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- 17 Dec 2017
- News
How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression
camp in Uganda, and you heard a woman's song. Heaney: I was over in Africa doing some work, and in Africa, many of the organizations need very specific skill sets, medical training, logistics experience. I didn't have those, so I had to look for a while to find... View Details
- 09 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Speed Up Energy Innovation
percent of the carbon out of the energy system in 40 years. I don't know much about energy, although I know much more now than I did when I started this project. But I've spent my life studying innovation, so I thought maybe I could be of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Groundwork
exterior, and systems renovations are scheduled for completion in 2015, when the residence hall will reopen as Esteves Hall. Related Groundswells: A few historical turning points for the HBS campus See how alumni support has guided the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
academic institution for shaping ideas about management and enterprise in the field of life sciences. “What was needed,” he says, “was an initiative to pull things together and examine the business and industrial dynamics of it.” When... View Details
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Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
specific to Lincoln Center's international business development initiatives. MD Anderson Health Care Cost Management Focus: Health Care Value Team: Stephen Schleicher Description: Our project's purpose was to assess the actual cost (vs.... View Details
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What Your Competition is Telling You
chairman at AT&T as it was being broken up. "In the regulated days, Bell system employees—myself included—genuinely believed they were doing the best they could and acting in the best interests of customers," he says.... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
examiner with the White House Office of Management and Budget, where he oversaw NASA projects to see how well they were adhering to presidential policy, as well as being stewards of the taxpayers’ money. “After years of aerospace being... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 05 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 5, 2016
practical use by managers or teaching by instructors of MBAs and executive MBAs. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51126 The Climate Custodians By: Eccles, Robert G., and Tim Youmans Abstract—Can... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
originated. “We are using data from regulators, writing studies, but seldom going back to the regulators to say, ‘This is what we learned,’” says Harvard Business School Professor Michael W. Toffel, whose research examines companies’ environmental and occupational... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 03 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?
There are many, but here are examples of each. Settings: Air flow and other engineering steps. Before you think of moving back into your office building or shop, you should check on basic metrics that any building manager should easily be... View Details
- 15 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Health Is Wealth | The Path To Creating A Venture
initially. Through her relationship with Austin, Rachel connected with Alex Iskold, Coach and VC in Resident at the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship at HBS and Managing Partner at 2048 Ventures [formerly View Details
- December 2020 (Revised February 2021)
- Teaching Note
The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations
By: Mihir A. Desai and Suzanne Antoniou
How should historic social injustices be addressed? Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre and their descendants, including Representative Regina Goodwin of Tulsa, believe they should be addressed through reparations and have consequently continued to push the government... View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Judgments; Race; Fairness; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Policy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government Legislation; Government and Politics; Government Administration; Lawsuits and Litigation; Legal Liability; Leading Change; Mission and Purpose; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Conflict and Resolution; Conflict Management; Loss; Motivation and Incentives; Perspective; Prejudice and Bias; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Welfare; Tulsa; Oklahoma; United States
- 21 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases
wrong? In their article Taking Gender into Account: Theory and Design for Women's Leadership Development Programs, which appeared in the September 2011 issue of the Academy of Management Learning & Education, Ely and coauthors... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
accreditation. Also, the use of the LEED standard increased among private builders in the same local markets. "Our paper describes several different ways in which these policies might stimulate private markets for greener building," says Toffel, an associate professor... View Details
- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
serious belt tightening. Leaders of major companies looked around and had to make cuts based on keeping people and systems in place that were critical to the business. CFO? Have to have one of those. IT? Business can’t function without... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
expensive merchandise with a limited wear life. PriceGrabber is a decoupler, too. Traditional consumer electronic retail stores depend on customers to come to their showrooms and tire-kick TVs and sound systems before buying. But the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 10 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis
financial crisis, but they may be hard to get rid of. The Washington political system struggles to deal with this gigantic fiscal challenge, and—no surprise—large tax increases and large expenditure reductions are not high on politicians'... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
not the end goal. In fact, cost cutting and restructuring are simply the first steps in repositioning and leading a company and industry through the crisis and in defining how business will be conducted in the future. This paper describes how IBM View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?
software when they enter a new network, for example. Another weak spot is that hot-spot carriers can't control the user's experience. A Capital Idea? Venture capitalist Geoffrey Moore, who wrote Crossing the Chasm and Inside the Tornado,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award
public-sector management in Brazil. What do you do first thing in the morning? Go to the gym, then check my e-mail. Book you’re reading? Joker One, by Donovan Campbell MBA ’07, Kindle edition. How do you relax? Spearfishing and cycling.... View Details