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- 16 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.
The strained presidential transition facing President-elect Joe Biden probably rings true for many CEOs and other business leaders stepping into new positions of power. We asked Rosabeth Moss Kanter, an expert on leadership and change, to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2020
- News
The debate over Joe Biden canceling student debt, explained
- 07 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Obama’s Clean Power Plan: Can Nuclear Power Beat the Global Threat of Coal?
receive credits for emission reductions related to new nuclear power plants - including both those under construction and those still in prototype stages. Harvard Business School Professor Joe Lassiter... View Details
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
designs could actually consume and be fueled by materials largely considered to be radioactive waste today. "The world probably has enough spent nuclear fuel lying around to power reactors for hundreds of years, and there is literally... View Details
- 02 Dec 2019
- News
Increasing Solar Power
- 18 Jul 2023
- Research & Ideas
Will Global Demand for Oil Peak This Decade?
Is the globe’s thirst for oil finally topping out? A major international energy watcher says yes, predicting last month that demand for global oil for transport will peak around 2026, plateau for all uses by 2028, and possibly hit a zenith by the end of the decade.... View Details
- 2 Dec 2019
- Other Presentation
Increasing Solar Power
By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and Abby Hopper
Is increasing solar power the answer? Abby Hopper, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association, and Professor Joe Lassiter discuss how to deliver reliable, clean, low cost power for people everywhere. View Details
"Increasing Solar Power." Climate Rising (podcast), Harvard Business School Business and Environment Initiative, December 2, 2019.
- 01 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?
In June, Professor Joe Bower (with fellow HBS professors Dutch Leonard, David Moss, and Lynn Paine) led an HBS faculty colloquium on "The Future of Market Capitalism." The HBS Alumni Bulletin spoke with Bower shortly after the... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 18 Oct 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech
MBA students often fall into one of two categories—those hungry to rush into careers as venture capitalists, and those eager to found a venture-funded start-up. For all of them, Harvard Business School professor Joseph Lassiter has some intriguing advice: Spend a few... View Details
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Time that Government Reopens for Business
DC. Jim Aisner: The newspapers point out that a federal government shutdown has occurred 17 times before, but that really doesn't provide much solace, does it? Joe Fuller: The thing that's particularly unnerving about this shutdown is its... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- July 2021
- Article
Making Medications Stick: Improving Medication Adherence by Highlighting the Personal Health Costs of Non-compliance
By: Jon M. Jachimowicz, Joe J. Gladstone, Dan Berry, Charlotte L. Kirkdale, Tracey Thornley and Adam D. Galinsky
Poor compliance of prescription medication is an ongoing public health crisis. Nearly half of patients do not take their medication as prescribed, harming their own health while also increasing public health care costs. Despite these detrimental consequences, prior... View Details
Keywords: Prescription Drugs; Medication Adherence; Personal Health Costs; Health; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Communication Strategy
Jachimowicz, Jon M., Joe J. Gladstone, Dan Berry, Charlotte L. Kirkdale, Tracey Thornley, and Adam D. Galinsky. "Making Medications Stick: Improving Medication Adherence by Highlighting the Personal Health Costs of Non-compliance." Behavioural Public Policy 5, no. 3 (July 2021): 396–416.
- 12 Jul 2016
- News
Powering Up Our World
- 13 Nov 2017
- HBS Seminar
Joseph Lassiter, Harvard Business School
- 16 Aug 2018
- Podcast
Ep 11: High school to JP Morgan in seven seconds: How businesses gain an edge by providing ladders of opportunity
There is a deep chasm separating the millions of Americans with limited access to college degrees from professional life. Gerald Chertavian, founder and CEO of Year Up, describes how his organization steps into this void, erecting ladders of opportunity to well-paying... View Details
- 13 Jul 2016
- News
Buongiorno, Whyte win Sloan Foundation grant
- 17 Jul 2023
- Research & Ideas
Money Isn’t Everything: The Dos and Don’ts of Motivating Employees
Business Administration at Harvard Business School. In May, Hall convened what he hopes will be a yearly conference of scholars now working in the burgeoning field of incentive design, which draws lessons from both microeconomics and behavioral science and is being... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 13 Jul 2016
- HBS Case
How Uber, Airbnb, and Etsy Attracted Their First 1,000 Customers
business by finding customers who needed rooms in cities hosting popular events. Source: GoodLifeStudio “If you don’t have a supply of houses and apartments, people are not going to come,” says Teixeira. The problem was, where to find... View Details
- 27 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Recovering from the Need to Achieve
his office isn't as big as Jenny's. And he blames others when he screws up. Joe is an HNAP, or a high-need-for-achievement professional, according to Harvard Business School professor Thomas J. DeLong, who explores Joe's world of driven,... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 18 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Is an "Essential" Purchase for a Low-Income Family?
Do lower-income families need and deserve access to fewer things than everyone else? As a society, we seem to think so, revealing a "grim double standard," finds a study published this month, Inequality in Socially Permissible Consumption. It was written... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne