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- 27 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Development while Decarbonizing - Understanding India’s Agriculture Landscape
standpoint, lowering its carbon intensity in India is key to unlocking a sustainable future. In 2019, agriculture generated 585 Mt CO2e, making it the third most contributing sector behind power generation and heavy industry. Nonetheless,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
moral hazard in the financial system to an entirely new level,” he warns. But Moss has a fix: The federal government should slap tough new regulations on all firms that pose “systemic risk” — the risk that a failure of one institution... View Details
- 08 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Fashion Your New E-Business Model
vertical portals have a profound effect on traditional distribution networks, but because many vertical portals will have production capabilities, they may also pose a threat to specialty producers that choose to downplay the significance... View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
- 20 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: Illuminating India’s Solar Future: Reflections on Tata Solar Manufacturing Plant Visit
across the country. In the bustling city of Bangalore, where tradition meets technology, we had the privilege of visiting the Tata Solar manufacturing facility. This visit offered a window into India’s renewable energy journey, showcasing both significant achievements... View Details
- 30 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2013
presentation or job interview? Holding one's body in "high-power" poses for short time periods can summon an extra surge of power and sense of well-being when it's needed, according to Amy J.C.... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
performed significantly better than others when evaluated for “presence” and were more likely to be hired. Their secret? Striking expansive poses for two minutes before the interview. The study builds on Associate Professor Amy Cuddy’s... View Details
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: The Business of Crowdsourcing
quality responses from the community. A beverage company client for Tongal initially asked for an ad that would convince people that its product was healthier than competitors. But if the question were posed in that way, many of the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historical Perspective: Levitt Shaped the Debate
influential books and articles on marketing, was to "grab business people by the lapels, shake them, and say, 'Wake up!'," Tedlow said. You couldn't ignore Levitt, and what he said, the way he said it, and the questions he posed... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Support Staff Identity Crisis
Last year, Harvard Business School professor Ranjay Gulati met with the marketing department of a large American corporation and posed a seemingly simple question: What do marketing people actually do? "I got this nervous... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Web
2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
“master’s tools” can be turned toward liberatory ends, powerful new strategies and technologies are reshaping work and life in potentially emancipatory ways. Many of these redeployments and innovations are aimed at advancing equality.... View Details
- 24 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Do National Security Secrets Hold Back National Innovation?
disclosure of those details poses a threat to national security, the government can order the inventors to keep it secret. 11,000 secrecy applications during WWII The WWII patent secrecy policy, for example, was established in 1940. Over... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 02 Mar 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?
added: “China has surplus trade with the world and the US has a deficit trade balance As such, the US lost the race several years ago.” In the same tone, Salvatore posed a question for us: “Leadership in global trade is as fluid as... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Sep 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?
to have had as much resonance among readers as it did among CEOs who made it a summer reading favorite. Perhaps others agreed with Mary L, who commented that, “Today’s tech enabled networks pose no greater threat than any other networks... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Sep 2016
- News
Words and Pictures
he says. So Deifell, a multimedia artist, decided to combine his skills as a photographer with a question from the last line of a Mary Oliver poem: “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” He posed this... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
On Eve of Transition, Alumni Conference Set for Hong Kong
Myths, Realities, Opportunities," the conference will be held in Hong Kong April 5 through 8 on the eve of the official transfer of power in June. "We timed the conference to coincide with the transition," says David B. Yoffie, Max and... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
- 02 Jul 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Story #19: Nicole Neeman Brady (MBA 2008): The Critical Role of Business in Tackling Water Challenges
passionate advocate for businesses to engage in water innovation and governance. Since her graduation from HBS in 2008, Nicole has been at the forefront of the interrelated water and power industries. For nearly five years, Nicole served... View Details
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Big Messages, Small Screens, Many Choices
your location?" Balis asked. Few people raised their hands. "How many people have turned off the location-tracking feature on their mobile phone" Balis asked. Hardly anyone raised a hand. And then Gupta posed a different question: "How... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Buy the Book
of interactive marketing, where a company uses individual customer data to tailor its pitch to a customer’s interests and tastes. One question the case poses is whether Patterson could use the sort of individualized information gathered... View Details
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
entrepreneurs are known to raise higher levels of funding than their female counterparts, but the underlying mechanism for this funding disparity remains contested. Drawing upon Regulatory Focus Theory, we propose that the gap originates with a gender bias in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Competition and Strategy Unit at HBS Sets Pace In Its Field
The following article is the tenth in a series on the activities and research taking place in each academic unit at HBS. The powerful ideas that come under the umbrella of the School's Competition and Strategy (C&S) unit are making an... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young