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- 31 Oct 2018
- News
Pitching In for Female Leaders
yet I was one of the few women who made it through the glass ceiling to the top of international football. Until one day, the rug was pulled off from underneath me, and I found myself out of a job. There was a horrible social media defamation campaign against me. I... View Details
- 04 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Why Private Investors Must Fund 'New Nuclear' Power Right Now
Drbouz In June 2016, I gave a TED Talk called We Need Nuclear Power to Solve Climate Change. The talk discussed the world’s realistic options for reducing fossil CO2 emissions soon enough to contain climate change’s more severe effects. To my surprise, that talk has... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
To Pay or Not to Pay: Argentina and the International Debt Market
ability to enforce the terms of foreign loans often led to pitched political battles of will with the implicit threat of war as the only recourse for creditors. Between the end of World War II and the 1970's there was little foreign... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Alfaro
- 08 Jan 2014
- What Do You Think?
Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?
"nanopayments" to all of us who supply valuable information gratis to Facebook and other information exchanges that have expropriated value from both the employed and unemployed of our society. Are productivity increases contributing to social inequality? At... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Jan 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Should Management Deal With “Anonymous”?
Campbell. This still leaves us with the question of the long-term implications of cyber-warfare for business. Unlike nuclear threats, at least for now they don't represent real threats to life. But for that reason, they are much more... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
- 19 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 5/5
socioeconomic background. I have seen communities plagued with poor education systems and I have seen, how mental health-induced drug abuse is treated as a crime. I have witnessed Black adults frantically afraid when pulled over by the police and Black children viewed... View Details
- 06 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything
oddly absent on this issue. Why has it been so hard for us to come together to solve the biggest problem of our time, an existential threat to the survival of our civilization? There are, of course, many answers to this question—but I... View Details
- 13 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments
In the course of her work, Rebecca Henderson meets business executives who don't address the threat of climate change because they don't believe that it exists. Her recommendation: They should consider investments in environmental... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
decades of mismanaged immigration, lack of growth, and the threat of the euro bringing down the EU. The book offers a multidimensional, irreverent portrait of a decaying Europe and the causes and consequences of its decline. Breakthrough... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Five Honored for Missions Accomplished
capacity she helped lead the MBA Silicon Valley Immersion Experience Program. As a newspaper industry analyst at DLJ early in your career, did you anticipate the industry’s decline? I put a “sell” on newspapers in 1988 when I saw threats... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rx for Too Big to Fail
shatter every firm that might conceivably pose a systemic threat in a crisis. Large financial institutions create a danger, to be sure, but many also deliver valuable services. And even if we wished to take all of them apart, it’s... View Details
- 23 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?
wider political implications that concern me most. Brexit will put a real border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, for example, and that will pose a threat to reverse the (finally) peaceful relationship between the two... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini
- 14 Aug 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
The Manager's Guide to Leveraging Disruption
booksellers have survived. How Disruptive Innovation Changes EducationChristensen advocates for innovation to spur much-needed improvements in public education. Using Fintech to Disrupt Eastern Bank from Within When Eastern Bank decided to battle a View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The MBA Turns 100
customers — all voice concerns about the programs, according to recent research by HBS professors Srikant Datar and David Garvin. They presented their findings to participants in two separate Centennial colloquia on the future of the MBA held last spring on the HBS... View Details
- 09 Dec 2015
- Research Event
How Do You Predict Demand and Set Prices For Products Never Sold Before?
Kris Johnson Ferreira, Bin Hong Alex Lee, and David Simchi-Levi. The paper won the 2014 INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Section Practice Award. Related Reading from Future Assembly: When Hosts Attack: The Competitive Threat of... View Details
- 26 Sep 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Negotiation
greatest threats to success. Prepare to make good decisions on the fly. Situational awareness and the ability to learn as you go are critical. Do Negotiation Dynamics Change In A Family Business? Five Steps to Better Family Negotiations... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Rationale for Non-Rationality: Why We Make Bad Choices
into the conscious part of the brain, affecting its operation -- a phenomenon familiarly known as the "fight-or-flight" response. While this reaction is invaluable in the face of physical threat, Jensen noted, "it is also generated by the View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA '88)
- 24 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 24
Abstract—People experience a threat to their moral self-concept in the face of discrepancies between their moral values and their unethical behavior. We theorize that people's need to restore their view of themselves as moral activates... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ’Entrepreneurship and Multinationals’
that they posed a threat to the nation state. Yet as historians, economists and other scholars have discovered that globalization has a long history, so the role of business enterprises has tended to be written out of the script. The... View Details
Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones
- 05 Jan 2022
- News
Untapped Potential
India, and Bangladesh alone under threat from rising sea levels by 2100, “water is the medium through which climate change is really going to be experienced,” Ferguson says. “Our ability to steward the water molecule is going to be... View Details