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02 Jul 2024
Blog Post

Climate Story #19: Nicole Neeman Brady (MBA 2008): The Critical Role of Business in Tackling Water Challenges

she said that she had proposed “that we set up billboards in Los Angeles with the message, ‘LA Dept. of Water and Power - Serving Plastics-free Drinking Water for 100 Years.’” With limited governmental progress, Nicole emphasized that our View Details

30 Apr 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: Urban Adaptation in a Changing World

Potential for Global Partnerships and Collaboration The MCAP emerged as part of a broader dialogue amongst key cities from C40’s network for collectively addressing climate change. Given the global scope of climate change, coordination... View Details

01 Jun 2006
News

A Capital Asset

nature preserve and perhaps the most pristine marine area in the world,” Cohen notes. But collecting that gem of the Pacific would be trumped by her lead role in a Florida swampland deal: the landmark agreement designed to restore the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

01 Jun 2013
News

Lesson Plans

(MBA 1997) Founder and CEO, Central Square Foundation, New Delhi, India A UNIFIED FRONT "Businesses tend to support individual programs or schools. The impact could be much larger if corporations partnered to take collective action on a... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

25 Nov 2014
First Look

First Look: November 25

Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen Abstract—We collect data on operations, targets, and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

25 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Planning for Surprises

programs as a "house of cards"? A: Predictable surprises loom in most organizations. Frequent-flyer programs are simply one example that affects a lot of people. Most of us collect our miles and even think of them as an asset... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

15 Nov 2024
News

Driving Change

Speaking to nearly 700 alumni at the Women’s Leadership Summit last week, HBS Professor Robin Ely addressed both current and emerging challenges facing women in leadership roles, while emphasizing the critical importance of continued progress. “Today, we face a fresh... View Details

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Policy - Business & Environment

climate change, not by reducing their personal carbon footprint but by activating their collective power.” Dan Abbasi HBS MBA 1998 Chief Executive Officer, ASAP.Earth; Managing Director, GameChange Capital E. Robinson, R.C. Robbins.... View Details

24 May 2004
Research & Ideas

The Watsons: IBM’s Troubled Legacy

organization is in recognition of the part played by art in industry and its importance to industry in broadening the horizons of culture and influencing the needs and desires of the people of every country. Whatever that might mean. This View Details

Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow

31 May 2023
Research & Ideas

With Predictive Analytics, Companies Can Tap the Ultimate Opportunity: Customers’ Routines

haven’t made a service part of their routines, the authors find. These findings come as companies such as Procter & Gamble, Adidas, and McDonald’s are trying to collect more consumer data to hone their marketing messages. With... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Transportation

01 Dec 2016
News

HBS Alumni On Leading Their Alma Mater

with thoughtful things to say, their collective points of view were better than any one point of view. It was the first turning point for me about the importance of a collaborative community. Rick Melnick: One of the things about the... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

09 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices

being in second place, it’s a pretty good place to be.” Consumers end up paying more To study how pricing algorithms affect competition, MacKay and Brown collected detailed pricing data from five large, multicategory retailers selling the... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail

25 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy

typically lease a large fraction of their assets, and for steel- and automakers that have large unionized workforces, which will give them greater leverage to renegotiate collective bargaining agreements. But Chapter 11 will be less... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Financial Services

14 Nov 2011
Research & Ideas

Creating a Global Business Code

schedules and to avoid the possibility of more companies pulling out of the project. "We just hung on for dear life and moved as quickly as we could after they said yes," Margolis says. Collecting and processing data from a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

24 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?

(coauthored with Joanna Radin), Perspectives on Risk and Regulation: The FDA at 100, has just been released. The book collects views on the work and challenges of the agency from FDA officials past and present, as well as from executives... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Health

31 Jul 2007
First Look

First Look: July 31, 2007

collection on an American consumer and how credit agencies share the information to determine proper credit risk and worthiness of a consumer. The American system as defined in this note can be contrasted against the lack of developed... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 May 2007
Research & Ideas

Fixing the Marketing-CEO Disconnect

problem is that these managers don't know what metrics to measure or how to interpret the results. They may collect all manner of plausible marketing-performance metrics, from customer satisfaction to retention, but if these can't be... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

18 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?

calculations also indicate that book-tax conformity could reduce tax rates considerably, as a 15 percent tax on book-pretax profits (just for public companies) would provide the same amount of corporate tax revenues being collected today.... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

21 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

Faculty Research Looks to Latin America

firms they work in? Are they specific to the firms that have developed them; or are they stars because they have some intrinsically special qualities and abilities? We have looked at investment analysts in research departments of investment banks and View Details