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the Era of Climate Change On March 4, 2020 the Business & Environment Initiative and Alumni Relations hosted Risks, Opportunities, and Investment in the Era of Climate Change, a groundbreaking View Details
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Published Materials - Creating Emerging Markets
Education in Emerging Markets Since the 1960s By: Valeria Giacomin, Geoffrey Jones and Erica Salvaj 10 JUN 2021 Article Business History Review The Cost and Evolution of... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A World of Difference
closest airport), he kept broadening his perspective. He asked a lot of questions. He checked in with the air traffic controller and the first officer; everybody’s perspective was brought in. He considered... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 22 May 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
A Luxury Industry Veteran Teaches the Importance of Aesthetics to Budding Business Leaders
compelling answer in an unintentional haiku. “Their work is flawless,” she says. “Their quality control is tighter than NASA’s.” The Aesthetic Idol competition The final assignment in “The Business of Aesthetics” requires both an... View Details
- 04 Jun 2001
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of the Subscription Model?
much time, effort, and cost to build a business around a subscription model that it's become impractical for this purpose? Or was it just that the "get big fast" strategy didn't allow View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Future Vision
seashells washing up on the shore—all of which would also require time and attention, be they challenges or opportunities. You can’t ignore them; but you also can’t let them consume you, because you still... View Details
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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Institute of Science in 2024. 2023 Prithwiraj Choudhury : Selected for the 2023 Forbes Future of Work 50 list. Amy C. Edmondson : Winner of the 2023 Financial Times & Schroders Business Book of the Year Award for Right Kind of Wrong... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
time and reserve evenings for family. "I love what I do," Wasserman says modestly. "I just try to keep as many eggs in the air at a time without having them splat on the... View Details
- 14 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: SELCO - Last Mile Solar Powered Energy for Rural India
while aligning with the nation's ambitious goals for achieving net-zero emissions by 2070. Poor communities are usually at the receiving end of the worst impacts of climate change, coupled with unreliable energy, lack of timely... View Details
- 04 Jul 2005
- What Do You Think?
How Can Business Schools Be Made More Relevant?
substantial costs to faculty and institutions alike in fostering any changes as basic as these. Costs include large investments of time View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Globalization: The Strategy of Differences
labels 'international' and 'domestic' no longer apply." His globalization program, often summarized under the tagline "think global, act global," had included an unprecedented amount of standardization. By the View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 07 Jul 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can We Have Too Much Productivity Improvement?
members. The process is not a smooth one." The questions remain. Does productivity improvement hurt more than it helps? Or is this a transitory condition, peculiar to selected times and places? Will the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 09 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Cultural Disharmony Undermines Workplace Creativity
precursor to creativity in a global context. For example, when given the words "Great," "Street," and "Berlin," they should correctly answer "Wall," connecting the Chinese "Great Wall," American "Wall Street," View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 11 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
BTG Bioliquids: Creating Fast Pyrolysis Bio-Oil from Biomass Residue Streams
In January 2023, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led more than 40 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark... View Details
- 13 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Career Journey: Karan Khimji, Co-Founder of 44.01
Tell us a little about your background. I grew up in Oman, an incredibly beautiful country blessed with mountains, oceans, and deserts. I spent weekends going on treks in the mountains, scuba diving, or just spending View Details
- 04 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Life
different in any way from running a private enterprise. That's your job, if you're building a happy family: to realize that they need to be motivated and that there's a clear way to motivate them." The Perils Of Assessing View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 05 Sep 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Making the Right Technical Hire
lead to 20 percent of the effort to bring great people on board and retain them for the long term. There’s a severe opportunity cost that comes with bringing on the wrong people and/or at the wrong View Details
- 01 Mar 2021
- What Do You Think?
What Does Remote Work Mean for Middle Managers?
consciously working with your superior to obtain the best possible results for you, your boss, and the company.” However, it didn’t trigger the amount of follow-on research that the subject deserved after early interest in the topic died... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
(MBA 2022) Due to an Error in Editing In 1992, I was a subeditor and occasional reporter at the Times of India. We did very little work on computers. Most editing was done on sheets of paper that were later... View Details
- 13 Jun 2011
- HBS Case
Mobile Banking for the Unbanked
banking partner. Time and again the top-tier banks turned them down, so the company ended up teaming with a second-tier bank, the South African Bank of Athens. “Banks find it an unprofitable proposition to... View Details