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- 27 Jul 2020
- Book
Reflection: The Pause That Brings Peace and Productivity
first of the three fundamental approaches to reflection has traditionally been called contemplation, or downshifting from time to time. At work, many people tend to focus on output, and their minds act like race View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
Do Disasters Rally Support for Climate Action? It's Complicated.
Environmental disasters like wildfires can ignite awareness of climate change and boost eco-friendly politicians’ careers. But do voters perceive a tradeoff between environmental policies and local economic growth? In Brazil, home to a majority of the Amazon tropical... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 15 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next
dramatically weakened portfolio of both current and future products. Although much attention has been focused on electric cars, hybrids, and fuel cells, I believe that the key player in the carbon-conscious automobile market of the next... View Details
- 11 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Fix This! Why is it so Painful to Buy a New Car?
when buying a new car: Forget the dealerships altogether. Instead, he works with an out-of-state online auto broker who offers a fair price, good selection, and delivers the car to his driveway. Tesla Motors, for one, has hit on an... View Details
- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Birth of the American Salesman
strategy. Salesmen pushed customers to buy products or services that they might not have otherwise purchased. They were particularly good at introducing new products to customers. For instance, the cost of selling the first electric... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 31 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
From SpinPop to SpinBrush: Entrepreneurial Lessons from John Osher
the more eclectic business careers of the last few decades. His entrepreneurial journey culminated (at least temporarily) in the sale of his electric toothbrush company to Procter & Gamble for almost a half-billion dollars. Not bad... View Details
- 28 Jan 2020
- Book
Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking
volunteer before becoming a successful corporate leader. He and his work partner, Robert Saudek, had to deal with defective solar cells, embezzlement, and an Ebola outbreak before finding a smooth path to lighting and power sources for thousands of people with no... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization
innovative practices or foster sustainability?” Giacomin sees a number of other research opportunities for studying clusters. Most of the world’s lithium—now in high demand because it’s used in so many electronic products and electric... View Details
- 11 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In the Future of Sports Investing, Media Is the Best Bet
advertising." Skateboards And Electric Cars In developing an investment portfolio, Higgins says the investment group is drawing from classic business school lessons based on a two-by-two matrix. In... View Details
- 31 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies
that mentoring relationships are less likely to form across race than among people of the same race. But the positive approach would be to look at the research and say, 'Well, even though they may be rare, let's try to understand these... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 11 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives
You may think that being an energy executive—especially a manager in a leading oil company—might be the easiest job around. Just flip the production switch, and watch gas prices head toward $4 a gallon. But students enrolled in Harvard Business School professor Forest... View Details
- 31 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
With Predictive Analytics, Companies Can Tap the Ultimate Opportunity: Customers’ Routines
to create a “routineness score” by layering them on top of seven-day periods. For example, the model groups someone ordering a car at 3 p.m. and someone ordering a car at 4 p.m. as more likely to have... View Details
- 06 Sep 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?
government incentives to bolster their arguments. This view was characterized by Mark Townsend Cox, who commented, "I can count almost twenty methods of creating electricity without burning something, every one of which is... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
wind energy, electric vehicles, drainage systems, and natural ventilation are easy for those entities to justify on their economic return on investment, and that’s why they embrace those ideas. Additionality matters. The alumni group... View Details
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
American Auto’s Troubled Road
a dealer's back lot, it will nonetheless embody a defining moment in a global race for supremacy. Manufactured by Toyota, this is the car that will propel the Japanese company ahead of General Motors as the... View Details
- 07 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Electronic Health Records Were Supposed to Cut Medical Costs. They Haven't.
advocates a bundled payment system, where there is one negotiated price for a specific condition, covering everything from the patient's copay to any medication needed during the procedure. Medicare and large private employers General View Details
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Numbers on Social Investments
million. CHI Inc. is now part of Enel Green Power, part of Enel, the world's largest publicly traded electric utility. There were positive IRR investments in the consumer goods category, Honest Tea and Zip View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century
first-movers in radio were the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), a joint venture of the three leading United States producers of electrical and telecommunications equipment, and the German company Telefunken, a joint venture of the two... View Details
- 26 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Can AI Match Human Ingenuity in Creative Problem-Solving?
When ChatGPT and other large language models began entering the mainstream two years ago, it quickly became apparent the technology could excel at certain business functions, yet it was less clear how well artificial intelligence could handle more creative tasks. Sure,... View Details
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
in diffusion of care delivery innovation; and cost transparency and quality measurement. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708424 TH!NK: The Norwegian Electric View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace