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Electricity - Business & Environment
for alternatives to fossil fuels, especially renewables. Innovation Innovations are needed to generate vast amounts of carbon-free electricity and to use electricity much more efficiently. There is massive market potential for renewable... View Details
- 27 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rituals Strengthen Couples. Here’s Why They’re Good for Business, Too
Relationship Rituals” by Ximena Garcia-Rada, Ovul Sezer, and Michael I. Norton The researchers' study focused on couples, but rituals are used in a variety of settings, including the workplace, they say. Some businesses incorporate... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty
they have a voice, don't have proper advocacy. Many times, it's not clear that the right people are speaking on their behalf. The marketing process requires us to flesh out the voice of the customer and get the process going. Once you get... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?
who don’t realize there is a cost for Facebook’s “free” service. Miki Saxon recalled that “Tim Cook once said, ‘If it’s free, then you are the product.’ It seems that Americans are just waking up to that fact ” Malcolm Harper commented,... View Details
- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition
With more people working remotely right now, many of us have experienced a videoconference interrupted by barking dogs or hungry kids demanding snacks, punctuated, perhaps, by cabinet doors slamming and ice makers grinding in the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
Experiment of On-the-job Learning of Knowledge Production by Local Workers Reporting to Return Migrants By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj Abstract—I study whether return migrants facilitate knowledge production by local employees working for them at geographically distant... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: RMZ EcoWorld
property to encourage cool winds and buildings are strategically positioned to allow wind tunnels that keep common areas up to 4 degrees Celsius cooler than outdoor temperatures, supported by an evaporative cooling system. These innovations allow the development to... View Details
- 11 May 2022
- Blog Post
MoMBAs: The Inspiring Student Mothers of HBS
using babysitters to go out in the evenings and not miss out on the social scene, setting time apart for date nights, learning to ask for help, being ok with letting some things go (cooking, working out). What advice do you have for... View Details
- 26 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Cellophane Changed the Way We Shop for Food
like candy and cigarettes, it wasn’t effective for packaging fresh food. In 1927, DuPont developed moisture-proof cellophane, food manufacturers started using it to package items like cakes and cheeses, and cellophane sales tripled... View Details
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
reconceptualizing career development post-pandemic and the implications for us and our organizations. CASE STUDY Behavioral Economics and Choice Architecture: Helping Customers and Employees Make Better Decisions Associate Professor John... View Details
- 22 Feb 2024
- News
GCC Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit
economic growth, enhances our global visibility, informs policy decisions, and promotes cultural exchange—all contributing to positive development across sectors” he says. “At the same time, all the main stakeholders—government, the private sector, and NGOs—join View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
effectiveness of groups, how perceivers use group properties to inform their judgment, and the contextual and individual differences that allow some perceivers to be more accurate. Across seven studies, we present consistent evidence that... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Fostering financial freedom for low-income individuals
Scott Cook (MBA 1976) wants to change lives through initiatives he created as cofounder of Intuit. These include the Intuit Tax Freedom Project, which provides free online tax preparation services for Americans who cannot afford to pay,... View Details
- 25 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Who is to Blame for 'The Great Training Robbery'?
of it doesn’t,” Beer says, citing the example of an oil company that built a $20 million safety training facility but still suffered several fatal accidents nonetheless. “Part of it is a fad. Everybody’s doing training. Everybody’s got... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
after it was reconfigured following a merger, Barford then took up the reins of Valleydene Corporation Limited, a family-run holding company that has a majority interest in GSW and also oversees warehouse facilities, oil and gas... View Details
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Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Corporation. All existing and pending patents were transferred to the new corporation. 17 Wheelwright left the company in the early 1940s, but stayed on as a member of the Board of Directors until 1948. In addition to Polaroid Day Glasses and Polascreen camera filters,... View Details
- 23 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative
the instinct. There are things that they do and ways that they think that are intuitive. The rest of us could learn what these innovators do if somebody would just crawl inside their brains and codify what to them is intuitive. In a... View Details
- 07 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
7 Coming Out Stories from the HBS PRIDE Club
experiences. The weight we all carried allows us to work harder, love stronger, and live more vibrantly. Being gay isn’t a community it’s a family. When you’re ready to come out, you won’t be alone.” Charlotte Lawson MD (she/her), Class... View Details
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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog
and Valuation Using Financial Statements Joseph Pacelli Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Changing the World: Life Choices of Influential Leaders (also listed under General Management and Organizational Behavior) Robert Simons Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Making Finance Personal
Cook Main article: Where Innovation Rules Necessity may be the mother of invention, but as Scott Cook (MBA 1976) can attest, an unhappy spouse can be a powerful prompter of innovation. Spurred by the... View Details