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- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
Management and author of Accelerating Innovation in Energy: Lessons from Other Sectors. The environmental challenges we face are among the most important issues facing business. If, as current scientific research suggests, it would be prudent to View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
Kamala Harris was part of an administration that passed the largest climate combat bill in history, and Governor Tim Walz led Minnesota to declare a goal of zero carbon emissions by 2040. The other side features candidates who want to eliminate the Environmental... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
concrete producers, but this is a conservative industry that does not have a history of changing quickly. Making the economics even better can help to change that. IRA's combination of investment tax credits, grant programs, material procurement funding, and product... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
transformed into a prototype that the team can show potential customers. (prototype images Courtesy Filippos Lymperopoulos) Foalea takes the floor, dry erase marker in her hand. She explains to the team that TAMO is an app that contains all the contents of a user’s... View Details
- 19 Aug 2010
- News
Catchphrases, Mottos, and Cheers
We sometimes also had costumes. Various section men would don a head-to-toe skintight yellow suit. Think super hero with no powers and no cape. And very unforgiving. One sectionmate, originally from Africa but many years removed by the... View Details
- 23 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far
office architecture on employees’ interpersonal and electronic interactions. Working with co-author Stephen Turban, who was introduced to Bernstein by the late HBS professor David Garvin, their study yielded surprising findings about the potentially negative impacts of... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein
- 15 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
From McRibs to Maseratis: The Power of Scarcity Marketing
about "making moments that are so good." But by removing the Double Down from the menu, KFC made the moment when it came back in 2011 not just "so good," but even better. Nor is KFC alone in adopting this approach.... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael I. Norton
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
auto makers have made advances, and Korean manufacturers are focusing on improving their quality and innovating on warranties and assurance programs to remove consumer uncertainty. Much further down the road, competition will come from... View Details
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Gurus in the Garage
mentor to many entrepreneurs, describes how he responded to a manager who wanted to fire a salesperson. The customer loved the guy, but he wasn't working out internally. "Here's the desired result — to remove this person but with a... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 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
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
tax shelters. These changes included a common compensation bonus pool for the entire firm and rewarding people for professionalism as much as for business development; strengthening governance by adding a lead director to the board, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
are very different from 25 years ago. Some of that results from new materials, but some is because we’re empowering foreign students to bring their backgrounds into classroom discussions.” For a school that pioneered participant-centered business education, View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
Africa. We hiked for about eight days in the bush, far removed from any civilization. No roads. No cabins. Slept under the stars in between the animals. And one day, our guides told us we were going to hike to find some fresh drinking... View Details
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
efficiency, but have not been priorities in national initiatives. Conclusions: Our study suggests an underutilized strategy for improving patient safety and staff efficiency: leveraging frontline staff experiences with work systems to identify and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Ansel Adams and Polaroid R&D | Baker Library
that would remove the user from the concerns of which he himself was a master. “Known for his technical expertise in darkroom photography and his pristine prints, Adams seemed an unlikely choice for a company whose name became synonymous... View Details
- 24 Mar 2022
- News
Well Said
understand you because of your accent, then you're not able to convey who you are. You're not able to make jokes. You're not able to really participate and speak your mind, right? Because you feel like there's this thing holding you back. What we're trying to do is... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
removing the middlemen and creating jobs at the same time. Sahel Consulting Agriculture & Nutrition partners with governments, funders, and private companies to shape policy and implement new ventures. For example, we founded Nourishing... View Details
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
to believe they are high ability update on entirely uninformative signals. When we remove self-serving motives, agents appear completely (or much more) rational. Biases due to motivated errors survive standard debiasing interventions... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
progress and enhance inner work life every day. The book shows how to remove obstacles to progress, including meaningless tasks and toxic relationships. It also explains how to activate two forces that enable progress: 1) catalysts—events... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne