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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Books
managerial capitalism, its chronic “inward focus,” and its tendency toward “organizational narcissism” as fatal limitations that prevent traditional corporations from understanding and addressing the needs of this new population. Today's... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Regional Alumni Events Address Climate Change
climate change, whether in companies that are mitigating its effects or preventing further damage.” She sees the climate change series as a great way to connect and engage HBS alumni, faculty, and students working on innovative solutions... View Details
Keywords: Jen Myers
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Antitrust in Historical Perspective
flaws, antitrust policy over the years has had powerful effects in controlling collusion, stopping cartels, preventing anticompetitive mergers, eliminating resale price maintenance, and encouraging entrepreneurship. Perhaps most... View Details
Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
being able to take that non-paying founding job or that low-paying social enterprise and non-profit job, and you find that there’s all sorts of handcuffs of life that are preventing you from being able to go and do it. You’ve taken on a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
men also highlights the humanity common to both sides. Only by working together will Cattani and Levchenko find a way to prevent a global nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union. Shift Your Paradigm By Dionis... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Vision: Into the Breach
large, established carriers, which write policies to cover cyberattacks but do little to preempt them, At-Bay takes a preventive approach to cyber insurance. Before signing up a new policyholder, the company performs non-intrusive... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 13 Nov 2018
- News
Building a New Real Estate Investment Model
“You want to see positive economic changes in a community, but you don’t want people who have been committed to and living in the community for generations to be displaced,” Davis says. “We can prevent that by creating rental... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Carla Small
during my first year at HBS!" Small says. Be it personally or professionally, the soft-spoken Small has been involved with family issues since her days as an undergraduate at Dartmouth College, where she was a peer counselor in an alcohol-abuse View Details
Keywords: Linda Goodspeed
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Patricia ("Tosh") Rapoport Barron
early-stage arthritis would prevent her from pursuing an artistic career. Barron put away her leotards and applied to HBS, thinking she might have a future in arts administration. "I was lucky that the School had the imagination to admit... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Zanzibar: Something for Everyone
Arabic, African, and European. The famous doors of Stone Town also caught our attention, particularly those with brass spikes whose beauty complemented their function: Of Indian design, they are made to prevent elephants from entering the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Ruling from the Bench
penetrated. As a result, few cases were prosecuted successfully. After the state legislature dropped these requirements, Snyder and another female attorney went on to write and lobby successfully for New York’s “rape shield” statute. The law View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Reinvigorating Democracy: A Vote for Change
prevent future crises.” “The wonderful thing about business competition,” says Porter, is that it is “rational in the sense that it’s tied directly to value to the customer. Whereas in politics, it’s not.” Changing the process of voting... View Details
Keywords: Young, Susan
- 31 Jan 2019
- News
A Global Mission
King Jr. at Selma and spent time at Kolonia Farms, an interracial community in Georgia that was the target of boycotts and violence. “It was a very moving time for me,” DeFehr says now. But when he returned to Canada, he discovered that his FBI file View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
with a team of fellow alums to create a $2.5 billion technology company. Today, Langford’s focus falls under an entirely different category of urgency: As executive director of the Georgia Prevention Project (GPP), he leads a nonprofit... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
composed of “propaganda written in white-hot anger with words tumbling and stumbling all over the page.” ...Several chemical companies threatened legal action. Velsicol Chemical Company, maker of chlordane and heptachlor, tried to prevent... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
Gates said, does many things well, but the inspiration for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation came in part from a market failure in health-care delivery. Individuals who live in areas where tuberculosis, AIDS, and malaria are still common are often too poor to afford... View Details
- 21 Nov 2024
- News
Mother Nurture
“Mental health conditions like depression and anxiety are among the most common complications for women, affecting one in five during pregnancy and postpartum,” says Richter. “And yet, the barriers to care, like high cost, long waitlists, and stigma, View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
focuses on treating and preventing biofilm-caused staph infections. Over 40M tons of e-waste is generated worldwide every year, most of which is landfilled or incinerated. BioMine seeks to capture this currently lost value by using... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)
people provided important lessons for the battle against HIV/AIDS, says Gilmartin. Not only is Merck pursuing a safe and effective vaccine to prevent and treat HIV infection, he points out, but the company also announced last year that it... View Details
- 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