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- 08 May 2019
- News
Lessons from the Ashes
very appropriate phrase, wilderness. It was. My wife's American, so we moved to the US early ’91. It was devastating. My whole life was spent being groomed to run this family media company. And now that was over. So what do you do now? I... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
added that "with almost Œreal-time' information, business can now make appropriate decisions rather than guess." Second on the list was telecommunications, "a great facilitator, the pipeline that allows other innovations to happen (the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
members, after all, are part-timers. And while they're expected to be independent, they have to rely heavily on managers and auditors for information. One problem in all this was that the boards weren't getting appropriate information and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
have been some suggestions that insurers should look back at their historical hospital spending and transfer a commensurate amount of money to hospitals during this crisis. There are different health care needs right now, and it is View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Doing Something Real
teaching undergraduates). At the B-School, by contrast, the professors were, for the most part, a lot more fun. All but a few were great at relating to us, most of them with a wit and energy and clarity one did not find as often at Harvard College. It was most View Details
Keywords: Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
recalls. “There was a cult of youth, and I realized that I should work for myself because I wasn’t going to find an appropriate position at that point.” Bemis, who had experience as a venture capitalist, decided to focus full-time on... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
that vision is an important part of any nonprofit and for-profit strategy. Then you can go back and see if it has the potential to be scalable, if it’s going to have sufficient impact, if the management team is solid, and if there’s an View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
Switzerland, to "spiritual anchors for the new millennium." Clearly, something of a nonmaterial nature is stirring in the corporate temple. But questions abound. Just what does it mean to bring spirituality into the workplace? Is this an View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
achieved without asking where or how they achieved it. In hiring, we must ask, are we appropriately accounting for a candidate’s situation? Are evaluations of the candidate based on both actions and outcomes?” If that has you feeling... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
focused on attempting to connect federal government appropriation accounting to the internal management systems of the various agencies. Of course, the Congress would have none of it! Even in retirement and though unable to see, Bob... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
management; knowledge of the appropriate skills and tools, such as opportunity analysis, deal-structuring, organization design, and innovation supports; command of relevant specific knowledge, including tax law, corporate governance... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
constituency is girls ages five through seventeen, Hesselbein says, "we realized our financial planning needed to put us in a secure position where we could serve these girls, as well as new members - not just today, but as they grew with the organization." * Are our... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
prof always managed to call on a student from the country involved, we figured that our French sectionmate was bound to weigh in at some point. In preparation, we tape-recorded a brief version of the Marseillaise and handed out miniature French flags (made of View Details
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Reddit as COO in 2018, the user-generated content site wasn’t exactly a burning building...but it might have been... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
value for patients, where value is the health outcomes achieved relative to the money spent. While his initial work focused on reorganizing care and measuring outcomes, he began to understand that appropriate cost information was missing.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
a drug or device with an applicable test. Second, the FDA could increase the number of drugs that have specific label requirements for gene-based testing to identify the relevant patient subset or appropriate dosage regimen. Most... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
clients while attracting new customers.” At Steuben, Haupt says that there’s an ongoing assessment of the appropriate balance between a product’s form and function and how that fits with the way people live today. In the past, she notes,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
appropriating $25 million annually to the states for the construction of better roads. In 1921, the U.S. government set aside some of these funds for the creation of a nationwide highway system. Road construction continued apace during... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
classes.” But Taylor’s lack of experience in Washington may be his biggest handicap. After sixteen years in Congress, Edwards wields political clout. He’s one of only five House members sitting on both the powerful Budget and View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
began the global component, called FIELD 2, last October when they were divided into teams of six, assigned a global partner—one of 140 participating businesses and nonprofits—and challenged to develop a product or service appropriate for... View Details