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- 23 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019
purpose, along with Chester Barnard’s compatible theory of business organizations as cooperative systems. Aristotle stresses the ethicality of cooperation in transactional settings; Barnard stresses the efficiencies and adaptive benefits flowing from cooperation. Both... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
Chattanooga, Tennessee, where the local electric utility came together with foundations and educators to ensure digital access for all citizens. They addressed a specific issue, connectivity. They did not take the stance that, “We're... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 27 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: Driving India's EV Future: Insights from Ather Scooter and Exponent Energy
Professor Vikram Gandhi’s Immersive Field Course (IFC) “Development while Decarbonizing: India’s Path to Net-Zero" delved into the critical aspect of decarbonization and sustainability goals amid India's rapid development. The course presented an opportunity for... View Details
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
industry friendly while others are consumer friendly. Firms appear to utilize this information in the arbitrator selection process. Despite a randomly generated list of potential arbitrators, industry friendly arbitrators are 40% more... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
of 'culture clash' in mergers and acquisitions. I first use a simple analytical framework to show that shared beliefs lead to more delegation, less monitoring, higher utility (or satisfaction), higher execution effort (or motivation),... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
building efficiency products such as heat pumps and insulation. As the specifics of how that can be applied and utilized are formalized, it should create some tremendous opportunities for incumbent players to de-risk scaling up new... View Details
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
of its two highest valuations. The utilities are scaled so that the market clears with the participants' purchases proportional to their entitlements. The method is generalized to arbitrary bargaining sets and existence is proved. For two... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
This focus, I argue, limits the practical utility of the discipline because universal propositions form only a part of new policy recipes.” Remote Patient Monitoring—Overdue or Overused? New England Journal of Medicine Keizra Mecklai,... View Details
- 08 Apr 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?
competitors locked into a product development strategy calling for growth through product obsolescence and more and more largely unused but expensive bells and whistles. We're told that the typical user of information technology today View Details
- Profile
Ruzwana Bashir
little too strongly on gut instincts and didn’t utilize backchannel references enough. We learned from those mistakes and now make sure we define all the skills and competencies we care most about upfront, as well as the cultural values... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Manufacturing
highly diversified manufacturing, a tailored approach to recruiting also makes sense for aerospace and defense, airlines, and transportation. To connect with students who are deeply passionate about these manufacturing sectors, you can View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
resuscitate securitization, we should utilize off-balance-sheet entities but with a transparent process and capital charges that are based on actual risks. We want banks to disclose their potential liabilities to these entities and to put... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
Fall 2016 Journal of Economic Perspectives Global Talent Flows By: Kerr, William R., Sari Pekkala Kerr, and Çağlar Özden Abstract—The global distribution of talent is highly skewed and the resources available to countries to develop and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation
percentage of Democrats working at utility companies, but a lower percentage of Democrats employed at energy companies. “It's quite striking to see these large differences in the political composition of certain industries and certain... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 25 May 2015
- Blog Post
RapidSOS Wins the HBS New Venture Competition
accurately determine a caller’s location in an emergency. After an early career spent helping to commercialize new technologies, I entered HBS committed to finding a better way to utilize all of the technologies that we carry in our... View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream Series: Marty
the company culture: 18 years later, the policy remains in place, and is regularly utilized in recruiting new employees to the firm. It also ties the senior staff together through shared experiences and a commonly held ethos about time... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
process will become much more efficient. With the data we're collecting now, we'll have virtual clinical trials that will bypass actual humans. The number one challenge is going to be utilizing these vast quantities of data to create... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
sector, was quickly given a major role implementing an important new “customer service” outreach to parents. Utilizing input from principals and parents, a “parent coordinator” was hired for every one of the city’s 1,200 public schools to... View Details
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
Harvard Business School Case 914-011 Progress Energy and Duke Energy (A) Just as Duke Energy and Progress Energy announce their merger-forming the largest utility company in the United States, to be led by the current Progress CEO-a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
provide. The provision and disclosure of information presents tradeoffs for all market participants. Consumers benefit from providing information to the firm, as this increases the utility they derive from the service, but they incur... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne