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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Taxing Questions
Image by Brian Stauffer What would the "perfect" tax plan look like? Sheridan Schechner (MBA/JD 1983), managing director, Barclays Capital, USA I'd envision three simple building blocks: a consumption tax with no exclusions that... View Details
- 08 Jan 2016
- News
Investing in Sustainability
production to feed the rapidly growing world population, expected to reach 9 billion in the next three decades. So in 2013, at the age of 41, Tiller retired from hedge-fund management to establish Sustainable America, an ambitious nonprofit with the dual aims of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era
toward renewables, it also moves from variable cost to fixed cost—from an Opex world to a Capex one. How should pricing evolve to reflect a Capex world and induce consumption when energy is abundant and prevent it when it isn’t? —Catarina... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
event/development for business World War II Women in the workplace "Other" Cold War's end Crash of 1929 Second place (tied with "Other") went to "Women in the workplace" , which "broadened the talent base and revolutionized U.S. View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Read All About It: Journalism Can Be Profitable
some sort of compensation for it—through donations or subscriptions. That is the path forward. How is social media changing the consumption of information and the consumer’s ability to access a diversity of ideas? —Janet Simpson Benvenuti... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
refreshing their product lines and extending their brand to more affordable items. Pressure to innovate is intense, says HBS professor Nancy F. Koehn, a business historian and author of Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers’ Trust from Wedgwood to Dell. “People... View Details
- 20 Mar 2019
- News
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
and electric vehicles, and ride sharing. They also spoke in favor of smart agriculture and plant-heavy diets. Beef consumption is especially challenging, they said, as demand for protein to feed the world’s rapidly growing population will... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Forward Thinking
consumption increased by only 6 percent from 2010 to 2018, these sprawling facilities are now on track to double their electricity demand in the next two years, thanks to AI. This energy- intensive boom poses an expensive challenge for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
Gunnar Trumbull Cambridge University Press This book traces the historical emergence of modern consumer lending in America and France. Comparison of the two countries reveals that America's love affair with credit was not a consequence of its culture of View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
how over the next thirty years the world is going to go through a bottleneck because of population and consumption growth. If we don’t make commitments now to conserve endangered places, they won’t be here thirty years from now. But... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Home Grown
the world. And the change is that the [00:04:00] consumption of content, whether you are growing up in India, whether you’re growing up in the United States, the millennials today are consuming the same content. So when my children come... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
phenomenon it pretty much created. “From the foundation of yoga wear, we started a category that before us did not exist,” says Vivien Yeung (MBA 2001), Lululemon’s chief strategy officer. Understanding the public consumption ritual... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019
sense of fulfillment and purpose. Her first law or principle is that stories matter. We are all living in the story of scarcity—the story that tells us we don’t have enough. We want more and more, perpetuating a vicious cycle of View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
content consumption (e.g., mobile, direct-to-consumer); and realize gains through theNFL Investment Fund, its recent partnership with Providence Equity Partners. Grubman is also heavily involved in the process of investigating whether new... View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
the mayor of London talking about—and this was politically charged but talking about expanding the city center kind of charges for consumption and usage of the roads in the city center. So every mayor in different ways is trying to... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
And if you look at the consumption habits, the buying habits, the investing habits of the folks in the generations that will be inheriting that wealth, they are completely and totally different, completely different than those of previous... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
consumption it’s not an accessible product for the vast majority of people who are reading the news online. Many respected news outlets don’t make it easy. Sometimes it’s a curation issue, where you’re getting a lot of volume. There can... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
market. Toiletries were also the main category sold by Western companies in developing countries .As these companies took their brands into foreign markets, they diffused consumption habits. As incomes rose and distribution channels... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
that trouble was coming, just as the fact that in the United States consumer consumption has gone from 65 percent to 70 percent of GDP since 1970. The idea that the United States can maintain 300 million people in a broadly middle-class... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
most obvious path to co-founding ThinkEco, the New York based start-up she launched in 2008 with husband Jun Shimada. ThinkEco produces the modlet, which plugs into any standard outlet. Users then plug in devices and use their web browser to wirelessly manage power... View Details