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- 04 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Is Government Just Stupid? How Bad Decisions Are Made
to which special-interest groups have corrupted the legislative process. The world's great fishing basins are in decline. New England's proportion of the world fishing harvest is down by ninety percent. Although the warning signs were... View Details
- 07 Jul 2021
- Book
Good News for Disgraced Companies: You Can Regain Trust
When Facebook failed to protect the privacy of 87 million people whose data was harvested without their consent in 2015, the company not only circumvented data privacy regulations, it breached the public’s trust. And by failing to... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 25 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Dark Side of Fintech Borrowing
fintech lenders harvest deeper insight into those borrowers that banks typically reject after running a standard credit check. Fintech lenders claim to consult additional metrics like utility bills or rent payments to identify... View Details
- 30 Apr 2020
- Book
Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism
Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details
- 22 May 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
A Luxury Industry Veteran Teaches the Importance of Aesthetics to Budding Business Leaders
laundromat called “Linens and Lattes” that would let customers drink coffee, socialize, and surf the web while waiting for their clothes to dry). Well into the night, the judges discussed the presentations over dinner at Harvest... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
relevant. In fact, basic research can help to predict—or even to prevent—real-world events years before they happen. Case in point: In 1996, Max H. Bazerman and several colleagues published “Egocentric Interpretations of Fairness in Asymmetric, Environmental Social... View Details
- 07 Dec 2016
- HBS Case
Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing
contributions. Financial copy cats move in Most of the strategy Wealthfront pursues is identical for each client; however, it does provide some amount of individual customization through a process known as tax-loss harvesting and asset... View Details
- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
can, under certain conditions, yield immediate post-break performance increases. We test our hypotheses using productivity data from 212 fruit harvesters collected over one harvesting season yielding nearly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2014
- HBS Case
Decommoditizing the Canned Tomato
materials," says Shelman.) Most processors try to pay farmers as little as possible for their tomatoes. They enter contracts with farmers early in the year, but in years with large harvests they might find reasons to discount that price... View Details
- 06 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything
is an innovation problem. That is, it is hard for exactly the same reasons that any really disruptive innovation is hard. "As the storms get stronger and the harvests fail more often, political pressure for carbon regulation will... View Details
- 10 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Long-Tail Economics? Give Me Blockbusters!
test kits to fund frontier research into cardio diagnostics. More risky than pursuing blockbusters is not to pursue them, to condemn your enterprise to a lifetime of slave labor harvesting the long tail of micro-opportunities rather than... View Details
- 23 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Oil Price Fallout: What Happens Next?
emissions will go right back up." The precipitous decline of oil prices also threatens the long-term viability of some of the country's shale oil projects. Shale oil is expensive to harvest and becomes prohibitively so as oil prices... View Details
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
If you ask any given environmentalist to identify the biggest threat to the planet, you may expect to hear about man-made climate change, consumerism, or overpopulation. But if you ask Harvard Business School's Joseph B. Lassiter, he'll toss in another: single-issue... View Details
- 17 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’
of compostable fiber. “We thought very highly of ourselves and patted ourselves on the back for doing such an amazing job and for the impact we were going to make.” As workers began harvesting lettuce and putting it into the eco-friendly... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 27 Jul 2019
- Op-Ed
Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?
profiles of their friends, who didn’t even use the application, were accessed by Cambridge Analytica who was able harvest information for 87 million people—many of whom had never authorized it. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg later said... View Details
Keywords: by George Riedel
- 31 Mar 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is This the Decade of the Investor?
managers and employees as a whole. Rather than provide the intended incentives, some argue, mega-grants do little more than offer a means of keeping score among peers. Can managers and employees continue to harvest such a large proportion... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
AmeriCorps service members, it now is focused on maximizing food production by expanding growing space and adjusting crop plans. The goal is to double last year’s harvest of 3 tons of food, which is being given free of charge to local... View Details
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
sought to market value-added shellfish products in a traditionally commodities-based industry, while facing supply uncertainties and regulatory, environmental, and foreign exchange challenges. Clearwater harvested lobsters, clams,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
in improving processes. Retailers can certainly learn from the auto industry's experience. Like in manufacturing a few decades ago, there is a lot of low-hanging fruit in retail operations today. However, to harvest these fruits retailers... View Details
- 26 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 26, 2006
close, the company has successfully navigated several rounds of VC financing and is weighing harvest strategies and next steps. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806073 Codon Devices... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne