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- 04 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them
Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details
- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
academic and life teachers who opened my eyes to what could be accomplished through science and innovation,” Blum says. “This was a way I could pay that back.” Having spent his childhood in the mountains of... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 02 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Companies Choreograph Earnings Calls to Hide Bad News
The quarterly earnings conference call is a traditional way for public companies to disclose information regarding performance and strategy from the prior quarter. Wall Street analysts and other company watchers dial in, identify... View Details
- 08 Jan 2014
- What Do You Think?
Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?
Summing Up Does Social Equality Improve Productivity? Inequality in our society is an important and growing issue. It prompted a debate among respondents to this month's column about the causes, specifically the role played by innovation... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 31 Jul 2017
- HBS Case
It’s Hard to Fix the Family Business Without Offending the Family
sensitivity of how does he make the restaurant better without everyone getting angry,” Schlesinger says. Another issue to be dealt with is that Pho Hoa pays an annual $40,000 franchising fee, although the... View Details
- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
long-time faculty members, the late Walmsley University Professor C. Roland Christensen and Abraham Zalesnik, now Matsushita professor of leadership emeritus, "is his willingness to take risks, View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Wake-Up Call: Farewell to the American Dream?
better to pay people well, in order to maintain demand for goods and services. Higher wages would induce companies to get serious about improving... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
Africa. As founder and CEO of Adesemi, Monique Maddy (MBA '93) spoke about her goal to deliver wireless communication - through a system of voicemail, pagers, and pay phones - View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Making It Possible to Explore and Grow
A Roundabout Path To achieve his vision of becoming a clean-energy entrepreneur, PhD biologist Jonathan Friedlander (MBA 2017) left Paris for HBS to understand best business practices. But he would have... View Details
- 16 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
What Loyalty? High-End Customers are First to Flee
Businesses that offer their customers the highest levels of service might like to believe that all their efforts to pamper and please will pay off with an extremely loyal... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
with insurance provider UnitedHealthcare to test a fixed-payment structure for a select group of head and neck cancer patients. Rather than receiving separate charges for every test, treatment, and appointment, patients in the three-year... View Details
- 28 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
Keep or Cut Workers? How Companies Reacted to the COVID-19 Crisis
“There was not a single person or car,” he recalls. The eerily quiet scene was a jarring reminder that the pandemic was taking a huge toll on many businesses that saw sales and revenue figures abruptly plummet. Rouen and two fellow researchers were inspired View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 11 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Fix This! Why is it so Painful to Buy a New Car?
incentive to add more transparency on things like invoice markups and service costs? Myriad consumer websites help car buyers overcome that asymmetry with information on what dealers pay for cars, vehicle... View Details
- 20 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Maybe Uber isn't God's Gift to Mankind
so. “You could try to explain to your customer why your product has a higher price: You don’t kill fish, and your competitor does. But many customers will have a hard time convincing themselves View Details
- 08 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid?
technology-oriented start-ups. "You need to look at the conditions [that might contribute to success or failure]. A robust strategy pays off." As for the smart grid,... View Details
- 16 Oct 2023
- HBS Case
Advancing Black Talent: From the Flight Ramp to 'Family-Sustaining' Careers at Delta
first learned about the OneTen coalition from fellow CEOs, he told them, “I am with you ... I don't know if I can pay anything now. But I will pay you with all the heart, soul, and grit of this company View Details
- 02 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
Blissful Thinking: When It Comes to Finding Happiness, 'Your Dreams Are Liars'
graduated. “Here’s the good news: They got everything they wanted,” Brooks said. “Here’s the bad news: They wanted the wrong thing. The result is that they’re not as happy as they could be. We need to teach a class on happiness,” Brooks... View Details
Keywords: by Dan Morrell
- 04 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
Getting Accepted to HBS through the 2+2 Program
me more perspective and skills that would pay off when I went to business school, and I was having such a blast at work that I didn't feel I quite needed the break of school yet. After three years of work, I... View Details
- 06 Nov 2018
- Research & Ideas
8 Ways to Make Olympic Stadiums Useful After the Games End
after the torch has been extinguished and the athletes and spectators have gone home, the stadium built to host the opening ceremonies and other events—usually at enormous cost—remains. In After the Carnival: Key Factors View Details