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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
have distinct and often disturbing memories of the country’s civil conflict. Dumith Fernando (MBA 2000) was 10 years old when some of the first riots took place in Colombo in 1984. He remembers mobs on his street, some with water... View Details
- 29 Apr 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
stay patient. There is so much we want to and could do, but there are only so many hours in a day.” Why should companies consider purchasing art from ArtLifting? "Oftentimes, companies come to us when they're already in the market for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Two Kinds of Green
social and environmental concerns into daily operations. In the multimedia case “Burt’s Bees: Balancing Growth and Sustainability,” HBS associate professor Christopher Marquis uses text exhibits and video interviews to show how the small... View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
dioxide from the air or from emission stacks. But there are very few people trying to figure out how to actually use renewable energy to convert carbon dioxide into the products that we need and want and use... View Details
- 27 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses
to finding solutions to huge challenges? For example, should blocks of the HBS curriculum focus on big, multidisciplinary problems—such as the world's water shortage—and how to solve them? How about increasing the number of MBA students... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
What You Know Depends on Where You Go
world, though the words used for the numbers differ. If you're a chemistry instructor, whether in Beijing, Beirut, or the Bay Area, you can be confident that water is made up of hydrogen and oxygen. In... View Details
- 08 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
Reclaiming Feminism: A Celebration of International Women’s Day
want you to join us in building. Thus, this campaign was born: to reclaim the word feminist to mean “a believer in equal rights for all genders,” without regard to race or religion or ethnicity, sexual orientation or sex assignment at... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
United Arab Emirates, it can be more like 99.9 percent indoors for some people.) To put this 90 percent figure in perspective, it’s useful to think of what it means in terms of our own lives. By the time we hit 40, most of View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
regard to work—it’s mostly us coming together as a team and really understanding one other. Even our Slack channels have things like break rooms to replicate water cooler chat. We’ve got fitness channels—and... View Details
- 17 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos
YouTube views. By contrast, Nestlé's self-explanatory "From Maine Water Springs to You: The Journey of Poland Springs Water" has barely cracked 500 views. So why did one water commercial sparkle on YouTube,... View Details
- 23 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018
volatility. Using our model we quantify how capital injections impact the risk of financial institutions and estimate firm-specific precautionary capital needs. In addition, the longstanding observation that volatility is more responsive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
at Wohl Capital, a hedge fund. At night, I’d call her, and using Yahoo! Doodle as a shared notepad, I’d tutor her in math via computer and telephone. Other cousins and their schoolmates soon wanted help, too. It was getting crazy.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
pour more water into it, but it just doesn’t matter.” Jameson focused on using newly available data about individual voters to predict who would be likeliest to respond to a call, but not merely because it... View Details
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
Taxation and Innovation in the 20th Century By: Akcigit, Ufuk, John Grigsby, Tom Nicholas, and Stefanie Stantcheva Abstract—This paper studies the effect of corporate and personal taxes on innovation in the United States over the 20th century. We View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Apr 2007
- What Do You Think?
Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?
Summing Up Debate on this month's questions occurred on at least three levels. Is global warming occurring? Do humans (primarily through CO2 emissions) have much to do with it? Should we rely on market forces to provide appropriate responses, or will this require... View Details
- 24 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
address plastic waste, conserve water resources and more. As more companies develop their climate strategies and implement projects, the question is not “will there be a job in climate for me” but “is this the climate job I find... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
customer. ET then went a step further, locating an aluminum extruder in China that would manufacture some of the parts used in the panels. “We ship in 48 hours from our Singapore partner’s warehouse to the customer’s facility,” Sharpe... View Details
- 27 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Horrible Boss Workarounds
create a course of action. She acknowledges that this is easier said than done, especially when a bad boss has created a culture of fear. But teaming up to effect change need not require a palace coup. "If you test the waters in very... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963) grew up in Rego Park, Queens, the son of Spanish immigrants. As a boy in the 1940s, he would watch the airplanes fly over his backyard and into LaGuardia Airport,... View Details
- 18 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017
corporate leaders speaking out on social and environmental policy issues not directly related to their core business. In the first study of this phenomenon, we investigate how CEO activism can influence public opinion about these issues and consumer attitudes about the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne