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01 Dec 1998
News

Managing the Business of Life

the company, from light bulbs to medical systems to financial services. It was a very valuable time for me because I gained hands-on experience applying 'quality' principles to the environmental health and safety arena. I worked with... View Details

25 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 25

people prefer the action that saves more lives, despite its being more aversive. Our findings shed light on the formation of moral judgment under normative conflict, the conditions for preference reversal, and the potential polarization... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership

companies defined a new business model of success. Q: Explain the relationship between the leadership styles of airline CEOs and the industry's "contextual landscape"? A: Our study of the airline industry helps to shed light on... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Air Transportation

17 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 17, 2009

repurchasers to shed light on characteristic-related mispricing. When issuing firms are large relative to repurchasing firms, for example, we find that large firms subsequently underperform. This holds true even when we restrict attention... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal

who also conducted an earlier study with Smith on college rankings. “The fact that a single widely covered scandal might impact applications as much as a drop in rankings from, say, 6 to 15, sheds light on how students trade off the many... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

08 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid?

efficient storage would get us a long way forward." Another potential plus: Consumers would have more control over their energy usage. Homeowners would be given in-home meters to monitor their energy use and even control how much they spent on electricity, perhaps... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Energy; Utilities

07 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Are Creative People More Dishonest?

The ideal solution, which requires ingenuity, involves emptying the box, tacking the box to the wall as a candleholder, placing the candle inside, and lighting the candle with the match. The researchers found that 47.3 percent of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising

07 Jun 2010
Research & Ideas

Improving Brand Recognition in TV Ads

setup is as unobtrusive as sitting in front of a computer monitor. Eye movements are captured by an optical sensor using infrared light reflected off the cornea. When his advisor at Michigan showed him a huge dataset collected from... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Media & Broadcasting; Entertainment & Recreation

23 Sep 2024
Blog Post

2024 Summer Internships in Business & Environment

Energy is one of the largest and most innovative clean energy companies in the world. Headquartered in Florida, NextEra operates primarily through its subsidiaries, including Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) and NextEra Energy... View Details

20 Aug 2014
News

With No Time to Lose

down his pursuit of a cure for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (commonly known as ALS). As founder and former CEO of Prize4Life, the nonprofit he launched in 2006 with the help of his HBS classmates and professors, Kremer has shone a light... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Sep 2005
News

One-on-One with Thomas Riley

buying material for a sewing business, for example, or lights for a spice vendor’s shop. The repayment rate is 99.4 percent. It’s incredible and inspiring to see what the people in this program are achieving. We need to do more of this... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Finance; Government

21 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19

changes in the field aren’t fed back to HQ, where plans can be updated and recommunicated quickly. To remove the fog, Clausewitz believed in light decision-making frameworks that allow adaptability. Napoleon followed these principles when... View Details

Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo

12 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs

In the 1920s, on pitch black nights in rural eastern Montana, the farmhouse owned by the parents of brothers Marcellus and Joe Jacobs stood out for one reason: it had light, although located far from power lines and gasoline supplies. It was a beacon in the dark that... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

09 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy

unwavering belief in human potential. After the war, the stage was set for an explosion of innovation, and Doriot was in a perfect position to light the fuse. As a professor of a leading business school and a director of dozens of... View Details

Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante

23 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair

If you squeeze your hand too tight, the sand runs out. You lose it. If you hold it too loosely, the same result. But hold it just carefully and firmly enough, and you keep it. A light hand keeps the sand. The same goes with a family in... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman

20 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

What’s Next for Japan

success—and that mismatch poses a lot of challenges for Japan today. "Unless Japan can come to a consensus on what worked in the past and what didn't, it is pretty hard to create a new economic strategy. "And it is that model that I hope our colleagues can... View Details

Keywords: by Hilah Geer

Profile

Marla Malcolm Beck

one knew what facials were. When I was in Boston, I used to drive 45 minutes to get MAC lipstick.” The proverbial light bulb went on and Beck decided she could bring beauty products online. Bluemercury was born. As every nascent... View Details

01 Feb 2000
News

No Place Like Home

those costs tend to offset any tax-base revenues gained from housing. By contrast, with light industry, towns get the tax base without having to add a lot of social services. So communities that are chasing after business to locate in... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Apr 2000
News

Books

affect the decision to go public. As the authors shed light on the structure and operations of venture capital firms, three major themes emerge. First, all venture capitalists confront tremendous incentive and information problems, in... View Details

Keywords: Amy E. Dean

14 Feb 2012
First Look

First Look: February 14

occurrence of organizational errors. Further, in the light of a recurring critique of prior error-related organizational studies as being narrowly context-bound and therefore of limited interest to organizational researchers in general,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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