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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
Currently an adjunct associate professor at NYU’s Stern School, where he teaches about commercializing carbon-reduction technologies in the course Disruption, Entrepreneurship, and Social Impact, Carty points to the significant potential of View Details
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- 08 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care
problem. Q: You mentioned that the places where health care is delivered are part of the outmoded business model. Could you elaborate? A: You can't make CT scans more affordable by changing the way big hospitals are run. But if you take procedures that once had to be...
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- 21 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now
transition back to “normal” (whatever that means). Although we are still living in COVID-19’s grip, companies are starting to devise plans to bring their workforces back to the office in the coming weeks and months. In recent...
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Transportation - Business & Environment
High-Speed Rail Track construction for high-speed rail for intercity travel Mass Transit Mass transit or public transport to get around cities...
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- Jan 2014
- Case
Rethinking Cities: Chicago on the Move
in Chicago: rail decongestion; airport modernization; mass transit modernization; a complete streets plan; and an infrastructure trust as a financing innovation. It also discusses leadership by Mayor Rahm...
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- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Wake-Up Call: Farewell to the American Dream?
transition from the industrial era to the information/high-technology frontier presage a new era of prosperity, analogous to our transition from an agricultural to an industrial society? I don't think it...
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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Capital Architect
Brunell spent five years helping Vietnam transition to a market economy, instituting government transparency measures and a national competitiveness index. (© Whitehotpix/ZUMAPRESS.com) David Brunell (MBA 1962) is a master at making...
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- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
It's Climate Week in New York City. The schedule features a UN Climate Summit, a People's Climate March, the Clinton Global Initiative, substantial criticism of the whole endeavor, and plenty of agitated interaction. There is a lot of noise here. How can businesses cut...
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- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Innovative Course Brings Students and Alumni Together
general manager. After failing to find appropriate materials through traditional sources, Garvin went directly to the front lines for relevant information: to HBS alumni who had recently made just such a transition themselves. In a View Details
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Meg Gardner; photo by Joshua Lavine
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Conversing in Cyberspace: Students and Alumni Talk Management
find that the boss isn't interested in their suggestions? These are very real questions for anyone making the transition from functional to general manager. Last October, in Professor David A. Garvin's elective course General Management:...
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Daniel Penrice
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Why Layoffs are a Losing Strategy
Sandra Sucher (photo by Evgenia Eliseeva; Getty Images) Sandra Sucher (photo by Evgenia Eliseeva; Getty Images) After studying mass layoffs for a decade, Professor Sandra Sucher has seen the detrimental effects and advises against this...
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- 28 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #4: Erika Myers, World Resources Institute Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
in promoting electric vehicle (EV) adoption. As acting director of Global E-Mobility at the research non-profit, the World Resources Institute, she straddles the intersection of the global transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy...
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Carlos Coto
April; by June, Julia had an offer from iProspect in Boston, which made the transition easy," Carlos says. Julia now works as a controller at iProspect, and is co-president of the Partners Club at HBS. HBS has challenged Carlos' way...
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- 19 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2023: Business and Environment Ventures
urban Nigerians with affordable financing for clean, reliable energy. We leverage group financing and carbon accounting to lower costs and risk in the energy transition of Nigeria's $14B fuel-based, off-grid generator market. PolyoseBio -...
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Action Plan: Whole Sale
of Walmart’s beauty business. Balbale was a vice president at the Vitamin Shoppe in the mid-2010s when he saw Amazon and startup e-tailers moving into the wellness category. The competition inspired him to transition into the e-commerce...
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- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
foods, which had previously been colored with dyes extracted from natural plants and organic minerals, helping them to achieve mass production and mass marketing. Color was easier to control, reproduce, and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
How New BofA Executives Learn its ’Deep Smarts’
Editor's note: How does an organization hold on to its wealth of accumulated knowledge when the knowledge-holders depart? It's a very real dilemma made even more critical as Baby Boomers begin their mass exit into retirement. The new book...
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- 24 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Do National Security Secrets Hold Back National Innovation?
discovered that this compulsory secrecy program was in place during the war, and after the war it transitioned to a peacetime policy that persists to this day,” Gross says. “Everybody in the system benefits from being able to access...
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by Kristen Senz
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
to make a living selling buttons, combs, and other sundry items to suspicious and penny-pinching rural homesteaders. From these humble origins, Friedman traces a series of transitions that imposed ever-greater organization and...
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- 17 May 2018
- Blog Post
HBS/HKS Alum Regan Turner on Empowering Veterans
they do so important? “Almost 4 million American military veterans served in the post-9/11 era, and many of them have successfully transitioned into school or the labor force. However, a 2011 Pew Research Center study showed that 44...
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