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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Dean Clark on the New Academic Year
when it opens early next year. Plans are also on the drawing board for new facilities to house lifelong learning activities and academic activities related to faculty development and for an academic center and a major renovation of Baker Library. View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 17, 2015
Societal and Political Dimensions of Innovation Innovation and Business Growth By: Kerr, William R. Abstract—Innovation and the pursuit of new business opportunities are essential for growth at the firm level; moreover, they provide the foundation for an economy to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
Seeding a Better Future for Colombia
Part architectural spectacle, part tourist attraction, and part government-sponsored stage for forums and meetings that seed progress on key economic and diplomatic fronts, World Expos have been taking place since the 1850s. Colombia... View Details
- 09 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: JSW Steel
significantly as India becomes wealthier and builds more public infrastructure like roads, bridges, apartment buildings, public transportation, and the like. Before the trip, we spent time researching available technologies that might... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
just as the School celebrated its 100th birthday, affect your aspirations? The financial crisis was a sober moment for the School. It made us reflect more deeply during our centennial, not only on the areas where we had made progress and... View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
We're seeing some really interesting, not only progress on the technology concepts, but we're seeing some really interesting innovations around financing mechanisms that are going to support these... View Details
- 20 Aug 2014
- News
With No Time to Lose
an effective biomarker—a kind of test that could measure the progression of ALS over a short period of time—did not yet exist. Without it, drug trials relied on longer, more costly observations of disease progression. Next, collaboration... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 14 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Rewriting the Rules of Service Competition
coordinating with others, working in teams, or being denied “star” status. These leaders know that the best uses of technology and other support systems create frontline service heroes and heroines. They use it to elevate important... View Details
- Web
Innovating in Health Care - Course Catalog
the country’s largest sector and we have excellent resources and people, it remains too costly, too inaccessible, and too fragmented. Countless important technology innovations lie fallow. Substantial opportunities to do good and do well... View Details
- 05 Mar 2001
- What Do You Think?
Fine Coupling: Can Human Resource Management Learn from Supply Chain Management?
reduced to one unit), rapid response (utilizing faster, more dependable methods of transportation and rapid-transfer "cross-docking"), and positive tracking (allowing customers to trace the progress of their orders, typically... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Case Study: Alumni Advice for a Health Care Startup
Illustration by Chris Gash Illustration by Chris Gash The New York City–based startup Wellthy began with a personal challenge. Lindsay Jurist-Rosner (MBA 2009) has helped arrange care for her mother, who suffers from a progressive form of... View Details
- 04 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment
If you want to be awed by the pace of technological advancement over the past few decades, compare the capabilities of a bulky PC from 1984 with those of a sleek smartphone in 2016. You’ll find stark differences. But if you want to be... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 09 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Set Your Recruiting Vision for 2020
well as you sought to attract and retain talent? What would help you move the needle in 2020 and make progress towards your organization’s goals? Taking the time to evaluate missteps, wins, and future opportunities will help you set your... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
believes that the ethics debate is important, progress in research, he says, is paramount. “I’m frustrated and getting more frustrated by the day,” Van Etten declared at the JDRF’s annual conference in June. “As breathtaking as many of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
Gawande, who explained one program's progress in a 2013 New Yorker article: "The field workers soon realized that having the mothers make the solution themselves was more effective than just showing them. The workers began looking for... View Details
- 17 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom
As investor pressure mounts on companies to show their environmental impacts, leaders are encountering an unwieldy tangle of terms and approaches. Climate accounting basics and a dictionary of sorts can help demystify the calculations and voluntary targets that... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 16 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?
Administration at Harvard Business School. “This is technology that's going to help us to abate these issues around energy and climate, and it's the best technology in that space.” The spectacular rise of... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
area’s peace, stability, and national security. And the situation is getting progressively worse, partly due to people migrating out of suddenly unlivable situations. “Governments and development finance institutions clearly don’t have... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
New Releases
feedback on progress toward those goals. Creativity in Context by Teresa M. Amabile (Westview Press) This update of HBS professor Teresa Amabile's classic 1983 book, The Social Psychology of Creativity, includes extensive new theoretical... View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Depression or Euphoria? Navigating the Market’s Mood Swings
Stevenson said the recent technology sector market crash should teach future entrepreneurs to build companies to last rather than to sell, and to think about more than simply selling a product. We're never going to go back to the slow and... View Details
Keywords: by Carrie Levine