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Matt Beecher
ranting five-year-old and brighten the face of the wasted clerk.I'll challenge any teenager to race shopping carts like scooters into the parking lot. I'll be home by sixto raise sons and daughterswho strive... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
We Need a Miracle. New Nuclear Might Provide it.
reactor designs that can be much safer even than today's newest reactors; potentially competitive with coal in Asia; and run on today's uranium as well as radioactive waste fuels, such as thorium (a View Details
- Portrait Project
Martin Vasev
twenty-six, I advised foreign leaders. My mom fought well. Her protests brought down communism in Bulgaria. If she had attempted to cross the border, she would have been shot. In contrast, I have been fortunate to travel and study... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Feedback
problem—we die very expensively. It is pretty well established that 30 percent of our lifelong health care occurs in the last year of life and the majority of that in the last 30 days. The second is that the medical profession is... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
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Finalists | New Venture Competition
combination of insects and microbial cell factories. Social Enterprise Track, 2023 DetoXyFi Dhananjay Goel (MPA/MBA 2023) Rishon Benjamin (MBA 2022) Rohit Karnik Leveraging waste wood View Details
- Portrait Project
Meg Whittenberger
“Would it be so bad if I just dropped out?” my student asked me, huddled over her ninth grade math homework. We made eye contact for a split second, then she looked back down and continued doodling in her notebook. Despite her timid... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Gore All Business at HBS
levies on pollution, which is by definition an indicator of waste and inefficiency. Gore, who has long argued that carbon dioxide emissions contribute to global warming, said that solving the environmental... View Details
- 17 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete
the other, but that is not always true. The reasons are partly financial—meaning that by managing your operations well you may be able to eliminate wasteful activity, such as unnecessary hospitalizations. View Details
- 25 May 2021
- Blog Post
Aisha Fatima Dozie is Igniting Confidence as the Founder of Bossy Cosmetics
by a single mother. Talking about working in an area that you're passionate about was seen as silly, extravagant, and wasteful when I was growing up,” Dozie said. “In talking with other HBS alumnae who... View Details
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
Brain Sciences Vicarious Contagion Decreases Differentiation—and Comes with Costs By: Sezer, Ovul, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Baumeister et al. propose that individual differentiation is a crucial determinant of group success. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
various directions within different departments. For example, human resources might initiate a United Way gift program that involves a company match; operations might work on waste reduction; and marketing... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Faculty Books
Don’t Be Atlas: Get the World off Your Shoulders; Dig Deep for the Root Cause; Get Ready for the Long Haul; Never Waste a Good Crisis; You’re in the Spotlight: Follow True North; and Go on Offense, Focus on... View Details
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
Robertson, of the acclaimed ensemble Medici String Quartet. It seemed a perfect opportunity to explore the process of creative collaboration, a central theme not just in music but in knowledge-intensive businesses. The result is... View Details
- 11 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure
Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details
- 06 Dec 2013
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Remember Nelson Mandela
[He has] created a monument more lasting than bronze And loftier than the pyramids' royal pile, One that no wasting rain, nor furious north wind Can destroy, nor the immeasurable succession of years View Details
- 20 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
Aisha Fatima Dozie is Igniting Confidence as the Founder of Bossy Cosmetics
by a single mother. Talking about working in an area that you're passionate about was seen as silly, extravagant, and wasteful when I was growing up,” Dozie said. “In talking with other HBS alumnae who... View Details
- 29 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Creating the Perfect Super Bowl Ad
Super Bowl Sunday is sure to bring the usual barrage of clever soda, beer, and car ads featuring everyone from Vegas showgirls selling Coca-Cola to pop celebrity Psy charming us to buy pistachios Gangnam-style. But at a whopping $3.7... View Details
- 28 Nov 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?
Summing Up Let's Pay for Performance But How? In spite of its naysayers, pay for performance still makes sense to most of us, according to those responding to this month's column. But there is a difference of opinion of about when and how... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Portrait Project
Jamie Chang
I want to heal. Scanning the room in this make-shift clinic, we were surrounded by patients wasting away from diseases we knew how to cure, and patients suffering from disabilities we knew how to fix.... View Details
- Portrait Project
Jen Lee
my toes. I could sit there for hours on end diligently doing my finger gymnastics. But perhaps it was too many years of being motionless. I have realized that I love to move. This small voice in my head is constantly telling me to "go... go...go." Walking... View Details