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- 15 Mar 2020
- News
Commercial Real Estate in the Age of the COVID-19 Virus
- 08 Oct 2010
- What Do You Think?
Will Transparency in CEO Compensation Have Unintended Consequences?
system?" Ajay Kumar Gupta put it this way: "I believe revealing compensation ratio(s) will help inculcate values, honesty, and accountability in the organization." Others were less sanguine. Zach Allen described it as a... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
also demonstrated a base of support in their cities for system-wide change. We discussed the program in this e-mail Q &A with Childress and Allen Grossman, who is the HBS faculty chair for the program. Childress, Grossman, and... View Details
- 05 Sep 2000
- What Do You Think?
Whither the Information Economy?
efficiency becomes asymptotic such that incremental improvements are nil." If this were the case, it could have real significance for economic planners. Allen Greenspan, take note. What do you think? Original Article Every so often a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Mar 2015
- What Do You Think?
Can a Laissez-Faire Approach Fix Labor Market Inequality?
Summing Up When Is It In An Employer's Self-Interest to Voluntarily Raise All Wages? A laissez-faire approach to fixing labor market inequality has widespread appeal, judging by responses to this month's column. For some it is an ideal,... View Details
- 10 Nov 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Making Lincoln Center Cool Again
the same numbers of two decades ago. Levy's genius, says Harvard Business School's Allen S. Grossman, was in not only recognizing the problem, but also bringing together resident organizations and board members to start solving it. “I... View Details
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Toolkit for Customer Innovation
variety of industries use this approach. Bush Boake Allen (BBA), a global supplier of specialty flavors to companies like Nestlé, has built a tool kit that enables its customers to develop their own flavors, which BBA then manufactures.... View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
- 06 Jan 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is a Stringent Climate Change Agreement a Pot of Gold?
conversion of inventions into commercially viable innovation. As Allen Roberts points out, " lacking as we do a worthwhile VC industry the history of the last 100 years where Australia exports all its great ideas with little return... View Details
- 08 Jul 2002
- What Do You Think?
Have We Carried the Concept of Alignment Too Far?
As John Apen points out, "Alignment works only if CEOs and boards have the same time perspective as the other two groups (investors and employees)... top managers' and Wall Street goals were all short term.…" C. J. Cullinane adds, "Alignment and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Turning a Moment into a Movement: How the Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders are Fighting Racism and Encouraging Other Companies to Do Their Part
In the spring of 2020, Kenneth Chenault (MBA 2019), Kevin Chenault (MBA 2021), Carter Lewis (MBA 2023), Lindsey Ferguson, Nicolle Mora, and Sesana Allen were each pursuing their own careers, utilizing their skills and interests to make an... View Details
- 2020
- Book
Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Productivity
By: Joseph Allen and John D. Macomber
By the time you reach 80, you will have spent 72 years of your life indoors. Like it or not, humans have become an indoor species. This means that the people who design, build, and maintain our buildings can have a major impact on our health.
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Keywords: Architecture; Real Estate Development; Air Pollution; Air Quality; Public Health; Productivity Gains; Buildings and Facilities; Health; Pollutants; Performance Productivity; Construction Industry
Allen, Joseph, and John D. Macomber. Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Productivity. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020.
- 01 Feb 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?
history of these entities.... When it is monetized" (whether by competition or government) "the for-profit enterprise will select the lowest price alternative." But Allen Howlett expressed... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
Robert S. Huckman
Robert Huckman is the Albert J. Weatherhead III Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, the Howard Cox Faculty Chair of the HBS Healthcare Initiative, and the Senior Associate Dean for External... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
C.D. Spangler, Jr.: A Leadership Role in Business and Academe
persuasion, which takes time and a lot of patience." In a tribute occasioned by Spangler's UNC retirement, a recent North Carolina television program made clear the important role that Spangler's wife, Meredith Riggs Spangler, and... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry; photo by Ann Hawthorne
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
shore of Roosevelt Island, a narrow strip of land that lies between Manhattan and Queens. Smith’s eyes are fixed on a patch of water demarcated by a series of white and orange Coast Guard buoys. Thirty feet below the surface, a trio of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
whose campus occupies 26 buildings surrounded by 800 acres of forest on the northern side of an Appalachian mountain ridge. As he walks the grounds, Marietta points to evidence of what a thriving, diversified economy in eastern Kentucky... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
By 2050, nearly 70 percent of the world’s population will live in cities, according to a 2018 UN report, up from 55 percent today. That means making room for and creating the infrastructure for another 2.5 billion people to live, work,... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 27 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 27
select reimportation of exported ideas. Put otherwise, top North American journals tend to reimport ideas authored (and exported) by select North American scholars in Organizations Studies. Third, we discuss the implications of this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace