Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. And, the cost of not addressing this problem is more than just the emotional toll of students having a "tough time down there."

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Steel did in an earlier era of manufacturing, Aquion and innovative firms like it are spearheading economic and employment growth across the country. This is the kind of technology—and the type of firm—that will make renewable energy more efficient and more cost-effective. But just as U.S. They employ 12.3

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

That breakthrough is value-based care, the goal of which is to lower health care costs and improve quality and outcomes. Instead, it will be about costs and patient outcomes: quicker recoveries, fewer readmissions, lower infection rates, and fewer medical errors, to name a few. Lowering Costs Without Compromising Quality.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

They tend to see running a school as similar to managing a large IT project and believe if they focus on costs and deadlines, the rest will take care of itself. They’re tenacious, cost-cutting, and task-focused leaders who believe they need to trim back every ounce of fat and make people work harder. billion and $7.6 billion.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Heres what orthodox economics would have predicted for a country without banks: A collapse in the money supply, a credit crunch, a trade implosion, mass unemployment, an atomized GDP, and the gears of industry and commerce grinding to a crashing halt. But perhaps the costs have risen, too. But perhaps the costs have risen, too.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

As the era of China as the world’s low-cost manufacturer comes to an end, innovation has become the most important element in the state’s development blueprint. Given its ideological leanings, China presents itself as a unique experiment in the power of the state to help the economy become more innovative.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

Today’s climate challenge is so far beyond our collective experience that it demands a radically different kind of engagement from senior leadership teams in the private sector. The threats that climate change poses to business, markets, and, indeed, capitalism are peculiarly hard for most top teams to spot, let alone act on.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

It is the backbone of the digital economy that contributes up to 8% of the GDP of G-20 economies. companies to reverse years of enhancements and innovations in secure online transactions and data storage that power the world’s largest retail e-commerce market , valued at $238 billion. Insight Center. We’d be asking U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

the Obama administration started to incorporate the “social cost of carbon” in decision-making and the Pentagon made climate change a military priority. After 2015 shattered climate records , 2016 got even hotter and more extreme, creating weather events that brought physical destruction, massive economic costs, and loss of life.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

Therefore, one of the main questions to ask of our fractured state-level climate policy is whether it can unleash the same level of innovation. Still, these coastal states are a powerful force in national markets, containing 26% of the nation’s population and producing 30% of its GDP. Blue States. While the U.S.

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