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- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
focus their energy based on how people’s spending is changing. Also, it's forcing us to think more about the non-spending aspects of someone's carbon footprint. Right now, we ask people for some survey information to tell us about their... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
associate professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee drew on recent World Bank survey data on 3,899 Chinese firms. He and HBS professor Tarun Khanna have analyzed the data to find predictive indicators for business success and guides for investors to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
net-zero carbon-emissions targets within the framework of the 2015 Paris Agreement. Thousands of companies have registered with the Carbon Disclosure Project. In a recent survey of large, global firms, one-third reported that climate... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Business: Current Issues, Future Directions offers a contemporary and forward-looking survey of the global sport industry, introducing the key themes, trends, and critical issues that will impact decision-making and strategy in the coming... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
is a myth, and how eliminating options leads to more choice. In the Spirit of Napa by Jennifer Raiser (MBA 1990) (Assouline Publishing) Rasier surveys Napa’s great local culinary establishments, legendary wine pioneers and cult labels,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
both in school and the work she’s doing at Xbox is shaping their future worlds. In a recent survey of Gen Z teens, around 30 percent list video games as their preferred entertainment, ahead of social media, television, and movies. And the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
Georges Viana surveyed a factory floor filled with silent, outdated machinery. Then, a quick, scuttling movement caught the corner of one eye: rats. He hadn’t known what to expect when he arrived in the city of Caen, 150 miles west of his... View Details
- 28 Feb 2025
- News
Joy to the World
work in the community and a collective impact approach. It's using these pillars of joy that we talked about. For the staff, we do an annual staff survey where we ask questions about staff well-being and also looking at these domains of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
business I've ever operated," says Whiteside, surveying a herd of Aberdeen Angus and Red Devon cattle from the cab of a 1992 Ford pickup with an odometer topping 143,000 miles. "For one thing, it involves nature, which you can't control.... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
arrival at LC in 1994 that the company had done relatively little consumer research, he immediately launched an intensive survey of customer needs. He also performed an asset inventory of the entire organization, which revealed "a lot of... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
extraordinary number have gravitated toward entrepreneurial ventures. A 20th Reunion survey of the class revealed that out of a sample of 341 people, 211 considered themselves to be entrepreneurs. "Maybe it has something to do with... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Alumni Board Wraps Up Year
proposed enhancing the range of services provided. The Clubs and Associations Committee, chaired by Roslyn Payne (MBA ’70), focused on defining club best practices, key challenges, and governance issues. Almost three-quarters of the 106 club and association presidents... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
surveys used by Bloomberg Businessweek and U.S. News are subject to bias by relying so heavily on judgments from recent graduates, deans, and administrators. Students understand the value of graduating from a top-ranked institution and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
…and by Comparison
interesting snapshot of a different era. For example, of the class’s 2,173 applicants, 36 percent were admitted; 70 percent were either veterans or on active duty and sent by the military. There were no women and few minorities. In a View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Strengthening Ties with Executive Education Graduates
model does not work as well for Executive Education alumni. The Survey Subcommittee, chaired by Cathy Benko (MBA 1989), has worked on developing questions designed to identify specific ways to help Executive Education alumni stay in touch... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Employees crave meaningful progress in their work and find joy in making an impact
studied confidential daily diaries of knowledge workers in three industries. Data showed that making progress on projects and other matters at work drives employee engagement, creativity, and productivity. Recognizing even small wins makes it more likely that employees... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
The Wisdom of Crowds
The judgments of many people regarding the merits of a restaurant, hotel, or bar trump a single reviewer’s opinion. That’s the philosophy behind the Zagat Survey leisure guides, and Ted Zagat (MBA 2004) has literally grown up with that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Business Plan Contest Has Many Winners
entrepreneur-owned, for-profit centers throughout rural India would offer one-stop shopping locations for customers needing government-required permits and deeds, microfinancing, agricultural information, and other essential services. A recently conducted View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- News
Seth Klarman on the Critical Value of the Long View
short-term thinking—while companies that operate in good faith are overlooked. “You have people who are princes, who have good values, who treat people right,” Klarman says in the article. “We don’t tend to pay a lot of attention; we don’t get a lot of stories about... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
W50 Next Steps
experiences about relationships among women at work, with a particular focus on building effective, supportive collaborations across differences in race, generation, and geography. WHILE EXPANDED ANALYSIS continues and a new report is prepared on last year's Life and... View Details