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- 01 Dec 1998
- News
A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
building until we had a school," says O'Neill, "but how do you launch a school without a site?"). But last January, Shackleton Schools, Inc. - named for the intrepid Anglo-Irish explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, who brought his crew to View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 19 May 2015
- News
Getting Ready for Success
social impact, measured by such factors as higher tax contributions and lower health care costs. “Moreover, what people might not quantify,” she says, “is that our alumni’s success stories create positive ripples in their communities and economic View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
state of the world—while working toward milestones that put patient safety first.” Laura Kelley (MBA 2019) (photo by Len Rubenstein) Laura Kelley (MBA 2019) (photo by Len Rubenstein) Lee and Kelley are both leading firms at the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Faculty Research Symposium
and the other focused on cardiac surgery teams. She found that differences in psychological safety indeed predicted a team's ability to learn and cope with change effectively — a consistent result across very different organizational... View Details
- 13 Jul 2016
- News
From Money to Ministry
bank, “on the ground floor,” first as a teller, then accounts clerk, safety deposits clerk, and bookkeeper. “All of these roles helped me understand the guts of the organization,” he says. “It was humbling, but I am forever grateful,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
several changes driven by Domonique Foxworth [HBS 2015], president of the NFL Players Association.) New technology, equipment improvements, and reduced-contact practices may also help. In addition, enhanced safety could come from changes... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International
safety nets, it has marginalized pockets of poverty that will seriously threaten the future of the larger society if we don't unlock their potential for sustainable development. What gives you the most satisfaction in your job? In 1994,... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
Pisano says. But vaccines don’t really fit the same business model as high-volume therapeutic drugs; they have an even higher bar for safety and effectiveness, because unlike most other drugs they are administered to healthy populations.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
kid” at Ford Motor Company, McNamara climbed the corporate ladder and, after fourteen years, was named president (the first from outside the Ford family) in November 1960. Bucking sacrosanct industry notions, he promoted vehicle safety... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
One-on-One with Grover Norquist
investment. But when you get to be 65, don’t come and whine to the rest of us. It is not possible for the private sector to do less well than 1 percent a year over the course of somebody’s lifetime. Wouldn’t privatizing Social Security destroy the government View Details
Keywords: Government
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Stress Test
FedEx, they all plan for “shipageddon,” as people call it. Then there’s stuff you can’t plan for, [such as] safety recalls. Tylenol was the famous case. All those pills had to come off the shelves around the country and get returned to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
bankruptcy laws) to creditors, and by spreading risk throughout the population (via deposit insurance and even the use of government-issued money). He discusses how the rise of big business provoked reforms that, by the early 20th century, transferred the risks of... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Leading Boston and Beyond
as it happened, Nova’s twin daughters had interned in the Mayor’s office. Segneri worked with then-Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis to launch Operation Safe Delivery, a comprehensive safety plan for local restaurants and delivery... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Check In
standardized experience, especially in terms of cleaning? MD: It’s true that Airbnb’s model is really being challenged now. It’s harder to establish a sense of trust and safety with an independent host you’ve never met before, versus a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
considerably better off, even as it creates both winners and losers, and the losers often suffer through no fault of their own. A capitalist economy should be judged not just on the aggregate economic improvement driven by its innovation but also on the design and... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
safety net and virtually no hope of moving upward.” “Globalization has helped emerging economies distribute their products and services around the world but there’s been no systematic way to link the extra wealth that has been created to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
several fatalities there. There were 28,000 employees at that mine; we brought people up from below ground and worked to retrain and refocus them. We lost millions of dollars while production was curtailed, but it was the right thing to do. We’ve improved our View Details
- 19 Oct 2022
- News
If I Were You
paid for something that you love to do. Pierre Lorenceau (MBA 2001): Pierre Lorenceau. I think a lot of HBS current students might think they’re not ready for entrepreneurship and they are. Uh, They carry more know-how and more abilities than they might think, and they... View Details
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
class. The case was all about this Australian train safety video that went viral. I remember someone showing it to me at a party in San Francisco and loving it. Like, ‘share it with everyone I knew for a week’ loving it. When we dove into... View Details
- 25 Mar 2015
- News
The Greening of Houston
which provides safety and environmental services and products to the energy industry, knew the city from his undergraduate days at Rice University. He moved back in 2010, and when he did, his mentor, L. E. Simmons (MBA 1972), president of... View Details