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- 31 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
With Predictive Analytics, Companies Can Tap the Ultimate Opportunity: Customers’ Routines
to create a “routineness score” by layering them on top of seven-day periods. For example, the model groups someone ordering a car at 3 p.m. and someone ordering a car at 4 p.m. as more likely to have... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
Manufacturing Gains Professor Richard H.K. Vietor A train carrying oil tank cars near Gladstone, North Dakota. “The gas from this shale revolution has made petrochemicals, cement—almost everything, really—cheaper in the United States than... View Details
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
vehicles increase vehicle utilization and provide greater mobility with a fraction of the number of cars currently on the road? How will oil companies react to falling oil demand caused by the increased adoption of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Smaller Collections - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
B432 4 boxes, approx. 600 photographs Collection Guide The collection documents electric railway cars and lines in twenty-six states and in Washington, D.C. First introduced in the United States in the... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
provide electricity that is affordable, and reliable, and sustainable, using a technology called solar-powered mini-grids. What that means is, we provide electricity to people who don't have it in rural... View Details
- 03 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Van den Ende Rozen
pesticides within the next decade. Instead of using rodenticides, several cats live in the greenhouse to control the mice population. The company extends its commitment to sustainability throughout its entire supply chain. This includes employing View Details
- 29 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play
experiences of General Electric alumni who went to new companies. Among the findings: "Even gifted executives with the best and most admired management training don't necessarily make star CEOs," the authors report. This excerpt... View Details
- 29 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Whence IT Value?
A final explanation is intriguing. It states that new inventions, even manifestly useful ones such as computers, require some "percolation" time before they are productively employed. Studies of the history of steam and electric... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
- 07 May 2018
- News
What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries
five-year trip. Morrell: How did you travel? I mean, in other words, were you driving most of the time? Did you travel with fixers? Did you feel your way through it? How did that work? Tapon: I didn't have any fixers anywhere. I did it all by myself. I had a car. I... View Details
- 11 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure
Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
China’s Economic System has Difficult Road Overcoming its Political System
grew it into the largest auto parts company in the world. Recently the company even helped bail out Detroit by investing in US auto parts companies that were going belly-up, and is becoming a leader in electric View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 11 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In the Future of Sports Investing, Media Is the Best Bet
advertising." Skateboards And Electric Cars In developing an investment portfolio, Higgins says the investment group is drawing from classic business school lessons based on a two-by-two matrix. In... View Details
- 07 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Electronic Health Records Were Supposed to Cut Medical Costs. They Haven't.
advocates a bundled payment system, where there is one negotiated price for a specific condition, covering everything from the patient's copay to any medication needed during the procedure. Medicare and large private employers General View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Blue-Green Revolution
Much hope and plenty of money are riding on the idea that batterypowered electric cars will help slow global warming by reducing tailpipe emissions. But when it comes to reducing the greenhouse gases... View Details
- 01 Apr 2008
- News
“Let Us Now Praise Famous Women”
precomputer times: on 8x5-inch alphabetized cards, one per alum, filling buckets set in five-foot-long deep trays placed on four revolving shelves, like cars on a very wide, miniature (about 4 ½ feet tall), View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
single individual has achieved so much in such a short time," with "Microsoft's technology accelerating the world economy." Most influential business leader Bill Gates Jack Welch Henry Ford Alfred P. Sloan Thomas J. Watson The runner-up to Gates was General View Details
- 05 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
Environmental Change and Ground-level Impact
policy, so obviously I believe in that route as a pathway to change. But change can happen even more quickly when businesses make it economically attractive to do the “right” thing. For example, if we can help make electric View Details
- 22 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #13: Democratizing Climate Returns - Nisha Desai (HBS 1997), Founder and CEO of Invest With Intention
others. The analysis projects electric vehicle usage ranging from 11% to 63% of global passenger car sales in 2030 and from 31% to almost 100% in 2050. “Americans have billions of dollars in their IRAs,”... View Details
- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
relatively calm, he said. He was also impressed by their patience and resilience. There was no pushing and shoving, Takeuchi reported, no honking of car horns, even in long waits for a tank of gas. On the highway, anxious drivers eager to... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
consumed in cars and trucks. Eighty percent of the fuel is from oil. Based on personal observation, I feel safe in saying that much of this fuel is burned idling in traffic jams. Investments in more efficient mass transit, more efficient... View Details