Trends - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 29, 2008

patent records to explore these trends with greater detail. The contributions of Chinese and Indian scientists and engineers to U.S. technology formation increase dramatically in the 1990s. At the same time, these ethnic inventors became... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

November 2016
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By: Jose Alvarez and Natalie Kindred

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24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

The Climate Needs Aggressive CEO Leadership

Corporations are facing great uncertainty. For the world to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the United States eventually will have to put a price on carbon dioxide emissions, as has been done by Europe, parts of Canada, and California. To plan for the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Energy; Utilities

14 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

The World in Your Palm?

Venturing for Nokia. The result is reduced innovation, an emphasis on hardware solutions over software, and not much market pressure on pricing for services, several panel members agreed. Miner, of Orange, foresees a trend toward... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

07 Aug 2019
News

“The Star of the North”

competitor analysis, trend research, and leadership programs. Since then, the team has helped Granite Equity research individual company profiles, whether it’s for an acquisition or a vendor or a potential partner. The service also has... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Mar 2018
News

March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

urbanization, and business disruption represent both a major opportunity and a threat in the global economy. Although individuals and organizations are aware that the world is changing exponentially, most are ill-equipped to face this level of disruption and... View Details

30 Aug 2006
Op-Ed

The Compensation Game

compared this trend to the soaring increase during this period in the compensation of other "stars," such as top baseball, basketball, and football players. Reports about the high pay of star athletes are often greeted with awe... View Details

Keywords: by Lucian Bebchuk & Rakesh Khurana

26 Sep 2017
Blog Post

A Summer Internship with the International Rescue Committee

emotional journeys as well as their physical ones. After we had met with dozens of individuals across the country, hailing from Bhutan, Syria, Congo, Iraq and beyond, we began our synthesis phase, deconstructing all of our conversations into their components to search... View Details

02 Nov 2016
What Do You Think?

Are Employees Becoming Job 'Renters' Instead of 'Owners'?

to which the trend is a product of nature (declining employee motivation, changing aspirations, shorter-term planning, etc.) or nurture (such things as leadership, hiring policies, organization, incentives, and the job environment they... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

12 Feb 2016
Op-Ed

The Real Jobs Tragedy in the US: We've Lost the Skills

market, such as retail, health care, and construction—that is, jobs insulated from global competition. Those changes have broken the back of America’s middle class in two ways. First, both trends put pressure on wages. They combined to... View Details

Keywords: by Joe Fuller and Matt Sigelman; Manufacturing; Electronics

03 Feb 2011
What Do You Think?

Are We Going “Back to the Future” In Researching Management?

influence behavior), all of which represent non-traditional approaches to economics. Related issues have concerned immigration, trends in worker/retiree "dependency ratios," state capitalism, the role of government vis-à-vis... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

02 May 2023
Blog Post

Sustainability Career Advice from the Career & Professional Development Office

the different opportunities and challenges that exist. Connect with Baker Library, talk to faculty, network with alumni. Baker Library can provide you with access to databases that provide industry trends on specific challenges within... View Details

12 Feb 2025
Blog Post

How Risk Can Be the Key to a Sustainable Future with Sophie Levin (MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences 2022

programs and a supportive community—so they can bring their solutions to market faster. In this way, Newlab plays a key role in advancing the commercialization of technologies that address climate change and its effects. Given your role in climate tech, are there any... View Details

17 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?

problem. Some have suggested taxing ecommerce to blunt its growth, but it is likely too late to change behaviors that have been engrained over the last decade. An abandoned escalator in an abandoned shopping mall. ©iStock.com/Versionphotography Q: One major retailing... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

Profile

Jeremy Andrus

consumer at the center of our circle is still the person who shops at a small skate, surf, snow, or independent music shop. They’re trendsetters. If we stay relevant to them, we can appeal to the broader demographic that’s influenced by trendsetters. Would you say you... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products; Entertainment / Media

26 Mar 2019
Blog Post

SEI25 Series: Misan Rewane, MBA 2013, CEO, WAVE

interesting/exciting trend or issue that our readers should be aware of? Millennials are increasingly motivated by meaning in their work – they want to work for companies that do more good and less harm, and businesses will have to... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government; Entrepreneurship

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Bibliography - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

Houghton Mifflin, 1979. Garber, Peter M. Famous First Bubbles: The Fundamentals of Early Manias . Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2000. Grebler, Leo, David M. Blank, and Louis Winnick. Capital Formation in Residential Real Estate: Trends and... View Details

15 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

The Unspoken Messages of COVID-19 Restrictions

colleagues found striking trends as they looked closer at dining patterns. The team analyzed almost six months of data from the foot traffic analytics firm SafeGraph to gauge how many people were leaving their homes, how often they were... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Food & Beverage

31 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Encouraging Niche Content in an Ad-Driven World

occurred with ad-supported television, according to critics, where much airtime is devoted to cheap-to-produce but widely popular pulp fiction, or reality programs like Dancing with the Stars to Duck Dynasty. Zhu wondered whether this View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Information; Publishing; Journalism & News

15 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

Funding the Design of Livable Cities

four primary trends driving the development of innovative solutions: The first is the world's population growth, forecast by the United Nations to reach roughly 9 billion by 2050, and the mass migration from the countryside and agrarian... View Details

Keywords: by Lisa Chase; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities

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