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- 19 Jun 2018
- Research Event
Has Environmental Sustainability Lost its Relevance?
iPhoto For businesses and other organizations seeking to overcome roadblocks to sustainability over the last few decades, much can be learned from the debates I heard at the recent Harvard Business School conference, Understanding and Overcoming Roadblocks to... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Stop Thinking of Climate Change as a Religious or Political Issue
You sometimes hear people say things like, "I believe in global warming" or "I don't believe in climate change." It seems odd to approach climate change in this way, as though it were a question of belief, like religion. Most of the time when we confront uncertainty in... View Details
- 27 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses
collaboration and openness, both within and outside the organization, are probably required of them than they're used to. Different kinds of partnerships and new licensing and intellectual property arrangements are also necessary." The New View Details
- 23 May 2016
- Blog Post
Advice for Prospective Students from Africa
like the natural choice for a couple of reasons. I wanted a program that was focused on delivering a solid general management and business education, and one that had a history of developing leaders. I also wanted to attend a school that... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
both nature and humankind. We asked a group of Harvard Business School faculty members to offer their views on the many facets of "going green." Amy C. Edmondson, Novartis Professor Of Leadership And Management The world's cities are... View Details
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Data Tips & Toolkits - Research Computing Services
https://www.r-bloggers.com/2016/11/missing-values-data-science-and-r/ Natural Language Processing (NLP) Python General Packages NLTK is a robust NLP package in Python. For an... View Details
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
meaningful and economically sustainable," he says. Lassiter's Market-based Proposal His proposed market-based solution? "I think each energy source—oil, natural gas, wind, nuclear, solar, etc.—should have a market price based not only on... View Details
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Ray A. Goldberg
genome, Goldberg has focused his most recent efforts on explaining the impact of this revolutionary discovery on the agribusiness system. "All industries that deal with living things or organic compounds will have a common language... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
counsel in guiding this then-young MBA student in both these directions—six entrepreneurial start-ups and then a seventh one that is green to boot! The seventh, GreenEarth Cleaning, owns 140 patents in 42 countries and after 12 years is the world’s largest... View Details
- 22 Nov 2024
- News
Deep Reading
Photos by Sandra Singh Last year, while taking classes on the Mishna, the first written collection of Jewish oral traditions, Antoine Leboyer (MBA 1992) wanted to dive deeper into the material. He found while there was a flood of additional texts and commentaries,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 27 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Recruiting International Students is Easy and Beneficial for Employers
complicated and expensive process. The Visa Process Is Easier Than You Think There are two things every employer should know about recruiting international students: International students do not require visa sponsorship to take part in... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
A Perfect Fit: Aligning Organization & Strategy
all have to be in alignment." Along with Russell A. Eisenstat, an independent consultant and former HBS faculty member, Beer has developed a process called Organizational Fitness Profiling, which helps a CEO or business unit general... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
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4.5 University-Wide Statement on Rights and Responsibilities | MBA
special emphasis, as well, upon certain values which are essential to its nature as an academic community. Among these are freedom of speech and academic freedom, freedom from personal force and violence, and freedom of movement.... View Details
- 14 May 2009
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Teams
in your organization, join the club. Despite the mantra that goals are good, the process of setting beneficial goals is harder than it looks. New research by HBS professor Max H. Bazerman and colleagues explores the hidden cost when... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
optimism could be considered another prerequisite for entry in an unpredictable industry that has surfaced only recently from a twenty-year depression. "The overall return is inadequate for the risk," concedes Kaiser, "yet the very nature... View Details
- 20 Apr 2020
- Book
Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings
airports. As people begin to internalize the collective nature of public health, sharing of personal health and air quality metrics—using wearables and smartphones—could lead to new applications that provide real-time information about... View Details
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
legacy labor and health care costs-is seriously incomplete and that GM's share collapsed for many of the same reasons that many of the other highly successful American firms of the 50s, 60s, and 70s were forced from the market, including a failure to understand the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Landscape of Integrated Reporting: An E-Book
practices emerge, possibly inspiring others to take up the charge. Hopefully out of that bottoms-up process some standards will emerge more spontaneously than they would from the top-down. What excites me so much about this idea is that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Research Is the Foundation
Supporting Faculty Research Endeavors When Tsedal Neeley joined the HBS faculty in 2007 as an assistant professor, she was already deeply interested in the impact that corporate common language practices have in global businesses. “I had... View Details
- 15 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult
Harvard Business School professor Kristina Steffenson McElheran studies the effect of information technology on business process innovation. It's a topic, she is sometimes told, that is, well, less than exciting. "I've had people say to... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish