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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Bringing Up Baby
As a Walt Disney Co. executive who helped turn around the company's Euro Disney operation, Laura McCartney (MBA '93) knew plenty about problem solving and strategizing in the corporate world. But as a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
dangerous. It will create an ever bigger bunch of excesses that will require an even bigger bailout next time. Was the $700 billion federal rescue package, sold as a plan to buy toxic mortgage-backed securities from banks, the right way to go? Defining the View Details
- 13 Feb 2015
- News
Lessons in Perseverance
Addressing that question, she noted, “is how you solve the multiple problems that life throws at you.” “Hot dog day” is one school innovation. Students divide into teams once a month to either procure, cook,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
It’s the Economy
alumni had a lot to say about the crisis from a variety of perspectives. We didn’t want to single out any one article when, in our view, they are all important. As is often the case, solving one problem... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
First and foremost, innovators are good at associational thinking, or simply associating. They make connections between seemingly unrelated problems and ideas and synthesize new ideas. I would frame associational thinking by asking this... View Details
- 25 Apr 2018
- News
Giving Minorities a Playbook for Corporate Success
the program. “I think what success will look like in the next 10 years is to build a critical mass of diverse talent in the leadership pipelines of the major institutions that are driving our economy,” Rice explains. “We have the opportunity to help these institutions... View Details
- 21 Sep 2016
- News
Ideas with Economic and Social Impact
given at a G8 summit in 2013 and resulted in a report published by the OECD in 2015. That work has continued with the next report coming out at the end of 2017. “We’re looking at economic, environmental, and social challenges in developed and developing countries,” she... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
Here’s one example of how the problem plays out in practice. In our research, we came across a book by George Halverson, the CEO of Kaiser Permanente. In making the argument for flat-fee reimbursement (which his company employs),... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Learning from Global Immersion Experiences
When ‘Business As Usual’ Is Anything But HBS students conduct field research at an optical store in Istanbul. “The logistical challenges are enormous. Everyone involved in FIELD is deeply invested in anticipating and solving View Details
- 05 Jun 2018
- News
Fueling the Future
to make the world a better place and how I can exercise all of my skills and passions to solve problems that make businesses more sustainable, and to help women and girls be more fit, confident, and creative... View Details
- 08 Oct 2013
- News
The Green Giant
international conservation organizations in 2004. "It goes way beyond the stock price of the companies they lead. It means solving the biggest problems that the world faces. And the new generation is... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Building Blocks
Department of solutions: “I believe every problem is solved through a combination of science and magic. I was trained as a banker, so had credibility on the science and finance side; what I discovered is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Predictable Surprises
and Gore heroes for solving a problem that, at the time, very few knew existed. Shouldn’t we be able to look to our political and business leaders to make decisions that are in our long-term best interest,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The New Tech Meccas
government and no tradition of tech innovation that we ever hear about," says Schroeder. "But to be surrounded by such a large quantity of young people—many of them women—who were unbelievably head-down, thinking about problems they... View Details
- 02 May 2016
- News
Can Brian Shortsleeve Fix the MBTA’s Budget Woes?
officials and transit advocates. Shortsleeve said his goal is to balance the agency’s books for the first time in 15 years, even if that means taking on sacred cows. He said any savings will be reinvested in the system to make it run more smoothly. “While the View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
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Don’t Be Afraid of AI
disease fighting. There are just a million areas where, you know, they're still looking for help on solving problems with a lot of data and we think we can help there. You know, we've had these... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
Different?”, first published in the Harvard Business Review in 1977, rocked both the business world and business schools with its assertion that, yes, the two roles are different. Managers, he contended, essentially seek to solve View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
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The Untold Story of the US Auto Bailout
business guys, you need 1 union guy.’ So they let me in. All I’ve ever done is try to work on complicated problems involving multiple stakeholders in large manufacturing companies that are important to the country and that are in trouble.... View Details
- 16 Sep 2013
- News
Canada’s Native Son
refrigerator to help a local family in need. He remembers his father and grandfather working with folks facing marital problems or troubles with the law. He remembers them grappling with unemployment and education issues among the people.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
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Ink: Start Small, Rise Above
the absurdity of trying to solve this problem with Nourish for us to see that the system is illogical. Our initial vision for NowAccount was very tactical. We can help small businesses get paid immediately... View Details
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