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- 11 Apr 2017
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Keeping the Missions Under Control
Norman Knight (GMP 9, 2010) is Executive Flight Director at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. In this interview, he talks about the unique blend of scientific and technical skills and the management expertise needed to send... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
You Are What You Eat
Writing in the magazine Pig Progress (September 23, 2010), Austria-based John Hodges (AMP 52, 1967),an expert on genetics and ethics in agriculture, food, and the environment, warned that the current system of agribusiness is untenable. “Driven by competition alone,... View Details
- 16 Sep 2024
- News
Life Preserver
“There’s a massive gap between how many people get to benefit from a lifesaving organ transplant and how many truly need one,” says Sebastian Giwa (MBA 2009). He’s spent the last decade trying to change that. In the United States alone, scientists estimate between... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Q & A: Bain & Company's Thomas J. Tierney
to give our clients immediate access to cutting-edge solutions and technologies in the field. How must organizations change to remain competitive in the new economy? Organizations need to transform themselves in several ways, and they... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
government and other institutions” to expand the service. Like any good businessman, Raju saw in emergency care an untapped market. The need was clear enough: Every day some 200,000 Indians face a medical emergency. Each year some 136,000... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Managing the Map
direction is largely determined by the needs of its scientists and by the direction of the life sciences themselves. "Management's role therefore tends to be more of a resource provider," he says. Even so, Pratt adds that Whitehead's... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
long before she had exhausted her retirement savings. “I never thought I’d be on the needing end,” says Rhenisch. “I was living a good, solid, confident middle-class life until I got sick. Then the foundation of everything I had built... View Details
- 12 May 2016
- News
What Ernest Shackleton has in common with Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk
Will space explorers create new ventures that benefit us, or will they (like the old factory whaling ships) exploit and ravage natural landscapes that had been untouched? Will even less human restraint in space require even more... View Details
- 14 Oct 2014
- News
A legacy of social and environmental respect
preserve his native Odishan culture. “Through my films, I hope to create an awareness in the world about the threat of climate change, the need for environmental protection, the legacy we leave for future generations, and the importance... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
The Baby Business
for which we don’t have reliable numbers. You say that this market is driven by such deep-seated human feelings that banning it outright would be futile. Yet obviously some rules are needed. We need to look... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Hail to the Chief
oil from these ecologically sensitive areas would fuel North America’s energy needs for just two weeks. That stark fact took on a human face when Sander met Santiago, chief of the Achuar, a rain-forest... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Philip L. Yeo: The Next Big Thing
To understand the remarkable success of the tiny island city-state of Singapore (250 square miles, 4.1 million people, annual per capita income $24,150), one really need look no farther than Philip Yeo, one of the republic's true... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Capital Architect
Skydeck podcast BRUNELL: Human motivation for supporting or catalyzing change only comes from within. We can’t “make” people’s behavior or “mandate” mindset. Citizens must have reason to care, want, and believe in the change agenda—and to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Disaster Master
documents to businesses around the world for nearly 30 years. “We have a natural tendency as humans to neglect low-probability events, even if the impact is very high,” he says. “The most basic analogy is the difficulty some people have... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
New Initiatives in MBA Recruiting
students to reach these 'nontraditional' firms, and vice versa." For example, where students once had to visit several different campus locations to piece together the information needed for a particular job search, they will have an HBS... View Details
- 08 May 2019
- News
Fellowships Enable Students to Broaden Their Impact
understand the human side of education, and after shadowing principals in different schools, Agarwal became one of Success Academy’s leadership fellows. He started by teaching fourth grade—“It was definitely harder than trading,” he... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
A Strong Foundation: Message from Dean Nohria
Harvard Business School was launched as a “delicate experiment” in 1908. In the years since, we have defined—and refined—management education so as to meet the needs of a changing world. Today, as we begin our 12th decade, we recognize... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
benefits, I think about the benefits to the company and the benefits to the worker. For the company, the biggest immediate benefit—which gets all CFOs excited—is the real estate savings. If folks are working from home and in fact working from anywhere, you don’t View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
What Keeps HBS Ahead? You Do!
Sahlman Investing in HBS The Personal Touch Donor Spotlight Research With Impact: Changing Global Health Practices FAQ My pitch for giving is simple. HBS is a human capital–intensive business. Our product is knowledge that informs... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Doctor Is In
finance, it seems, are never far from the minds of anyone in health care these days, even at fiscally sound MGH, the Harvard-affiliated teaching hospital that is recognized as an industry model. Indeed, with its conflicting mix of human... View Details