote, “I have always thought that Schumpeter’s ambition was to develop a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
positions. Through its research and services, the organization is widely considered the gold standard for information and insight into women, leadership, and business. “I like to say that my avocation has become my job,” says Lang, an... View Details
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
Reporting Standards (IFRS) in Europe. European IFRS adoption represented a major milestone towards financial reporting convergence yet spurred controversy reaching the highest levels of government. We find a more positive reaction for... View Details
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
transform traditional industries such as banking, real estate, and healthcare. More recently, it has gained attention as a way to finance new ventures, through what is known as an Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Less noticed, though, is ICOs appear almost antithetical to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
United States began to use standardized color, achieved by synthetic dyes, as part of their marketing strategies. The emergence of the synthetic dye industry paralleled the growth of mass production and mass marketing in the American food... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
Poll and find that the past 45 years of economic growth (from 1960 to 2005) in the rich half of nations has not brought happiness gains above those that were already in place once the 1960s standard of living had been achieved. However in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care
workshop." Over the past 10 to 15 years the object of management attention has widened to include the care itself. With the development of generally accepted standard processes we have become able to design operating systems... View Details
- 17 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook
and social science research is specialist, peer-reviewed journals. Second, much research takes the form of case studies and is often qualitative rather than quantitative. In disciplines where standardized social science methodology,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
in part, by how much it gave away. If that seems counterintuitive at best and downright crazy at worst, think again. The Bridgespan Group, the consultancy they created, has turned the standard business model on its head. While consultants... View Details
- 30 Jun 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?
co-op program for potential MBA students? How about greater sharing of teaching or administrative talent, similar to what IBM and other organizations have done in the past—in this case, sabbaticals with the potential of career change? Only a select few might be able to... View Details
- 07 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Online Retailers Should Hide Their Best Discounts
high-value customers.” It would almost be as if a high-end retailer such as Louis Vuitton or Gucci told people to go their outlet store first, Ngwe says. Huge gain in sales In a series of experiments involving a real online fashion and apparel retailer, Teixeira and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?
kinwun Summing Up: What are the Earmarks of a “New Economy?” Responses to this month’s column rightly focused on the need for measures and standards before deciding whether we are entering an era of social and economic change as... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 13, 2016
out firms that, absent NPEs, would produce welfare-enhancing innovations without engaging in infringement. Our empirical analysis shows that on average, NPEs behave as opportunistic patent trolls. NPEs sue cash-rich firms—a one standard... View Details
- 07 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ‘The Art of Negotiation’
and in their place jointly create the bestselling jazz album of all time. Sarath's 80-20 rule is a good standard for negotiators too. You need the 80 percent so that you can move forward and dampen fears about making irreversible... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael A. Wheeler
- 28 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Importance of ‘Don’t’ in Inducing Ethical Employee Behavior
focusing on compliance: "Statement of Research Code of Conduct—This research project is being conducted with strict adherence to the standards and obligations required of applied social science." Again, the students who were... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 03 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry
Jeffrey Wiesen, an attorney specializing in biotechnology, the standard routine was "more a work-for-hire model than a collaboration model, although we always called it collaboration." In a nutshell, it worked like this, Wiesen... View Details
- 08 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
Managing Sustainable Advantage with Key ESG Co-Founders, Anne-Marie Schoonbeek and Heleen van Poecke
market opportunity, Schoonbeek and van Poecke set about building a scalable, cost-effective, and automated software solution to enable companies to manage and improve their ESG performance. “There is no uniform set of standards for ESG,... View Details
- 05 Jan 2017
- Blog Post
Simple Ways to Take Gender Bias Out of Your Jobs
assessment methodology and business certification standard for gender equality, and Anka Wittenberg, chief diversity officer of technology giant SAP. In addition to becoming one of the first companies to receive EDGE certification, SAP... View Details
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