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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Case Study: Sweat the Technique
opportunity to grow and engage its user base by tapping into data and analytics and could add value to Nix in the eyes of prospective acquirers. Should Nix stay the analog course, make the transition to digital, or split limited resources...
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Dan Morrell
- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
concerned citizens. These case studies strongly portray the challenges that public health faces in our times. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52269 forthcoming Journal of Human Hypertension A Retrospective Analysis of Hypertension...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers...
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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 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
will be in this last group. Amid the challenges of protecting the environment and halting its decline in urban areas and elsewhere, there is a consensus that sustainability will drive business during the coming years and that the View Details
- 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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- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
Chief Operating Officer. It’s a company that really advanced the technology of beamed energy propulsion and that technology has since actually transitioned over onto NASA’s roadmap. Can you talk a little bit about the significance of that...
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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
electric buses to transit agencies across the country, says that his business “has to a large extent gone mainstream,” with orders coming in from some of the biggest cities in the US, including Seattle and Chicago. But View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
workers, and the city—or private actors—has to invest in resource efficiency. So how can our water, fuel, and transit go further? By having multifamily housing, by having some kind of mass transit, by having...
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- 30 Oct 2017
- News
Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success
School. In retrospect, Rice realizes that he made a number of avoidable mistakes. “I probably didn’t manage the college-to-first-job transition or the B-school application process as rigorously as I should have,” he recalls. “I applied...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 11 Apr 2018
- News
The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)
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 percent of the...
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- 07 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics
place for permanent residents or poorly designed for families in a mass market. Finally, consider the costs of projects that more often than not go way over budget and then result in crushing long-term debt burdens. Montreal's Olympic...
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- 14 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
Creating Inclusive Recruiting Events in a Time of Innovation
Investing Club, and the Women’s Student Association. Organizations can email clubs leaders directly, but personalized - not mass - invitations to students are meaningful and help to build relationships. Take Action Against Unconscious...
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All Industries
- 04 Aug 2023
- Blog Post
Four Remarkable Stories of HBS MBA Students Tackling Climate Change
molecular mass of carbon dioxide. “We take CO2 that’s been captured by our partners, and inject it into these very special rocks that we find in certain parts of the world. Then we react that CO2 with this host rock, to convert it into...
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- 16 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018
digitally enabled open platforms. I go on to argue that the competitive success of open platforms against closed platforms gave rise to the "vertical-to-horizontal" transition in the computer industry in the 1980s and 1990s....
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
hospitals are run. But if you take procedures that once had to be performed at Mass General, for example, and you make them available at lower-cost, focused hospitals, that saves money. And as the technology evolves and becomes more...
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- 22 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 22
innovation outcomes as well as the ongoing performance of existing products. We find that ambidextrous organization designs are relatively more effective in executing innovation streams than functional, cross-functional, and spinout designs. Further, View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
industry and gradually spreading elsewhere. Small, state-owned enterprises were slimmed down under Premier Zhu Rongji--basically cut loose and left to go bankrupt and be restructured--while the government focused on larger enterprises. The View Details
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by Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #6: Climate Change, Peacebuilding, and Business: Lise Grande and Dr. Teagan Blaine, USIP.
straightforward equation: climate instability exacerbates the risk of armed conflict around the world. Examples are happening around the world every day. They include mass migration as food and water resources literally dry up; View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
conflicts in both theory and political sensitivity: Should Midwest motorists have to pay a price for gasoline that includes a questionable element for environmental impact? The opposition would rise when this “externality” is seen to pay for View Details