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- 11 Mar 2008
- News
Soak the Rich?
passed a bill to exempt approximately 23 million middle-class taxpayers from the dreaded Alternative Minimum Tax for 2007. Facing a presidential veto threat, lawmakers lopped off the provision designed to make up for the $50 billion in... View Details
- 04 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Max Bazerman
Cone's property. After the seizure, Cone switched from sustainable forestry to massive clear-cutting on other parts of his land—a disastrous decision from both an economic and environmental perspective. An alternative to this inefficient... View Details
Keywords: Re: Max H. Bazerman
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Blue-Green Revolution
producing 10,000 barrels of algae biofuel a day by 2025. According to Enriquez, who directed HBS’s Life Sciences Project prior to his current role as managing director of Excel Venture Management, algae biofuels were once the darlings of the View Details
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Suppliers - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
long-term clinical outcomes and cost to demonstrate value compared to alternative therapies Conduct new types of long-term comparative studies in collaboration with providers and patients Increase the success rate instead of maximizing... View Details
- 03 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Business of Animal Protection Club
about animals? What about exploring Boston’s vegetarian food scene? This is the place for you. Introduce HBS students to industry leaders, ranging from the alternative protein industry, to leading non-profits, to policymakers, to thought... View Details
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
More Than the Sum of Its Parts: The Impact of Modularity on the Computer Industry
rules, module designers still have a lot of choices. Their alternative designs will normally display different performance characteristics that customers care about. In a modular system, those alternatives... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Fueling a sustainable enterprise in Brazil
almost entirely fossil fuel independent, relying primarily on hydroelectric energy for its grid electricity and sugarcane ethanol to fuel its cars. Diniz, formerly a high-level executive at retail giant Companhia Brasileira de Distribuição, supports her country’s focus... View Details
- 27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27
passionate about his business idea: an innovative green technology fuel cell. He wants to dive in and commit to his startup, but his fiancée is much more risk averse, his parents don't approve of the startup, and Akhil has an enticing View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
noncognitive, interpersonal skills during adolescence. Long-run administrative data shows that negotiation training significantly improved educational outcomes over the next three years. The training had greater effects than two View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Profile
Andrew Kletzing
see an alternative point of view. In turn, they've impressed me by the quality of their thinking. My sectionmates force me to perform at a higher level." Continued service to country For his summer internship, Andrew will join... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Addressing the housing needs of India’s poor
community engagement, design, and affordability as the key elements of improving housing conditions for the poor. It provides an alternative to traditional models of mass-housing developments that lead to social exclusion. “We envisioned... View Details
- 23 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 23
that exposure to informational advertising can decrease the consumer's tendency to purchase the promoted product. The structural estimates imply that an exposure to a single advertisement decreases the consumer's probability of not choosing her best View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Bank of America Turned Branches into Service-Development Laboratories
physical facilities were prepared for. So the team decided to reconfigure the twenty Atlanta branches into three alternative models: Five branches were redesigned as "express centers," efficient, modernistic buildings where... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Case Study: Building the Base
thinking reader’s alternative to the cesspool of anonymous comments at the bottom of a news story. With at least 70 million millennials in the United States, Patel is optimistic about the market. “Even if we were able to capture interest... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Film School
businesspeople, and teachers to help urban teens make films about some of the serious issues—drugs, violence, love, sex, gangs, and poverty—they face. "Our film apprenticeship programs have a track record of getting teens, including troubled teens who are currently... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Media, VC Discussed at WSA Conference
opportunities. At the Washington Post, Margaret M. Cromelin, vice president of marketing, said that 20 percent of its readers are spending less time with the newspaper because of alternative news sources on the Internet. However, 11... View Details
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Maria Brewer
& long term career? HBS prepares you by changing the way you think and approach a problem. HBS did this by broadening my business horizons, reinforcing the importance of the customer, exposing me to many alternative business models,... View Details
- 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54963 Investing Outside the Box: Evidence from Alternative Vehicles in Private Capital By: Lerner, Josh, Jason Mao, Antoinette Schoar, and Nan R. Zhang Abstract—This paper undertakes a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Key to Innovation: Flexible Funding
thought leadership. We must experiment more extensively with alternative modes of teaching, collaborate more (both internally and with other Harvard schools), and find ways to deliver more real-world experience to our students. It is also... View Details
Keywords: Robert Steven Kaplan
- March 2025
- Case
Hurtigruten: Sea Zero
By: Christian Kaps and Michael W. Toffel
Hurtigruten was deciding whether the next ship they built should be fully electric. But such a vessel's battery, the size of electric cars, needed to be charged on the ship's multi-day voyage along the Norwegian coast. Before making such a $250 million investment, the... View Details
Keywords: Energy Sources; Alternative Energy; Ship Transportation; Environmental Regulation; Environmental Sustainability; Innovation and Management; Green Technology; Investment; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Shipping Industry; Tourism Industry; Transportation Industry; Travel Industry; Battery Industry; Norway; Europe
Kaps, Christian, and Michael W. Toffel. "Hurtigruten: Sea Zero." Harvard Business School Case 625-100, March 2025.