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- 23 Jul 2024
- In Practice
The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities
have been largely hoping to weather the storm and conduct business as usual as best as they can in the meantime. This has created an adversarial relationship between US businesses and the US government. Legislators and regulators view... View Details
- 20 Dec 2024
- News
Clubs Open HBS Doors for Local Leaders; Meet the Club Leaders: HBS PRIDE; Favorite Reads of 2024
To Boost Communities, Alumni Clubs Send Nonprofit Leaders to HBS For one week every summer, nonprofit leaders from across the globe convene on the HBS campus to sharpen their leadership skills and expand their impact through the Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
Mustapha would be lucky to harvest 1.4 metric tons of maize—one-fifth the yield farmers in Brazil and China can expect. To match their production, he'd need to invest about $500 per hectare. But Mustapha earned only around $600 a year—and that was if the View Details
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
GoodMark from General Mills is just part of his story. His experiences in the corporate world and as a husband, father, philanthropist, and community leader are examples of how to weather storms and thrive, not just in a career but in... View Details
- 19 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
construct concrete sea walls? Can low-income communities afford to weatherize buildings when residents struggle with paying utility bills? With transportation as one of the biggest sources of carbon emissions, should budget-limited school... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
Done right, digital technology can be a tremendous opportunity for established players as demonstrated by Best Buy, New York Times, Weather Company, and others. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54862... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
Notre Dame had weathered the crisis relatively well, but there were several key questions Malpass had to address. Should Notre Dame continue to make illiquid investments in the context of rising unfunded commitments relative to liquid... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2
... DM: At the warm weather school. How has your time in those roles changed your perspective on the future of business both here in the US and globally? JI: You know, when I retired I wanted to ... I wanted to work in disruption. But I... View Details
- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
a sense of purpose, then it is very difficult to see beyond today's controversy. CEOs of vanguard companies know this sense of purpose helps them even when the stock price is down. They have a longer-term vision that keeps them focused and helps them View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
Unsurprisingly, then, Jakarta underwhelms in comparison to other world centers. Last year, in its annual liveability index, the Economist Intelligence Unit ranked Jakarta 116—below Almaty, Kazakhstan, and New Delhi—out of 140 cities. Residents call Jakarta, with its... View Details
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/809068-PDF-ENG Risk Management at Wellfleet Bank: Abridged Harvard Business School Case 110-011 Inspired by one of the few banks that successfully weathered the 2007-2009 credit crisis, the case... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
weatherizing an existing building’s exterior “skin” and upgrading its lighting and heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning, or HVAC, systems) can only go so far. Updating infrastructure and retrofitting in older cities especially can... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
in the early adopter phase,” says Linear’s Herp. “There’s still some time and development that needs to take place before we cross the chasm. The point we are at right now involves the strong stomach aspect of being an entrepreneur.” With that said, Herp, Leiman, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
by Garry Emmons It's December, and outside the weather is frightful in many of America's 32 National Football League cities as teams gear up for the playoff season. But no matter how adverse conditions may get both on and off the field,... View Details
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
company's crowdsourcing weather-forecasting service in Japan. It changed the face of weather forecasting in Japan. Bashi and LeStage wondered whether the experience could be applied to the U.S. market. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
never seen before.” Each dive begins the same way. The Pressure Drop first spends several days mapping the area to find the deepest point. Then, the crew waits on Mother Nature—ideally, the weather must be clear and relatively calm. As... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
politics to social movements to the world’s weather patterns, we are living in the midst of great volatility. How do we see clearly, not only here and now, but also into an uncertain future? In this context, the past—carefully... View Details
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
proprietary trading. In response, many financial institutions reduced their scope and reshaped their portfolios. In this context, JPMorgan Chase, the largest bank in the U.S. by assets since 2011, which had successfully weathered the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman