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- 20 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 20
created in-house labs capable of first-rate basic scientific research. In recent decades, however, the connection between science and business has begun to change in important ways. While the corporate lab declined, new "science-based businesses" in sectors... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
productivity and competitiveness, a company needs to understand where the clusters are in its business. It must understand the competitive position of its cluster versus other locations. This is important not only to inform location decisions, but also to inform how a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Going Green Makes Good Business Sense
have people who bring more energy and passion to their jobs if the firm for which they work is consonant with their own values." The green debate is one that will be continuing for businesses, he added. The strategies he outlined... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
Energy Market No abstract available Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/718051-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 816-074 InsightSquared: Developing the Sales and Marketing Plan Fred Shilmover and Sam Clemens... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
Energy Savings Solutions Provider A Swedish light bulb manufacturer reviews its strategy to better compete against large global multinationals. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/115027-PDF-ENG Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standard. Using matching methods, panel data, and instrumental variables, we find that government procurement rules produce spillover effects that stimulate both... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
in achieving greater energy efficiency and reduced carbon emissions, the firm is looking for other ways to expand its sustainability initiatives, such as in its supply chain and incorporating sustainability into its due diligence and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls
industrial location, talking and asking about the question with the nervous energy for which his team had always known him. By his own words, LaMagna was "a risk addict and a compulsive capitalist," and deep down knew that he... View Details
- 11 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Board
disgruntled subordinates, or disengaged employees. "I can give great PowerPoint presentations, but that doesn't tell people whether I'm Attila the Hun or a New Age Leader, or if I create a culture of fear, a culture that accepts and respects dissent, or a culture... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 02 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Research and Prospects
program—we admit one or two students each year. They work here closely with Business School faculty and faculty from Harvard's Medical School and School of Public Health. That's going to be a huge long-term source of energy and... View Details
- 04 Sep 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Getting Back on Course
achievement. "It's possible to have both family satisfaction and professional success," Hart asserts. "However, you may focus your energy more intensively on one of these goals at a time. Some of the women in the program... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
synergies, based on his vision of the future of transportation, energy storage, and a “green” economy. However, most Wall Street analysts were highly skeptical of the deal, voicing concerns that the merger would burden Tesla with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Mar 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar
purposefully ensures otherwise. "The BSSE course teaches that the CEO of a big company has a very special role to play in stimulating disruptive growth," he says. "The CEO needs not only to see that something's there, but also to put significant View Details
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
Business School, decided to lower the energy costs of the island's residents with wind power. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810129-PDF-ENG Controlling Hot Money Robert C. PozenHarvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Neuroeconomics: Eyes, Brain, Business
into the effects of a crowded office—not to mention the morning commute. "Taking the subway can be so draining," she says. "Is there a way to test how much energy you lose by being around large crowds? And is there a way to be around a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 05 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 5, 2016
range of behavior change models and evidence related to littering, water and energy conservation, and land management. We also discuss the methodology and data needed to answer these questions. We illustrate how these questions have been... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’
understand that they can't avoid that conversation for very long. Nor can they fully control it. But if they engage with it in the right way, they have the potential to unleash organizational energy of a sort that no leader could ever... View Details
Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg
- 04 Oct 2024
- In Practice
Research-Based Advice for the Seasonally Overwhelmed and Schedule Challenged
what’s needed Men, like women, expressed gratitude for their partner’s unpaid domestic labor. But their reasoning exposed gendered expectations: Most of the men we interviewed said they were grateful because women’s housework and parenting preserved men’s time and... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 17 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring
re-employing people. These goals aligned with his team’s personal interest, which meant that he enjoyed goodwill and cooperation. He didn’t have to expend psychological energy rallying the troops, quelling dissent, or grappling with the... View Details
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs
of 'business as usual.'" Other leaders, like Alex Urquhart, president and CEO of GE Commercial Finance's Energy Financial Services, take a slightly more tempered approach. "It's always tempting to say, 'You guys do the old... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman