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most cement plants. Alternative fuels and low-carbon cement made with recovered fly ash offer significant potential. Plastic Globally, 310 million tons of plastic are produced each year, almost all made from fossil fuels. Experts estimate that 90% of View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Robots Are Coming to Save Your Job
estimating that Germany could see a shortage of 3 million skilled workers by 2030; China, which accounts for about 20 percent of the world’s manufacturing production, will have a high-skilled labor gap of about 24 million by 2020,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- Web
Statement of Activity & Cash Flows | Annual Report 2024
220 208 191 Unrestricted, Current Use Gifts 44 44 45 Restricted, Current Use Gifts 28 30 24 Housing, Rents, Interests Income & Other 37 31 23 Total Revenues $ 1,098 $ 1,067 $ 966 Expenses 2024 2023 2022... View Details
- 12 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Amager Bakke: I Like This Waste Incinerator in My Backyard!
approximately 600,000 citizens and 68,000 businesses, private homes account for 50% of the combustible waste provided. Waste is also occasionally imported from countries as far away as Italy, as the environmental impact of waste... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Ink: Talking Shop
some tales, and then ask for tips,” Bines says. The experience taught him that the better you understand your customer, the richer the tips. He has worked in customer-facing businesses ever since, including his current role as managing... View Details
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
19th century but, by the end of the 20th century, had apparently grown to account for the bulk of it. Partly for this reason, replication is often treated, at least implicitly, as what "modern" or "true" multinationals... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
in business, Bill George—the highly respected former CEO of Medtronic and current Harvard Business School professor—describes how anyone can become an authentic leader. In this leadership tour de force, George presents many surprising... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao Advises New MBA Students on Business Values
Dean Kim B. Clark for founding the Leadership and Values Initiative, an effort that for the last two years has sought to more fully integrate the School's community standards of integrity and honesty, respect for others, and personal View Details
- 03 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Business History around the World
professor at Bocconi University in Milan, co-edited Business History around the World (Cambridge University Press 2004), a report on the current state of business history worldwide. Recently Jones took time to explain the importance of... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 19 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2023: Business and Environment Ventures
urban Nigerians with affordable financing for clean, reliable energy. We leverage group financing and carbon accounting to lower costs and risk in the energy transition of Nigeria's $14B fuel-based, off-grid generator market. PolyoseBio -... View Details
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger
Professor Herzlinger shared her vision for health care in an email interview with HBS Working Knowledge senior editor Martha Lagace. Herzlinger's next book, Consumer-Driven Health Care, will be published in January 2003 by Jossey-Bass.Lagace: You have a bold idea for... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Mar 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?
current account trade deficit for the US followed, with the resulting funds invested by the Chinese government in US Treasury bonds instead of going into increased consumption by Chinese consumers. This... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care
to Choice. Under positive-sum competition, all restrictions to choice at the disease or treatment level would disappear, including network restrictions and approvals of referrals. Reasonable co-pays and large deductibles combined with medical savings View Details
- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
(Editor's note: This is the last in a series of four articles based on a Harvard Business School working paper by Karen Mills that analyzes the current state of availability of bank capital for small business.) Banks are the principal... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future
This fall marks the launch of the first capital campaign in Harvard Business School's 94-year history, with a goal of raising $500 million by the end of 2005. In the following interview, Dean Kim B. Clark talks about the current state of... View Details
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Numbers on Social Investments
110 of the 128 IC investments, collecting both the valuation at the time of the initial investment and the current valuation at the time of the study for privately held companies, or the exit value for those that had experienced a... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
average, countries have adopted technologies 47 years after their invention. There is substantial variation across technologies and countries. Over the past two centuries, newer technologies have been adopted faster than old ones. The cross-country variation in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 18
inflation with a devalued currency, despite massive capital inflows and a huge current account deficit. At home, the government has carefully managed between Islamicization, democracy, and secularism. And... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 04 Mar 2002
- What Do You Think?
Why the Bull Market in Leadership Books?
Summing Up There is no shortage of explanations for what seems to be a current bull market in writings about leadership, according to respondents to this column. Charles Cullinane attributes it to the economic and national insecurity that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
that they represent on-field leadership in an offence driven league, managers and coaches account for more than half the explained variance. More than 60 percent of starting quarterbacks during the 2019 season were acquired by their View Details