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24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)

It's Climate Week in New York City. The schedule features a UN Climate Summit, a People's Climate March, the Clinton Global Initiative, substantial criticism of the whole endeavor, and plenty of agitated interaction. There is a lot of noise here. How can businesses cut... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Energy; Utilities

29 May 2020
Op-Ed

How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents

offices working remotely and field teams continuing to support Sahel Consulting’s five-year Advancing Local Dairy Development in Nigeria program. Sahel Consulting is conducting COVID-related research and developing policy recommendations... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Agriculture & Agribusiness

21 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research

Schedule each day. Many parents are caring for their children and guiding their remote learning while trying to do their own jobs—and feeling like they’re failing on all fronts. Eventually, thoughts about... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost

17 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

Advice for the New CEO: Talk to Your Employees Early and Often

Strategy at HEC Paris, and Andrea Prat, a professor of business at Columbia Business School. Why communication takes a dive The researchers analyzed millions of emails and meeting invitations at 102 companies in the United States, Canada, Europe, and the United... View Details

Keywords: by Ami Albernaz

03 Nov 2022
Op-Ed

Feeling Separation Anxiety at Your Startup? 5 Tips to Soothe These Growing Pains

worries, friend.” Customer Support Rep: “Keep me in the loop too, all. I want to be prepared if customers start asking questions about the new layout or pricing changes.” CTO: “You got it, friend.” Operations Tech: “Yo, after lunch today can we talk about how capacity... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

14 Oct 2009
First Look

First Look: October 14

relies on platforms and horizontal ecosystems of firms producing complementary products. Using three case studies—software, animation and mobile telephony—we illustrate two key sources of inefficiencies that this mismatch can create, all... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

Growing CEOs from the Inside

is." Some variant of that conversation can go on for years. If that is all that has happened about succession, then when the time comes, the board may have to go outside. Q: You argue that the best candidate for the top job is an... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Employment

01 Apr 2014
First Look

First Look: April 1

Publications August 2013 Delaware Journal of Corporate Law Delaware's Choice By: Subramanian, Guhan Abstract—This article first documents the shift to annual elections of all directors at most U.S. corporations and argues that the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Computer Security is For Managers, Too

assets are, how much protection each merits, and who's responsible for protecting them. Define the appropriate use of IT resources. All companies have policies explaining the appropriate use of resources. For example, employees know what... View Details

Keywords: by Robert D. Austin & Christopher A.R. Darby

24 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

These Coronavirus Heroes Show Us How Crisis Leadership Works

Now, at 79, Fauci is the central figure that Americans depend upon to lead us through this crisis with his honest, candid advice and counsel. Last week he was on all five Sunday talk shows and then on a Facebook Live show with Mark... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Health

26 Apr 2016
First Look

April 26

April 2016 Review of Economic Studies Landing the First Job: The Value of Intermediaries in Online Hiring By: Stanton, Christopher, and Catherine Thomas Abstract—Online markets for remote labor services allow workers and firms to contract... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing

remotely from their homes or at a reading center. As new scans come in, they are randomly assigned to the radiologists, who must be licensed in the state and credentialed at the hospital where the scan was performed. The random assignment... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health

19 Jan 2022
In Practice

7 Trends to Watch in 2022

for learning about what works in digital health. Recently, we have witnessed developments that would have been difficult to imagine just a few years ago. In the United States, we have seen massive expansions in insurance coverage for View Details

Keywords: by HBS News

14 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog

deftly: “How to most effectively communicate with all employees remotely and show empathy, while running around with [my] hair on fire trying to save the current business while at the same time trying to... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

30 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

COVID Not Slowing VC Investment

looking to do new deals. They’re just sitting on a ton of money.” During that period, global daily deaths had topped 9,000 for a second time as infection rates were soaring across the Americas. Almost all of the world’s 10 largest... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services; Banking

12 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis

Prevention programs disrupted "The pandemic threatens to dismantle all the gains made in the US in the recent six-year fight against opioids and heroin,” says Jim Langford (HBS MBA 1984), Executive Director of the Georgia Prevention... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Health

05 Nov 2024
Book

Building the Road to 'Small Business Utopia' with AI and Fintech

borrowers in the sector: heterogeneity—the fact that all small businesses are different, making it difficult to extrapolate from one example to the next—and information opacity, the fact that it is hard to know what is really going on... View Details

Keywords: by Karen G. Mills; Financial Services

11 Jan 2000
Lessons from the Classroom

New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World

needs. These reside deep within the organization, and therefore must be developed and leveraged through processes completely foreign to the vertical, control-based management approaches that proved all powerful in earlier times. This, in... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

09 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

How to Speed Up Energy Innovation

Is there a special sauce for stimulating innovation in the energy sector, a concoction to spur cost-effective developments toward solving the climate change problem? HBS professor Rebecca Henderson doesn't claim to know all the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities

18 May 2021
Book

Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.

do the job well, and people will offer you more responsibility. Commitment. Demonstrate that you are excited about your job, and people will invest in you. Compatibility. Prove that you can get along with your teammates and managers, and people will want to work with... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

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