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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
34,000 Pages and Counting
to the printer in South Carolina, who would keyboard all the pages twice and then compare the two copies of the page as a crude way of proofing!” Fortunately, computers have rendered that tedious process obsolete. But it still takes three...
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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
How to Close the Health Gap
questions are finally focusing on the health-care needs of the poor. Some teams, for example, are working on genetic modifications that would render the mosquito unable to transfer malaria. Those developments make Daar and Singer...
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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Negotiating in 3-D: An Overarching Way to Get to Yes?
two-dimensional approach cannot render an outcome acceptable to participants. Its most familiar element involves what each party will do if no deal can be reached - in other words, the "best alternative to negotiated agreement" or...
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Anita M. Harris
- Portrait Project
Amer M. Lahham
till the end. It has been a long journey from my Catholic school podium to this magnificent hilltop. I learned that Palestinians should live for Palestine, not die. My mission was one of demolishing mistrust, of rendering the struggle for...
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- 16 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Has Apple Reinvented the Watch?
strategy would be a very risky move Ryan Raffaelli: We often define radical innovations as "competency-destroying," meaning that they render all related products and services in the same market category obsolete. While the Apple Watch is...
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- 01 Apr 1999
- News
A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News
he told the Boston Business Journal (January 114, 1999). Added Krasnow, "The [medical] system today doesn't really provide the resources people need. Patients are discharged from hospitals very quickly." CardioResponse customers rent or buy portable EKG devices that...
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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
New Art
match the usual expectations of ivy-covered brick buildings connected by orderly pathways, a look inside any one of those buildings reveals a less traditional scene. Wander up to the second floor of Shad Hall, for example. Gracing one stairwell is Strive, a life-sized...
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Introduction - The Medium - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
and by Frank and Lillian Gilbreth in the early 1900s. For Harvard students, Ayres was particularly interested in documentary records that illustrated action and labor-saving devices. For all their faithful rendering of detail, however,...
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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Capital Architect
economic troubles correlating with ethical and spiritual lapses, including Zimbabwe, where prolonged violations of human rights and citizen participation have rendered the masses economically impotent. Several national economies in the...
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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Hierarchy's Last Stand
development rendering some knowledge obsolete and a global knowledge explosion democratizing access to the rest. Titles are losing their signaling value. Autocrats of the breakfast table (a book title 150 years ago) get pushback from...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Crisis and Creativity
talent pool. Many Web 2.0 developments, including blogs and social networking, grew out of the large number of talented Web-literate workers who lost their jobs after the collapse of the Internet bubble. In addition, technologies and materials View Details
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Bhaskar Chakravorti
- 04 Oct 2004
- What Do You Think?
Does Speed Trump Intellectual Property?
create more interesting program choices for audiences." Azeem suggests a more appropriate response, saying, "Speed can trump IP, especially in technology industries. In the time it takes to secure a patent, you ought to have View Details
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by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Magician Turns HBS Upside Down
QUITE SOME TRICK: Randal rendering an HBS classroom speechless, at least momentarily. Innovation and magic are kindred activities: Both can amaze and upend reality while introducing something new or totally unexpected, as if from nowhere,...
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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Ban the Butterfly Rule for Corporate Directors
associated with the loss of position renders the director no longer qualified to serve, the message to the outside world is that board membership is geared to the position, not the person. Stated another way, the apparent objective is to...
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Joseph Hinsey IV
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Speakers Share Triumphs and Challenges
Then, reciting the Hebrew from memory and rendering his own translation of the words that Rabbi Hillel wrote two thousand years ago, Feurstein said: "Not all those who make a fortune in business are wise in God's eyes. To be wise in God's...
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James E. Aisner
- 06 Jul 2009
- What Do You Think?
Are You Ready to Manage in an Irrational World?
admission by Alan Greenspan that markets acted in ways he had not anticipated? The work shares several common counter-intuitive conclusions that: (1) human behavior is much less rational than has been assumed, (2) this renders much of...
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by Jim Heskett
- 16 Nov 2011
- News
Are Humans Cost-Effective?
what used to be called “automation,” the concept and term made famous by the visionary John Diebold (MBA ’51) when computers were virtually unknown. Today, in an increasingly knowledge-driven economy, the ability of the Watsons of the world to View Details
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Garry Emmons
- Student-Profile
Talia Gillis
to employees without legal representation, highlighted how difficulties in calculating social benefits, severance packages or assessing settlement offers created significant barriers for employees, rendering many legal protections futile....
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- 14 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 14
governs disputes between foreign investors and host governments. First is the inconsistency of the decisions rendered by arbitration panels established under bilateral investment treaties, investment provisions of regional trade...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It
When lawyers fare better than inventors and entrepreneurs where U.S. patents are concerned, you know injustice is being done. The current system makes patents easier to acquire, sure, but renders them less prestigious as well, and less...
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by Ann Cullen