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Research - Race, Gender & Equity
2023 (Revised November 2023) Case The Miccosukee Tribe and the Battle to Save the Everglades: A Miami Climate Action Story By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Joyce J. Kim The Miccosukee Indians, a small tribe of indigenous people in South... View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
looked to a new "profession of business" for nothing less than saving modern, industrial civilization from itself. As the professionalization project that had provided the agenda for American business education from its founding... View Details
- 03 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Transforming Manufacturing Waste into Profit
It's been said that "one man's trash is another man's treasure." HBS Assistant Professor Deishin Lee, however, has taken that old adage a step further in her recent working paper Turning Waste into By-Product by showing how it's possible for companies to turn... View Details
- Research Summary
The Panama Canal
The Big Ditch is the first quantitative economic history of the Panama Canal and its effect on Panama, the United States, and the world economy. It makes three general arguments. First, that the Panama Canal was very important to... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977
of Mexico shrimp fisherman who stayed in business with low-interest economic injury loans after the BP oil spill, to a Pennsylvania drill bit manufacturer whose SBA-financed technology was instrumental in rescuing the trapped Chilean miners, to a couple whose Arkansas... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
new application of technology, he set his sights on winning it—and did. “AutoCAD had been around, but it wasn’t being used at Bath Iron Works,” he recalls. “I ran the numbers on the cost savings and—lo and behold—won the award. Management... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Joseph J. O'Donnell, MBA 1971
newspapers at enormous savings to national studios and local exhibitors. And skiers who have enjoyed winters at Jiminy Peak in western Massachusetts and Bromley Mountain in Vermont are schussing in resorts the company owns, while the food... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
End Game
Illustration by James Steinberg In the 1960s and 1970s, as the environmental movement dawned in the United States, a new generation of activist-minded entrepreneurs appeared. Among them were companies like Body Shop, Aveda, Tom’s of Maine, and Whole Foods—all founded... View Details
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
drug could treat osteoporosis and thus developed their one-billion-dollar-a-year drug, Evista, while Strattera, a failed antidepressant, was discovered to be an effective treatment for hyperactivity/attention deficit disorder. Second, a deep probing analysis can... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
- 18 Feb 2019
- Book
What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology
dry cleaning be picked up and delivered, saving you the trouble of going to the dry cleaner’s yourself. With this digital equivalent layered on top of the standard business model, the third and final layer for entrepreneurs and executives... View Details
- 04 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
4 Tips for MBA Students with Families
saved us during the winter! We were advised to live on campus so we didn’t even consider living off campus, although I suppose some of the merits are that you can save money, have a pet (if that is an... View Details
- 26 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Financing the Climate Transition in India
entire fleet to electric (10k+ busses)c. Over a period of 10 years, they will save approximately 6,000 million liters of fuel and reduce CO2 emissions by 6.5 million [metric] tons Takeaways: Operational Model Shift: BEST's shift from a... View Details
- Portrait Project
Arpit Agrawal
did not care. I just wanted to play. I just wanted my shot in this major league of teenagers. They agreed. In the next one hour, I gave it everything I had. I chased every ball down. I dived to save every run. I did everything to help my... View Details
- 12 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Pay Workers More So They Steal Less
employee theft. A cost-benefit analysis proved that what companies saved in cash and inventory loss covered about 39 percent of the costs associated with wage increases. (So if a company increases wages by $1, it can expect to lose almost... View Details
- 04 Oct 2022
- What Do You Think?
Have Managers Underestimated the Need for Face-to-Face Contact?
without suggesting what that might mean for tariff policy. David Wittenberg, saying that he is “loath to offer any advice save to treat the situation gingerly,” saw the US-China relationship as one in which, “The US administration has to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Carlos A. Saladrigas: Hardworking Optimist
Saladrigas managed to save $400 -- by mowing lawns, delivering newspapers, and waxing cars -- to help his parents get settled when they arrived from Cuba in 1962. Tragically, his mother then developed cancer, and Saladrigas dropped out of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It
will often consider the giant risk but ignore the smaller risks that create friction in the supply chain," says M. Eric Johnson, director of the Center for Digital Strategies at Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business in Hanover, N.H. "They'll look at... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Thai Lee, MBA 1985
While her native country was not a friendly environment for a budding female entrepreneur, she made the best of the situation in order to meet her goal of saving enough money to attend business school. Similarly, when Lee applied to HBS,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
André R. Jakurski, MBA 1973
at the Paris train station to save enough money to move to Brazil. "My father was an engineer, and my mother was an entrepreneur," says Jakurski, who, like his parents, has achieved remarkable success seizing business opportunities in... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- Portrait Project
Shardule Shah
in. The lines between parenting and working are increasingly blurred, but I am here for all of it. It took me a while to realize that having kids adds value even in business. I had thought that the guiding light for my biotech startup would be the prospect of View Details