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- 28 May 2019
- News
Cure All
interactions between health care providers and payers, as well as antitrust enforcement. Here, they discuss what it would take to improve the provision of care. Say you’re settling into your seat for a short-haul flight, and your seatmate is a newly View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
said Pearson, “but we also operate a ferry service, cater weddings and corporate outings, and five high-ropes course installations used by many people who’ve never done anything like that before. We’ve had to cultivate expertise in a lot... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Case Study: The Speed of Light
2008), offers this case study to HBS alumni: “There are many reasons for us to pursue diversification. Our client pool is made up of relatively small, local solar markets, and installations will eventually slow down; many customers (as... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Art purchased on this year's trip
playing dominoes, at bridges installation near Baquba, July 2004" by Steve Mumford, Courtesy Bellwether Gallery "Pfc Abraham Thomas Riley at bridges over the Tigris near Baquba, July 2004" by Steve Mumford, Courtesy Bellwether Gallery View Details
- 24 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?
after installing a simple pop-up prompt in the referral system. “Behavioral insights are increasingly being put into practice in the private sector as well. We’ve also worked with companies to use behavioral economics for the social... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs
In the 1920s, on pitch black nights in rural eastern Montana, the farmhouse owned by the parents of brothers Marcellus and Joe Jacobs stood out for one reason: it had light, although located far from power lines and gasoline supplies. It was a beacon in the dark that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The New Math of Customer Relationships
Loveman, has led a remarkable period of growth by installing service profit chain concepts throughout the organization. These organizations have been able to achieve what we might call SPC.2 by creating "owners" out of both... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 May 2025
- Blog Post
The Incredible Land of Ice and Fire: Exploring Iceland's Renewable Energy Model for a Changing Planet
needs met sustainably is the mission of Flúðaorka Power Plant, the geothermal facility that we visited—and that you can explore online here. Flúðaorka has 600 kW of installed capacity, which is sold to the grid, but it also produces... View Details
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John Safer Search 1983 | About
monumental public works and commissions. In 1979, he made a bronze sculpture for Harvard Law School titled Judgment , which led to the commission for HBS. Search was designed in 1983, cast in bronze by the Tallix foundry in New York, and View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Starting Lineup: Power Plays
Grana (MBA 2009) and Paul Gibbs (MBA 2011); Founded 2011 Its HelioScope software simplifies design and sales for solar systems—an energy source whose US installations doubled between 2015 and 2016. The software produced by the San... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Cable Gal
employees. She particularly likes to join the company's cable installers on their rounds, in order to get their feedback and to hear from customers firsthand. "My job is to facilitate, to keep things moving in the right direction,"... View Details
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet
Upton, the days of installing a system, letting it languish over time until it becomes dysfunctional, and then undertaking a huge, expensive, and exhausting overhaul are gone forever. Replacing this old-fashioned "periodic"... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 03 Dec 2008
- What Do You Think?
Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?
smaller." John Homan suggested, "... that the Federal Government give a 10 percent tax credit to the purchaser of a house and the purchaser pay it back ... over 20 years in equal installments with no interest." Education in... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 15 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
We Have Better Ways to Break Habits Than Willpower. Why Don't We Use Them?
The deadline on an important work project is looming, but you keep getting distracted by news stories and silly cat videos online. Even though installing an Internet-blocking app might help you stay focused, you resist the idea, telling... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Web
Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Secondary Resources
Sage Foundation, 1932). Seligman, Edwin Robert Anderson. The Economics of Installment Selling: A Study in Consumers' Credit, with Special Reference to the Automobile, 1st ed. (New York: Harper & brothers, 1927). Wahlstad, Peter P. Credit... View Details
- 22 Feb 2017
- News
Funding Solar’s Future
SolarCity, Vivint and their ilk install individual solar projects on commercial and residential roofs, Barcott and McCready wanted to address the financing needs of the utility-scale solar developers, which provide power directly to the... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
We Need a Miracle. New Nuclear Might Provide it.
On September 4, the US Energy Information Agency (EIA) published its 2014 International Energy Outlook. Earlier this year, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released its latest World Energy Investment Outlook. Both watchdogs tell us the same story. Energy... View Details
- 04 Oct 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #10: Amanda Li (MBA 2018): Speeding Climate Change Solutions Through Project Finance Efficiencies
is critical to get ready.” Specifically, small to medium projects are getting the largest boost. “Previously, a multi-family home in a low income community was often too small a project for a bank to finance installation of a solar... View Details
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Contemporary Black Artists and Public Art | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
museum trustee Raymond J. McGuire (MBA 1983) View Video Thaddeus Mosley, Illusory Progression , 2020, bronze. 94 × 34 × 20 in., and Rhizogenic Rhythms , 2020. Bronze, 82 × 32 × 35 in. Installation view, Harvard Business School. Exhibition... View Details
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Online Dynamic Teaming Course | HBS Online
a combination of vital and forward-looking business skills, self-reflection, and an immersive cohort-based learning experience with a diverse global network. 1 year, 5-9 hrs/week Apply by September 10th, Enroll by September 13 $15,000 (four View Details