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- 06 Sep 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?
basis, an approach similar to the Kyoto Accord intended to reduce the world's pollution—pollution resulting largely from the use of carbon fuels. Given the trends in demand and supply, no action constitutes action. But is that the best... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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More Proof That Money Can Buy Happiness (or a Life with Less Stress) | Working Knowledge
experienced distressing events—no matter their income, they recorded a similar number of daily frustrations. But those with higher incomes experienced less negative intensity from those events. More money brings greater control : Those... View Details
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Affinity Groups | Employment
community for employees who share similar backgrounds or experiences. Affinity groups often provide staff with opportunities to connect, meet, and network with staff members they might not otherwise engage with in their day-to-day roles.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Curb Your Smartphone Habit
results—in terms of worker satisfaction, client satisfaction, and improvements in work processes—were so positive that within four years, over 900 BCG teams from 30 countries had gone through similar exercises. So this was a team-by-team... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Reimagining China and India
chose to write a comparative book to better illuminate their similarities and differences. Says Khanna: “What China is good at, India is not, and vice versa. The countries are inverted mirror images of each other.” Understanding these... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs
Schlesinger and his team did a great job in delivering a first-rate kickoff to these initiatives. The entire community will benefit as other changes achieve similar acceptance and success." To get to the: MBA program "Foundations"... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
the company also donates a percentage of online customer purchases. And, most recently, Working Assets created a similar donation mechanism through the long-distance telephone and Internet services it now offers on Sprint PCS Web-enabled... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 15 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Want Your Employees to Plan Better for Retirement? Don't Do This
often look to similar individuals and imitate their actions. This allows them to capitalize on the research others have already done and makes them feel secure through a sense of normalcy. The publicly-held technology company Opower,... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Forward Thinking
venture capital firm Tech Square Ventures, sees a solution in the efficiency gains that widespread new technologies inevitably achieve and the tech sector’s embrace of renewable energy. Experience thus far supports Nussey’s view. Similar... View Details
- 18 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
Applying HBS Lessons in an African Context
team spent several days in Casablanca interviewing local consumers about their furniture shopping experience and helped the client create a strategy to compete against IKEA in Morocco. This experience allowed me to learn about the country, its culture, business... View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
Locally Grown
trucks. The systems captured the energy created when braking and applied it to acceleration, reducing the demand on the internal combustion engine. The model was similar to that used in hybrid cars, but the heavier vehicles created more... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Robots Are Coming to Save Your Job
in manufacturing,” says Eckert. A 2015 report by Deloitte and the Manufacturing Institute found that 2 million of the nearly 3.5 million anticipated open manufacturing jobs in the United States in the next decade will go unfilled. Europe has a View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Short Takes
market so that the venture capitalists can cash out their investments. To have a stock market, you need reliable financial reporting, reputable auditing bodies, and an independent financial press. Creating institutions similar to those we... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Everything Old Is New Again: The History of Technological Frontiers
In each case, she noted, contemporary reactions to the new frontier followed a similar pattern. The commercial opportunity attracts pioneers, some of whom resort to piracy to seize their claims. This leads to the assumption that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Slum for Sale
Investment. Some said flatly that they would walk away from the deal, while others thought that it was a worthwhile risk to take, particularly since the project could inspire similar such developments. (In fact, two other projects are... View Details
- 17 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Decoding the Artful Sidestep
conditions, but the egregiousness of the dodge varied. We initially came up with a few different responses that we thought were of roughly similar "quality" and had participants read the same question followed by the different... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
measures, comparing a city that adopted a LEED policy to another city that looked very similar to it, in terms of demographics and inherent greenness," Toffel says. Spillover Results Overall, the researchers found that cities that adopted... View Details
- 09 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Speed Up Energy Innovation
Is there a special sauce for stimulating innovation in the energy sector, a concoction to spur cost-effective developments toward solving the climate change problem? HBS professor Rebecca Henderson doesn't claim to know all the ingredients for that special sauce. But... View Details
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
Those selecting earlier settlement options pay higher fees and interest, therefore revealing the level of credit constraints or impatience. We find that more credit constrained or impatient individuals spend their monies more quickly. The mix of cash and merchant... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
our lives to try to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions is very similar to trying to wear masks and use hand sanitizer and buy ourselves some time until we get a vaccine. It's just like buying ourselves some time until we can capture... View Details