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- 04 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Harder Than I Thought
things. And I've heard all that schlock about how Lou Gerstner was a food company CEO when he took over and saved IBM. But I don't buy it. That was a different company, in a different situation, in a different time. IBM was in the... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
passed away. “In everything I had been doing in Detroit, Max was my partner in a literal sense or a spiritual sense, and a lot of the joy of doing stuff here evaporated when he died,” Cummings says, as we tour the city Fisher helped shape. Cummings was done with... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
This result is robust across different geographic regions and industries and holds for U.S. and non-U.S. lenders, including those with little direct exposure to the U.S. economy. Local EME lenders do not offset the foreign bank capital... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding the Design of Livable Cities
urban population, expected to reach 3 billion over the next four decades, will require housing, places to work, and transportation systems. Second, the natural resources necessary to support this growing population, including freshwater and land for View Details
- 27 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
HBS Summer Fellows Respond to COVID-19
requests for essential deliveries of food and medicine in their local community. We are on a mission is to efficiently allocate resources to at-risk and underserved communities with the power of technology.... View Details
- 06 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Circularity in Denmark
pumps they sell annually, but Grundfos is building the knowledge and infrastructure that will be necessary to scale. In Kalundborg, we saw circularity applied to energy as NGO Kalundborg Symbiosis presented Kalundborg Bioenergy’s production of biogas from View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
moral nuisance to a global brand-driven powerhouse offering products essential to daily life is one of the more intriguing stories in modern business history. The origins of beauty products lie primarily in local knowledge of the scents... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
as part of the company's social license. Could significantly more value-for the company, host governments, and local communities-be created by leveraging the company's core operations, such as increasing the amount of goods and services... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
is a myth, and how eliminating options leads to more choice. In the Spirit of Napa by Jennifer Raiser (MBA 1990) (Assouline Publishing) Rasier surveys Napa’s great local culinary establishments, legendary wine pioneers and cult labels,... View Details
- 06 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything
addressing the enormous problems that we face. Investors are increasingly turning to environmental, social, and governance metrics—ESG metrics—to help identify firms who are future-proofed in today’s environment. Firms are finding new ways to partner with civil society... View Details
- 09 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: JSW Steel
public spaces that will absorb carbon and provide cooler ground temperatures for local populations to electrifying two- and three-wheel transportation to mitigate air pollution in major cities, there are so many incredible projects to get... View Details
- Web
WesTrek 2025: Exploring the future of tech in Silicon Valley - Recruiting
Zhang, partner at Bain Capital Ventures, emphasized the power of long-term relationships with founders. He also led an engaging discussion on emerging trends and exciting opportunities for disruption. Students then headed to lunch, which gave them a chance to explore... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
the WeChat ecosystem. The biggest and best and most inspiring tech companies are not just from Silicon Valley, they're coming from everywhere and they're being inspired by local problems that are getting solved and View Details
- 12 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis
at Genoa involves communicating with state agencies about remaining regulatory obstacles to telehealth care. He also is a national advocate through Mental Health America, which is using its free online screening program to monitor COVID-19’s impact on mental health. “I... View Details
- 26 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Where is Home for the Global Firm?
decentered. Managers will find food for thought to reconceptualize their corporate home and prepare strategically for the future. Martha Lagace: What is decentering, and why is it an important phenomenon? Mihir Desai: We've become... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
waste. This increase reflects a change in the behavior of households, which keep unaltered the production of total waste but sort it to a larger extent. In addition, we show that several factors that may discourage local administrators... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
products. Prior to the acquisition, Whole Foods began rolling out a new order-to-shelf (OTS) inventory management system that many observers believed had led to shortages. For years, store team leaders at Whole View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Energy & Environment Club’s Icelandic Adventure! - Blog - Business & Environment
Blog Blog Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author HBS Faculty Author HBS Staff Author Staff Author Students Topics Topics Accelerating Climate Solutions Conference 2023 Alumni Alumni Programs Alumni in Climate Networking Series Business... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
local Indian tribes, General Custer’s expedition to the Black Hills, and the last legal hanging in Meade County. (You can still get a prescription filled, too.) Today, Hustead, 53, one of seven children, oversees Wall Drug with his... View Details
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
is extremely limited. Theoretically, delegation of authority is expected when locally adapted choices are most important to the overall value of the firm, when local information advantages are significant,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne