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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Facing Ambiguity
controls, guidelines, and training that could be put in place to improve safety. “Risk and error will never go away,” Edmondson reflects. “But we can do better. There’s a lot of room for improvement.” — Julia View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Faculty Q&A: Price Check
products—such as price and the number of similar products sold at the same time—that we could map to features of new products as a way to predict demand. We also took into account the need to price multiple products in the same category at the same time, since demand... View Details
- 18 Sep 2017
- News
Chronicling a Legacy of Alumni Social Impact
Howard Stevenson (photo by Stuart Cahill) Howard Stevenson (photo by Stuart Cahill) [Editor's note: This article was updated November 25, 2019] As former dean of External Relations, longtime faculty member... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
Do You See What I See?
often blindsided by their classmates’ differing interpretation of characters or situations. In other words, your Antigone may not be my Antigone. “The most important thing that leaders need to know how to do is understand individual... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Farming for Fuel
and that we still need to get around,” he notes. “When commodity prices are kept low, we have a tendency to think these things are unimportant and uninteresting, but that’s never been true.” Greater transparency may be brought about through the introduction of carbon... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
Hekmatullah Ebrahimkhil prays next to a network tower on a hill overlooking Qargha Lake, outside Kabul. Ebrahimkhil is helping his father guard and service one of the mobile communication towers on the hill—part of an innovative community security model piloted View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Faculty Q&A: That’s Classic
Lead to Rome, a one-off elective course team-taught by HBS professor Frances Frei (left) and Harvard history and classics professor Emma Dench (right), juxtaposed ancient texts by Julius Caesar, Seneca,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Disaster Master
photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images News “Fast” and “unexpected” are two words Adrian Beer (OPM 31, 2002) uses to describe his work as CEO of GrupoBeer, a Madrid-based corporation providing post-disaster services such as building... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: On the Fly
(above: photo by Getty Images/Patrick Foto) A mathematics major, Don Carty (MBA 1971) has always seen the airline business as a huge puzzle, with the equation involving inventory and pricing, cruising allocations, weather, and holiday... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
weeks (the man does not let up!), the students come to appreciate the intensity and rapid-fire humor of their teacher. Clearly, he cares. A lot. And by the end of the semester, something transformative has happened: They are better... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
GROUP DYNAMIC: (Clockwise from bottom) Andrew Saunders, Sonia Sahney, Tyler Koop, Courtney Hughes, and Peter Stone. Not pictured: Amyn Pesnani Photographs by Webb Chappell For this year’s feature on the School’s newest alumni, we selected... View Details
- 03 Mar 2016
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Pamela Meyer (MBA 1986)
(photo by Cade Martin) At my 20th HBS reunion I heard faculty member Michael Wheeler describe behavior people engage in when they’re being deceptive. The room was transfixed. No one was on their phone! It turned out there is a robust,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Taking Care of Business
most importantly, affordable. Since then, the company’s offerings have expanded to include a monitor that uses mobile technology to record patient calls and response times by medical professionals; also in the works is a medication... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Post-Grad Ponderings
in the evenings.” Next stop: London, for a job search. Guests: Parents and sister, from Colorado and Utah. Rachel Keyser, MBA What got you through your degree? “I got by with a little help from my friends.” Next stop: CVS Caremark. HBS... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Nimble, Quick, and Adaptable
an innovation in the MBA curriculum that gives students an opportunity to test their entrepreneurial chops. FIELD 3 is part of a larger effort by the School to set the pace in a field it has helped define. The Arthur Rock Center for... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Untold Story of the US Auto Bailout
industry—many of them HBS alumni. “If you think you know the story of the auto bailout, think again,” says Pietri. “This is what really happened.” Based on the book Crash Course, by Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Paul Ingrassia, the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
From Bytes to Bites
serves on the boards of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce and the Golden Gate Restaurant Association, an experience that has opened her eyes to the fascination and frustration of local politics. “Owning this business has opened a lot of doors for me,” says Thomas.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Working World
organizations that embedded globalization and the differences that exist across countries into the heart of its model. It’s set up with the idea of unlocking value by leveraging the opportunities created by... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
The Maestro and the Market
norms, the elBulli case shows just how broad the spectrum for marketing a “product” can be — and that’s not a bad thing for MBAs to learn. “Marketing is a science, but it’s also an art,” Norton remarks. “Adrià says he doesn’t listen to customers, yet his customers are... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Roger Ullman: Going Green with E2
that know how to make use of your expertise and leadership positions while respecting your time constraints. Although some nonprofits view businesspeople merely as a source of donations, the best ones will recognize the value of engaging you, and know how to do it... View Details