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- 03 Jul 2024
- News
Surviving the Iditarod
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Sunny Stroeer: Many folks have heard of the Iditarod Sled Dog race, which is the last great race on earth where mushers compete to cover the distance from Anchorage to Nome as quickly as possible. The... View Details
- 07 Jan 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs
interesting and important thing." Another question: Do leaders in these industries give the audience what they want, or something new and different? Of course, the safe thing to do is to sell work that aligns with prevailing cultural... View Details
- 31 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Not to Trust Your Gut
negotiators believe they are capable of distinguishing between situations in which they can safely rely on intuition from those that require more careful thought—but often they are wrong. In fact, most of us trust our intuition more than... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman & Deepak Malhotra
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
economics.” She also sits on the board of Water.org, a nonprofit organization founded by actor Matt Damon and engineer and CEO Gary White, which is dedicated to enabling people in the developing world gain access to safe water and... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
than 50 interviews in 10 countries to further Professor Raffaella Sadun's examination of how resilient businesses can effectively and safely restart as COVID-19 abates. “Thanks to the ingenuity and effort of the research centers, we were... View Details
- 09 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off
micrograms of total suspended particulates per cubic meter, yet the World Health Organization establishes 90 as a maximum safe level (Berlin's level is 50). Over 25,000 square kilometers of land were deforested in Brazil each year from... View Details
Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
and compatible. Several countries have conflicting Arctic sovereignty and resources claims. Will the rule of law prevail, or will we see gunboat, or icebreaker, diplomacy? It’s in the mutual interest of all nations to ensure that the Arctic is accessible, safe, secure,... View Details
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
SAAS solution for small businesses to introduce machine learning by text to their business finances’ (or something like that). The folks we met on Shark Tank made things like a container for your sandwich so it doesn’t get soggy in a cooler or a bed that turns into a... View Details
- Web
Dean Srikant Datar’s 2022 Commencement Remarks | About
maximizing the number of service calls they needed to take. Leaders of these organizations create psychologically safe cultures, as my colleague Amy Edmondson would say. They invest in building trust to encourage employees to act and to... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
companies challenged the status quo, and the old, "safe" jobs turned out to be not very safe at all, as large companies entered extended periods of malaise and restructuring. Ed O'Lear: It's important to note why money managers decided to... View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 7
million people around the globe lacked access to safe drinking water. Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway, sought to bring fresh water to poor and rural areas with the Slingshot, a water purification device. Kamen's challenge was to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 10
that search engine advertisements tend to be less safe than the corresponding organic listings. Least-Cost Avoiders in Online Fraud and Abuse Author:Benjamin G. Edelman Publication:IEEE Security and Privacy 8, no. 4 (July-August 2010)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation
"safe" jobs turned out to be not very safe at all, as large companies entered extended periods of malaise and restructuring. Ed O'Lear: It's important to note why money managers decided to allocate significant assets to venture... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 28 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #4: Erika Myers, World Resources Institute Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
charging station is in the darkest corner of a parking garage, women will see it as unsafe. Charging stations should be in well-lit places. They should be as safe as if they were gas stations.”The name Erika chose for her blog captures... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
19th, they paradoxically sought to make the world safe for “capitalists.” The word “socialists” was first used in northern Italy as a term of contempt for the political economists and legal reformers Pietro Verri and Cesare Beccaria,... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/715022-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 215-031 Citywide Building Services No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/215031-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 215-030... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
After the Storm
those moments of questioning, doubting, feeling insecure, I know that I also was not bringing my best ideas, my best thinking oftentimes. And so it was really important to me that for our students who come to school every day, for a staff members that we were creating... View Details
- 20 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 20, 2008
variable labor supply, social security benefits and portfolio choice over safe bonds and risky equities. Our analysis reinforces prior findings that equities are the preferred asset for young households, with the optimal share of equities... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
the largest opportunities for reducing commercial-building carbon emissions. Sorbent Ventilation Technology improves HVAC efficiency by cleaning indoor air so that it can be safely recirculated, thereby reducing the need to condition... View Details
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
was 65 million years ago. And of course, it does not mean that we are safe for the next 140 million years or so. It just means it could happen anytime. The ones we know of, that killed off the dinosaurs, was due to an asteroid impacting... View Details