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- 01 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
change, stick to your guns and seek out companies and opportunities where you can play a role in protecting the planet. Food and agriculture - which drives nearly a third of greenhouse gas emissions - is a great place to start. Our global... View Details
Keywords: Energy / Cleantech
- 03 Sep 2020
- Op-Ed
Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC
Employers, insurers, taxpayers, and individual consumers pay widely varying prices for treatments, medical technology, and for digital information of fluctuating quality. One patient may receive a small charge for a treatment, while... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: A Fair Share
it.” And the second is laws and regulations. These are designed to protect consumer interest, so companies should be regulating themselves in advance of any regulations that may be imposed on them. But they... View Details
- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
technology, health and consumer care, and renewable energy. His scope of work to date encompasses the United States, the European Union, Brazil, India, Malaysia, South Korea, Philippines, Canada, and multiple African countries. In our... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
COVID-19 Shines New Light on Working Conditions in Supply Chains
Tightly packed workers and other weak protections allowed COVID-19 to sweep through American slaughterhouses during the past year, infecting at least 45,000 employees and killing an estimated 240 people. To Harvard Business School... View Details
- 10 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: It’s a Bad Idea to Ban Customers From Recording Videos
Consumers delight in using smartphones to record their experiences and surroundings, but for businesses, such devices present tricky challenges. Suppose a customer encounters a hair in her food, a spill in an aisle, or a rude clerk.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Real Conflict
intermediaries such as Wal-Mart against a combination of old-line retailers and labor, community, and development activists. Particularly in retailing, policies in the United States favor consumers and offer fewer View Details
- 08 Mar 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Can the Proposed American Health Care Act Improve on 'Obamacare'?
popular provisions included under Obamacare; it prohibits health insurers from denying coverage to patients with pre-existing conditions, or charging them more money, and allows children to remain on their parents’ health plans until age 26. Maintaining these View Details
- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
multiple generations of technology. Microsoft and IBM perhaps? Yet no one is pointing to them as bastions of novel and breakthrough ideas! It's easy to point to specific design decisions as the cause of Blackberry's demise. They ignored the potential of touch screens,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Faculty Books
discuss the spread of mutual funds to Asia, Europe, and Latin America; compare them with other investment vehicles like hedge funds; and show how to sort mutual funds by categories and subcategories based on security type and investment objective. Moving Forward: The... View Details
- 05 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
facilitated by mechanisms of value recombining, temporal distancing, identity marking, and conceptual bridging and a second phase marked by a redefinition of market boundaries and facilitated by mechanisms of competitive set reclaiming and enthusiast View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Yla Eason (MBA 1977)
Black dolls for girls but nothing for boys. So I created Sun-Man, a superhero who gets his strength from the sun. The idea grew from exploring the biology of melanin and its protective qualities for those with darker skin. In my... View Details
- 05 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Our Godrej Site Visit
with mangrove conservation expert Hemant Karkhanis. Joshi provided an overview to the Godrej Group, its ESG strategy, and its mangrove conservation and restoration initiatives. Godrej Group, an international business conglomerate with business verticals ranging from... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
The Long View
Tobin-seeded research contributed to key elements of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, in addition to shaping the Obama administration's approach to evaluating the efficacy of... View Details
- 21 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Music Downloads: Pirates—or Customers?
research shows that only 45 percent of music files downloaded in the United States come from computers in the U.S. More than 100 countries supply files to the U.S. file-sharing community, and many of these countries do not have strong records of View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
employees, rapidly rising health-care costs, and the likely loss of existing protection against lawsuits for pain and suffering from medical events. She then disclosed the results of a 1999 KPMG survey of CEOs and View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
A Decade of Change
Hospital for Special Surgery; Meredith Cantrell, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts; Matthew Schrimpf, Harlem Children’s Zone; Christopher Satti, City of Boston Mayor’s Office; (back row) Ana Mahony, Consumer Financial View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Off Script
(Thinkstock) Prescription drug spending increased by more than 13 percent in the United States in 2014, raising health insurance premiums and the ire of consumers and politicians. The reasons behind the rise are many, including the high... View Details
- 02 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories 2007
more so when your uncle, mother, or daughter is your business partner. Harvard Business School's John A. Davis and Deepak Malhotra outline 5 ways to analyze and improve dealmaking and dispute resolution while protecting family ties. As... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is This the Decade of the Investor?
come to the rescue. However, before we jump to conclusions, we are cautioned to assemble more information. Dr. B. V. Krishnamurthy pointed out that "odds are heavily stacked against (investors)," because "it is difficult to believe that board members... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett