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- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
investment officer, Brian Trelstad, must decide whether or not to fund two for-profit ventures. The first provides clean and accessible shower and toilet facilities in urban areas, serving a critical need for low-income populations—its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
diversification strategies. The article concludes by suggesting a research agenda for dynamic capabilities. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53220 Carbon Tariffs: Effects in Settings with Technology Choice... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
then infrastructure like this helps more people get to work faster, helps businesses be more productive, makes scarce resources such as fuel and clean air go further, and attracts jobs and workers. Such a focus on geography, employment,... View Details
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
The Mitchell Family and Mitchells/Richards Harvard Business School Case 605-047 Describes a small, luxury retail chain's operational sophistication achieved through the use of technology and "high-touch" customer-service. A... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Career Coach
Phillip Andrews
Phillip (MPA, New Hampshire ’06; JD, Suffolk Law ’09) is formerly a Corporate Relations Director in HBS Career & Professional Development responsible for employer relations in Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East, as well as the Energy, Cleantech,... View Details
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- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
problems—particularly by business itself — will help keep our system of capitalism democratic and in sync with the larger interests of the nation. Paul Healy: We may have been through these experiences before, but it's shocking where we have ended up, given all the... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
including emerging economies like China, India, and Brazil. This list will continue to grow. A by-product of the intertwining of globalization and technology enabled networks is that events are no longer isolated, the impact of which was... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2018
- News
“A Shout Through Time”
by the metal detectors as a piece of potentially silver. So after they started to clean it, little by little the name appeared, and then the code appeared and the emotion was very strong, because suddenly they started to realize this was... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
complex and a science museum, renovating the theater district, cleaning up the waterfront area, restoring the city's NFL franchise, securing the rights to house the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, and developing affordable... View Details
- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
options without discarding them, that's where you get stuck in a negative sort of loop. Anybody here know who Marie Kondo is? Marie Kondo, we love her. She's this expert on cleaning your house. And she says, "When you get rid of... View Details
- 05 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
First-Gen Voices: Eric Westphal on Tapping into the Global Alumni Network & Making a Difference Across Borders
their family after years spent working in house cleaning and other physically demanding jobs . He decided to stay in the US “I loved it here, this was home now,” he explained. So Westphal stayed on his own with a big year ahead –... View Details
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
Recovery (A) Deishin Lee, Baris Ata, and Mustafa H. TongarlakHarvard Business School Case 611-033 This case describes the waste management industry and a clean technology solution for landfill diversion and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
Only one brand, Chanel N° 5, now over 80 years old, holds strong market positions across the world. People in different countries like quite different scents. In the words of one executive, “American women tend to prefer fresh, clean... View Details
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
the scope of work is so broad that the possibility of cross-infection is monumental. If you go into a general hospital, there's no way they can keep those walls and floors clean and free from all bacteria. Plus, the people who work in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
firms explore new areas of opportunity, such as nanotechnology, fuel cells, solar power, clean technology, and even entertainment. “Each partner is stretched to look at more areas and to constantly examine new opportunities,” notes... View Details
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
Larry Smarr, the founding director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), reflects on the Institute's past 10 years of successes and challenges. In 2010, more than 700 university... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
Georges Viana surveyed a factory floor filled with silent, outdated machinery. Then, a quick, scuttling movement caught the corner of one eye: rats. He hadn’t known what to expect when he arrived in the city of Caen, 150 miles west of his Paris home, but rats were not... View Details
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
competitive workforces and attract other industry; that clean water and renewable energy can reduce their costs and improve their products; and that well-housed citizens make better customers. Lagace: How can managers put the advice in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
immediately became a bestseller, with total sales exceeding 1 million copies by mid-1964. Often credited with kick-starting a range of governmental actions in the United States and abroad, including the Clean Water Act and the founding of... View Details
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
BernsteinHarvard Business School Case 611-012 The case was prepared to be used as part of a process review in the first year Technology and Operations Management course at HBS. It offers students an opportunity to discuss the context of a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne