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- 02 Mar 2023
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Carbon's Second Act
different molecules. But then when the plant dies or when the plant is consumed in some way, CO2 is inevitably the result. But it's all a circular carbon economy. The CO2 that gets released when that plant dies or decomposes gets breathed... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
fundamental deterioration in their ability to pay for goods and services from their wages.” Simultaneously, lending standards continued to deteriorate “until we got to the point where we had very lax standards, and we started to see... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
companies differently. It's this notion of building sustainability and resilience into the business model from day one. Morrell: If you haven’t listened to that episode yet, go back and check it out, because it will give you a really good... View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
about your consumers, too. I'd like to mention, you know, there was this study done maybe 10 years ago by the Boston Consulting Group. They interviewed about 25,000 women across 20 countries, and their conclusions showed that the female View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
contract the demand for goods and services. In short, the economic consequences would likely be a major recession, or possibly even a depression.” Drilling Down Now a resident of Houston, where he moved after retiring from HBS in 1996,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
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No Place Like Home
increasingly scarce. How serious is the problem? It's a tale of two Americas, the best of times and worst of times if you're a consumer in the current U.S. housing market. On the plus side, thanks to the 1990s' economic boom, some... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
dominance of corporate icons such as Heinz, Coca-Cola, General Motors, NCR, and Procter & Gamble. Chapters on the 20th century consider how mass production, mass media, and technology have influenced the way goods are marketed and sold.... View Details
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
visibility, to a network of peers. Many of them felt isolated.” Amadio sensed these challenges were not unique to neuroscience startups, and he began looking at the consumer software sector to see how innovation there seemed to happen so... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
prominent organization. Prior to that, I had worked for the same boss for 10 years. If I did a really good job and delivered, he would watch out for me. In my new position, I operated under the same set of assumptions. I hunkered down,... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
experience at a high-quality program like ours. At the same time, we need to prepare for a world where people will consume business education in many different ways. Why do you frequently talk and write about the problem of the public’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
analyze budgets for HLW's dozens of programs. She also created a revenue-forecasting model for its residential services. "Finance is an area that interests me no matter what sector I go into, so it was a good way to get direct, hands-on... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
that flourished and those that failed, they describe the practices that characterize entrepreneurial individuals, families, and organizations and offer pragmatic advice. The Upside of Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
have in common, however, is that they are all searching for market opportunities. In fact, Stevenson says, good entrepreneurs gravitate toward business opportunities for which their personalities are well-suited, such as "numbers... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
fintech startups. (FinTech Collective led the Series A financing for Quovo.) This opening resulted in what Gibbins describes as a gradual externalization of R&D at the major firms. Gotsch, who is not one to miss an opportunity—“never let a View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
country’s leafy greens are produced in Arizona or California, according to the states' Leafy Green Marketing Agreement, and transportation to New England can take weeks; FreshBox being able to offer Massachusetts consumers a locally grown... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
as any print version. Jacobson’s eureka moment came to him in the summer of 1995, after completing his postgraduate work at Stanford. With a job offer from MIT in hand, he spent a good amount of time reading on the beach. One day, after... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
path toward peace and sustainable change than just a good business idea. “I mean, I almost cried uncle 10 times in the first month.” “I mean, I almost cried uncle 10 times in the first month.” Making things that move was in his DNA. His... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
2022, it was heralded as a landmark investment in the environment. “This bill is the biggest step forward on climate ever,” President Joe Biden said when he signed the legislation, which included $369 billion for efforts such as advancing clean energy, curbing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
1981. The School's Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration, Herzlinger is the author of seven best-selling books, including her landmark volume Market-Driven Health Care (1997), which analyzed the revolutionary impact of View Details