Alternatives - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Apr 2015
Blog Post

Subverting Career Trajectories

alternatives out there for us—otherwise we wouldn’t have the opportunity to come here in the first place. The toughest part of HBS for me has been reminding myself that although the MBA feels like a detour in the short-term, in the... View Details

19 May 2023
Blog Post

Choosing To Be Optimistic about Climate Change

instructive. Blood is Co-Founder of Generation Investment Management. “The short answer is ‘absolutely yes,’ because the alternative of being pessimistic is not a good alternative. I guess the better answer is that we’re determined to... View Details

01 Sep 2018
News

Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods

profit motive is needed. One argument for ending monopolies and opening the market for private services is that this might lead to more rapid technology introduction and innovation. You don’t have to look very far to find examples of View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Jan 2008
News

James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959

Wolfensohn Center for Development, a new global poverty research initiative at the Brookings Institution. He is also relishing the opportunity to work with his son, Adam, and daughter Naomi at Wolfensohn & Company, LLC, a privately held firm that invests in View Details

16 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Creating an Inclusive Recruiting Process for Candidates with Diverse Abilities

encourages employees to bring their full selves to work and highlights the available support systems. Offer Alternative Application Processes Companies can also review their application processes to identify opportunities to be more... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

11 Dec 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018

native men and women. We show that these effects were driven by the large and positive impact of immigration on native men’s employment and occupational standing, which increased the supply of "marriageable men." We also explore View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

25 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

An Organization Your Customers Understand

and users can choose to outsource or select an alternative service provider.7 Let's look at each of these conditions in turn. The first condition states that a constituent finds value in the firm's outputs. Who satisfies this definition?... View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

04 Sep 2001
Lessons from the Classroom

Getting Back on Course

these sections that turned out to be the participants' favorite part, according to Hart. Hart discussed entrepreneurship as an alternative to corporate careers. "But," she explained, "I was careful to disabuse them of the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

17 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #14: Bonita Stewart (MBA 1983) – A Career Devoted to Creating the Future

“Sugarcane EVA is a preferred material because it is made using swift-growing, rainwater-fed, renewable sugarcane. Using sugarcane provides a more sustainable alternative to petroleum-based, non-renewable materials often used in... View Details

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Impact Stories - Business & Environment

biggest, challenges facing my generation. Shared, electric, autonomous vehicles will enable urban areas to become more sustainable and more livable by providing a better alternative for first and last mile transportation.” Initiatives... View Details

01 Feb 2002
News

Redefining Success: Women & Work.

nontraditional way. There are numerous paths to leadership, and they don't all involve running a major corporation or being an entrepreneur." Alternative Work Situations The variety of paths to leadership often becomes apparent when women... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

21 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

How to Sink a Startup

Tim Westergren of Pandora and Evan Williams of Twitter. YouTube cofounder and former CEO Chad Hurley has called the book "an invaluable alternative to real-world trial and error." A past recipient of the HBS student-voted award for... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

05 Mar 2001
What Do You Think?

Fine Coupling: Can Human Resource Management Learn from Supply Chain Management?

Productivity will improve as the alternation of job assignments eliminates the 'indispensable' worker." Connie Luthy says, "I have practiced 'Just-In-Time' hiring ... in the pharmaceutical industry.... I have advised my client... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

04 Jun 2020
Blog Post

What MBAs can do in Defense of Black Lives

Movement for Black Lives, and follow the organizations listed above on social media or subscribe to their newsletters to get invitations to take action. Consider supporting a campaign to redirect police funding to alternative community... View Details

24 Jul 2019
Lessons from the Classroom

Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?

But the literature on behavioral economics suggests an alternative interpretation, which is that people might simply be sticking with the default [option] and not taking the time to enroll. In this case, the default matters a lot. A paper... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Oct 1998
News

A Community Investment

advantage of this overlap between the need for better education and the instincts of a business community to fill that market need. Clark: Public education has declined, so I think there needs to be some new way of providing quality learning. Business can help with... 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

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustration by Eric Nyquist

22 Apr 2022
Blog Post

Celebrating Earth Day 2022 with the HBS Business and Environment Initiative

growing role in society. We were lucky to be treated to a group of highly accomplished speakers within the industry from a huge array of functions that explored the growing space from all angles. High level areas included cellular agriculture, View Details

01 Oct 2021
News

Hybrid Learning the HBS Way

With physical distancing, each classroom could safely accommodate 25 people, so students alternated between attending in-person and remotely. About half of all MBA classes—more than 2,500 sessions—took place in the hybrid classrooms.... View Details

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