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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
to outsource water treatment because of its increasing complexity and strict regulatory requirements. Industrial water treatment is a capital-intensive industry, so that tends to drive it into the hands of large multinationals.” Indeed,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
New Releases
with quality. Reinhardt reminds managers that social concerns about the environment will not go away and that the underlying conditions that made the environment relevant to business in the first place are... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
America the Difficult
Fritz Foley, University of Michigan professor James R. Hines Jr., and I have shown that distorted environments are precisely where multinational firms have an advantage relative to local firms. In countries with weak capital markets and... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Message and the Media: Advertising's Brave New World
professor Ernest R. Berndt), HBS professor Alvin J. Silk looks at both internal and external forces affecting the industry, with particular attention to the impact of the Internet. According to Silk and his colleagues, changes in the industry's external View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
growing pains. RITE is the first commercially licensed tidal power project in the United States, and reaching that milestone was an odyssey: Smith reckons that the technical challenges, funding crunches, and regulatory hurdles involved in... View Details
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Wired for Innovation
permitting, and regulatory issues,” that translated well to the field of energy development. In 1999, Skelly and his wife, Harvard Kennedy School grad and fellow Peace Corps veteran Anne Whitlock, moved to Texas, where he went to work at... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Chaotic Funding Derails Research
projects. Great people will leave basic research and move to more predictable pastures. And some great young people will decide not to go into research careers at all. The precipitous shift in the legal and regulatory View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
when they are freed from restraining pre–conceptions and inhibiting circumstances. In the book’s foreword, Eric Schmidt, chairman and CEO of Google, notes that in high tech and many other industries today, “the environment is changing so... View Details
- 16 Apr 2013
- News
A Walkabout to the Ocean
Associates, Merkl has spent the last 16 years helping organizations and industries meet sustainability goals and regulatory obligations. During that time, he says, the firm was "able to tackle some really wicked problems, such as global... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Raymond Hwang (MBA 2010)
were exposed to at HBS can be applied to problems in health care and medicine. As an industry, we face the same fundamental challenges, just with the addition of some special regulatory and market characteristics.” How do you use what you... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
A Bid for the Future
state workforce development programs in the United States. “People think about economic development folks making pitches to companies, and wining and dining, and that is part of it,” says Moret. “But what really matters is creating a great operating View Details
- 25 Sep 2008
- News
Been There, Seen That
the appropriate market structure for raising capital, but of the role of government and regulatory oversight in managing those structures.” And here is another panelist, HBS professor Joe Bower: “To what extent here at HBS are we... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
environmental, social, and governance proposition to value creation, both in top line growth, cost reductions, regulatory and legal interventions, and avoiding some of those interventions, productivity uplift by their workers, and asset... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
Boston's Faneuil Hall Marketplace. When he and his siblings sold it in 2006, Macomber started teaching at HBS, where he began some revelatory research into the Indian real estate market and its regulatory and environmental issues. “It... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
technological innovations taking place in the life sciences, in clean tech, and in computer science that could profoundly reshape the business landscape. A third factor is regulation. Whether or not you like the regulatory reform that’s... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham
hard work and the influence of mentors. "My family's values were always centered around education and giving back to the community," she says. "Detroit in the '60s was a challenging environment for raising children, so they made sure my... View Details
- 19 Oct 2011
- News
A Good Look
businesses but pays close attention to the marketplace. “We listen to the consumer and to our customers who are feeling pressure from consumers to not include certain ingredients in their formulas,” says Levy. The regulatory View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
The Baby Business
really is no business of stem cells yet. There’s research, and money going into research, but to date there are no products being sold on the open market. It’s a fledgling business. The other major difference has to do with the regulatory... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
taxi companies in Jakarta reached a breaking point. Echoing complaints that have dogged Uber elsewhere, the city’s cabbies had for months argued that their app-based rivals were burdened with few of the licensing and regulatory headaches... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
are some ways forward, says Fuller. Companies might need to embrace automation technologies that can help reduce labor hours per unit, an approach Fuller has seen start to take hold in the garment industry. There could be regulatory aid,... View Details