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- 15 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
We Have Better Ways to Break Habits Than Willpower. Why Don't We Use Them?
doesn’t work. You Might Also Like: Banned or Not, TikTok Is a Force Companies Can’t Afford to Ignore Why We Still Need Twitter: How Social Media Holds Companies Accountable What Motivates People to Give Generously—and Why We Sometimes... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Adam Kanner
because “The team at ScoreBig has developed a solution to two of the biggest challenges facing the live entertainment industry: making live events more affordable for price conscious consumers, and increasing live event attendance.... View Details
- 27 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
HBS Summer Fellows Respond to COVID-19
world. Peter Le: Understand how global supply chain works and what are the potential drivers and hurdles for efficient global supply chain systems. Prerna Arya: Through this internship, I hope to learn more about health-tech, how an View Details
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Michelle Shell & Ryan Buell
environment is that it affords the opportunity to pursue important questions using multiple lenses, a broad array of methodologies, and an abundance of resources. In this project, Michelle and I are tackling a real world problem that... View Details
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
and you capture carbon; and it’s a natural consequence of growing grains, growing row crops,” he observes. Wiviott and SFP have come up with a win-win, market-based way of getting farmers to go organic. The model affords investors the... View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Giving Hope and Comfort
morning and go through the day worried about how they look, smell, or feel because they can't afford a bar of soap or a tube of toothpaste." Between 2011 and 2015, Feingold estimates, the nonprofit supplied 100,000 items to social-service... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Working on the Local Level
solution-oriented, solution-minded. If you see yourself as a problem solver or a policy entrepreneur and you want to do the work that helps people, being at the local level right now affords you great opportunity to have real impact.”... View Details
- 02 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Indulgence vs. Regret: Investing in Future Memories
afford to buy a $20,000 (and up) watch choose to do otherwise? "Marketers can convince consumers that buying their product is actually a farsighted behavior," Keinan says. "In that sense, consumers are investing in future... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 15 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons Not Learned About Innovation
brick wall was erected to separate the two sides of the building. Time was wasted battling each other and even stealing each others' customers. So the message is you can't afford to build two cultures. Strong interpersonal connections... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Great Ideas Get Stuck in Universities
commercialization gap left by companies, “universities will have to be very careful that they don’t shift too far into doing the commercial work,” Roche says. “Because what academia has afforded for so many decades is the freedom to do... View Details
- 09 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
Reflections on Student Conferences in 2020
year the winner of the competition was Boston Meats, a new startup based in Boston whose mission is to make delicious, nutritious, and affordable alternative meats. A key takeaway from the day was the importance of advancing technology... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
appreciate a certain level of service, and you can afford to provide it, which is fun. You want to be able to train people extensively, pay them well, and have your customers really value the results.” SmartPak’s road to the future will... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
A For-Profit Business That Makes Education Accessible
developing world where there are fewer educational opportunities, those in the developed world who cannot afford the available options, and those affected by the upheaval in business and schooling caused by the pandemic. For instance, in... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 18 Aug 2014
- News
Closing the Education Gap
state funding.” Dias Griffin and her husband, Ken Griffin, have made education a cornerstone of their philanthropy for years. Through their eponymous family foundation, they have donated more than $13 million to CHECC. “I benefited from a great free education that I... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
The Difference Fellowships Make
their merits rather than their ability to afford the cost of an HBS education. The resulting richness of perspectives is what causes the one-of-a-kind classroom experience that is a hallmark of HBS. Simply put, need-blind admissions would... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Bart Harvey: Opportunities for Others
community development movement that provides all low-income people with affordable housing and the opportunity to move into the economic mainstream. Working through a network of more than twelve hundred community-based nonprofit... View Details
- 02 Aug 2004
- What Do You Think?
For Greater Transparency, Is Section 404 an Effective Response?
of the article. Richard Eckel opined that "A basic misconception is that Section 404 increases transparency afforded to stakeholders... What 404 does is require that corporate leadership demonstrate that the processes used to produce... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger
provide health insurance, but who cannot afford it, will find new, lower-cost consumer-driven health care policies, such as those offered by California's Wellpoint, that help them achieve their goal. Employees in defined-contribution... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
From the Panelists: Toward a Decarbonized Future: Who Pays? Who Profits?
today, so the near-term is defined much more by deploying existing solutions than inventing never-before-known solutions.” He added: “The Infrastructure/Energy Transition is well underway, driven by customer demand for more affordable... View Details
- 20 Mar 2019
- News
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
The window for meaningful policy action is short—we have less than 10 years to transition to clean energy, and to get there we must enact effective policies in the coming two years. This short timeframe poses challenges, said Henderson. “If we could View Details