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- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions
Late one day in the fall of 2021, as she was packing up to head home, Assistant Professor Maria Roche bumped into Andy Wu, a colleague in the Strategy Unit whose office is next to hers. Roche asked how his research was going, and in the... View Details
- Portrait Project
Thomas Nassim
I plan to trek past the border. Through the wastes and wealth of a bewitching and bewildering terra incognita I will travel day by day. Maps? This land lies beyond even the... View Details
- Portrait Project
Natasha Pereira-Kamath
would bring out the bowls and spoons. "Why waste good ice cream," she would sigh. I would revel in the unexpected gluttony. When I left India, I came to realize that blackouts were not part of the... 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
- 15 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
Deconstructing the Price Tag
itemizes what it spends on cotton, cutting, sewing, dyeing, finishing, and transporting each shirt, consumers become more attracted to the brand and more likely to purchase. “By unpacking the costs, you have... View Details
- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
trespassing onto the mine’s waste dumps in search of gold. Subsequent investigations identified significant evidence to support the allegations, and the revelations led to broad ranging change at both... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Campus Vehicular Access | About
Campus Vehicular Access DEFINITION Access to campus roadways between Kresge Way Gate (Kresge Way near Soldiers Field Park apartments) and Harvard Way Gate (Harvard Way & North Harvard Street). TYPES OF ACCESS Unload/load only (tools,... View Details
- 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
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
Burgess, Director of the Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) at Meldon Hospital, encountered workarounds by two physicians attempting to transfer their patients to the SICU because the other ICUs were full. Reflecting on the wasted effort... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
at least twice. Though you may think redundancy is unnecessary and even a waste of time, a new study indicates that it helps your message cut through today's information overload. Read thearticle:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Let Customers Call the Shots
What is consumer empowerment and what does it mean for you as an executive? HBS professor Luc Wathieu outlined his views in the following e-mail interview with HBS Working Knowledge senior editor Martha Lagace.Lagace: In your paper you... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
to improve resource efficiency, creating and discovering new game-changing planet-friendly raw ingredients, reducing waste across the value chain, and designing compelling... View Details
Keywords: Energy / Cleantech
- 01 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 1, 2016
piping. Standard welfare economics teaches us that either subsidies or Pigouvian fines can solve that problem, but both solutions are problematic when institutions are weak. Subsidies lead to waste and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Knowledge Coach
over a new job or leave an old one, there is an immense waste of knowledge. Not that a newcomer wants to use everything that was in her predecessor's head—some of it was mere flotsam and jetsam, View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
acquisition (CPA). However, these standard online advertising metrics are plagued with attribution problems and do not account for dynamics. These issues can easily lead firms to overspend on some actions View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
policy solutions, a challenging proposition in a politically polarized environment. This paper focuses on how CEOs engage in the political process to encourage government policies that will foster sustainability transitions View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Oct 2022
- News
Untapped Potential
management worldwide. The fund has already invested more than $9 million in 12 companies that address such pressing problems as flood tracking, water waste and reuse, and sewer... View Details
- 08 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Cost of Cutting in Line
No one likes to waste time standing in line. So why don't more people try to bribe their way to the front? Should companies allow some customers to move to the front of the line for a hefty fee? Is there a market for time? Felix... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
meaningful relationships with their people, they also create loyalty and an environment where employees feel secure enough to take chances and suggest innovative and sometimes... View Details
Rob Gierkink
Flashfood, a business that works with supermarkets to significantly reduce food waste while helping families with their weekly food bill. In 2016 Rob invested in Index, a point-of-sale technology company. Rob became Chairman of the... View Details