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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
When No News Isn’t Good News
in keeping with her overall philosophy on career management, which emphasizes “taking charge of your career and managing it the way you’d manage a business.” Too often, she notes, “people abdicate control of their careers to their... View Details
- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
imagining a world where I wasn't running this business that we had started, and where I couldn't necessarily control if it was going to be successful or not, that was really helpful to experience that versus just theoretically... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
U.S. consumers more power over decisions related to health care. Those who advocate consumer-driven health care - including conference chair Professor Regina E. Herzlinger - believe that shifting control of health-care purchasing... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Breaking Down Barriers: The Electronic Wallet
'97), senior director of business development at Brodia, is the point at which her company intends to turn online shopping on its head. "Our mission is to commerce-enable the consumer - putting control back into their hands. Many Internet... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
The People’s Pods
or six or seven years ago, I’d be at the mercy of my local public radio station, which really controlled the means of both production and distribution. Now it’s into the great wide open. It’s really the democratization of audio. And... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Rationale for Non-Rationality: Why We Make Bad Choices
them, we have to do exactly what we don't want to do -- we have to accept the emotional pain of hearing about our faults in order to learn." The payback? "Individuals who are able to control this tendency make natural leaders and have a... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA '88)
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Over 50 and Job Hunting?
and author of The New Job Security, says that over-50 managers can vanquish negative stereotypes by seizing control of the career-transition process. “Midcareer MBAs, especially those who have been at the same company for a while, can... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
New Virtual Classrooms Expand Digital Learning
video wall in the virtual classroom. The professor stands in front of the video wall—similar to the pit of an Aldrich physical classroom. The students and professor can easily see and speak with each other. Off camera in the control room,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Flight Path
engineers devoted a good chunk of 2015 and most of 2016 to developing a drone that could be piloted in real time through a complex, three-dimensional course of gates and obstacles. That meant creating a lightning-fast radio system and View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Fast Lane to Country Lane
distanced from being a furniture maker,” explains Lackley, who enjoys the challenge of growing a business. “I absolutely love it,” she says. “It’s often the first thing we talk about when we wake up. It’s just a part of our life. We feel in View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Philip L. Yeo: The Next Big Thing
sciences and bioengineering. "In the next generation, we will know the genetic and molecular mechanisms of disease," Yeo declares. "Biomedical science will control and eradicate cancer and AIDS, and individualized medicine will be the... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
randomized control studies started to emerge that all showed the same surprisingly lukewarm message about the impact of microfinance on livelihoods. Natalia Rigol: People expected to see shifts in household income, business growth, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Tried and Tested
have control over that. When employees don’t have control over something that matters to them, this usually points toward potential policy interventions and also naturally occurring interventions that we can... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: On the Fly
couple of years will see more experimentation with baggage pricing. The success of Emirates is due in part to the fact that airline, airport, and air traffic control work together under one “boss” shareholder—ultimately owned by the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Taking Care of Business
expertise in quality control and volume manufacturing in the automotive industry (where he does double duty as managing director of Sundaram Brake Linings), Mahesh launched Sundaram Medical Devices in 2010, won the NVC, and built a better... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Feedback
primary command and control communication system. —Joe Lanza (AMP 103, 1988) via bulletin@hbs.edu I don’t know if it’s chutzpah or ignorance regarding the history of and current situation in Afghanistan or both that enables the editors to... View Details
Keywords: feedback
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Seeing glass in a new light
buildings, dynamic glass dramatically increases flexibility in architectural design while reducing energy consumption. As CEO of View Dynamic Glass, Mulpuri has succeeded in taking this 50-year-old nanotechnology to market and is leading the intelligent View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
An Admirable CEO
his low-profile leadership, his focus on the company's core areas of expertise, and his success at continuous improvement of CP's operations. Over the years, Mark has steadily boosted profits while controlling costs, so that the price of... View Details
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
control and what are the things that I cannot control. And so for me, the thing that I could not control was the fact that I went blind. That was outside my sphere of influence. I couldn't do anything about... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
less in their first jobs even when differences in job level were taken into account, and didn’t catch up on either front throughout their careers. These findings still held true when we controlled for factors such as industry, pre-MBA... View Details