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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
will be gunboats that lead to determination of these issues. I hope and believe it will be scientists meeting and reaching a consensus, probably in a United Nations tribunal, called for by the Law of the Sea Treaty. So you don’t foresee a... View Details
- 26 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade
The term "academic research" can conjure images of scientists conducting experiments in a basement laboratory, or of tweed-clad professors poring through old theories to develop new ones. But let's not forget about field research, which... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The Climate Needs Aggressive CEO Leadership
Corporations are facing great uncertainty. For the world to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the United States eventually will have to put a price on carbon dioxide emissions, as has been done by Europe, parts of Canada, and California. To plan for the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)
happiness and peace.' Then I realized that happiness and peace came from knowing that whatever problem is brought to me, I-or someone in the company-can solve it." Whether meeting with scientists in a research lab outside London or seeing... View Details
- 26 Nov 2018
- News
New York Alumni Explore Risks and Opportunities in Climate Change
scientists anticipated even a few years ago. “For investors, a changing climate offers many opportunities in technologies to mitigate warming, such as batteries, wind, solar, electric vehicles, and plant-based proteins,” she says.... View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012)
it means for them. It is particularly hard in the U.S. because the topic has become unnecessarily controversial and polarizing. This is a massive communications failure; there’s a massive gap between what scientists know and public... View Details
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
revenues to the content provider as a result of the incentive to reduce price competition at the platform level. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-009.pdf The Ethnic Composition of U.S. Inventors Author:William R. Kerr Abstract The ethnic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Oct 2020
- News
Cold Calculations
cause of it. Thick, old ice reflects 80 percent of solar radiation, helping to keep the planet cool. Brittle, newly formed ice is only half as effective and melts more easily. And open water reflects only 5 percent of the solar radiation warming the planet. View Details
Keywords: April White
- 02 Jan 2014
- News
The Power to Change
scientists from MIT who stood up and talked about this new kind of nuclear reactor," he says. "And at the end I watched 300 people cheering nuclear energy, and I thought, 'Wow, this is different.'" The crowd was cheering the WAMSR (Waste... View Details
- 07 Sep 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?
thousands of hackers who flock to the cracks found in existing network architecture daily. Results may include leaked emails, drained bank accounts, and the destruction of production facilities (as Iranian nuclear scientists found out).... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Nov 2014
- What Do You Think?
Are We Entering an Era of Neuromanagement?
of legal issues associated with the practice. But the concern leads us to an important question: Where do we draw the line on the use of technology in hiring practices? What do you think? Original Article For years, behavioral scientists... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?
scientific-driven process. So corporations made enormous investments to create ivory towers where scientists would think great thoughts. At first it seemed very appealing, but as the fifties moved into the sixties and the sixties moved... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
of forms, from bringing in people who are doing cutting-edge work in fields such as the life sciences, to making Singapore’s business climate attractive to entrepreneurs, to offering training to graduate students and scientists in what... View Details
- 26 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire
In the early 1950s, two scientists at McGill University inadvertently discovered an area of the rodent brain dubbed "the pleasure center," located deep in the nucleus accumbens. When a group of lab rats had the opportunity to... View Details
- 05 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research
behavioral research from CEOs, policymakers, and high-stakes decision makers." —Francesca Gino "It's always been obvious to social scientists and business scholars that there are lots of things that you can't learn in the laboratory, but... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 15 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Unspoken Messages of COVID-19 Restrictions
freedom ring (safely) Since the start of the pandemic, people have been making decisions with limited data about questions as basic as whether to get a haircut and as complex as whether to send children to school. Safety guidelines continue to evolve as View Details
- 13 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments
In the course of her work, Rebecca Henderson meets business executives who don't address the threat of climate change because they don't believe that it exists. Her recommendation: They should consider investments in environmental sustainability anyway, assuming that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Building a Strong and Prosperous Society
societies toward what political scientists and development economists call extraction since they tend to concentrate wealth in the hands of a few. In an extractive state a few people are in charge and take most of the economic surplus as... View Details
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
wells. The people with whom he was working had come up with a process to take 90 percent of the oil out of the wastewater from an oil well, which can use millions of gallons of water. “While I was working on this, the lead scientist... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
large cadre of data scientists who could develop and run programs to sift through the mountains of genetic data that were being generated every day. But the approach raised other questions. Could people trained in traditional fields of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne