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  • 01 Dec 1997
  • News

Multimedia Martha: Sharon Patrick Cooks Up A Winner

interested me. The timing was right. You've been credited with turning Martha Stewart Living into a multimedia corporation. What was it like when you first arrived in 1993? When I met Martha she had various fragmented businesses and... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2008
  • News

THE 6 MYTHS OF CREATIVITY

don’t think about pay on a day-to-day basis. Time Pressure Fuels Creativity. People are least creative when they’re fighting the clock “on a treadmill,” having a fragmented day that doesn’t allow them to concentrate on a single important... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Educational Services; Management
  • 01 Mar 2023
  • News

Step Change

City to work for the Egyptian-American Enterprise Fund (EAEF), a $300 million investment initiative focused on strengthening Egypt’s private sector. On a trip to Cairo to renew her work visa, she met... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
  • 22 Feb 2022
  • News

New Urban Order

finding the will to start implementing at-scale technologies that are already working,” Carty observes. Here, we take a look at alumni who are pursuing those opportunities, working to make tomorrow’s cities more sustainable across five... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
  • 01 Dec 2009
  • News

One Man Crime Wave

and Kurt Vonnegut said, “To diggers a thousand years from now, the works of John D. MacDonald would be a treasure on the order of the tomb of Tutankhamen.” To which MacDonald himself might have added, Not a bad day’s View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; fiction writing; Arts, Entertainment; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 02 Sep 2022
  • News

Strength in Numbers

Mark Verdi, Jan Swartz, and Rob Swartz Jan and Rob Swartz and Mark Verdi (all MBA 1996) and Mark’s wife, Gina, have witnessed, firsthand, the negative effects of our nation’s disjointed approach toward the treatment of mental illness. “It’s View Details
  • 18 Nov 2021
  • News

Strength in Numbers

is that thing,” Verdi says. “It’s one of the top three causes of our age,” adds Swartz. Both the Verdi and Swartz families have witnessed, firsthand, the negative effects of our nation’s disjointed treatment of mental illness. “It’s View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 01 Mar 2018
  • News

Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers

fragmented and on their own. “I cannot think of another industry as large or as fundamental as agriculture that is structured that way,” says Baron. “It’s as if every oil well was owned by a different family, while the industry is... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
  • 01 Jun 2010
  • News

Health IT at the Bedside

puzzled through the fragments of his history, my mom and I did our best to fill in the gaps. Clinical decisions are only as good as the information you have to make them. As competent and well-meaning as my dad’s doctors were, they lacked... View Details
Keywords: Sachin H. Jain; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information
  • 01 Oct 2000
  • News

Q & A: Bain & Company's Thomas J. Tierney

practice designed to "bridge" the gap between the seemingly disparate worlds of corporate management consulting and nonprofit organizations worldwide. Tierney, who serves on the Board of Directors of the Associates at HBS, is also at work... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 01 Oct 2002
  • News

Faculty Research Symposium

creativity.” A clear message for managers, noted Amabile, is to “focus on focus.” “If a time crunch is absolutely unavoidable,” she concluded, “managers can try to preserve creativity by protecting people from fragmentation of their View Details
  • 01 Dec 2020
  • News

Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers

with chronic diseases or disabilities who are frequently lost among the cracks of our present fragmented system. How has the pandemic changed the health care sector? We have seen a much broader acceptance of telemedicine and changes in... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 01 Dec 2017
  • News

Case Study: The Doctor Deficit

institution and doctor. Less than two years after launching its first marketplace, Nomad Health is working with 20,000 clinicians and 600 health care facilities in 12 states. The Question: Nomad Health’s long-term goal is to View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 01 Mar 2008
  • News

Where Have All the Leaders Gone?

denominator. My own industry is no small part of the problem. We, too, are seeking niches. The fragmentation of the news media means Americans no longer have to listen to the serious discussion of ideas with which they might disagree. If... View Details
Keywords: Government
  • 01 Feb 1997
  • News

Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

recognize and foster creativity in themselves and others, Amabile maintains, "I'm not trying to teach people to be creative, though sometimes it is a by-product of my course. Rather, I help students to sustain their own creativity in the View Details
  • 12 Apr 2023
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Step Change

working as an economist in the Egyptian Ministry of Finance when the Arab Spring swept through Cairo in 2011. When we met, she was executive director of the Egyptian American Enterprise Fund, a $300 million investment initiative between... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
  • 01 Mar 2005
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In the Blood

worked after serving as a Navy lieutenant in Hawaii from 1969 to 1971. There were early signs of his interest in the Thoroughbred industry, however — a thesis on the economics of the business written as an undergraduate at The College of... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia; horse racing; Animal Production and Aquaculture; Agriculture; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 01 Mar 2014
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The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria

counting. The six months Masha spent traveling the countryside to set up the Village Promoter program helped him see the scale of the challenges facing Nigerian farmers. The biggest problem wasn't the labor force—he'd never seen anyone View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs; John H. Davis; Michael Halse; Crop Production; Agriculture; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 01 Jun 2006
  • News

India Arrives

portable generators he’d been selling in India. When Mittal traveled to East Asia in search of new ideas, he saw push-button phones in Taiwan (most Indian phones were rotary dial at the time). Government regulations forbade the import of consumer products, so Mittal... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 01 Jun 2014
  • News

School Ties

education and business competitiveness." Balancing the Books Four ways that business is partnering with PK-12 Enabling innovation. Companies in San Antonio, Texas, worked to gain voter approval for a tax increase to fund quality... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services
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