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- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
fundamental problem. The Medicare prescription drug program that went into effect last year bars the federal government from negotiating with drug companies over the prices seniors pay. The new Democratic majority in Congress has vowed to View Details
- 23 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Innovation Is Magic. Really
Likewise, in business, sometimes the best solution involves keeping certain complex pieces that go into a product design invisible. That's why Bang & Olufsen removed equalizer controls from some of its audio equipment in favor of a... View Details
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posted with the intent of misleading others. Harvard Business School Online reserves the right to remove Prohibited Content of which it becomes aware, but is under no obligation to do so. In addition, you agree not to (a) use any of the... View Details
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
Bob Ladouceur, head coach of De La Salle, never forced an athlete who broke a rule to spend more time on the practice field or in the weight room; instead, a violator was sidelined. Similarly, people at Continental or Garanti Bank who did not live up to corporate... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 02 Oct 2017
- News
Radical Generosity for the Real World
minded people, and you know, have coffee with them. Decide to meet together once a month and talk about what your goals are, talk about how you're making it happen, what baby steps you're using to get to your goal. Another very simple thing to do is to View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
respondent. "Television is evil and is about where smoking was in the 1950s - we know it's not healthy, but we don't yet understand its true downside," opined another. "Television simultaneously brought the world into our living rooms and View Details
- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
between 6,594 (1.6%) and 97,579 (21.7%) matched observations are different from one download to the next. The changes, which include alterations of recommendation levels, additions and deletions of records, and removal of analyst names,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
Photo credits: Brenae Bowers Brix and Russ Campbell Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: This story starts the way all classic stories of tech entrepreneurship do: In Todd Brix's garage. Brix (MBA 1997) started his career in the... View Details
- 11 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
The Business of Behavioral Economics
says Norton. "I haven't prevented you from gaining weight or removed all of the French fries from the world." At the same time, the strategy uses people's biased thinking against them. For example, behavioral economics has shown that... View Details
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals
more to recognize the donors' generosity than to provide orientation. Temporary signposts are selectively erected to guide new arrivals at the start of a new school year or a new program, but they are removed within days, once their... View Details
Keywords: Education
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care
use of obsolete treatments, or carelessness, not when a patient had a bad outcome despite receiving appropriate, up-to-date treatment. With better information and no restrictions on choice, many lawsuits will be averted. The money spent on enabling information and... View Details
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
the assumed fraction of residues that can be sustainably removed from the field, and the potential of municipal solid waste as a feedstock depends on which components can be economically converted into liquid biofuels. Becoming the Lamp... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
continue to accrue, and sea levels will continue to rise. Even the urgent and utterly essential task of reaching net zero cannot be achieved rapidly by emissions reductions alone. To hasten net zero and minimize climate damages thereafter, we will also need massive... View Details
- 11 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
were outraged and went to the streets in protest. These blackouts were specifically due to the increased power usage for air conditioning in the summer months but were more generally caused by the removal of subsidies for power companies... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls
translated to another—he hit upon a pair of tweezers that was being used on the assembly line of an electronics company. He was able to adapt these tweezers to the more medical use of removing splinters. Time passed and the idea took... View Details
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything
In 1995, the Vatican dismissed an outspoken French bishop named Jacques Gaillot. Arguing that Gaillot had been far too liberal for the Church's doctrine, Vatican officials removed him from his diocese outside Paris and sent him to... View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
his entrance into the filled classroom, then remove his trademark topcoat, fedora, and gloves — “slowly, finger by finger, as everyone watched,” a student recalled. “It was all very dramatic.” Next, Schumpeter would write something on the... View Details
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
improvement-oriented behaviors: 1) blockages to prevent workarounds, 2) a support person to assist with problem-solving, and 3) education portraying operational failures as "waste" to be removed from the system. Using laboratory... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment
that in the 1980s as the political and ethnic tensions eased in Singapore and Malaysia, governments there also began to remove some of the biases against local firms. What Huang wants to convey, however, is the fact that a historical... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace