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- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
Infrastructure Is a Gateway to a ‘Resource Revolution’ BIO As business leaders, achieving stakeholder alignment is our license to operate and our best opportunity to halt the tragedy of the commons scenario playing out in climate change.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
An Ethical Fitness Quiz for Negotiators
down to craft a deal or settle a dispute,” says Wheeler. “Your character is one thing you shouldn’t make up as you go along.” Wheeler presents three cases that test ethical negotiating behavior. The “steal deal” scenario involves an... View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
- News
Do You Feel Lucky?
NBC: Today Show NBC: Today Show Depending on how the numbers fall tonight, one or more lucky winners could find themselves in a life-changing scenario as the recipient of an estimated $1.6 billion jackpot, with a cash option of $904... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
The Power of National Identity
nationalist tendencies that would emerge after the breakup would be uniformly detrimental to Western interests. Abdelal’s research draws instructive lessons from the fact that neither of these scenarios materialized and suggests that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum
for decision-making and leadership, in these overlapping public-private realms.” Speaking at luncheon, on the opening day of the conference, Haass, a former State Department official, posited three possible scenarios for the world’s... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Business Environment in the 21st century
The business leaders surveyed for the colloquium suggested several ways in which business schools generally, and HBS in particular, could play a role. They included research and thought leadership on major challenges to capitalism; View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Research Brief: Cultivating Creativity through Competition
creativity-inspiring scenario? “Originality was greatest when a designer was in the presence of one or two competitors with similar performance,” Gross says. “It was time for them to go big or go home.” Gross suspects his findings might apply in procurement settings... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Research Brief: If State Pensions Clean Up Their Books, Who Pays?
that states with the largest pension deficits and those with heavy unionization were most likely to want to keep the status quo—even when the public and financial experts pushed for the opposite. It makes sense: “The most likely scenario... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
New Loan Program Signals Breakthrough in MBA Financial Aid
Imagine being accepted into the Harvard MBA Program only to realize you can't afford to enroll. This unfortunate scenario is quickly becoming a thing of the past, thanks to an unprecedented new loan program introduced last spring. HBS... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Download This
no relationship between the number of downloads of a particular album and sales of the album. Even in our most pessimistic statistical model, it takes 5,000 downloads to reduce the sales of an album by a single copy. If this worst-case View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Bottom-Line Discrepancies
On the one hand, your company did extremely well last year. You reported large profits to your shareholders. On the other hand, last year was very difficult for your company. Your tax returns showed losses. Such a scenario is more and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Business Case (Or Not) for Sustainability
we’re burning down the house and we have to stop? When is it going to happen?” And he looks at me and says, “You know, change is really slow until it’s fast.” One of the things I do with businesspeople is a very simple scenario analysis:... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Protagonist Goes Prime Time
classmate working at IDEO connected him with the company. Unlike traditional case writing where a scenario can often be re-created, however, a multimedia case is most compelling when a company is in the midst of a project or challenge—and... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New Releases
based on actual consumer expenditures. Lean retailing allows department stores, mass merchandisers, and other retail outlets to capitalize on information, allowing them to minimize their exposure to demand uncertainty." Given this new View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All
mix-ups. The situation has given birth to a burgeoning industry of Y2K debuggers, along with articles, books, and Web sites proposing likely scenarios and possible safeguards. Government and corporate sectors in this country have begun to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
scenarios early on in the product development process, while the financial and organizational costs of changing course are still relatively low. In Experimentation Matters, Thomke defines six principles that managers should keep in mind... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Slum for Sale
daunting prospect of determining which residents would receive 300 square feet of free housing (limited to families in residence before January 2000), it’s easy to imagine a nightmarish scenario of unpopular evictions and shutdowns of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
Our commission is conducting an Arctic Marine Shipping Assessment for the eight Arctic nations, looking at scenarios in which ice conditions and so forth are not the limiting factor. Are Northern people convinced that climate change is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
'Rooted' In Innovation
friend and CassVita cofounder, Nembu Emmanuel, saw that scenario as “a space for innovation” that could improve the lives of farmers by maximizing the amount of produce they can bring to market. Ajanoh and Emmanuel leveraged their... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Evolution of Modern Pricing Models
discrimination, where companies have various prices at the same time for different customers, depending on everything from geography to browsing history. Donald Ngwe: This has always been the best-case scenario for any seller, but it... View Details