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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Tu Veux Sprechen Conmigo Online?
“It’s cool to say you speak six languages,” Karen Ong (MBA ’08) told the Boston Globe (March 12, 2008). “But the process of learning a language is boring.” So Ong decided to do something about it. She... View Details
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2016 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Voice Panel: Changing the Narrative Catherine Tinsley , Georgetown University McDonough School of Business David Mensah , DKBWAVE Training and Consulting Katina Sawyer , Villanova University Panel: Hidden Processes William Kahn , Boston... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Leading Questions
standard products also employ natural language processing for analysis. Arieli (left) and Schlatka (right) cofounded Synthesis to offer a mid-range solution for the growing... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 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
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Bridges: New Dimensions in Negotiation
maintaining majority control over its natural resources. Although the mine was nationalized in time, Kennecott emerged in much better condition than similar companies that had mainly limited their bargaining strategies to interpersonal... View Details
Keywords: by Anita M. Harris
- 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
- 08 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Twenty-first Century Skill: Trading Carbon Credits
Cap and trade has become an increasingly popular mechanism used by governments to induce green behavior among corporate polluters, with news emerging almost daily. Just recently New Jersey Governor Chris Christie withdrew his state from the Regional Greenhouse Gas... View Details
- 16 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Earnings Calls That Get Lost in Translation
positively as it should have, Yu observes. While noting other issues may have contributed as well, "The answer the CFO provided had no substance, and the language itself was almost impossible to understand. If the answer is formed in... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Jul 2015
- Blog Post
Nairobi Love: Heading Home
In my early 20’s, I was really struggling to reconcile my public sector heart and private sector mind: how do ~40% of Kenyans live in poverty despite some of the highest literacy rates on the continent, an increasing cadre of highly skilled workers, an abundance of... View Details
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Amy Sennett
With her undergraduate background in international relations, Amy Sennett’s fellowship at the China Foreign Affairs University, where she taught oral English and current events, was a natural fit for her talents. While the experience was... View Details
- December 2010
- Article
Organising Response to Extreme Emergencies: The Victorian Bushfires of 2009
By: Dutch Leonard and Arnold M. Howitt
How can people and organisations best respond to emergency events that are significantly beyond the boundaries of what they had generally anticipated, expected, prepared for-or even imagined? What forms of organisations are likely to be best able to cope with such... View Details
Keywords: Organizations; Management Practices and Processes; Natural Disasters; Crisis Management; Boundaries; United States
Leonard, Dutch, and Arnold M. Howitt. "Organising Response to Extreme Emergencies: The Victorian Bushfires of 2009." Australian Journal of Public Administration 69, no. 4 (December 2010): 372–386.
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Guiding Principles for Conscious and Inclusive Description | Baker Library
or individual from which the materials originated. 1 Implement the ongoing processes of remediating our description, focusing on addressing and rectifying biased language that demeans or excludes people... View Details
- 04 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City
trusted regulatory environment: Taking a page from the playbooks of Singapore and Switzerland, both KAEC and Phu My Hung worked within national and provincial frameworks to establish extra transparency, extra processing speed, a... View Details
- 19 Jun 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: The Evolution of Agribusiness
to be seen not just as economically important, but as a critical part of society. Agribusiness touches on health, nutrition, safety, science, and government. One particular step in the evolutionary process is a transformation that... View Details
- 03 Mar 2014
- HBS Case
Decommoditizing the Canned Tomato
Consumers in the United States are so increasingly into fresh, local, and carbon neutral that if someone figured out how to grow a tomato that could walk itself to the grocery store, they'd be a millionaire. So why is Mutti S.p.a., a tomato View Details
- 09 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Speed Up Energy Innovation
Is there a special sauce for stimulating innovation in the energy sector, a concoction to spur cost-effective developments toward solving the climate change problem? HBS professor Rebecca Henderson doesn't claim to know all the ingredients for that special sauce. But... View Details