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- Portrait Project
Elizabeth Chang
the most Of whatever I've selected. So I want to live for the present Not only focus on future days To reflect on the road I've traveled And gather the rosebuds while I may. That does not mean to take rash risks Nor View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
Publications February 2015 Academy of Management Review Reflections on the 2013 Decade Award: "Exploitation, Exploration, and Process Management: The Productivity Dilemma Revisited" Ten Years... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Apr 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?
Summing Up What's the Downside to Disruption in High Tech? This month's column gave many readers an opportunity to join my rant about the need for disruption to combat the increasing inscrutability and waste... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Innovative Loan Fund Yields Big Returns
period projected at five years or less. Any Harvard unit or department may apply for the interest-free loans, which are repaid out of the savings generated by reductions in energy consumption, utility usage, and View Details
- 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
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Alumni Books
Smart and Randy Street (MBA ’97) (Random House) The authors provide a solution to what the Economist calls “the single biggest problem in business today”: unsuccessful hiring. The average hiring mistake costs a company $1.5 million or... View Details
- Portrait Project
Zachary Surak
failure of this potential mentor and coach. Did he even realize the wonderful opportunity he had missed? I strive never to waste such precious opportunities. Have you ever given someone praise for something... View Details
- 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
- 09 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: JSW Steel
to innovators that have invented and disseminated new battery chemistries, so many projects demonstrate extreme promise for a wealthier, healthier future India. Our research focus area was decarbonizing steel production, a notoriously... View Details
- 19 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
farm 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
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Rowing Upstream
their task but also energize team members through the bonding that comes with striving toward a common goal. It’s important to remember, however, that poorly designed teams can waste resources and time.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Starting Lineup: Power Plays
Venture Competition, is currently in use by more than 1,500 companies. Callida Energy CEO Raphael Carty (MBA 1983); Founded 2013 Reducing energy waste in commercial buildings and improving comfort through... View Details
- 28 Sep 2018
- News
Pushing Progress at Panasonic
Yasuyuki Higuchi (MBA 1991) (photo by Akio Kon/Bloomberg) Yasuyuki Higuchi (MBA 1991) (photo by Akio Kon/Bloomberg) When he was fresh out of engineering school in 1980, Yasuyuki Higuchi (MBA 1991) got a job at Panasonic. He left just as the consumer electronics boom... View Details
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
billion additional urban dwellers. Second, shared resources like clean water, clean air, energy, and places to put solid waste are already scarce and constrained. Urbanization... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 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
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Reimagining Capitalism In a World of Limited Resources
digitization. Today, natural resources and waste are no longer negligible concerns but urgent issues every business leader must understand. How do we celebrate what makes capitalism so amazing—its power as a... View Details
Keywords: Dalai Lama
- 18 Mar 2014
- News
The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
advertising waste and noise." Howe likes to take a big-picture view of business problems, probably because of his training in economics. That process began early — at the... View Details
- 25 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Chasing Stars: Why the Mighty Red Sox Struck Out
But most admired organizations are admired for a reason. They usually have processes and cultures in place that make their people better. You take someone from one of those organizations View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: You Can't Enlarge the Pie
by Max H. Bazerman, Jonathan Baron, and Katherine Shonk (Basic Books) In "You Can't Enlarge the Pie": Six Barriers to Effective Government, authors Max Bazerman, the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration at HBS,... View Details
- Portrait Project
Austin Johnsen
starting chemotherapy. Nothing prepared me for the endless needle sticks, overwhelming nausea, and debilitating tiredness. I was miserable. But, by the middle of February, I was back in school, with no lingering signs of what I had been... View Details