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- 14 Dec 2010
- Op-Ed
Tax US Companies to Spur Spending
been a saving grace in ensuring that the financial crisis did not cause further damage to the economy. With traditional monetary and fiscal policy instruments seemingly exhausted, the mobilization of that cash hoard can prove critical to... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Forward Thinking
work, she felt frustrated by the bureaucratic pace of progress in conservation: “I just thought that I was very old, and I had to move faster.” In 2019, she founded the nonprofit Save Giraffes Now (SGN), in recognition of the fact that... View Details
- 07 Jan 2016
- News
Helping Property Owners Reduce Their Carbon Footprint
water and energy efficiency in their buildings so they can reduce the carbon footprint that they are causing. We found that many of our customers implement new clean technology to reduce energy cost and water cost by something like 20 percent to 50 percent—remarkable... View Details
- 02 May 2016
- News
Can Brian Shortsleeve Fix the MBTA’s Budget Woes?
officials and transit advocates. Shortsleeve said his goal is to balance the agency’s books for the first time in 15 years, even if that means taking on sacred cows. He said any savings will be reinvested in the system to make it run more... View Details
- 11 Jan 2016
- News
Guiding Students to Out-of-School Programs and Resources
host virtual events. “Parents love us. High school counselors recommend that families look at TeenLife.com to find whether there’s a summer program or a gap program that meets that student’s interests. It just saves everybody lots and... View Details
- 05 Jun 2000
- What Do You Think?
What’s Happening to Our Patience?
increasing their value. Denise Rickman grabs a magazine from the rack while in the supermarket checkout lane. Imran Jafar rides his scooter to work, enjoying the benefits of close-to-the-road transportation, exercise, and what sounds a lot like a kind of meditation.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
If a Car Can Drive Itself, Can It Make Life-or-Death Decisions?
minimizing the number of deaths versus refraining from murder; actively killing one person or passively watching five die. A twist examines whether a protagonist would choose to push a person heavy enough to stop the train into the trolley’s path, slowing its speed to... View Details
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
What’s Your Strategy for Managing Knowledge?
previously developed solutions — as well as value propositions that helped him estimate how much money the client would save by implementing the system. Because Love reused this material, Ernst & Young won the project and closed the... View Details
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
framework for the analysis of SEPs, identifies several types of inefficiencies attached to the lack of price commitment, shows how structured price commitments restore competition, and analyzes whether price commitments are likely to emerge in the marketplace. ... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Public companies: fast growing | Baker Library
to Public Companies . At the top of the filters where it says Unsaved Screen , click the drop down and select TR US Large Growth to load the saved screen. You will see all of the filters applied at the bottom of the screen. These can be... View Details
- 01 Apr 2024
- News
Generosity Multiplied
match fund for Save the Children, then that charity also has to get another supporter to match the £10,000. So when the campaign goes live, there’s £20,000 in the pot to match public donations. Hopefully they’ll raise the full amount, for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lack of Energy: The Problem of Human Inertia
minimally hurting small groups of individuals or interest groups. It could implement policies that will be touted as saving money but that will also be beneficial to the environment (such as greater efficiency). Bazerman observes that... View Details
- Profile
Rob Casper
Shanghai, helping a client with women’s facial cream. “I had no idea what I was doing. None of us knew what we were doing. We were constantly on the phone with our sisters, friends, girlfriends, trying to understand what customers thought.” In the end, humility may... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Social Enterprise Forum Discusses Strategy
empirical studies and was facilitated by an HBS faculty member. The first session, for instance, facilitated by Social Enterprise faculty chair Professor James E. Austin, focused on what drives strategy in nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations. One case in this... View Details
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Juan Camargo
was pretty surreal," says Camargo. But the day after the show, the reality of the challenge ahead of him remained: How, exactly, do you sell America a high-end electric car? DITCH THE OLD PITCH The first wave of electric vehicles had a dual environmental and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
The crucial point, though, is that the bulk of Chinese investment has been financed from China’s own savings (and from the overseas Chinese diaspora). Cautious after years of instability and unused to the panoply of credit facilities we... View Details
- 20 Apr 2016
- News
Steps to Success
this epiphany that this is where I belong.” For five years, Ruhr helped women in three different camps, teaching basic technical skills (how to make soap) and, more importantly, how to save money, as part of ARC’s Income Generation... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
wouldn't face the domino effect that many people face when they don't have savings accounts or other resources that my classmates and I had." Emotional Costs And Worst Practices And so the students teamed up with the professor on a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
obligated to use that talent to help others.” During a hiatus from full-time employment to raise three children, she has utilized her talents to help save the lives of enough Russian children to fill four elementary schools. In 1996, at a... View Details
- 22 Sep 2009
- News
The Case for Regulatory Reform
we only act when necessary to avert unacceptable — and in some cases dire — outcomes. The second is that any intervention go with, rather than against, the grain of the market system. Our objective is not to supplant or replace markets. Rather, the objective is to... View Details