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- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom
By 2050, the Earth's population will likely exceed 9 billion people, up 30 percent from 6.9 billion today, according to projections from both the US Census Bureau and the United Nations. What's more, the population in the world's cities is expected to increase by 3... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
results of additional tests are consistent with the risk of expropriation being a barrier to information disclosure about firm performance. In contrast, we find no evidence that disclosure of government payments is related to proprietary... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
It is difficult to conceive of any policy that would be more destructive to American business innovation. Given global competition, it is not in anyone’s interest to force a union bureaucracy into businesses that must be innovative and... View Details
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Facing the New World Order
competitiveness. We also include a number of special chapters focusing, among other things, on environmental regulations and competitiveness, a paper that was authored by Professor Porter and Professor Daniel Esty on innovation and also... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
and team learning, in organizational behavior, and technology and innovation to offer insights for research on new product development teams. Building on prior work, we summarize the organizational benefits of NPD teams, and identify five... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Oct 2004
- What Do You Think?
Does Speed Trump Intellectual Property?
placing too much emphasis on patent protection? Are government regulations protecting intellectual property applied far too broadly these days? Should they be limited to certain industries, products, or processes where they can be judged... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Trade Off
protectionist Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 led to retaliation all over the world, and trade fell into a downward spiral that exacerbated the crisis. After World War II, the world looked for a solution to the lack of multilateral institutions to View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Bridges: New Dimensions in Negotiation
relevant government ministers at the table in a culturally sensitive process. Instead, the company took innovative actions away from the table that significantly improved its negotiating position.... View Details
Keywords: by Anita M. Harris
- 07 Feb 2017
- News
Shaping Singapore
Development. “Singapore’s story is about how a land- and resource-poor city-state has managed to develop a highly livable, high-density city,” she said in her acceptance remarks last October. “Doing this has not come easy. It requires collective effort, View Details
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
Pfizer, as well as nonprofits and international government agencies, the authors show how successful leaders of innovation don't create a vision and try to make innovation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs
period between 1995 and 2008. In jobs closely linked to innovation and technology, the share of immigrants was even higher, closer to 24 percent. "Skilled immigration is important for the United States, where we do have a large Baby... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
together the two experiences. It makes me very optimistic and enthusiastic about what we can do, because I have great faith in the innovativeness of our faculty and our community. For example, I could imagine that alumni interested in... View Details
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Alumni in Climate Networking Series: San Francisco - Addressing Extreme Weather, Climate Risk, and Resilience - Blog - Business & Environment
Environmental & Energy Law Program (EELP), hosted a panel and networking reception during San Francisco Climate Week at the University Club of San Francisco focused on how communities, businesses, and governments can respond to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Alumni Books
entrepreneurs, he explores how to evaluate innovative ideas and the entrepreneurs behind them (drawing lessons from Yahoo!, Baidu, Tesla Motors, Measurex, and more). He also discusses the value of political leadership in creating... View Details
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
experience. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50573 2015 Shaping Entrepreneurial Mindsets: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Leadership Development Design Thinking and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
economy, and their influence keeps growing. In 2017, for instance, America’s ten largest tech hubs accounted for 58% of U.S. patents. Globally, cities such as Tokyo, Paris, Beijing, Shenzhen, and Seoul produced a similar proportion. The increased geographic... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
Survive—Thrive: Leading Innovation in Good Times and Bad Authors:Lynda M. Applegate and Bruce Harreld Abstract Battered by contracting markets and frozen credit, many businesses today are fighting for survival. Indeed, the current global... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
and the distribution of farm sizes remained extremely unequal. We identify two primary causes for the slow progress of reform: first, the high cost of implementing these programs was a major factor in reducing take-up. On the other hand, the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
The Social Enterprise Initiative at HBS
Mike Bloomberg (MBA 1966) and his team and spent two years at Bloomberg Philanthropies on the Government Innovation team, where he helped mayors and cities drive innovation. Matt returned to HBS in 2014 to... View Details
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
preferences, which otherwise would have been difficult to elicit. Although governance was a struggle, none of the cases in our sample suffered a "tragedy of the commons" in terms of budget overruns, bogged-down processes, or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne