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- 15 Sep 2016
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Leading the Way
approach these things positively. “Boeing is a great, great company, and I wanted a big challenge. The company was staggering; I firmly believed it could be redirected. It’s a very important company to the country. It’s important in terms...
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- 01 Jun 2019
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City on a Hill
Their infrastructure, in terms of transportation (roads) and communication (broadband internet and cell phone service), is more limited. And they are relatively inaccessible: If you live in Harlan and want...
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- 05 Sep 2017
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Living the Quantitative Life
from tracking five or so things to 20 or 30 things. And I kind of overshot. And it then became a burden, kind of immediately, and I nearly fell out View Details
- 19 Jan 2023
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Forged in Fire
empathy, particularly for their employees. And I would say the toughest one to have is courage. Now Chad has to have courage, but I've seen a lot of CEOs that have no courage and their companies don't fare well over time. Now, the...
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- 01 Oct 1996
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The Drive for Excellence: An Interview with Jim Henderson
thing to do, but it also contributes to a feeling of fairness on the part of the people who remain. What are some of the View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
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Vision: A Unicorn Evolves
could restore the data in a couple of hours. That solution didn’t satisfy the client, whose sales team would be idle until the system was fixed. That was the moment things shifted for Medina. Outreach had...
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- 30 Jul 2019
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Turning Around Tesco
mantra to always put the customer first. Last year the company posted profits of nearly £1.7 billion; but the specter of Brexit instability looms large. “The thing about Brexit...
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- 01 Mar 2014
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Research Brief: Better to Be Safe with a Sorry
Brooks, an assistant professor in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit. In a recent paper, Brooks offers a counter to that prevailing wisdom, detailing four study situations where an apology for things out View Details
- 08 Mar 2017
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A Steady Voice in Difficult Times
school were probably the courses that focused on managing people. So when I left the business school and ended up in the financial services business, and was managing people, one of the things that I tried...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Providing education and opportunities to children in Pakistan
could plan and I could do multiple things which they in their illiteracy were helpless to do. “So I acquired a piece of land and put together the money and I built a school. And word had gotten around that...
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- 08 May 2019
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Fellowships Fuel a Passion to Help Underserved Communities
Amyra Asamoah (MBA/MPP 2020) Amyra Asamoah (MBA/MPP 2020) Since enrolling in HBS’s joint MBA/Master of Public Policy program with the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) in 2017, the only thing Amyra Asamoah...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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Spin Cycle
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. “Cancer has not forced me to change my life,” says Linn. “The irony is that cancer has been one of the best things that ever happened to me.”
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- 01 Mar 2023
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The Latest Model
broader economy. Prysm was retained recently by a large conglomerate to help design a crypto token, in a highly regulated jurisdiction. “They came to us and said, we need a token economic model that does the things we want to achieve and...
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- 11 Mar 2020
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Making It Rain
to gather weather data in an entirely new way—by extracting information from things like cell phone signals. When wireless signals hit atmospheric conditions like rain, for example, they lose strength. “We can reverse engineer the signal...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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Ink: Talking Shop
people say and instead concentrate on what people feel—is profound. Of course data matters, but not exclusively, and especially not in a ‘me-tail’ world.” Empire of Things How...
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- 26 May 2022
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Bidding Up
however, Bob suffered an injury that changed him from an athletic, outgoing personality to more of an introvert. BW: A key thing in my whole life was that I had a severe concussion when I was 14. We had four...
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- 01 Sep 2011
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Green Day
States. But he’s also a business-builder. Most recently, he was president of Novellus Systems Japan and VP and general manager of the Integrated Metals business unit. “The biggest View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
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Plan B: The Brick Bank
“Brick Bank” in partnership with a building supply retailer that would enable local residents to invest their savings in inflation-proof building materials, thus accumulating the necessary materials over time. “We take some things for...
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- 13 Jan 2021
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Stress Test
what we do,” says Andrew Kelley, III (MBA 2002), the chief commercial officer for BoxLock. He’s spent a lot of time thinking about what it means to do things right in the midst View Details
- 11 Apr 2017
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Keeping the Missions Under Control
Norman Knight (GMP 9, 2010) is Executive Flight Director at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. In this interview, he talks about the unique blend of scientific and technical skills and the management expertise needed to send...
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