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- 01 Mar 2010
- Op-Ed
A Golden Opportunity for Ford and GM
board chair. Since that time, he has acted decisively, removing Fritz Henderson as CEO and assuming the mantle himself. Whitacre quickly reorganized the company from top to bottom, cut out layers of middle management, initiated new...
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Sustainability in the Transportation Industry
concrete initiatives which the European Commission adopted for the next decade to build a competitive transport system to increase mobility, remove major barriers in key areas and fuel growth and employment. At the same time,...
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Islam’s Great Culture Is Dying
redefine itself in modern times based on its own values and beliefs. In the current crisis, Allawi sees the politicization of Islam and rejection of the modern world as its possible undoing because both remove the possibility of a...
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- Portrait Project
Karibu Nyaggah
significant obstacles in life; obstacles I never had to face. I don't know where Lilly is now, but I pray she is still smiling. I have a responsibility to remove the barriers that hinder so many. I have been tremendously blessed with a...
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Allen Yang
like for most people who live there. On our first day, we got a tour of the downtown city and of one of the townships, where we spent hours interviewing families. We asked about where they shopped, where they got water, what life was like every day—it was so far View Details
- 09 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 9
assessing the startup health care company's 2014 marketing plan. On December 31, 2013, Vaxess had obtained an exclusive license to a series of patents for a silk protein technology that, when added to vaccines, reduced or removed the need...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
Desktop Search and Revenue Streams
information
(but) the problem is at the end of the day, the user wants an answer—he doesn't want more and more of them." Herve Gellaire, chief technology officer of Xerox and president of Xerox Innovation Group, said, "I believe there may be means to...
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by Julie Jette
- 17 Dec 2021
- Blog Post
Student Conference: Climate Symposium 2021
innovation and progress that businesses are uniquely positioned to bring, from spearheading voluntary corporate carbon removal programs to reimagining sustainable agriculture. You had over 300 people register for the conference. What do...
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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Blue-Green Revolution
removed from fossil crude. As a result, algae could pull fossil-fuel generated CO2 out of the atmosphere and transform it into nearly carbon-neutral diesel or jet fuel with minimal environmental impact—a handy trick when demand for...
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- Web
Benefits | Information Technology
a difference in the world, while scaling the School’s impact and pedagogy. By removing some of the barriers to learning, like travel cost and logistics, we can allow more people to benefit from, and contribute to, the HBS classroom...
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Samuel Racana
life was again turned around when he was removed from his position because of his religion. In the face of the injustice and humiliation, he led my family to build a new life in Sweden. His endless resilience, ability to start anew, and...
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Prita Kumar
turns in investment banking and private equity, “hoping that I would love that career path because it was filled with extremely intelligent people and highly analytical work.” While Prita did “work with C-suite executives and saw various initiatives and growth plans,”...
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- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Linking the Globe: The Role of Media and Communications
he said, for a number of reasons. First, the 'Net removes the "tyranny of distance." "Life is not limited by national boundaries on the Internet, nor is it limited by how far a van can travel in the night to deliver a...
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- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Beyond the Plastisphere
(MBA 2000), who stepped down in November after four years as CEO; he has stayed on as a strategic advisor. And because rotting organic waste is itself a source of greenhouse gases, Full Cycle’s waste-based bioplastic not only removes...
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- 15 Nov 2013
- News
Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again
founders, inventors, investors or lenders—to stabilize, hold, develop, and sell IP assets. In a typical transaction, a special-purpose holding entity is created to remove all liens and other complications that may be attached to the...
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Robert S. Benchley
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Transportation Infrastructure - U.S. Competitiveness
the needs of America's transportation and infrastructure systems, and to prioritize: PPBs —pain points and bottlenecks—that can be removed Innovations that can be applied—vehicles, connections, finance, technology Opportunities for...
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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Feedback
Collins (MBA 1984) via LinkedIn We have removed almost all price signaling from health care. The only way to align supply and demand is by correcting this. A bureaucracy will never get it right. Only a political bureaucracy could have...
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Health, Social Assistance
- 05 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
Environmental Change and Ground-level Impact
operations research, helping military leaders and policymakers think about how to make government more effective and efficient. It was an advisory, analytical role, and I enjoyed it very much—but after a while it felt a little too removed...
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- 29 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control
provide infrastructure for electric vehicles. While not all projects have a climate-change benefit, many help reduce future carbon emissions or even remove carbon emissions from the atmosphere. In addition to looking at bonds self-labeled...
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- 05 Sep 2012
- What Do You Think?
Will Business Management Save US Health Care?
need to achieve "a cooperative effort on the part of physicians, hospitals, and yes, even patients." Milton Recht provided a list of responses: "Increase competition, allow medical business failures, remove guaranteed...
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