Trends - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 May 2023
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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
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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

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

02 Jan 2013
What Do You Think?

Should We Rethink the Promise of Teams?

teamwork is affecting creativity and innovation in organizations. But based on your own experiences, do the ideas cited above ring true? What can or should be done to encourage both extrovert and introvert behaviors? How will the trend... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational

authority of running the business. Chandler described this management culture as "managerial capitalism. "Owners' delegation of responsibility to professional managers established a corporate norm that was then carried down through the organization. The... View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

11 Jan 2019
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The ABCs of Recruiting at HBS

different recruiters.baker l B – Baker. Baker Library holds the preeminent collection of contemporary and historic business information in the world. Students can leverage the library to research companies and industry trends to prepare... View Details

19 Mar 2024
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IFC India: Tata Power - Trombay Thermal Power Plant Takeaways

that is abundant in India. In fact, Tata Power has already demonstrated their ability to address changing market trends within this plant. The Trombay plant began as an oil thermal plant but switched to coal around 70s-80s to mitigate oil... View Details

01 Jun 2015
News

Ask the Expert: The Kids Are All Right

Are millennials more concerned about their positive impact on the planet and on society—less focused on money and more on meaning? Is the shift toward a more conscientious generation a true trend or a myth? —Katina Stefanova (MBA 2005)... View Details

January–February 2013
Article

Golfing Alone? Corporations, Elites and Nonprofit Growth in 100 American Communities

By: Christopher Marquis, Gerald F. Davis and Mary Ann Glynn

We examine the link between corporations and community by showing how corporate density interacts with the local social and cultural infrastructure to affect the growth and decline of the number of local nonprofits between 1987 and 2002. We focus on two sub-populations... View Details

Keywords: Business and Community Relations; Civil Society or Community; Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Business Growth and Maturation; Profit; Local Range; Welfare or Wellbeing; Business Processes; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Trends; Management Practices and Processes; United States

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May 25, 2016
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How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health

By: John A. Quelch

Healthcare and education are two issues in which citizens around the world, rich and poor, are passionately interested. It has long been appreciated that the way that a society treats its youngest and oldest members says much about its moral maturity. Economic... View Details

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17 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2020

about the most interesting business trends of the year, and your predictions for 2021. Top 10 most popular stories Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk Ken Frazier, one of only four... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

25 Aug 2022
News

Vision: To Go-Go

can build a multibillion-dollar business capable of identifying the next big food trend and propagating it across a vast network of cloud kitchens. “We only have 80 kitchens right now,” Azuero says. “We believe we can easily fit 1,000... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; entrepreneurship; foodtech; startup; Latin America

20 Dec 2018
News

Baker Library Webinar Features Resources for Alumni

acquisitions, and exploring literature on thought leadership. But many didn’t realize they had access to Baker and wanted to know how to navigate all that it offers. The webinar showed participants how to find information on any business topic, including View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2015
News

Giving Advice

the regular rules apply: a data-driven fact base establishing both need and demand for your project, a clear rationale for why and how your intervention will create the social impact you’re promising at scale, trends and competitive... View Details

15 Nov 2011
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First Look: November 15

prevailing research norm. The Role of Finance and Private Investment in Developing Sustainable Cities Author:John D. Macomber Publication:Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 23, no. 3 (summer 2011) Abstract Three trends will drive urban... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Web Surfers Have a Schedule and Stick to It

ubiquitous, the average online encounter shifted to someone of lower income and longer sessions. “We expect that trend to continue,” says Greenstein. The researchers note that the typical household spends more than half its time at two... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Web Services

27 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential

percent stocks for the scandal free. Split another way, politicians holding more than 50 percent stocks were almost twice as likely to be involved in a scandal compared to their more risk averse counterparts. Personal investments that View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

03 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 3

teaching hospitals, we find evidence of a gradual trend of decreasing performance that begins several months before the actual cohort turnover and may result from a transition of responsibilities at major teaching hospitals in... View Details