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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Academic Cross-Pollination
others have zero case discussion experience. As an example, we had a discussion of medical ethics where I asked one of the physicians to role-play a doctor trying to convince a patient to enroll in a study. Not one of the fifteen physicians in the room would do it —... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Ink: Comfort in Discomfort
every corner, especially once you start looking for them. Too often leaders get stuck in the balance between option A or B, trapped by the trade-offs inherent in either/or thinking. A both/and approach to problem-solving, by contrast, can... View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
class. READ MORE April: I'd like to start where you do in the book—in and around Yamhill, Oregon. Yamhill is Nick's hometown, but you grew up in New York, so I'm wondering what your first impressions were. Sheryl: Yamhill and New York... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
in developing countries where laying fiber just doesn’t make sense, although there are real questions about cost and sustainability. Apart from the hard-core mobile gamers, though, what will the average consumer do with all this speed? Perhaps not much. The power of 5G... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Come Clean
happen as long as we have human beings and machines,” he says. “I like to think I have enough systems in place to prevent those moments from happening, but when they do, the question is how quickly can we fix the problem and get the item... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Mr. Start-Up
start-ups on your résumé, you’re now on the payroll of a big company. Has your entrepreneurial mindset changed since you started working at Google? I’m having a blast at Google. It’s amazingly fast-paced. It’s been the most intense,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
and has transformed itself from a poverty-plagued backwater to an economic powerhouse now ranked second only to the United States in GDP. The Cold War abruptly ended when the Berlin Wall fell and the USSR fractured into 15 sovereign... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
than climate change. How can we use all of these tools of abundance to create solutions of abundance? “What we do at Scoot is share electric vehicles. We started with little red scooters, with a 10-mile range; two years later we ordered... View Details
- 20 Apr 2020
- News
To Build Connection in Quarantine, Clubs Go Virtual
his fellow HBS alumni on the association’s board of directors. “We started with a virtual update in late February” says fellow board member Shannon Lundgren (MBA 1994). “The inspiration came from conversations with David during a couple... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
students to achieve academic and social-emotional growth. From Hurricane Island to HBS Pearson has been associated with Outward Bound for the better part of four decades, either as a field supervisor, program director, or trustee. “I View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012)
college. At the time, I was studying economics and found the topic fascinating, from an economic theory perspective; it was—and still is—an unprecedented market failure and tragedy of the commons on a global scale. “Over time, my interest and concern for the View Details
- 07 Jan 2016
- News
Real-World Learning for the Digital Generation
building robots and doing things that help the world both locally and globally. “I think what HBS did for me was [that it] began to make me a global thinker and a thinker about large problems and strategies for getting from one place to... View Details
- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes After HBS, DJ DiDonna (MBA 2010) immediately launched a startup: The Entrepreneurial Finance Lab, a credit-testing firm for small businesses in emerging markets. But after seven years of hard-charging,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
faculty to be intellectual entrepreneurs who transform how we think about management problems and improve management practice. We also began to foster collective intellectual ambition—to rally teams of faculty to take on more significant... View Details
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
The Burning Man Project
Sunday. And it's the culmination of the party, and the celebration, and the shared ethos of giving and taking responsibility. Black Rock city is a 24-hour city. So you could say you could start at 12:01 AM. All over, there is music. There... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Clark Bids Farewell to HBS
problem aside and turn it off. If you can’t do that, you really won’t be able to do this job. What was toughest part of the job? It always comes down to people. The hardest decisions are about who to promote and who not to. The toughest... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
won’t get as good a result,” she says. But that doesn’t mean endless meetings just to have meetings, a challenge at a company that has occasionally weighed itself down with bureaucracy. Bond wants problems solved, issues aired, and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry
inability to get one of the espresso-based drinks to which he had grown attached during his years working in finance in New York. Dozie hopes to solve both the supply and the demand problems with Café Neo, a coffeehouse chain he and his... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
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Action Plan: Net Proceeds
clean up a beach, and no one is going to buy that plastic, the beach will just get dirty again.” Later, Goodwin would learn how bad the problem is, with 11 million tons of plastic garbage entering the ocean each year. Over 80 percent of... View Details