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  • 15 May 2022
  • News

Hitting the Books: Why We Need to Treat the Robots of Tomorrow Like Tools

  • Web

Alumni

from behind! While that may sound like a New York City horror story, it turned out to be the start of a magical new career as Santa Claus! After that serendipitous meeting with a fellow Santa enthusiast,... View Details
  • 2013
  • Book

Business and the Environment: Critical Perspectives in Business and Management

By: Susse Georg and Andrew J. Hoffman
Over the past four decades, the concept of corporate environmentalism has passed through multiple iterations. Prompted by landmark environmental events such the publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962), the Santa Barbara oil spill, the Cuyahoga River fire,... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Management; Natural Environment
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    Trevor Fetter

    Trevor Fetter is a Senior Lecturer and the Henry B. Arthur Fellow on the faculty of Harvard Business School. He teaches two MBA required courses: Leadership and Corporate Accountability, and Financial Reporting and Control. At HBS he has also taught a Short... View Details

    • 2008
    • Report

    Survey Questionnaire on Environmental Management Practices: Summary of Results by Industry and Practices

    By: Magali Delmas and Michael W. Toffel
    This document provides a summary of the results of a survey on Environmental Management Practices (EMP) conducted by the University of California at Santa Barbara during October and November 2003. The survey was sent to 3255 facilities in 8 industrial sectors: pulp,... View Details
    Keywords: Economic Sectors; Surveys; Management Practices and Processes; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Government Relations; Environmental Sustainability; Non-Governmental Organizations
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    • 05 Dec 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Lessons in Decision-Making: Confident People Aren't Always Correct (Except When They Are)

    University of California, Santa Barbara. How does one measure confidence? In the first phase of the study, the team invited more than 2,000 people to perform 15 classic cognitive bias tasks, including: The “knapsack problem”—a strategic... View Details
    Keywords: by Kara Baskin
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    Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni

    professor at Stanford University School of Medicine and a physician in the Stanford Hospital Emergency Department. In addition, he is medical director for Stanford Life Flight and multiple fire departments in Santa Clara County. Peter... View Details
    • Profile

    Eduardo Avalos

    about your hometown? I grew up in Santa Ana, CA. It is an immigrant gateway city for many families including my own. The leadership in Santa Ana deeply represented the communities it served. From all levels... View Details
    • Web

    PRIMO Alumni Profiles - Doctoral

    labor economics. Read more about Jo here. Stella Jia UC Berkeley, Class of 2025 Stella Jia (she/her) was born in the Bay Area and grew up in California. The unique presence of technology in the Bay Area led her to study statistics and data science at UC View Details
    • 04 May 2021
    • Book

    Best Buy: How Human Connection Saved a Failing Retailer

    In 2019, a three-year-old boy walked with his mother into a Florida Best Buy store, clutching a toy dinosaur that Santa had given him for Christmas. Only, the dinosaur’s head had broken, and now tears were streaming down the boy’s face as... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail
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    Partners - Case Method Project

    U.S. Government, College Prep/Honors U.S. History, Economics CA 45 of 65 Mkunde Mtenga USC Brio College Prep Los Angeles, CA CA 46 of 65 Bill Mustard Cerritos High School Cerritos, CA Subjects: U.S. History, Civics CA 47 of 65 Aaron Nesper Ernest Righetti High School... View Details

      Robert C. Merton

      Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

      Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

      Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
      • 14 Mar 2023
      • In Practice

      What Does the Failure of Silicon Valley Bank Say About the State of Finance?

      The bank run that led to the stunning collapse of Silicon Valley Bank late last week continues to send shivers through the American financial system. SVB, the Santa Clara, California-based bank that catered to the tech industry, was the... View Details
      Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking
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      Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project

      MN Win Anderson Sauk Rapids Rice High School Sauk Rapids, MN WA Ed Anegon Jenkins Jr/Sr High School Chewelah, WA NM Joshua Arbogast Capital High School Santa Fe, NM MS Amber Armstrong Northwest Rankin High School Flowood, MS Subjects: US... View Details
      • 29 Jan 2024
      • Research & Ideas

      Do Disasters Rally Support for Climate Action? It's Complicated.

      Environmental disasters like wildfires can ignite awareness of climate change and boost eco-friendly politicians’ careers. But do voters perceive a tradeoff between environmental policies and local economic growth? In Brazil, home to a majority of the Amazon tropical... View Details
      Keywords: by Rachel Layne
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      Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

      Physics Department. From January 1992 to September 1998 he served as the Richard A. Auhll Professor and Dean of Engineering, as well as Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He... View Details
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      The Idea of Instant Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

      introduced in the photographic field, which he considered ripe for invention." 42 The inspiration for instant photography planted itself in Land's imagination during a family vacation in 1943: “I recall a sunny vacation day in Santa Fe,... View Details
      • 01 Dec 2016
      • News

      In My Humble Opinion: Chip Brewer (MBA 1991)

      Club. “It’s a course built on the Pine Barrens in southern New Jersey. It’s entirely surrounded by sand, a geologically very special spot that creates a phenomenal test of golf in beautiful, natural surroundings.” Closer to home: The Bridges at Rancho View Details
      Keywords: Julia Hanna
      • 11 Mar 2019
      • Research & Ideas

      Branding Sells Cereal, Handbags, and Vacations. Can It Sell a Country?

      Santa Clara County into Silicon Valley. “Countries are beginning to realize—Israel being one of them—that they need to engage in public diplomacy, not just a foreign diplomacy, and in place branding, not just political advocacy, ” says... View Details
      Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Tourism
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      Participating Institutions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

      Administração Pública e de Empresas, FGV-EBAPE (Rio de Janeiro) Fundação Getúlio Vargas Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo, FGV-EAESP (São Paulo) Universidade de Fortaleza (Fortaleza) Universidade do Oeste de Santa Catarina... View Details