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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
low-key approach. “You hardly even knew he was there, but then when he intervened, he did it in a manner where everybody would listen,” says Jeffery. “It’s difficult to understand how to work your way through to a solution. But here’s a View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
organizations like Braver Angels and the Constructive Dialogue Institute. Encourage leaders to model humility and openness to different viewpoints, setting a tone that discourages stereotyping and contempt. Vincent Pons is the Byron Wein... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
franchise the NeuroLaunch model worldwide, and he’s already in talks with groups in London, Singapore, and Israel. Over the next year, the company will hold neuro startup forums in a number of cities to begin building a global community... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
that make your job more complex than if you were a CEO in a less “hot-button” industry? Absolutely. Increasingly, we need two licenses to operate: one from our host government and the other a social license from affected communities. To maintain that welcome, we need... View Details
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
strong investor relations (IR) departments, according to HBS professor Gregory S. Miller. Two cases he recently coauthored describe how these different firms in the oil and gas industry—controversial of late for its mile-high profits—have carved a path as View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
as a pressing issue. What sparked your interest? Originally I came to the DBA Program to study finance, but I switched to control, primarily because of the pathbreaking work that Bob Anthony was doing on control in nonprofits. Bob was working with Massachusetts View Details
- 12 Jan 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.
well prepared, he had to do much better than his fellow white students in order to be accepted, and so he was extremely careful to do those things and not get himself in any kind of trouble, or not fall short. In some ways, I think he felt like he was a role View Details
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
of Pennsylvania, is codirector of the Fishman-Davidson Center for Service and Operations Management. An excerpt from their book follows our interview. Martha Lagace: In a nutshell, what is rocket science retailing? Ananth Raman: It means that retailers should Use the... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
influencing actions rather than dictating them. Both must be brave enough to make themselves vulnerable and admit mistakes. In addition, teachers lead and leaders teach. Again, this may not be obvious, but think about how teachers model... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
That’s a huge amount of work.” Bohmer has firsthand knowledge of the issues faced by MHCD participants. A physician, he practiced medicine in New Zealand and England, helped establish a surgical hospital in Sudan, and served as clinical director of quality improvement... View Details
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
connections (measured as campaign donations to politicians who won an election). Yet, we do not find evidence that BNDES is systematically bailing out firms. In general, BNDES appears to be generally selecting firms with capacity to repay... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
so-called "enrollment crisis" in IS education, especially with the generation of "digital natives" who have come of age in an environment crowded with engaging approaches to communication and entertainment that compete... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
must disrupt the way we think about social change. The author suggests how this can be done by sharing stories and case studies focused on innovative approaches to large-scale social change. Operating Model Canvas: Aligning Operations and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
made great progress in catalyzing industry interest in PD. I’m proud that the MJFF is helping reshape the way medical research gets done and is considered a model for other disease-fighting organizations.” The single largest funder of PD... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
of hard work, fidelity, and building the alliances necessary to achieve enduring success. John Andrew, a retired Boeing executive, offers a unique insider look at the profound changes the company experienced in the 1960s as the product mix shifted from military... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
siblings, get to work every day on time, work toward a degree at night (paying their own tuition), and manage to save enough to slowly build a house. While generally excited by democracy, Liberians are understandably impatient for roads... View Details
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
pre-selection by a menu setter. We develop a model to study the relation between the ability of the menu setter and the size and quality of the menu. We show that when the cost of increasing the size of the menu is sufficiently small, a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2023 Commencement Remarks | About
digital tools to help you in ways we cannot imagine today. But as much as the world is now focused on generative AI as a technology that holds promise to revolutionize the way we work, let’s never forget the role that leaders will... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
Katahira, an economist at the University of Tokyo. Years of economic stagnation and generational shifts mean that previous assumptions are quickly becoming obsolete, Katahira noted. "Japanese consumers and the concept of consumer... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
humor, however, is a no-nonsense approach to business performance that stems from Fisher’s upbringing as the daughter and granddaughter of rural central Pennsylvania entrepreneurs who taught her that great ideas can be backed with the best of intentions, but they still... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley