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- 03 Nov 2023
- News
Global Networking Night; Sweden Club Holds Climate Forum
opened the forum with a video message offering reasons to be optimistic on climate if leaders can act quickly. “It’s going to take a lot of money and new models of risk allocation,” said Spar. “We need leaders in this space who can be... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 24 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit
activity, and even when provided with free supplies, people continue to wash their hands without soap—if they wash their hands at all. “If you look at these public health initiatives, you see that they are often a complicated combination... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 17 Dec 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Medical Tourism
Patients with resources can easily go where care is provided. "Historically doctors moved from Africa and India to London and New York to provide care. Now we are basically flipping it around and saying, 'Why don't the patients move?... View Details
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
the universal bank had long been disputed. After 2008, the financial crisis and subsequent Great Recession damaged many global and domestic financial services firms. While the government bailed out universal banks and monoline financial institutions alike, both... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency
organization off its complacent platform and into a good direction. But it didn't happen. Instead of mobilizing people into action, the crisis led many managers into making fewer decisions because they didn't want to be accused of mistakes with the press and View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter
- 25 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
What CEOs Do, and How They Can Do it Better
University Institute—set out to get to the bottom of CEO time management by following nearly 100 top managers in Italy, as reported in a recent paper with the deceptively simple title, What Do CEOs Do? "We had no way of knowing what we were View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 24 Mar 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Case Study: A Lesson in Private Venture Financing
growth. Being listed on the stock exchange does mark a company's value but in this case it was a low mark.— Walter Kuemmerle Kuemmerle fired questions at conference participants on Gray's available options. Should they go public? Doing so... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 29 Jan 2021
- Op-Ed
How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics
reinforce the positive consequences of taking the vaccine, such as the ability to visit family, go to work, and have more entertainment options. With those factors in mind, we offer three customer-centric recommendations to speed adoption... View Details
- 02 Oct 2017
- What Do You Think?
Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?
various ways. Some are being accepted by a limited number of buyers and sellers as tender for transacting business. They are now even being created as funding devices (ICOs or initial coin offerings) by companies avoiding more public IPOs... View Details
- 30 Jun 2022
- News
Scaling Hope
35th reunion at Dartmouth College. “People thanked me for telling their story,” he recalls. “There is so much stigma around addiction, and people don’t really share that they have this problem going on in their family. That creates a... View Details
- 03 Jul 2013
- What Do You Think?
What Are the Limits of Transparency?
government organizations disclose information to general public without reservations and let them make use of the one relevant to them." Walter Blass was among those who would err on the side of more transparency, arguing that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Apr 2023
- News
Leading the Way
that you don't get to do things that people with resources get to do. But we tell all of our kids, ‘don't be afraid to try, to dream, to expand your horizons and go for the best that you can become.' It's an honor to work with them."... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
sustainable to freeride on the green image. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52393 October 10, 2016 Harvard Business Review Why Lincoln Hid His Strongest Feelings from the Public By: Koehn, Nancy F.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
initiated a series of strategic shifts and evolved from a predominately fund-of-funds manager into a large, multi-asset class PE firm focused on direct investments. PG was the first PE firm to go public in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018
digitally enabled open platforms. I go on to argue that the competitive success of open platforms against closed platforms gave rise to the "vertical-to-horizontal" transition in the computer industry in the 1980s and 1990s.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
For Entrepreneurs, Blown Deadlines Can Crush Big Ideas
That's just human nature." That leads to a “cascading effect” that is difficult for most people to anticipate, much like the way that the public was surprised by the speed with which COVID-19 spread in early 2020, Peterson says. “Consider... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 17 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 17, 2015
performance. O'Rourke and her team were able to drive almost immediate improvement in the district's sales growth and profitability and in other key areas such as customer service scores. How can O'Rourke ensure that these stores continue to perform well View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
book) is accelerating that trend. “There are substantial public health impacts in wildfire smoke, extreme heat, and the aftermath of flooding,” notes Macomber, who teaches the MBA electives Business Opportunities in Climate Adaptation and... 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
- 28 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Can Navigate Politicized Conversations and Inspire Collaboration
team to dig into the language of open-mindedness. Through their work, the team identified five ingredients of conversational receptiveness—the use of language to communicate one’s willingness to thoughtfully engage with opposing views—that View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
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Sustainable Business Strategy Course | HBS Online
proving that sustainability is good for business, the environment, and its people." Brooks Wallace Public relations professional looking to learn about sustainable business practices Take a values-driven approach to business and learn how... View Details