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- 27 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: Driving India's EV Future: Insights from Ather Scooter and Exponent Energy
technology that can charge a vehicle to 85% in 15 minutes. Their focus is primarily on commercial vehicles (CVs), a segment that represents 10% of India's vehicles but consumes 70% of the energy used in mobility. During our visit, we attended a presentation by their... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Truth Be Told
loaded term, but essentially what we’re talking about is how a company can create a culture where an employee feels comfortable telling a boss, “Oh, I just observed that no one is wearing a helmet in the factory. Maybe we should change... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Q&A: John Quelch
exploration has involved meetings with forty HBS faculty members involved in a wide variety of research endeavors. "If Harvard Business School only knew what Harvard Business School knows," Quelch observes with a wry smile. "There is so... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981
partnership that has remained strong through three start-ups. Dubinsky and Hawkins built Palm Computing and made the PDA the most rapidly adopted consumer electronics product at that time. "The PalmPilot grew out of failure," observes... View Details
- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
error after observations they thought were unlikely. This paper develops a framework for assessing when a given error is likely to be discovered, in the sense that the error-maker will deem her mistaken theory implausible. The central... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
shortage—which the National Education Association estimates to total some 300,000 vacancies. In this excerpt, Dwinal-Palisch discusses the problem set that the American education system is facing—and how she and Reach are tackling those challenges. READ MORE Joe... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
heartened to see that many of our alumni are leading these efforts. In my own work, I have observed growing interest from boards of directors in tackling environmental issues as well as the tremendous social challenges of racial equity... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
"Adults have a great time at Club Med, but especially for kids, there simply is no better place." He further observes that as people spend more time on computers on the job and at home, the greater their need to break away. "The more the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 23 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Globalization: Little Impact on the Continent
with the other panelists that "this has to be managed carefully or we will never see the positive results." The Good News "It was a pretty negative assessment," Spar observed after the panelists offered their... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- Web
Shad Membership Eligibility | About
students), spouses of community members and domestic partners. Shad Hall observes the following guidelines regarding domestic partner sign-ups: The HBS community member must already be a member of Shad Hall. The HBS community member and... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Accelerating Scientific Discovery
development—regenerative biology, as well ethical issues such as “playing God” by virtue of DNA editing. “When we write the history of the early 21st century, I think we will remember this time as being a period when we achieved absolutely transformative discoveries in... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
the time that as far as the Internet was concerned, the government was not involved. That observation intrigued me. Later, I listened to a conversation between two FIBS historians regarding the enclosure movement in England between the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
observes Steve Nelson (MBA ’88), executive director of the MBA Program. “In that time, Spangler has become so much a part of the fabric of the HBS community. We had 32 buildings spread across a 40-acre campus, but no central space for... View Details
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
elements differently, I observed that the organizations able to pursue both social and financial goals over time seem to share a commonality—they maintain a hybrid organizational culture that holds and balances tensions between creating... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
setting where compensation is highly interdependent—that is, subjective rewards or penalties for some employees cause others to miss out on those rewards and penalties. In our field setting, managerial discretion results in publicly View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
not translate into a greater desire to purchase their preferred item or into an overall benefit for choice satisfaction. Time-of-day controls were used to confirm that the observed effects could not be explained by circadian influences.... View Details
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
that the American business school as it evolved in the post-World War II era has become the dominant model for business schools in Europe and elsewhere in the world. Most observers looking at these institutions as they exist today,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Lessons for Retailers from the Rebirth of Indie Bookstores
As big box bookstores Barnes & Noble and Borders spread across the landscape in the 1990s, retail observers sounded the death knell for small, independent booksellers. But they had no idea of the onslaught that was coming. Amazon.com... View Details
- 05 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
How ‘Political Voice’ Empowers the Powerless
hard to hide a dead body.") And neither gender-neutral crimes (such as robberies or arson), nor crimes in which the victims were identified as male, showed any notable increase. So the observed increase was likely caused by a greater... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Rapid Response: Inside the Retailing Revolution
retailers require a rapid response from their suppliers. Indeed, a replenishment delivery time of no more than one to two weeks is now regarded as standard operating procedure. In their book, Hammond and her colleagues observe that... View Details