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- 24 May 2021
- Op-Ed
Can Fabric Waste Become Fashion’s Resource?
COVID-19 has broken fashion’s supply chain. As a result, an already wasteful industry has become more wasteful. Even before the pandemic, the global apparel industry was producing about 92 million tons of textile waste a year. That’s about one garbage truck’s worth of... View Details
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Engaged with field work in South Asia and East Africa, Professor Hussam places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the economics literature as well as relevant downstream policy implications. Her research spans four broad interests.... View Details
- 11 Jul 2016
- HBS Case
Neurodiversity: The Benefits of Recruiting Employees with Cognitive Disabilities
valuable lessons for MBAs. Pisano focuses on organizational issues, given the complex and multi-layered process required. He wants students to think beyond the feel-good nature of the program and dig into how to build a successful, View Details
- 02 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
6 Strategies for Building Socially Responsible—and Profitable—Companies
A dozen years ago, Harvard Business School Professor George Serafeim wondered why some companies operated with an eye toward the greater good, while most did not. Back then, he always got the same response: Corporate leaders thought social and environmental practices... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
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Grant uses a combination of laboratory and field experiments to harness consumers' cognitive and affective resources to increase their well-being. Consumers make countless daily decisions in the pursuit of happiness -- whether and how to spend or save their money, what... View Details
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
decided to promote the idea of wine tastings from home. Customers can order a tasting package from the company website, including the wine, tasting notes and a link to a video that would essentially serve as a virtual tasting. As Castelanelli explained to Forbes.com,... View Details
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
differed from how Airbnb expanded. For Airbnb to send photographers to each new member’s residence was not easily scalable and financially unsustainable. More important, it was not necessary to continue subsidizing professional photo... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Nov 2013
- Op-Ed
Twitter IPO: Overvalued or the Start of Something Big?
interfaces have allowed Twitter to focus on their unique plug-and-play component. Beyond that, they have created impressive and scalable operating capabilities of their own though an impressive combination of resources and processes. They... View Details
- 15 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Are the Most Talented Employees the Highest Paid? Yes—If They’re Bankers
Scalability Matters The data showed that the finance industry rewarded talented workers to a far greater extent than did other industries. Bankers who had gone to top engineering schools made vastly more money than those who had gone to... View Details
- 07 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Obama’s Clean Power Plan: Can Nuclear Power Beat the Global Threat of Coal?
Chinese and Indians a clearly perceived alternative to coal - that means cheap enough and scalable enough, probably by the mid '20s - then the [coal] plants will have already been built. The carbon will already be in the air. And it will... View Details
- 14 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 14, 2015
on a profitable and scalable basis. With Pearson's overall strategy shifting from the developed to the developing world and from a supplier of books to a host of other learning products and services, the company thought PALF's lessons... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
identify your core customers and build a scalable platform for growth around them. That's the message from Frank V. Cespedes, the MBA Class of 1973 Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at Harvard Business School; James P. Dougherty,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55493 Marketplace Scalability and Strategic Use of Platform Investment By: Li, Jin, Gary P. Pisano, and Feng Zhu Abstract— The View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Tech Investment the Wise Way
margins provide the justification for the real and financial assets required to realize the value proposition. The margins and assets together establish the threshold for financial scalability of the technology into available business. In... 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 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
world, the economics were terrific. The business was highly scalable but, in addition, there was a great market for the digital information. So that part of the business looked to be very well-founded. But in the physical world, it was a... View Details
- 08 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Will the Japan Disaster Remake the Landscape for Green Energy in Asia?
relatively cost efficient and scalable source of electricity. The reviews will happen across the world and each country will consider their own energy mix characteristics together with local sentiment." Todd was one of several... View Details
- 03 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It
scalable and easier to build than traditional reactors. The company, which grew out of research funded by the Department of Energy, has applied for certification in the United States from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. TerraPower has... View Details
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
attractive to businesses, especially to e-commerce firms that thrive on global and scalable business models. Yet, most global e-commerce players, with a few exceptions, have failed to achieve significant success in Asia. This article... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
coal. I fear traditional coal burning's CO2 emissions. Regrettably, I have not seen to date a scalable technology for making coal a zero-carbon alternative because the associated costs lead to energy costs that history says will be... View Details