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- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
their reduction of carbon dioxide emissions than they are getting from their resilience in the face of fuel scarcity and power grid interruptions. We found that the average man or woman on the street in Kenya or Senegal does not care... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
an organization creates significant social value, we don’t care how it sustains itself — with internally generated surplus or with donor funds. Americans give roughly $300 billion a year to nonprofits, yet we really don’t know much about... View Details
- 21 Oct 2013
- News
Moving the Needle
hospital stays and doctors' visits showed her the health care system up close. "I realized that I really wanted to make a difference," she recalls. At Harvard, this self-described "contrarian" recalls having to push her idea of promoting... View Details
- 15 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise
creating social value. As long as an organization creates significant social value, we don't care how it sustains itself—with internally generated surplus or with donor funds. Americans give roughly $300 billion a year to nonprofits, yet... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 28 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time
consequence, the likelihood of seeing the same mistakes repeated in the future. He also expressed an interest in doing something about it. "We came up with the idea that we could capture at least the past 30 or 40 years through the eyes... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 11 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11
patients with laryngeal cleft seen between 2008 and 2013 at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary Pediatric Aerodigestive Center. Retrospective chart review was performed to identify clinic utilization by patients as well as patient... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees
workers during the pandemic. “You have to trust that they are intelligent enough and well-intentioned enough to get work done no matter what it takes,” she says. This means managers should be careful not to treat workers like children by... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
on effective professional feedback, honing it in roles at tech icons Apple and Google. The idea? Radical candor, or as Scott (MBA 1996) defines it, caring personally while at the same time, challenging directly. At its base, she says,... View Details
- 24 May 2023
- News
Balancing Acts
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: What does "work-life balance" mean in today's post-pandemic world? Associate editor Julia Hanna asks this year's five recipients of HBS's Alumni Achievement Award to describe how they think... View Details
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
to leave, all in about one hour." More than thirty years later, Professor David Upton makes Benihana the very first case he teaches in his Technology and Operations Management course (POM's successor). Explains Upton, "After Benihana, the students' View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset
required the Patriots to play in the stadium through 2001. Most real-estate investors wouldn't have cared about that latter clause; they would value the lease for its guaranteed rent, regardless of where the team actually played. But... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 15 May 2015
- Blog Post
How to Get a Global Perspective at HBS
Immersion Elizabeth: I think the most important thing I learned from my FGI was that anything is possible. My group was able to work for a team of entrepreneurs that had started a sports gear company in Buenos Aires. It was energizing and exciting to work so closely... View Details
- 08 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain Layoffs
management gave service quality (e.g., clean bathrooms and employees greeting customers and making eye contact) a 20 percent weight in importance, as compared with 10 percent for store conditions (e.g., shelf organization, labeling, and... View Details
- 11 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Business Competition Harms Society
business seemed to be the clear reason why. "Consider two vehicles of the same make, model, and usage, both tested in the same month in the same city. You'd hope the only thing that would sway whether these vehicles passed would be how well they were taken View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- What Do You Think?
Are Customer Loyalty Initiatives Worth the Investment?
to let customers acquire points or miles or any loot unconnected to the product they are using . . . It's about customers and suppliers caring for each other's success." As Alan de Winter put it, "A consistently well-delivered... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The View from the Pit
Harvard's School of Public Health since 1976 and has spent much of her professional career applying corporate and industrial models to the health-care field. Her research activity at HBS focuses on the current trend of hospital mergers and how physicians can approach... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- Web
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis | Working Knowledge
found that the average man or woman on the street in Kenya or Senegal does not care about global carbon, as that’s considered a “global north” concern. However, people absolutely do care about air pollution,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Alfred L. Cheauré - A Dog's Life
special. My competitive nature led me to contact a local dog club about showing her in competition, and one thing led to another. For about a year I went almost every weekend to a dog show with Anni and served as kennel help and doer of odd jobs taking View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
electrified, both because of the greenhouse-gas issue and economics. “Here’s an interesting piece of data: The size of the storage market for transportation is potentially 10 times the size of the storage market for the grid. If we care... View Details
- 03 Apr 2017
- What Do You Think?
How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?
when he said, “Let’s see what real disruption looks like, reminding us that, “A noted surgeon said his students, though very smart, often had rotten hand eye skills and made terrible surgeons. He said he could train a dexterous high... View Details