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- 10 Nov 2020
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Learning to Fight
function caused by the tumor and its treatment, Susan had survived the unsurvivable. It was then that Sontag made a promise to himself and his wife: “If I ever get a chance to do something about this disease, I’m going to do it.” In 2002,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
New Course for General Managers Broadens Managerial Scope and Builds Confidence
pharmaceuticals. According to Bower, this "homogeneous mix" - a group that was demographically diverse but similar in managerial function - brought significant advantages to the classroom. "The participants' shared perspectives created a... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Oct 2000
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Rationale for Non-Rationality: Why We Make Bad Choices
institutions that Jensen believes can function as a "prosthesis" to bridge this gap in an individual's reasoning. Others, he suggests, include families, universities, corporations, and government -- the last a somewhat painful admission... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA '88)
- 01 Feb 1997
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Doing It Your Way
transplants to restore marrow function after high-dose chemotherapy or radiation. The idea for Viacord, which employs seventeen people, came to Fisher while she was a marketing manager at the Haemonetics Corporation in Boston, shortly... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
information systems tend to mirror the traditional, functionally oriented organizations that they are supposed to help transform. While purchasing the right technology is part of the answer, Coote declared, "There has to be something... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
One-on-One with Thomas Riley
week there will be some kind of evening function as well, which I don’t particularly enjoy but know I need to do. In this job, there’s really no one to tell you how to proceed. At first I found that a bit unsettling, but now I understand... View Details
- 28 Feb 2025
- News
Joy to the World
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010), CEO of East Boston Social Centers, spent time in foster care as a child, living in more homes than he can remember,... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Duo Offers Personalized Career Assessment
the authors have identified eight core functions of business work, such as quantitative analysis and enterprise control. A reader armed with an individual BCII profile can learn from the text how to assess work opportunities in terms of... View Details
Keywords: Bob Binstock
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
is so much better because you're understanding better what their needs are and not coming up with something that wouldn't be functional or useful to them. DM: How's that experience been for the students? Has it been revelatory? SWG: It... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Labs Enable Large-scale Research
Administration Digital Value Lab How will finance and accounting functions need to change in the digital and AI age? HBS: Suraj Srinivasan, Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Business Administration Laboratory for Innovation Science at... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
important to the defense side as to the attacking side. Novartis has 138 drugs in its pipeline, more than any of its competitors. How has the company become so successful at creating a culture of innovation? Initially, we spent a lot of time integrating development... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Capitalism’s New Agenda
potential for populist reaction to these problems that could lead to damaging legislation. We classified what we heard as 10 potential disrupters of the global market system: the functioning of the financial system; barriers to world... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
New Releases
than as an economic function or a set of personal characteristics," write the editors in the introduction. The Entrepreneurial Venture will be useful to both practicing and would-be entrepreneurs. When Sparks Fly: Igniting Creativity in... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
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Back in Business
what we had left of functioning city government, handle security issues, find out what resources were available and what was needed from the state and feds, and generally try to get things back to normal as soon as possible throughout the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
and Japanese competitors. The American carmakers seem less passionate about their product, and relations between the different organizational functions seem more constrained, as does the product-design process.” Flexible and Nimble HBS... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: In Security
served on the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee, which provides industry expertise on national security preparedness. Over that time, cybersecurity has snowballed from a back-office IT function to one... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Robots Are Coming to Save Your Job
can’t handle. And like a good colleague, the robots are easy to teach, Eckert adds. Directing Rethink’s robots is as much about coaching as it is coding: Coworkers take a robot’s wrist, click down to engage, and then manually move the arm through the desired View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 04 Jun 2008
- News
Whistle While You Work
to incorporate their dynamic ultimately subvert business and the workplace, rather than make them function better? All this got me to thinking that in America, it often seems we’re doing our best to make work into play — and vice versa.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Ticktock
and function in order to avoid the danger of your product becoming a flash-in-the-pan fad? In the “Clocky” case, Nanda cites the Roomba, iRobot’s robotic vacuum cleaner, as an example of a product that manages to steer clear of that fate.... View Details