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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Ink: Comfort in Discomfort
by them. Organizational leaders are also using both/and language to communicate their organizations’ goals and missions. Barclays unveiled a campaign it called AND—stressing that the 300-plus-year-old bank would only survive the next... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
patterns that could signify an attack or a system failure. A fundamental component of the theory is how the brain represents information differently than computers do. Data entered into a computer—whether numbers or words—need to be translated into a machine View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
the hum and clunk as blackboards rumble into position, the urgent tap-tap-tapping of chalk as an important point is recorded by the instructor. I see how the professor’s body language and a student’s tone of voice convey subtle messages.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
language you can imagine.” To sharpen his business skills, Hustead traded his cowboy boots for loafers and traveled to Boston for a three-week OPM session every year for three years. “Most businesses don’t know how or where they’re making... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
A Safer—and Speedier—Way to Name Your Startup
employing an engineering team to create a web application that applies natural language processing, machine learning, big data, and data visualization algorithms to make conflicts with trademarked names immediately visual, accessible, and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
A For-Profit Business That Makes Education Accessible
platform he launched in 2007. Alison’s first six courses were among the first MOOCs—massive open online courses—to take advantage of the reach of the internet, debuting even before the term was coined. Now, 14 years later, Alison offers some 2,000 different courses... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
businesses as well as evaluating, researching, and developing expansion strategies for NGOs in Vietnam and Laos. “It was nice to be settled and really learn about the language and culture of one place,” she recalls. “I even studied... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 30 Sep 2014
- News
Life Lessons on the Open Seas
the steering wheel and started driving the boat,” Callahan remembered. “I let go and the high-functioning student was teaching the low-functioning child. There was a language there I’ll never understand. They made that unexplainable... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Richard J. Stillman (MBA 1940)
through HBS, in 1939, I went on active duty for a year. That was when I, a platoon leader, first met George Smith Patton Jr. during large-scale war games in Louisiana. He was a lieutenant colonel at the time and one of the umpires who assessed our performance. Despite... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
satisfactory answer for her. No matter what language negotiations are conducted in, understanding the local etiquette can seal the business deal, says Sara Jane Ho (MBA 2012). A graduate of a Swiss finishing school, Ho founded Institute... View Details
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
which is the ability of computer systems to learn from a language as it is spoken, in all its idioms, colloquialisms, and technical-ese, and without having to be explicitly programmed to learn these things. The IBM computers answered... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office
[see sidebar] further reflects the wide range of issues covered by our faculty. What can we learn from this region? The Asia Pacific, where 2,000 languages are spoken, is home to 60 percent of the world's population. The region's diverse... View Details
- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
a month. Hanna: Right. DiDonna: What I would encourage people to do is substitute out the work intensity and life intensity for intensity in something that you're passionate about and that's meaningful to you. Whether that's an immersive foreign View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Disrupting India’s Dental Market
to a periodontist or prosthodontist, Clove brings the specialist to the patients. And while the dominant language in Clove clinics nationwide remains English, in which Indian dentists are trained, signage varies based on the dominant... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 15 Apr 2017
- News
Bringing Markets to Myanmar
development, policy, and implementation in Myanmar, all in virtually the same spirit and language as generated by the stakeholder team. Morrell: So essentially it was adopted? Brunell: Yeah, it was adopted. Morrell: This thing that you... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
hand-pollinated, explains Taylor Keen. Corn thrives when sung to and spoken to—something Keen does in the language of his mother's Omaha Tribe, where he is known as Bison Mane. Keen is also an active member of the Cherokee Nation, his... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
see how a different people think. That doesn’t happen unless you’re immersed in the language and culture.” Mahesh is eager to return to India and the home-cooked food he misses, particularly Vengaya Sambhar and Urlakzhangu vadakkal, an... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details
- 30 Mar 2017
- News
Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest
get into that behavior pattern and language pattern where-- I'm so knowledgeable, I'm working so hard, I'm trying so hard to reach out to others, and they still don't agree, therefore they must truly be bad people with dumb ideas. That... View Details