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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
classmates, Diana Greer and Roberta Lasley (both now deceased), but neither was in any of her classes. "That didn't present a problem for me," she recalls by phone from Houston, Texas. "I was also the only girl in my high-school physics... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 19 Aug 2010
- News
Catchphrases, Mottos, and Cheers
Managerial Economics professor Bing Sung to indicate that some elements of a problem are unknowable and should be recognized as such in our analyses. 1977H. One professor always asked, “Jeremy, who’s going to pay?” 1987E’s motto was “We... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
already being practiced by some far-sighted US providers, reversing the typical flow of innovation in the world. Reverse innovation has worked in other industries. We need it now in health care. Not Fade Away: Staying Happy When You’re... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995
serve the emerging middle class in Mexico. IGNIA represents Rodríguez’s commitment to his homeland as well as his belief in tackling social problems with market solutions. “We support entrepreneurs because we want to have a positive... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Case Study: Tip the Scale
comes in a carcass, customer preferences, share size, order history. Formulas propose a suggested share, based on a selection of items we think will maximize this member’s happiness—within the constraints of our inventory,” Cummings says. View Details
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
organization—taps into the talents common among those on the autism spectrum, which include attention to detail, highly focused concentration, perseverance with repetitive tasks, pattern recognition, problem solving, and honesty. These... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe
ended up placing several players there, and within a matter of a couple years, all of a sudden I found that I had about three dozen players in maybe 10 different countries. And then calls started coming in. Remember, this is before emails... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
management careers and management problems were carved up by function,” he continues. “A typical manager would spend his entire career within one function — say marketing, finance, or accounting — and he would be given only a piece of a... View Details
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
started reflecting. The first thing I was concerned about, where am I going to find a manager to replace him? This was a difficult department to find just anyone. And then I started wondering, was the problem really all him or could it be... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
members agreed to shed their titles and hierarchical way of working to eliminate what she regards as impediments to group cohesion and creativity. Participants were left to organize themselves and set their own schedules. And at the end... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
had problems on the stage and became violent, they would put him into jail instead of in a hospital. So his run goes from maybe 1895 through 1906. He maybe gets 10 or 11 years of creativity and by Labor Day 1906 he's committed to the... View Details
- 24 Mar 2022
- News
Well Said
had as an undergrad, going through what you call the rite of passage, end up becoming a business that you built at HBS? How did that insight lead into you founding BoldVoice? Anada Lakra: There were two kinds of paths which led me to it.... View Details
- 30 Mar 2017
- News
Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest
where some of a rough sense of respect for the other parties that is individually-based and not based on the positions they're taking forward, that becomes key. Because at the end of the day, there is a peace that comes through war and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
Bridges (a capstone at the end of the two years), and several entirely new Executive Education courses. In our doctoral programs, we launched PRIMO, a summer program that connects undergraduates with our faculty to learn about management... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
friends and family members to end discrimination. I graduated from Harvard feeling privileged for having received an incredible education. But unlike most of my classmates, I wasn't a full citizen of this country. Just for being gay, I... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
reinvesting in the underpinnings of our economy and laying the groundwork for long-term prosperity. That means investing in infrastructure, clean energy, and education. We need to address the health-care crisis and end the shame of tens... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
love our mission.” A lot of people believe that women have already “made it.” Why is the work that Catalyst does still necessary? If a problem is not solved, it’s not solved. I think people want to move on; there’s a sense of “Oh, we’re... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
“are much more frequent than we expect them to be.” Over the past 100 years, the S&P 500 has ended the year down 20 points or more on seven occasions, including this year. While it’s human nature to believe that the unthinkable, such as a... View Details
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
approaching it in two different ways. Horgan: So I guess, taking a step back, there’s—at least in the biotech realm of the world —there’s two ways you can cut the cake, so to speak. The first way is, I have a really cool technology that I want to apply to a View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
quite new. He returned to India and ended up having a very successful career in business — first as the general manager and then as CEO of a small company, and later as the head of progressively larger companies. So my entire relationship... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson