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11 Mar 2021
News

Leading with Heart

And Aisha unfortunately had the same condition that Tanya did. And then we had to battle like crazy to save her. We had to fly her to the UK. I had only $2,000 in my pocket. Enough to just buy an air ticket, one-way air ticket. I didn't... View Details

22 Feb 2022
News

New Urban Order

generally. There are potentially even greater savings to be realized in improving building efficiency, he notes, through energy audits, retrofits, and smart building software (the DOE estimates energy waste in the average US commercial... View Details

Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services

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

02 Feb 2022
Blog Post

How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Nikki Philip

and a community savings and loans cooperative in Migori County, Kenya. At Lwala I worked in Monitoring & Evaluation, Program Design & Implementation, and Development. After two and a half years at Lwala I took a position in Player... View Details

10 May 2019
Blog Post

Advice for Mothers Pursuing an MBA

Joy and Tarang took care of my son and literally saved the day. Being a mother/parent at HBS is a learning experience for everyone: yourself, your section mates, your friends, and family. You’ll learn how to juggle many things and see... View Details

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

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Beauty & Cosmetics; Insurance; Service; Retail

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why IT Does Matter

playing out over the past decade. Our advice to the CEO is to look at IT use through several different lenses. One lens should be focused on improving cost savings and efficiencies. Another should be focused on the incremental improvement... View Details

Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan

12 Feb 2021
News

How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World

page turner in terms of how we were going to escape the claws of this hostile predator who in fact, had bought Lincoln Savings in New York and Union Oil in Canada. And within a year or two from the time that we were successful in terms of... View Details

Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

18 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

Learning in Action

emerged as obviously superior, so a fourth team was formed to draw from the best elements of the three original simulations, rearranging Cardboard City a final time. It resulted in a compact, tightly focused factory and well-positioned machines — View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

inconsistent patchwork. They’re still set at minimum levels, giving occupants time to escape but not saving properties. Homes are the core of most people’s wealth and the most vulnerable assets. How do we ignite a sense of... View Details

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By: Reshmaan N. Hussam

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

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

10 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Do You Have Change Fatigue?

low-level—and virtually unnoticed. Kill The Hero, Save The Change The applicability of Semco's model to large corporations is a matter of some debate. Nevertheless, Henry Mintzberg, a professor of management studies at McGill University... View Details

Keywords: by Nick Morgan

12 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Enron’s Lessons for Managers

five-legged cow; it doesn't really make sense. I think that Enron's pathologies are not unique, save in their collective occurrence and collective impact. Very few of us who engage in competitive endeavors have not in some way been... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Charts & Statistics - Leadership

protection weakened Price controls Influence: Low 80 1980 s 19 Reaganomics Heavy defense and deficit spending Savings and Loan bailout Chrysler bailout Breakup of AT&T Influence: Medium-Low 90 1990 s Family and Medical Leave Act Americans... View Details

28 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: RMZ EcoWorld

possible. This was surprising, given our understanding of the “split incentives” problem in green buildings: the party responsible for emissions-reducing investments (developers) are often unable to capture the savings of those... View Details

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HBS - The year in Review

and working on campus. Conservation measures yielded $29 million in estimated savings in the last decade, and also brought in $2 million in incentives and $130,000 from solar renewable energy credits. More on Campus Sustainability A Dean... View Details

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

million, down 28 percent from the prior year. This amounted to 9 percent of the School's total operating costs in both fiscal years. As with other line items on the income statement, the reduction in on-campus activity due to COVID-19 resulted in significant View Details

30 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

The Upside of Highlighting a Product's Downsides

wait for care. Patagonia lists the suppliers for each item on its website, while Southwest Airlines’ “transfarency” campaign pledges to save customers from hidden fees. After all, customers are already turning to Google searches and... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

08 Sep 2008
HBS Case

The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

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