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- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Rowing Upstream
their task but also energize team members through the bonding that comes with striving toward a common goal. It’s important to remember, however, that poorly designed teams can waste resources and time.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The End of Cows?
is now used to raise or grow feed for livestock. As Alvarez notes in the case, the United States alone is home to 90 million cattle. Each animal creates 65 pounds of waste a day, the processing of which... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Starting Lineup: Power Plays
Venture Competition, is currently in use by more than 1,500 companies. Callida Energy CEO Raphael Carty (MBA 1983); Founded 2013 Reducing energy waste in commercial buildings and improving comfort through... View Details
- 28 Sep 2018
- News
Pushing Progress at Panasonic
Yasuyuki Higuchi (MBA 1991) (photo by Akio Kon/Bloomberg) Yasuyuki Higuchi (MBA 1991) (photo by Akio Kon/Bloomberg) When he was fresh out of engineering school in 1980, Yasuyuki Higuchi (MBA 1991) got a job at Panasonic. He left just as the consumer electronics boom... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: You Can't Enlarge the Pie
by Max H. Bazerman, Jonathan Baron, and Katherine Shonk (Basic Books) In "You Can't Enlarge the Pie": Six Barriers to Effective Government, authors Max Bazerman, the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration at HBS,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Organic Matter
above: Neil Black (left) and N. Ross Buckenham at a California Bioenergy partner dairy in Bakersfield, California (photo by Christina Gandolfo) Cars and coal—not cows—are most frequently cited as drivers of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
Issue Focus: Business and the Environment Zobel de Ayala Photographs by Tom Epperson Issue Focus The Business and Environment Initiative at HBS The City Solution Green Day Related Links Watch Ayala discuss... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Alumni Books
investors, or other members of development teams. Firing Back by Jeffrey Sonnenfeld (MBA ’78, DBA ’81) and Andrew Ward (HBS Press) The authors lay out a novel five-step recovery process to rescue a career:... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Immersion Program Digs Deep
introduced in 2007. Created to provide educational experiences that complement and extend classroom learning, immersions offer students the opportunity for intensive exposure to an industry or region of the world. Demand was high: This... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
David Horgan: Iraqi Briefing, 21st November, 2003
ditching its appointees: they are unelectable, too westernised to rule by force and unreliable even as puppets. The likely outcome is a government similar to that recently ousted. There were many wasted... View Details
- 03 Mar 2016
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Pamela Meyer (MBA 1986)
the uncomfortable moments. The ability to have a difficult conversation is a necessary social skill that mature leaders have to develop. Knowing someone is deceptive is quite different from knowing the truth. It’s important to recognize that difference. We don’t have a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 10 Feb 2016
- News
Investing in Sustainability
produced in the United States is never eaten; 3.8 million gallons of fuel are wasted everyday from unnecessary idling. The nonprofit’s investment strategy is far less typical. Sustainable America makes direct investments with the goal of... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Helping Leaders Chart an Ethical Path
Business Administration Joseph L. Rice III Faculty Fellow But that value made it difficult for Cedar Environmental to survive in Lebanon. Though he could move to another country, Lebanon is home for Abi Chaker and he is committed to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Alumni Books
Breakthrough Marketing Plans: How to Stop Wasting Time and Start Driving Growth by Tim Calkins (MBA ’91) (Palgrave Macmillan) Most marketing plans are a waste of time — too... View Details
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Faculty Research Online
fast-food formula for the local market. Teaching a ‘Lean Start-Up’ Strategy Most start-ups fail because they waste too much time and money building the wrong product before realizing too late what the right... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Feedback
problem—we die very expensively. It is pretty well established that 30 percent of our lifelong health care occurs in the last year of life and the majority of that in the last 30 days. The second is that the medical profession is... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 14 Nov 2012
- News
Remembering His Roots
happened. “My life was spared, and I felt that it was my destiny to continue going forward with full force; this included completing a higher education, providing for my family, and helping my fellow... View Details
Keywords: farmworkers
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Reinventing the Annual Report
recognizing this, BMW Group several years ago began issuing a Sustainable Value Report detailing the energy and water consumed, waste removed, and volatile organic compounds... View Details
Keywords: Robert G. Eccles
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Designing a More Artful Future for the Middle East
led him to start creating public art—often combining Arabic calligraphy and graffiti—on the drab post-civil-war walls of his hometown of Beirut, Lebanon, in 2009. His success with guerilla art eventually led to commissions View Details
Keywords: Inclusion
- 05 Mar 2025
- News
Uncertain Terms
After Amar Bhidé (MBA 1979/DBA 1988) became an HBS assistant professor in 1988, then-dean John H. McArthur (MBA 1959/DBA 1963) gave him a copy of economist Frank Knight’s 1921 book Risk, Uncertainty and Profit. Knight’s idea that “uncertainty” must be distinguished... View Details