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- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
to be examined and debated. Having international students in class helps to keep these issues front and center. This is why, to varying degrees, HBS has sought an internationally diverse student body for decades." Professor Henry B. Reiling teaches finance courses,... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- Web
Global Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog
understanding of what factors likely influence success and failure. Many startups in developed ecosystems eventually enter other markets and understanding constraints can aid this expansion. Additionally, venture capital investing has... View Details
- 25 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 25
reduction in monopoly price leads to the production of units that cost less than their value to consumers (standard channel); (ii) regulation calms down existing consumers because a reduction in the profits of an "unkind" firm... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
5.3 percent, totaling $2.6 million in 2001. Community Bakery's Joe Fox, enjoying a brief break: "This is a labor-intensive business in which the quality of the product is determined by the individual effort... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 19 Feb 2020
- News
Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change
bills-in-progress which would address important, but incremental, changes, such as methane waste prevention in fracking. “But the most important policy thing we can do is to price carbon,” he said, which would reduce carbon production and... View Details
Keywords: April White; photos by Jack Conroy
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
Builder Personality Shapes Your Business, Your Team, and Your Ability to Win by Chris Kuenne (MBA 1989) and John Danner (HBR Press) Many factors shape the success or failure of a new business, but the most important View Details
- 02 Apr 2001
- What Do You Think?
Telecommuting: Dangerous to Health?
telecommuting is "dangerous to health"—the title of the column that prompted these responses—depends on several factors ranging from organizational culture and job type to skill level and personality. Eleanor Latimer adds... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Nov 2017
- Research Event
Who is Responsible for the Future of Cities?
only be responding to innovations in the private sector,” she said. “Why is it that we assume that all the innovation will come from the private sector? Why can’t a city have an innovation lab?” Stefan Knupfer, a senior partner and leader of Sustainability and Resource... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 09 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools
prevalent? The private sector's $4 billion per year investment in education is a drop in the bucket when you consider the $600 billion total spent annually on US K-12 education. But it is still a significant sum with high-impact... View Details
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
world war in 1939, and then total defeat in 1945. At the end of WWII, the Soviets closed the Berlin headquarters of the Deutsche Bank as part of their denazification effort. Meanwhile, the United States, Britain, and France, occupying the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Meet the PRIDE Club
Miami, Florida. Prior to HBS, she worked in digital and multicultural marketing across the consumer products and media industries. She will be transitioning to e-commerce management after HBS. When she's not immersed in the case method... View Details
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
heterogeneity, we identify key country- and organization-level determinants of corporate environmental disclosure. We focus on institutional factors related to firms' global embeddedness to describe how external environmental pressures... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 24
Publications March 2015 Partners or Creditors? Attracting Foreign Investment and Productive Development to Central America and Dominican Republic Foreign Direct Investment: Effects, Complementarities, and Promotion By: Alfaro, Laura... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure
Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
psychological mechanism whereby price format determines how many product attributes are actively processed at the time of valuation. Three studies support the hypothesis that price partitioning acts as an incentive to process multiple... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
unprofitable—made to satisfy California’s stringent zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) mandate, which stipulates that to sell their products in the state, automakers must commit to making 15.4 percent of their fleets zero-emission by 2025. In... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?
economy running at near peak efficiency because of the factors you mention? ... A new economy would have new governing rules, but I don’t see new rules taking hold today. Now, having a factory full of AI machines that learn and robot... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 14, 2015
Production and the Design of Supporting Institutions By: Boudreau, Kevin J., and Karim R. Lakhani Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49361 May-June 2015 European Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Polluters, Encouraging Protectors
the availability of e-mail addresses in the EPA database, and asked them to describe their environmental management activities, environmental awards, and the "ecolabels" their products use. (An ecolabel is meant to denote that a... View Details
- 23 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
2024 Summer Internships in Business & Environment
reporting and requires emissions be allocated to products rather than simply reported at an organizational level. This approach is specifically designed to track the carbon released as products move through... View Details