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- 24 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Finance in Africa: Health, Self-Interest, Avoided Future Cost
But, in contrast, it appears that bad events like droughts or floods may turn the curve very far down bad cost events. What if one invests ahead in defenses like raising bridges, expanding drainage systems, planting different crops?... View Details
- 17 Jul 2000
- What Do You Think?
Where Is the Microsoft Board?
Microsoft caused by (2) a defense personally led by Bill Gates and (3) by the failure of the company's board to provide counsel. In the case of a high-tech company where significant ownership rests in the hands of management (e.g... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Mar 2019
- News
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
in a World on Fire. Opening remarks from Alan Horn (MBA 1971), chairman of Walt Disney Studios and chair of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) Board of Trustees, underscored the night’s charge: “There is an opportunity, if not a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
The US Patent System’s Uncertain Fate
of the best defenses against that is having my own patent. So things will get worse and worse. It’s the snowball effect. Continue the Conversation Has your company had interactions with non-practicing entities (NPEs) or other experiences... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 31 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies
the Organizational Behavior Unit at HBS. "And as a result, the resulting policies are defensive in nature, and they don't tend to produce the high quality of relationships that you need across differences. For example, there are some... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Web
Lessons in Economics | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
defense of the free enterprise system against the perceived threats of communism and socialism. The ultimate aim was to secure favorable attitudes from voting citizens and government representatives. Photographs in U.S. Steel corporate... View Details
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
assist with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s transition team at the Pentagon. After shoring up new leadership, he moved to the US Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance and helped to create the Global Development Alliance, an agency... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 09 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Simple Way for Restaurant Inspectors to Improve Food Safety
Restaurant inspectors can be the last line of defense between you and moldy bread. (HighLaZ) Simple tweaks to the schedules of food safety inspectors could result in hundreds of thousands of currently overlooked violations being... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- What Do You Think?
Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?
ranging from overconfidence in planning to the defense of sunk costs and the failure to cut our losses in investments. Kahneman implies, among other things, that in selecting decision-makers we should look for those who know when to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Sep 2002
- What Do You Think?
What Can Business Schools Do to Avoid Bad Apples?
Several outstanding organizations I have studied regard hiring as their leaders and managers most important task, an "almost religious experience," in the words of one. The admissions process at business schools thus becomes the first line of View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 May 2018
- Blog Post
Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?
situation came to light when the negotiation leaked. (The dispute was apparently resolved when Wahlberg agreed to donate his $1.5 million to Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund.) This Hollywood soap opera raises an interesting question. If the... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
trauma—on players' long-term health, a complex issue that could affect the league's growth. In other words, the league has to play both strong offense and stellar defense to achieve its $1 billion-a-year growth-rate goal. But fans can... View Details
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Time that Government Reopens for Business
other segments of the economy such as defense contractors. Since the shutdown follows on the heels of the sequester, it's a second whammy for them. If you are a defense contractor, you've probably seen a lot... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 18 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 3/5
out, What MBAs can do in defense of Black lives by Holly Fetter (MBA ’20). The one piece of advice that I will give if you’re just beginning your racial justice journey is to stay humble. You’re not going to get everything right all at... View Details
- 04 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #16: Tim Murdoch, HBS MBA 1990 – Learning about Climate Change and Water
impacted.” The dangers of PFAS became even more real in March, 2024. The Canadian Broadcasting Company reported that North Bay, Ontario and Canada’s Department of National Defense (DND) are launching a $20-million project to remediate a... View Details
- 17 Oct 2016
- HBS Case
Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste
As much as 40 percent of food grown in the United States for human consumption is wasted. Source: Eivaisla After decades of wasteful food practices, where perfectly good food is discarded even as poverty keeps many families hungry, solutions are starting to come... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
return. Now imagine in the climate space a flat horizontal line that represents net income if there are no new climate-related disturbances. All good. In contrast, however, it appears that bad, costly events like droughts or floods might send the curve far down. What... View Details
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
supporting a generative rather than defensive process of masculine identity construction, these platforms may have avoided costs other dangerous workplaces pay for men's masculinity strivings. Our findings point to the mutability of... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
INK: Maker’s Manual
“Why didn’t I think of that?” I’ve learned to trust that there’s an endless well of good ideas. And when you put opportunities in the hands of wild-eyed optimists—instead of established companies that are in defense mode—people create... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2010
- Op-Ed
A Golden Opportunity for Ford and GM
missing this golden opportunity. The last and perhaps most important lesson for leaders going through a crisis is that they cannot just play defense by cutting costs and waiting for the crisis to pass. They have to go on offense... View Details