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- 14 Apr 2022
- Op-Ed
Let’s Move Forward from COVID—Without Forgetting What We’ve Learned
The pandemic is winding down, and the world is moving toward an endemic approach. In the world's COVID-19 epicenter, New York City, businesses, restaurants, and Broadway have reopened now that 4 million New... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson
- 15 May 2017
- Sharpening Your Skills
The Promises and Limitations of Big Data
discusses the water industry as an example, and the organizational changes and levers relevant to extracting value from emerging data-analytics technologies. Big Data: Big Deal or Big Hype? Google's announcement in 2008 that it could... View Details
- 29 Oct 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Robots in the Boardroom
Steamships, electricity, the railroad, airplanes, the internet—technology and business have always been intertwined. Now a new tech revolution is pushing forward as organizations figure out how to use artificial intelligence to help them... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2006
- What Do You Think?
Are We Ready for Self-Management?
that many. Under the "self-management" initiative, employees were trained and given new technology to enable them to hire, train, and supervise their new colleagues; manage the day-to-day inventory... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from COVID-19: The Business Skills Doctors Need
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, doctors faced unprecedented challenges. Vital supplies such as facemasks and cotton swabs were in short supply. New protocols had to be developed to isolate infected patients. Treating patients... View Details
- 28 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: RMZ EcoWorld
includes materials, like steel and cement, as well as energy to support the building process. RMZ has a target to reduce embodied carbon by 44% in new developments, but they expressed that the path to this goal is complicated by lack of... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
From Retail to Real Estate
MBA, he set up the New York-based property investment firm Drake Real Estate Partners. The firm has been of particular interest to Latin American investors looking for the protections offered by American real estate. Focused on View Details
- 14 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 14
what is widely regarded as a landmark deal for the NFL, its $780 million, four-year exclusive partnership with Verizon. Provides in-depth information on the NFL's digital media revenues and relates those to the league's overall media and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
LOVE At HBS
started HBS. We didn’t expect moving to a new country and adapting to a new culture to be easy but, looking back, decisions that normally would have been tough seemed obvious and easy thanks to the love and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
John Crowley’s Extraordinary Measures
characters “captured the spirit of the family,” and “there was a lot of good humor” that evoked laughter from the research audience, Crowley notes. But he also saw tears in the eyes of audience members, who also clapped at the end. The message of the movie, says... View Details
- 01 May 2020
- What Do You Think?
Does Remote Work Mix with Organizational Culture?
keep me figuring out ways to deal with problems (like an unsupportive manager) In the past (presumably, in a shared office situation), I would have been gone already.” Joan De Souza endorses remote work in both her and her clients’... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Financing the Climate Transition in India
gassesb. Extend sustainable, reliable, productive-use energy to 1 billion underserved peoplec. Enable 150 million green jobs that generate inclusive economic growth Takeaways: Coordination Challenges: GEAPP recognizes that the primary... View Details
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Teaching Quantitative Material - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
time for questions and real-time learning, rather than trying to rush through the calculations as quickly as possible (especially with new material or early in the term). A correct answer isn’t always a View Details
- 03 Dec 2014
- What Do You Think?
Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?
"I think we need to learn more about this type of person to deal with this phenomenon. We need to learn more about specifically how these folks bring something valuable into the organization and specifically how to minimize the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 3
of new ideas in their intercultural ties but not intracultural ties. Study 3 required participants to work collaboratively with a non-acquaintance from another culture and found that higher metacognitive CQ engendered greater idea sharing... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Right Way to Manage Customer Churn for Maximum Profit
offering them incentives or deals to stay before they leave. “Focusing on retaining higher-spending customers, even if they aren’t as likely to leave, can increase the total profit a company can reap.” As Gupta describes in Managing Churn... View Details
- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
negotiated a deal to use it, and if it were adopted by Lauder's key brands. If the new packaging functioned as promised, the consumer would not perceive any change in the high quality, stylish packaging that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 07 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty
insights, à la the "Just Say No" campaign. But let's say your goals are a good deal more ambitious. You care about benefiting society as a whole. You want to help people stuck in grinding poverty. You want to know what villagers... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- October 2010 (Revised August 2012)
- Case
Harvest: Organic Waste Recycling with Energy Recovery (A)
By: Deishin Lee, Baris Ata and Mustafa H. Tongarlak
This case describes the waste management industry and a clean technology solution for landfill diversion and renewable energy production. The (A) case focuses on the operational characteristics of waste management and waste to energy, as well as the characteristics of... View Details
Keywords: Renewable Energy; Logistics; Wastes and Waste Processing; Corporate Finance; Green Technology Industry; Green Technology Industry; Green Technology Industry
Lee, Deishin, Baris Ata, and Mustafa H. Tongarlak. "Harvest: Organic Waste Recycling with Energy Recovery (A)." Harvard Business School Case 611-033, October 2010. (Revised August 2012.)