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- 11 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
BTG Bioliquids: Creating Fast Pyrolysis Bio-Oil from Biomass Residue Streams
What we learned about BTG Bioliquids and biofuels We left our visit with some key considerations and food for thought. First, it was interesting to witness how threat and opportunity are merely different sides of the same coin. While the Russia-Ukraine war has caused... View Details
- 13 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Career Journey: Karan Khimji, Co-Founder of 44.01
do and how we're trying to help. At 44.01, we want to scale our solutions sustainably and make sure that the communities we work with understand what we're doing and how it's going to benefit them, not harm them. There is, of course, the... View Details
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
incomplete and does not provide clear enough guidance to avoid policies that indeed are harmful over time. The competitiveness-oriented approach can provide the additional context and give practical support in evaluating policies. If the... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 17 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Can Autonomous Vehicles Drive with Common Sense?
figuring out what to do at an intersection if a traffic light fails. In testing new AVs, De Freitas and his colleagues propose that companies should adopt a standard they refer to as SPRUCE—teaching AVs to drive in a manner that is: Safe—“does not View Details
- 18 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?
we’ve seen, people may choose to enter into these platforms during a boom, and it’s very exciting. But if you don’t understand the risk you’re taking on, that can be really harmful as soon as the state of the market changes. "It’s still... View Details
- 12 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Design Enables Discrimination: Learning from Anti-Asian Bias on Airbnb
Luca, is that business leaders need to accept the responsibility of creating a more inclusive society. When they ignore the potential for bias, they may inadvertently harm their customers, he says. Luca has been contacted by Airbnb about... View Details
- 29 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism
possible—indeed, Friedman went further to say that any attempt to curb the free market was harmful to the good of society. This is the view Ramanna grapples with in a new working paper, Managers and Market Capitalism, cowritten with... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 08 Feb 2021
- Book
How to Make the World Better, Not Perfect
toward racial equity more recently, he began to feel uncomfortable helping only people who were bold enough to ask for this favor. After all, while social science research shows most people do not actively harm members of other racial,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 29 Jan 2021
- Op-Ed
How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics
negligible compared to the potential harm of the actual virus. By applying the theory of diffusion of innovations, we hope efforts at accelerating global herd immunity through vaccinations will succeed. The implications of global herd... View Details
- 21 Nov 2015
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Stella McCartney Combines High Fashion with Environmental Values
design and create these beautiful objects that are also very sustainable and do not harm the environment. And why is this so important? Because at HBS, we try to inspire our students to be leaders who make a difference, make a positive... View Details
- 12 Mar 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Firing the CEO
son to succeed her husband. But she grew increasingly convinced that her son would not support the values of the company and would harm the culture that had made the company strong and the family proud. The new CEO's arrogance and... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
storage to really change the energy mix. Time is of the essence here. The electric car revolution, the electrification of rail, and soon the deployment of hydrogen in trucks will enable society to mitigate the harmful effects of emissions... View Details
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password with anyone. RETENTION OF YOUR INFORMATION The length of time for which we retain information depends on the purposes for which we collected and used it, requirements of applicable laws, the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the information, the potential... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
extent of wrongful benefits and damages from 600 years of international harm to the African continent. Read, Write, Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet By Chris Dixon (MBA 2003) Random House The internet of today is a far cry from... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
initiatives, including loss and damage—the idea that the harmful consequences of climate change fall disproportionately on poor nations that have done little to contribute to it. Agreement on a fund to mitigate the disastrous effects of... View Details
- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker
destroying or even harming the competitor. The focus must be on your own success. Smart competitors don't try to beat their adversaries; they avoid direct competitors and instead maximize profits. The astute manager wants to establish a... View Details
Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro
- 13 Apr 2021
- Book
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
to say, ‘This doesn't feel quite right. It doesn't seem like I'm getting the same amount of support and attention. I don't think I'm being treated the same.’” Even in the best circumstances, many women interpret setbacks as personal failings rather than structural... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
many new cases arrive at the same time, companies could be much less well-served by the bankruptcy reorganization process.” What makes the current financial crisis unique is that the economic harm caused by forced shutdowns is being felt... View Details
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By: Iavor I. Bojinov
Over the last decade, technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix have pioneered data-driven research and development processes centered on massive experimentation. However, as companies increase the breadth and scale of their experiments to millions of... View Details