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- 20 Apr 2020
- Book
Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings
commissioning stems from years of observations by John during his building projects, by Joe during his forensic investigations, and by nearly everyone who knows anything about buildings. Buildings don’t always perform as designed... View Details
- 21 May 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: From Trash to Treasure: Inside a Waste Management Site in Mumbai
empowering local communities. Our visit to the facility stemmed three observations about the future of waste and plastic management: 1) Importance of Public-Private partnerships in solving the waste problem: Innovation in India requires... View Details
- 26 Feb 2021
- News
Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation
sustainability entrepreneur with a background in marketing and environmental management, laid out the facts of the global climate crisis and made clear that the speed of drone reforesting can play a critical role in stemming a climate... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
destroying individuals and families. In recent years, as the opioid crisis swept the country, the organization shifted to a broader focus, re-branded as the Georgia Prevention Project. Now Langford wants to stem the spread of opioids with... View Details
- 06 Dec 2013
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Remember Nelson Mandela
need to recapitulate here his life or achievements. Both were of such magnitude that their outlines, at least, are familiar to billions around the world. They are made more extraordinary, of course, because his impact stemmed from the... View Details
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier
Looking ahead, the authors investigate two possible scenarios for the unfolding of the digital revolution, each stemming from a different well-established medium. Television, they point out, is belatedly attempting to enter the digital... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 28 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Managing Your Health and the Recruiting Process: Advice from HBS Alumni
sooner rather than later.” Now if Francis is being considered for a new role, he often chooses to disclose his Dyslexia during the interview process, a decision that stems from the positive experiences he has had to date and in choosing... View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)
discouraged them from making or increasing their own investments. In one instance, peer information reduced the likelihood of participation by more than a third. This discouragement, Beshears said, stemmed from employees being reminded... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Negotiation and All That Jazz
about negotiation stems from its inevitable uncertainty—and the realization that success is never wholly in our hands. That uncertainty and lack of control often breeds insecurity, defensiveness, and even hostility. "People worry about... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 20 Feb 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Technology
bring varied experiences and skills into the classroom and into the workforce. Specifically, if you are seeking students with a combination of technical math, science, and engineering skills and business skills, there is a significant portion of the class with View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Value of Difficult Conversations
Great Conversation In the virtual classroom, Ratajczak steered the conversation away from past harms to the Black community to the current issues that stem from them. He wondered how payments could address modern inequities and if such... View Details
- 02 Jun 2019
- News
A Data-Driven Approach to Gun Policy
research, and the culture of trusting faculty to study what they think is important, there might not have been a study.” The team acknowledges that some people will oppose any gun policy, regardless of its positive impact. “However, most US citizens favor some... View Details
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
shelters, Shumway talked to homeless residents about their circumstances. “These are good people,” he says. “They may have started to self-medicate with drugs or alcohol because they didn’t have access to the psychiatric or medical support they needed.” In addition to... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value Across Borders
social acceptability of entrepreneurship, has the Internet played a similar role in catalyzing venture capital activity overseas? It has, although it's still in the infancy stage. The greatest change stems from U.S. venture capital firms... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 05 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Closing the Education Gap with Kei Takatsuka (MBA 2022)
curriculum that could help close the gender gap by encouraging STEM education set a fire in my heart.” Looking Ahead Clearly, Takatsuka is making the most of the summer between RC and EC year, building startup experience and working to... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
kind of a highly anticipated moment. And as I always say, luckily for me, entrepreneurship came up in my top three matches as did STEM research. So STEM research is what I used to do. I used to be a... View Details
- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
associate's degree in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math). This case shows how the innovation developed and why it generated enormous public and media interest in less than a year. Results were strong: one-third of the first... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Design: At, Into, & Beyond - Race, Gender & Equity
So many facets of design work require that we anticipate need, weigh multiple parameters, and make necessary changes to safeguard public resources. Some of the design world’s most compelling questions stem from ideas of exclusion,... View Details
- 16 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?
role in stemming the damage. "They are investing about three times more than the average firm in climate change mitigation technology." “They are investing about three times more than the average firm in climate change mitigation... View Details
- 26 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Can AI Match Human Ingenuity in Creative Problem-Solving?
When ChatGPT and other large language models began entering the mainstream two years ago, it quickly became apparent the technology could excel at certain business functions, yet it was less clear how well artificial intelligence could handle more creative tasks. Sure,... View Details