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- 04 Jan 2012
- What Do You Think?
Income Inequality: What’s the Right Amount?
figures, Joe Seydl cited another more basic remedy for inequality. In his words, "The key to improving mobility is to improve educational experiences at the earliest age possible." This debate gives us something to think about:... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 03 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It
into the atmosphere is clear. The world’s existing and anticipated alternatives for zero carbon energy—renewables, carbon capture and storage, and the established nuclear technologies—are not good enough to wean the world from coal. The View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Capitalism’s New Agenda
remedies that would make things worse, but were against any intervention by business because business had no legitimacy—“it’s above my pay grade.” Still others thought that business should use its influence to activate government. A final... View Details
- 25 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University
its intake of meat. Nor can universities be made by legislative fiat to perform functions for which they are not expressly designed. For example, requiring universities to admit underprepared students is unlikely to produce a proportional number of new college... View Details
- 02 Jun 2011
- What Do You Think?
Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?
Summing Up Responses to this month's column devolved into a debate about the division of responsibility among institutions faced with the potential for a national bankruptcy. The majority argued that such bankruptcies shouldn't be permitted, largely because of immense... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 18 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
No More General Tso's? A Threat to 'Knowledge Recombination'
follow the companies after the shock, they learned these firms were more likely to continue pursuing patents that recombined herbal remedies with other technologies. Surprisingly, first-generation migrants weren’t the ones doing the... View Details
- 06 Sep 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?
respondents. Joseph Butler suggests that "It is the responsibility of corporations and governments alike to share knowledge and to work to educate developing nations ... about consumption, pollution, and efficiency." Mark Cox adds, "I think that the best... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure
prescribe remedies vastly reduced the appeal of Business Cycles. None of this was accidental. During the years when Keynes was writing The General Theory, he tried out his ideas again and again within his elite circle of young economists... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
- 31 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants
It’s hard to say who’s right, however. Outside of a few high-profile examples like Brin, there have been virtually no data to gauge the level at which immigrants create companies and jobs. Kerr has sought to remedy that problem with a new... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
to show how effective and safe the remedy was. The scientists also investigated various questions that came up, such as whether clean water was required. (They found that, although boiled water was preferable, contaminated water was... View Details
- 05 Jun 2013
- What Do You Think?
Do We Need to Extend ‘No Surprises Management?’
leaders. Once we establish expectations among our direct reports, do we try to make sure that we meet them all? Where it is not possible, do we attempt to provide reasons in a timely manner? What levels of trust does your leadership create in your organizations? How do... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Disrupting India’s Dental Market
with the new brand Clove Dental. The nascent chain took its name from a spice whose analgesic properties have made it a traditional Indian folk remedy for a toothache. The growth plan relied on clustering, requiring at least 15 locations... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Dec 2011
- What Do You Think?
Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?
Kahneman's diagnosis, but not his remedy Whether the decision is to be made by an individual, a team, or 'the bureaucracy', I would say that all would be well served by the discipline imposed by adherence to a rational process (which)... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
In an age of global scarcity, water has become a valuable commodity in both the industrialized and developing worlds. With governments and communities increasingly unable to manage the complexities and expense of water treatment and delivery, the private sector has... View Details
- 04 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #16: Tim Murdoch, HBS MBA 1990 – Learning about Climate Change and Water
impacted.” The dangers of PFAS became even more real in March, 2024. The Canadian Broadcasting Company reported that North Bay, Ontario and Canada’s Department of National Defense (DND) are launching a $20-million project to remediate a... View Details
- 17 Oct 2016
- HBS Case
Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste
As much as 40 percent of food grown in the United States for human consumption is wasted. Source: Eivaisla After decades of wasteful food practices, where perfectly good food is discarded even as poverty keeps many families hungry, solutions are starting to come... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
country but of American and foreign businesses as well. My only recommendation to remedy the abuses mentioned is to lift the level of morality of all perpetrators, government and private sector alike. But as citizens, we have no power to... View Details
- 31 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018
that the corporate social network had disrupted hierarchical structures and that the site was overloaded with information. To begin to remedy these problems, Høylie’s team modified the group architecture and issued guidance for platform... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
When Product Variety Backfires
Traditional wisdom teaches that brands win market share by offering a wide variety of products, increasing the chance of appealing to a wider variety of customers. But how happy are you when trying to find a head cold remedy at the... View Details
- Web
Design: At, Into, & Beyond - Race, Gender & Equity
inclusive designer is someone, arguably anyone, who recognizes and remedies mismatched interactions between people and their world. Kat Holmes Inclusive design at its best takes an expansive approach to meticulously curated instances of... View Details