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- 26 Oct 2017
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Can Farming Save the Planet?
magnitude and complexity of the problem. Don Wiviott (MBA 1984) begs to differ. For him, the solution is both simple and doable. The solution Wiviott envisions is to convert typically high-production, conventional, GMO-based farms to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Passing the Torch
approach to management. One clue might be found in Immelt's comments to USA Today (September 7, 2001), where he declared, "There's consequence for lack of performance, and believe me, that won't end with... View Details
- 06 Feb 2020
- News
HBS Alumni Join Forces on Virus Outbreak in China
the Dr. Li Wenliang HBS Alumni Memorial Fund, named after the whistleblower who first identified the Wuhan virus and subsequently died. According to Zhang, the fund was set up to be transparent, direct, and efficient, with the funds to be... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Wasserman Wins Award
Associate Professor Noam Wasserman has won the Innovation in Entrepreneurship Pedagogy Award from the Academy of Management in recognition of his second-year MBA elective course Founders’ Dilemmas. Based on a decade of research, the popular course examines the early... View Details
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- 17 Aug 2022
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To Serve and Protect the Markets
identifying areas for improvement. We try to work with them to fix issues.” The SEC can also rely on its hugely effective Whistleblower Program, which has paid more than $1.3 billion in awards to individuals... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2018
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Combating Climate Change
If global temperatures rise by 6 degrees celsius by 2050—as they are on track to do—officials at the International Energy Agency say the changes would bring “devastating consequences for the planet.” And... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Faculty Research Online
management was a licensed profession on a par with law or medicine, there might be fewer opportunities for corporate bad guys, argue HBS professors Rakesh Khurana and Nitin Nohria and research associate Daniel Penrice. How to Harness... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
have big consequences for how people spend the money and its impact on their businesses and their livelihoods.” “That paper was very influential and one of the first indications to academics that small... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Trade Off
consequences of distribution. DR: There is no doubt that there is an overall gain. But the question is, who gains? Who loses? The concentrated interests affected negatively by free trade in some industries or regions lead to requests... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Multimedia Simulation Provides Real-World Reality Check
the same tools that they’ve seen in the [Strategy] course,” he adds. “We can have a case discussion to determine whether ideas are reasonable or not, but there’s no way for us to test them in the classroom. In the simulation, students... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Complements to the Case Method
case discussion to determine whether ideas are reasonable or not, but there’s no way for us to test them in the classroom. In the simulation, students have to make choices and then learn about the View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Research Brief: Lost in Translation
“non-plain” English: executive-speak, technical jargon, and multisyllabic words. A single standard deviation increase in non-plain English, for example, led to a 5.66 percent reduction in intraday trading volumes, even after controlling... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Capitalism’s New Agenda
potential for populist reaction to these problems that could lead to damaging legislation. We classified what we heard as 10 potential disrupters of the global market system: the functioning of the financial system; barriers to world... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Research Brief: The Best Medicine
only about 5 percent of participants in clinical drug trials. In the working paper, “Representation and Extrapolation: Evidence from Clinical Trials,” coauthors Marcella Alsan, Maya Durvasula, Harsh Gupta, Heidi Williams, and Schwartzstein looked at the causes and... View Details
- 27 Apr 2022
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Following the Flow of Aid
provide food, shelter, and services to people crossing the border from Ukraine. But the experience also underscored for McKenna some of the “uncomfortable truths of aid work,” according to an April article in SeattleMet. “You’d see people... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Gore All Business at HBS
challenge we face,” he said, “is changing the way we think about our relationship with the environment.” Business, Gore asserted, must conduct itself with a greater appreciation for the long-term View Details
- 17 Dec 2015
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Applying Strategy Concepts In Innovative Ways Through Technology
tools that they’ve seen in the course. We can have a case discussion to determine whether ideas are reasonable or not, but there’s no way for us to test them in the classroom. In the simulation, students have to make choices and then... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
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Research Brief: A Path to Moral Management
arise,” he says. “They leave HBS with big dreams and the thought that they have a solid grasp on what is right and what is wrong.” Over the past eight years, Soltes has spoken to more than four dozen former executives who did commit white-collar crimes, discovering... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 17 Aug 2020
- News
Democratizing Medicine
suffered the consequences of that lack of access. “And in particular, we looked at the health care space in the US and realized that 40% of the referrals to specialists were unnecessary. And at the same time, half of the country doesn't... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
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Faculty Books
Enterprise Analytics: Optimize Performance, Process, and Decisions through Big Data edited by Thomas Davenport (FT Press) This book, a collection of research papers from the International Institute for Analytics, addresses a wide variety... View Details