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- 17 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
From the Panelists: Toward a Decarbonized Future: Who Pays? Who Profits?
possibly 2070, 40 years after the deadline the United Nations has called for. A member of the Indian Parliament and Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Finance, Sinha stunned his fellow panelists when he warned that by 2050, economic... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Admit It: You’re in Denial
apparent at the time. But Ford dismissed sales figures documenting the product’s declining market share because he suspected rivals of manipulating them. When one of his top executives warned him of the dire situation in a detailed... View Details
- 11 May 2020
- Op-Ed
Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness
It is no secret that immigration has reshaped American innovation. Immigrants are the backbone of America’s most innovative industries, provide a quarter of our patent applications, and are numerous among our science and engineering superstars. Taken from World... View Details
Keywords: by William R. Kerr
- 05 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
Solving Climate Change Starts with an Idea
breakout rooms based on the theme of the day. Conversations were so robust that I often could not shut the sessions down on time. For several weeks running I gave participants a warning that I was going to close the breakout rooms, five... View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)
conceptualize goal setting as a prescription-strength medication that requires careful dosing, consideration of harmful side effects, and close supervision. We offer a warning label to accompany the practice of setting goals.” To learn... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Paid for Success: Options for Compensating CEOs
next -- which means they get a raise the next year, because their options are worth more. Since the converse is also true, fixed number plans provide higher-powered incentives." At the same time, Hall warns that with fixed number... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 09 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer
Early Warning System that conveyed the bank's "risk view." Management started using these tools to frame important debates, such as the evaluation of divisional heads' performance at quarterly business reviews. The system also helped the... View Details
- 21 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
Accelerating Climate Solutions - Short Intensive Program 2023
Business School (HBS) MBA students. When faced with destruction, fear, and grief, do we throw our hands up in despair? Are we paralyzed by the headlines warning of impending climate catastrophes and the very real devastation from... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Q&A: Wrestling with the Unthinkable
you have to make a judgment. If government receives credible intelligence of a possible attack and says nothing and an attack occurs, then its credibility suffers. Same thing if government officials issue warnings and nothing happens. So... View Details
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/818059-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 518-065 Adeo Health Science: Turning a Product into a Brand For decades, American parents were warned to avoid introducing potential allergens to their babies... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2007
- What Do You Think?
Neuro Economics: Science or Science Fiction?
Summing Up Neuro economics is here to stay, according to a majority of those responding to this month's column. Its promises are too great to ignore. But it may be too early to know whether the promises will be realized in practice. And in the meantime, we stand View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 06 Sep 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?
Summing Up Is the end of cheap oil a challenge to the world? Yes. Will it affect our standard of living adversely? Not likely. At least that is the verdict of most of the large number of respondents to this month's column who rely on assumed human ingenuity combined... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Three Steps for Crisis Prevention
was not. The Economist reported at the time that there were many warning flags of the EC's intent to scuttle the deal. For some time, the magazine pointed out, a philosophical gap had been widening between Europe and America over the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet
support to network management and disaster recovery. Start With Simple Steps SupplierInsight's Bart Blackburn warned that the reams of information flowing from the Internet did not, in fact, make the manager's job less difficult or the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 06 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything
Hyman Minsky, whose analysis was used to show how banks overreached themselves before the 2008 financial crisis. He warns that those companies and industries that failed to adjust to climate change might cease to exist. Jeremy Grantham,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers
very important marker for COVID-19. When they debuted, smart watches seemed like sort of silly pieces of technology people used to count 10,000 steps, but they are becoming very important in giving early warning signs about dangerous... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
warning that antibiotic resistance presents one of the greatest threats to health, food security, and development worldwide. And according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, each year in the United States at least 2... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 06 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Money and Quotas Motivate the Sales Force Best
condition was framed negatively: we have decided to give you a bonus this week, but if you don't hit your quota, we'll take it away. The real-punitive scheme involved actually giving the bonus to the salespeople up front, with the warning... View Details
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Evolving for Success [Part Two]
Evolve!: Succeeding in the Digital Culture of Tomorrow (HBS Press).Q: Many people rushing to use the Internet in their businesses have made some real mistakes that you warn your readers about. What are some of them? A: Tongue in cheek, I... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
investing. As a student at HBS, Cohen was fascinated and troubled by the thesis of a best-selling book, The American Challenge, that warned of American cultural, technological, and economic domination of Europe. “My feeling was that... View Details