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- 07 Sep 2021
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Green House
achieve net-zero-energy demand by pairing ultra-low energy use with solar panels for energy production. But Harper’s home goes even further than that select group—achieving net-positive-energy production—because the house uses so little...
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- 01 Jun 2020
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Staying the Course
3 million students had benefited from DreamBox's adaptive learning technology and its colorful video-game-style math lessons. Five weeks later—with an estimated 124,000 of the country’s K–12 schools closed to prevent the spread of...
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- 01 Dec 2017
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Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
seeking temporary staffing. Finding talent is an enormous source of expense and inefficiency in the industry, adds Nazem, who estimates that “nearly 100 percent” of health care institutions will need temporary staff this year. The idea...
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- 06 Aug 2020
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Defining Flex Work
estimated that some 30 percent of women would leave the professional world to become caregivers, but that 70 percent would have stayed if they had access to a flexible schedule. It was an “aha” moment for Auerbach. She initially launched...
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- 19 Jun 2019
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Connecting Patients and Providers
tried to contact medical specialists on his mother’s behalf. Trustedoctor estimates that only 2 percent of emails to doctors are returned and a full 46 percent of inquiries to United States hospitals via any method are lost. And even if...
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April White
- 01 Dec 2009
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Up on the Green Roof
that green roofs can reduce average daily energy demand of a building by about 15 percent. Because a green roof protects the underlying waterproof membrane from temperature extremes and the sun’s ultraviolet radiation, it can last up to...
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- 01 Jun 2024
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Quantum Leap
to novel hardware, quantum computers require new software to exploit their unique capabilities.) Since then, progress has accelerated rapidly, and interest in quantum computing has exploded. Amit Kumar (MBA 2008), a managing director and senior partner at Boston...
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- 01 Sep 2004
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American Dream
visitors in their tracks. “I wonder if I should turn him down a little,” Hustead muses. As president of Wall Drug in Wall, South Dakota, Hustead ponders this and many other details of a 76,000-square-foot roadside attraction, not far from Interstate 90, that annually...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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Steady as She Goes
consumer behavior brought on by the pandemic to persist. Coles has seen a significant uptick in online ordering—Weckert estimates the company saw five years’ worth of adoption in six months—and people are consuming more at home, which...
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- 20 Mar 2019
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Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
emissions reductions immediately, Henderson and the other speakers were optimistic that it is completely plausible to change today’s practices and norms. Despite ongoing debate about the cost of decarbonizing the world’s economy, Henderson View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
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The State of Play
If the category of offerings known as “immersive experiences” were a soup, it would probably have to be a gumbo—a saucy and colorful assemblage of potentially disparate things. And while it’s rooted in familiar traditions, it’s also open to whatever bright new ideas or...
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- 01 Jun 2007
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Steve Schwarzman
business, politics, media, and the arts. With a personal fortune estimated by Forbes to surpass $3.5 billion, Schwarzman has come a long way since leaving Lehman Brothers in 1985 to cofound Blackstone with start-up capital of $400,000....
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- 01 Feb 2001
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Drilling Down
underscores a new reality in the United States. At the center of this change is the fact that U.S. oil reserves have diminished from an estimated 39 billion barrels in 1970 to 21 billion today. The gushers that made Texans in ten-gallon...
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- 11 May 2011
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In a Good Place
raised an estimated $7 million over the years for the five schools in its immediate area. No, Gehrke didn’t describe a burning ambition to run a flea market in her HBS admissions essay. “The path you start out on is certainly not always...
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- 01 Jun 2024
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Decoding the Promise and Perils of Generative AI
ChatGPT burst into the public consciousness on November 30, 2022. Within two months, the generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) software, which leverages a large language model (LLM) to produce human-like, text-based conversations, had reached an View Details
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- 19 Feb 2008
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The Scoop Behind the Silver Screen
estimated in advance by companies who specialize in this sort of analysis. Bonds can be purchased to cover cost overrun risks, too. And it doesn’t hurt to have the reality check of a bonding agent looking over the movie’s projected...
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- 26 May 2022
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Bidding Up
economics perspective. I thought maybe that was an approach, but, you know, there are all these paradigms, economics is so locked in this paradigm of demand and supply and prices, clear markets, and things like that. A few years later...
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- 01 Sep 2016
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The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
billion of investor funding between them, three former HBS classmates—Nadiem Makarim of Go-Jek and Anthony Tan and Hooi Ling Tan of Grab (all MBA 2011)—are doing this through competing on- demand ride services, seizing on the fast-growing...
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- 01 Mar 2007
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Security Chief
across a far-flung network of operations, and motivating everyone with a clear understanding of the new company’s mission. Add to those formidable tasks the steep learning curve Parker faced by moving from the service-based rigors of insurance to the product-driven...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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Money Matters
you with a stinging rebuke. When informed that his demand for a 30 percent annual return was unrealistic, despite assurances to the contrary from his bank’s investment adviser, the retiree groused: “If you guys from Harvard Business...
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