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- 10 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
3 Benefits of the Case Method
I was trained as an engineer. I followed a path of fairly conventional academic coursework mostly consisting of lectures, problem sets, and exams. Problems generally had only one correct answer, and the method for finding the solution... View Details
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Electricity - Business & Environment
require major changes in this vital sector of the economy. 40 % Of total Green House Gas Emissions is from Electricity Generation. 20 % Of the world's population currently lives without access to electricity. 4-5x Quicker growth in wind and solar power than View Details
- 11 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Budgeting Kills Your Company
The average billion-dollar company spends as many as 25,000 person-days per year putting together the budget. If this all paid off in shareholder return, that would be fine. But few organizations can make that claim. In fact, many firms... View Details
Keywords: by Loren Gary
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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections MORE EXHIBITS HOME RESEARCH LINKS POLAROID FILMS SITE CREDITS “It is just about the greatest thrill there is in the world, that feeling of living in a little universe in which all you... View Details
- 20 Apr 2020
- Blog Post
Introducing LivelyHood, A Volunteer Nonprofit Founded in Response to COVID-19
thereafter, the world started to change quickly and dramatically. The impending health crisis and mass stockpiling consumed the collective psyche. And a tweet from the UK went viral: a nurse who had worked all day taking care of COVID-19... View Details
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Organizational Leadership Course | HBS Online
departments brought more solutions to the forefront that could be explored. Shovna Panigrahi Vice President of Asset Management at RMZ Corp Read more learner stories * Source: 2022 surveys and course data View Details
- 28 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Making the Decision to Franchise (or not)
of store-level employees. "Franchising is a very observable, real choice that organizations make," says Campbell. It's also an extreme solution to the challenge of operating across multiple markets; future research will focus on other,... View Details
- 16 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Competition Make Us More Creative?
a professor of mine once put it, you want to scatter your seeds widely to see what sprouts,” says Gross. “But you ought not try to make a thousand flowers bloom, or else they will all turn out weak. To get a few beautiful blossoms, you... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
David Moss is Rewriting History
join the conversation as Moss asks the class to consider possible solutions to these problems. “What does James Madison think?” he asks, reminding the class that this is 1787. This isn’t a question of what a student thinks, from her... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
model reconfigurations. We consider three business models: the proprietary model (where all software modules offered by the firm are proprietary), the open source model (where all modules are open source),... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #17: Leni Peterson Redondo (HBS MS/MBA 2023), Founder & CEO of Celeste
no matter how many hours a day it takes. There is no better way to use my education.” – Leni Peterson Redondo The PBS headline is shocking. “Mexico City is running out of water.” The crisis is expected to hit this June and numerous reports blame “geography, growth and... View Details
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
have a large impact on the dynamics of corporate investment and growth. Investment is "locked in" in profitable firms when payout is heavily taxed. Thus, apart from any level effects, payout taxes change the allocation of capital. Negotiation Processes as... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Financing the Climate Transition in India
Overall, our site visits coupled with our research provided us with a broad understanding of the challenges and solutions to tackling the financing gap for the climate transition in India! Being hand on and talking to the operators far... View Details
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Online Business Courses for Organizations | HBS Online
Explore Corporate Solutions Academic Solutions Supplement your curriculum with Harvard Business School faculty-led business courses. Explore Academic Solutions 98% improved... View Details
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
management task in all innovating organizations. In this paper, we focus on the evaluation of frontier scientific research projects. We argue that the "intellectual distance" between the knowledge embodied in research proposals... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jun 2022
- Book
The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose
How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)
our growth strategy to diversify the business portfolio. One of my key responsibilities is to ensure that everything we do has a well-documented system and process. A day at work could involve any or all of the activities I mentioned... View Details
- 22 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Decarbonization and Sustainable Production: Immersive Field Course in Denmark and the Netherlands
that I was never going to put into practice. Nonetheless, I figured I would at least use the skills I gained in school to find a different solution to Nigeria’s energy issues. Hence, I decided to explore a career in management consulting... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
innovation to develop technologies that create energy using the earth’s renewable resources. We can move quickly when a solution is promising. We can deploy capital in flexible ways to scale solutions across... View Details
- 29 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 29
defines an explicitly formulated "strategy" as the smallest set of choices and decisions sufficient to guide all other choices and decisions, which formally captures the idea of strategy as a plan boiled down to its most... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne