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- 09 Jan 2020
- News
Advancing Change
how they’re trying to cope. Businesses can do this, too. I have long recommended that an important part of leadership development should be to send people out to new and different places to encounter problems they’ve never seen before and... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Class Day and Commencement 2001
small, with everybody around you. That's a hell of a lot more important than some finite strategy." Asked about how he assesses people, Welch replied that he insists on integrity and then asks four "E" questions: "Do they have the Energy... View Details
- 20 Sep 2013
- News
Connections Add Up
and it opened my eyes and I just loved the class." Morrison believes every skill she learned at HBS has helped her at some point. But the class she says made most impact was Competition and Strategy, taught by Andrall Pearson. "He taught me the View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Getting Personal
interactions between humans and technology. Are computers the perfect tool for customized marketing? The tailoring of messages via computer technology to a person’s interests based on past purchases or preferences is of course very efficient. But also View Details
- 19 Feb 2021
- News
A Playbook for Progress
asked about sisterhood. 92 percent of Black women, 90 percent of Latinx women felt that sisterhood would be important to them at work. And the percentages were about 10 points smaller for the other two groups: 84 percent of white women... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
expecting anyone to take hold of it, and then someone does, in a warm, accepting way.” The experience solidified Massie's beliefs in compassion, social justice, and the importance of serving others. In 1978, Massie enrolled at Yale... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
however, New York has historically lacked a top engineering school, and has had to rely on talent imported from elsewhere. In 2010—the same year that Gotsch cofounded the FIL—the administration of Mayor Michael Bloomberg (MBA 1966)... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path out of Polarization
think about democracy and information. If a company from Ghana invented some kind of nuclear missile and wanted to bring nukes through the United States on their way to Canada, you wouldn’t think that was okay. You would say, “Let’s regulate that. It’s an View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
proposed Pebble Mine project is an important one that would create many hundreds of jobs in an area where jobs are few. But if I’m not satisfied we can proceed without harm to the local people and the environment, then we simply won’t do... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
need and should not be subject to the vagaries of profit-driven management or the potential manipulation of markets. But it is these same market forces that could well drive crucial changes in water use. In theory, when water becomes expensive, it will be used more... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
should move forward. Some things, like human cloning, should not happen but many other things should. The industry does have to think about the gray areas, and the moral, political, and social issues; we hope to provide a forum where people can do that.” Pisano says,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
1998, Eamer was shot by bandits. He lost seven pints of blood in the four hours it took to find a surgeon. He barely made it. Ever since, they have had a family motto: If it ain’t life and death, it ain’t worth panicking about. And if it is life and death, it’s too... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
districts, importing new structures and idealism to traditional schools or building an emerging form of charter—within a school district, but with autonomy in operations and curricula. Essentially, he'd be "restarting" the schools,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
not-so-new phenomenon. Simply put, it’s the act of buying things to make us feel better. Part of the experience is finding and purchasing that just-right something, but an equally important component is the thrill of the chase — the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
updates on their work, even as he interjects encouraging, urgent reminders of its common purpose. “We’re all in the same boat, doing the best we can,” he observes at one point. It’s an important thing to remember in the midst of a public... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
A Quiet Force: Remembering Jay Light
Summers, the former president of Harvard who appointed Light as Dean, says, “Light understood that HBS and Harvard were bigger than any of us, and that making them better was important work—but that to do it, one had to see them clearly.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Closing the 'Network Gap'
Candoor, a two-person startup focused on the importance of having coaching and feedback from someone within a company when applying for a job. Austin calls the partnership a “smart and self-aware” step toward their big-picture goals. “The... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
One Degree of Difference
important to everyone and everything we do,” Wallace says. For a small company competing in a tight market, Ovia is counting on it being a winning strategy, and it has to start with getting the right people in the door. “The whole point... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Maintaining a Resilient Democracy
moment in time.” He sees strengthening our “culture of democracy” as the pivotal issue in US governance today. Moss points to the results of a survey, cited in a 2017 Journal of Democracy article, which asked respondents around the world to rate the View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
- 20 Dec 2018
- News
Baker Library Webinar Features Resources for Alumni
and military veterans from the Danish Royal Army. One of the highlights of the evening was the keynote speech from U.S. Senator for Massachusetts, Ed Markey, who talked about the importance of addressing climate change and how Denmark has... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley