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- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think
promising new approaches, particularly so called "modular" or "fourth generation" nuclear reactors, promise to significantly reduce costs while simultaneously easing doubts over safety and waste disposal. Positive Investments Already Many... View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/history/economic-history/cambridge-history-capitalism-volume-2 August 2013 Science A Better Route to Tech Standards By: Lerner, Josh, and Jean Tirole Abstract—Technological View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 30, 2007
Harmonizing Accounting Standards Really Harmonize Accounting?: Evidence from Non-U.S. Firms Adopting US GAAP Authors:Mark T.Bradshaw and Gregory S. Miller Periodical:Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance (forthcoming) Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
problems (and the ways they reinforce each other), this paper offers a new approach to community transformation which calls for leaders to use technology to inform and connect people. We need to convert the social safety net into a social... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
Academic business research typically travels one-way. From government agencies, scholars gather and process data—say on workplace safety or environmental pollution—perform analysis, and publish the results. Rarely, however, do they take... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
Understanding Psychological Safety in Healthcare and Education Organizations: A Comparative Perspective By: Edmondson, Amy C., Monica Higgins, Sara J. Singer, and Jennie Weiner Abstract—Psychological safety... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
increased by 0.75 percentage points, increasing sales dispersion. Calibrating conventional inventory-ordering models, we show that to respond optimally to the observed increase in dispersion, the retailer would need to increase its cycle and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
The Business of Behavioral Economics
You've done everything—endured diets, purged your freezer of Ben & Jerry's, and educated yourself on fat, sugar, and calories. Yet, you can't manage to lose weight. What's wrong with you? According to standard economic theory, which... View Details
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
forthcoming Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth By: Edmondson, Amy C. Abstract—The Fearless Organization offers practical... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2018
- News
Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure
environmental issues, a stance that had sparked protests at its annual meetings. This led the U.S. Congress to use its influence by demanding that the World Bank set environmental standards as a condition of the nation’s capital... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Profile
Hiroshi Mikitani
hyper-efficient supermarket with standardized offerings,” Rakuten is more like a bazaar “where the owners of many small shops curate the merchandise and interact personally with customers.” Starting out, Rakuten charged... View Details
- Profile
Cristina Ros Blankfein
look and design to inspire a positive reaction. By the holiday season in 2014, Be Mixed launched its first major production run and is currently being sold in 17 different food stores in the New York City area. The pair also unveiled a... View Details
- 01 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018
intentionality and conclude with a call for scholars to define normative standards as they pertain to negotiator ethics. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53709 Analyzing the Aftermath of a Compensation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: Driving India's EV Future: Insights from Ather Scooter and Exponent Energy
Professor Vikram Gandhi’s Immersive Field Course (IFC) “Development while Decarbonizing: India’s Path to Net-Zero" delved into the critical aspect of decarbonization and sustainability goals amid India's rapid development. The course presented an opportunity for... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Tipping Point
countries like Rwanda, and she also sees an opportunity to move into other sectors with similar economic and gender dynamics, such as tea, chocolate, and shea butter. Tipping your farmer may feel unusual to American consumers today, Nyamumbo acknolwledges, “but I see... View Details
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
catastrophic risks to patients, physicians, pharmaceutical firms, and regulators. Between the early 1960s and the present, national systems were built to collect, standardize, and respond to individual reports of side effects, with the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 28
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817065-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 516-116 India's Amul: Keeping Up with the Times Amul is an Indian dairy cooperative founded in 1947—eight months before India's independence from British rule—and owned by over three... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
absolute. Instead, measures/reports of time and distance were found to depend on one's reference point, specifically one's direction and speed of travel, making our apparent physical reality, in Einstein's words, "merely an illusion." Like time and distance,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
there is little education by family members or in schools about personal finance. Most students have no sense of personal financial control, nor have they worked to have a financial safety net. Graduate students and budding entrepreneurs... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 22 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Mind of the Market: Extending the Frontiers of Marketing Thought
might be more revealing than people's reactions to questionnaires. "Nearly all of our cognition is below the level of awareness," Zaltman says. "How can we surface it, and relate it to how we think of our jobs, an institution, a cause?" Rather than peppering consumers... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace