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- 21 Oct 2020
- News
Cold Calculations
group’s current challenge well from his own VC experience: “It’s time for us to put our foot on the accelerator and really scale up,” he says. The Arctic Ice Project recently hired a new executive director and is in the process of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
The Past Informs the Future of Work
“Number, please” was the oft-repeated request made by the more than 100,000 mostly female switchboard operators in the early 20th century. Anyone who had a telephone grew to know the familiar voices that connected them to the outside world. But in 1917, when AT&T began... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar
Merton noted that "risk management will become an essential internal process for the lending institution if it expects to remain viable and competitive." By demonstrating mathematically how to determine and hedge risk exposure for any new... View Details
Keywords: Elizabeth McNair
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Enron’s Legacy
class-action suit against the corporation) had adopted the salient structural characteristics and processes of experienced private-equity boards, I believe that many of the red flags signaling Enron’s economic woes and ethical drift would... View Details
- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
simulate it, which means, on the computer, you would launch a golf ball at it and watch it come off. And the simulation program would measure the speed the golf ball was moving at, its spin, all that. And it would give you a really good idea of how effective your... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
a market that was impacted just as hard but received less assistance.” Camino is also intent on expanding education opportunities for borrowers. With an extensive library of bilingual content and video workshops on topics ranging from digitizing business View Details
- 30 Oct 2018
- News
Paths of Victory
employees and an algorithm to match them to employers, Apli aims to fill that gap. “We got amazing media and investor exposure, which kick-started our fundraising process and helped us raise a new round of capital in record time,” Makarov... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms
individuals clearly poses an extraordinary challenge. We refer to it as “leadership without control.” Explain the concept of alignment. Lorsch: Alignment refers to the ongoing process of designing organizational practices and structures... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Engaging More Deeply with Business in Africa
region—and to each other—grow stronger. “The trip was a springboard that will propel more scholarship, more collaboration, and more insight,” he says. Essential to this process will be the ARC, which will provide research and case-writing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
draw people in, using more social media, employing jargon-free language, and “making everything simple and straightforward, from our registration process to the questions we ask,” says Giusti. Better Data Crunching The investment required... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 11 Jul 2013
- News
The Good Writer
different employers over the course of his writing career. For now, Dick says he loves working on The Good Wife, which stars Julianna Margulies as a lawyer building a new life and career after her husband, a State’s Attorney, is implicated in a corruption scandal. “The... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Lisa Churchville (MBA 1979)
hand, some technologies have come and gone: Witness the VHS tape, which killed the Beta format, only to succumb to the DVD. And I would never have guessed that managing in a regulated environment and process engineering would be so... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Two Kinds of Green
“We wanted to find a new home for the business.” As it happens, he continues, Clorox was in the process of a significant shift in its strategic focus to brands associated with more natural, healthy, and sustainable lifestyles, such as its... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
the Intel 8086 to the world’s largest and most sophisticated information processing organization, the International Business Machines Corporation. IBM epitomized the computer industry as it had been for at least two decades: vertically... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
The authors propose a practical and sustainable approach to one of the greatest challenges facing leaders today: transforming a business in the face of imminent disruption. They build upon the lessons of Xerox, Apple, and Barnes & Noble to describe the View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
vocals, and precision highs. We’re pretty excited about that, and we think our customers will be too. We’ve recently brought our product development process in-house, so instead of sourcing products in Asia, we can take a concept from a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
And I was often involved in processes and projects in ways that were helpful to them, and that necessitated my working closely with a broad range of people at the School. As soon as I became the decision maker, that changed. Even though I... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
may end up feeling that executives from the other company have taken over. All of these human forces can destroy the potential economic value of the merger." Beer suggests that cross-company task forces be established to design the structures, systems, and View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
brings real value to our customers. “Innovation isn’t just about engineering discoveries,” Timken adds. “It also means getting close to customers, understanding their needs, and finding ways to address them.” Doing so was part of the View Details
- 18 Feb 2014
- News
Stick with Plan A
enjoyed the process of creating something that people valued and would pay for." Her birthplace in Africa, combined with her education — boarding school in England, college and graduate school at Georgetown and Johns Hopkins — and... View Details