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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Reinventing the Annual Report
on nonfinancial metrics such as lower fuel consumption in new jet engines, and a reduced carbon footprint and lower water consumption in the firm’s factories. The juxtaposition of information on both... View Details
Keywords: Robert G. Eccles
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
The Future of Books
result of digitization.” To the contrary, book consumption overall has remained stable over the last two decades. What digitization has really done is expand our ability to reach our consumers. How has digitization changed the ways in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
mind.” “Aggressive deficit spending may help in a number of ways, but it won’t solve the tangible barriers to production and consumption that the pandemic has imposed. So it won’t be enough to turn a downward spiral into an upward spiral,... View Details
- 10 Feb 2016
- News
Investing in Sustainability
Nicholas Tiller (MBA 1998) grew up in a farming community, but it was his experience in hedge-fund management in the food and energy sectors that led him to establish Sustainable America, a nonprofit with the aim of reducing US oil View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Why We Do—or Don’t—Donate Time and Money
They want the “warm glow”—to feel good from doing it. They want to signal something about themselves—that they are nice, for instance, or that they hold certain political tendencies. Volunteering is—or perhaps increasingly can be—a View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Faculty Books
They present six basic characteristics that marketing and democracy share: exchanges of value, consumption of goods and services, choice in all decisions, free flow of information, the engagement of most individuals, and inclusion of as... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Taxing Questions
Image by Brian Stauffer What would the "perfect" tax plan look like? Sheridan Schechner (MBA/JD 1983), managing director, Barclays Capital, USA I'd envision three simple building blocks: a consumption tax with no exclusions that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
In VMI Partnerships, the Devil is in the Data
The expression “letting the fox guard the henhouse” comes to mind when you first hear about Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) systems, where a product manufacturer actually places orders for the retailer, determining quantities based upon View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)
- 12 Aug 2010
- News
You Can’t Take It with You
money left over for personal spending. But does that make their decision any less significant? It doesn’t feel right to quantify it that way. What do you think? Do you ever seriously consider downsizing your lifestyle, material possessions, and overall View Details
- 07 Dec 2015
- News
Nurturing a Healthy Food System for Producers and Consumers
consumption of local, sustainably produced food.” That mission was inspired by the work of Food Solutions New England (FSNE), an organized network of agricultural experts, farmers, academics, concerned citizens, and regional grassroots... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Faculty Books
consumers. Comparing eight areas of policy — product liability law, product safety standards and recall, misleading advertising, comparative product tests, product labeling, quality standards, consumer contracts, and pricing — Trumbull shows that different conceptions... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Male Consumers as Man-of-Action Heroes
What do men want? The conventional theory — the so–called compensatory consumption thesis — has held that men are torn between responsibility and domesticity on the one hand and a desire to live the untethered, exciting life of the rebel... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Book Review: My Lunch with Warren
people. “Nothing, nothing at all, matters as much as bringing the right people into your life,” he writes. “They will teach you everything you need to know.” Especially if one of those people is Warren Buffett. What I'm Reading “A delicious depiction of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
our credit card or for users who choose not to connect a card and would prefer to answer questions instead. How do we make those estimates more accurate or how do we account for things like the fact that a grocery bill should be reflecting someone's food View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
goods and services — from a second or third vehicle to health clubs to text messaging — that their great-grandparents could hardly have dreamed of. At the same time, the underlying sources for all this consumption — our wealth and income... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Forward Thinking
You can ask the internet anything, but getting an answer via generative artificial intelligence consumes about 10 times more electricity than a traditional Google search. Consequently, the data centers where AI tools are trained and run are guzzling more and more... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era
toward renewables, it also moves from variable cost to fixed cost—from an Opex world to a Capex one. How should pricing evolve to reflect a Capex world and induce consumption when energy is abundant and prevent it when it isn’t? —Catarina... View Details
- 08 Jan 2016
- News
Investing in Sustainability
production to feed the rapidly growing world population, expected to reach 9 billion in the next three decades. So in 2013, at the age of 41, Tiller retired from hedge-fund management to establish Sustainable America, an ambitious nonprofit with the dual aims of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Instilling Production with Principles
Video Embed The Esquel Group has reduced water consumption at its factories by more than 50 percent in the last nine years. Asia–based Esquel Group is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of high-end cotton shirts, producing about 100... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
refreshing their product lines and extending their brand to more affordable items. Pressure to innovate is intense, says HBS professor Nancy F. Koehn, a business historian and author of Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers’ Trust from Wedgwood to Dell. “People... View Details