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- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
If you ask any given environmentalist to identify the biggest threat to the planet, you may expect to hear about man-made climate change, consumerism, or overpopulation. But if you ask Harvard Business School's Joseph B. Lassiter, he'll toss in another: single-issue... View Details
- 01 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century
out, we see sparks of it here and there, more often in entrepreneurial situations. Hamel: I think we see it in two kinds of places: in isolated pockets within large corporations (GE Capital, for example), and in relatively young companies such as the View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
public finance, but it has been largely set aside in the modern theoretical approach to optimal income taxation, where welfarist objectives dominate. A prerequisite for that gap to close is the clarification of what benefit-based income... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Break the Expert’s Curse
Unfortunately, though, experts frequently make lousy teachers. Experts are sometimes so steeped in expertise that they don't remember what it was like to be a newbie—in terms of both how much they knew and how they felt back then. The memory View Details
- 27 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015
boil under the wealth gap heat up or cool down? Will the climate change accord catalyze investment in alternative energy? What impact will international terrorism have on business? Please add your comments below. 10 Most Popular Articles... View Details
- 22 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 22
close with an attempt to identify strategies to close the gap between the unethical people we are and the ethical people that we strive to be. Publisher's Link: http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/books/details/9780415873246/ Working... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: iPads, Kindles, and the Close of a Chapter in Book Publishing
bridge the gap that a lot of young people experience between a very exciting digital reality and the dead world of the textbook." On an emotional level, the death of the paper textbook will carry less societal angst than trade books,... View Details
- 15 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Health Is Wealth | The Path To Creating A Venture
of women on cap tables has contributed to the gender wealth gap in the industry. “Thinking about how I can impact that on a small or large scale eventually, is something I’m constantly working on.” Hiring for a Startup Rachel advises... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
One-on-One with Grover Norquist
to zero. Are you concerned about the projected $2 trillion in government borrowing that may be necessary to cover the Social Security funding gap created by the President’s partial privatization plan? No. The unfunded liability of Social... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 14 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Creating the Minority Renaissance for Venture Capital: Interview with Henri Pierre-Jacques and Jarrid Tingle, Managing Partners at Harlem Capital
At the onset, he was heavily leaning towards the private equity option. However, for Pierre-Jacques it quickly became obvious in his early days at HBS that there was a gap in venture capital that the fund he and Tingle had created would... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
“Many stocks considered ‘growth’ stocks share this same feature. But meme stocks layer onto this a very specific way that the gap develops, through a frenzy of usually social media–driven fervor.” “These stocks are likely to fall in... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
understand and respect the complexities inherent in the culture. Striking, too, were the gaps between myth and reality that emerged at a number of the forum's concurrent panel discussions. At HBS associate professor Debora L. Spar's... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
fewer than 5 percent of neuroscience-related patents are successfully commercialized. Amadio, currently chief resident in the seven-year neurological surgery residency program at Emory University, in Atlanta, was troubled by the gap... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 10 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Perspectives on Anti-Racism in the HKS Curriculum
action from leaders in government and business alike. This course gave me a foundational understanding of how American capitalism originated and continually perpetuates the racial wealth gap we see today. As Matthew Desmond wrote for The... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Perspective: The Morning After 9/11
people.” Twenty years ago, Frances Frei was not the globally revered management guru she has become. This was before she helped transform the culture at HBS to close the performance gap between female and male students, resulting in... View Details
- 11 Mar 2020
- News
Making It Rain
weather services. “This market is not very innovative, and it’s one of the last industries where governments still lead the technology,” Elkabetz says. Most of the industry relies on data from three public sources: staffed weather stations, mostly in airports; radar,... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Case Study: A Good Fit
Illustration by Matt Chinworth Illustration by Matt Chinworth Every year, millions of Americans resolve to lose weight, but few sustain their loss over time, according to a report in the New England Journal of Medicine. The reason lies in the View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 14 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
and the gender pay gap persists. While young women are aware of these systemic problems, the more nuanced forms of sexism that persist today often take them by surprise, say Ammerman and co-author Boris Groysberg, the Richard P. Chapman... View Details
- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
investigated how an organization’s heightened focus on political ideology impacts employees. We address this gap by exploring how an individual’s political ideological misfit with an organization’s prevailing ideology impacts mobility. By... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
released through such refactoring efforts. We address this gap by analyzing the relationship between system architecture and maintenance costs for two software systems of similar size but with very different structures: one has a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne