Emergency Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Apr 1999
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Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong

obliterates all competitors, fall so precipitously? Other minicomputer firms were suddenly failing too. How could good managers seemingly turn bad so fast? That was the puzzle. Colleagues suggested exploring the disk-drive industry... View Details

01 Dec 1996
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25th Annual African-American Student Union Career/Alumni Conference

opportunities of operating as general managers in the emerging global marketplace and to examine the continuing obstacles we face as a group in gaining access to capital for startup endeavors. "The AASU... View Details

01 Mar 2015
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A Boomtown's Echo

have to rely on diesel generators. That is a lot of the same kind of stuff you do in an emerging economy. It’s the same thing you do in a new city in India or China.” Macomber teaches the MBA elective Building Cities: Infrastructure and... View Details

Keywords: Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

06 Dec 2021
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New Wave

But that still represents only a tiny fraction of the thousands of terawatt-hours the WPTO predicts could be generated by tidal and wave technology in the United States, where investment in emerging marine-energy tech lags far behind that... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen

01 Dec 1999
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New Jakurski Chair Supports Research in Global Finance

topics in international finance, including securitization of insurance risks (particularly those linked to catastrophes), risk management for corporations and financial institutions, and asset allocation for investors. He is a founding... View Details

01 Dec 2022
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December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Today's Workplace, Emerging Leader Edition By Bill George (MBA 1966), Professor of Management Practice, Emeritus and Zach Clayton (MBA 2009) John Wiley & Sons In True North: View Details

13 Nov 2020
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Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues

health care management and policy, leading through crisis, adapting your business, leveraging technology, and work life. Faculty members have shared their ideas and offered practical solutions through working papers, articles, op-eds,... View Details

03 Mar 2017
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Big Blue’s Big Bet

that we’re smart in the things we’re attacking, and to try to solve real-world problems that make an impact.” Watson General Manager David Kenny (MBA 1986) adds: “The tech sector tends to reward short-term thinking.” But Watson is... View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

01 Mar 2004
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Leadership Project Codifies Elusive Traits

legacy (past), global, and emerging (future) — the initiative aims to provide cutting-edge research on the often-elusive topic of leadership. Led by Anthony J. (“Tony”) Mayo (MBA ’88), its seven affiliated faculty members are part of the... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Jun 2015
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Leadership on a Global Stage

League graduate school and then working internationally in a senior leadership role.” But as Jefferson lay in a bed at Tripler Medical Center in Hawaii, where he was flown for emergency surgery, those possibilities seemed very far away.... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

01 Feb 2002
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Redefining Success: Women & Work.

make your choice. There is no perfect answer." Hunt's blunt advice, which was reported in the Boston Globe, may well resonate with the significant number of HBS alumnae who have struggled with the difficulties posed by following a traditional View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Feb 1999
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Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office

include whether high-performance Asian companies can provide a business model for success in the region, the role of accounting infrastructure in transitional economies, restructuring diversified businesses in emerging markets, and... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Dec 2018
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Engaging with Students to Share Insights About Africa

On the final day of Africa Rising, a course about business in Africa taught by Professor Caroline Elkins, Hakeem Belo-Osagie’s (MBA 1980) emotions were running high. “I had that sense of accomplishment when you know you’ve managed to say... View Details

01 Jun 1997
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Jennifer L. Scott

that Scott sees as "a testament to the creative energies at the School." She adds, "It will be great to see some real businesses emerging from this program." While launching the new contest, Scott was also hard at work on what has become... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Jun 1997
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Entertainment Moguls Ponder the Future at HBS Conference

managing director, Cowen & Co., and author of the influential book Entertainment Industry Economics; and Strauss Zelnick (MBA/JD '83), president and CEO, BMG Entertainment North America. Harold Vogel observed that while new technologies... View Details

Keywords: Paula Maute

01 Oct 2000
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Lumry Chair Supports IT and Entrepreneurship

keep HBS at the forefront in the use of technology to teach management skills and will help support cutting-edge research and course development. The gift will also help facilitate collaboration between the FAS and the Business School. At... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services

16 Dec 2021
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A Global Alumni Response to the Pandemic

all over India, as well as other hard-hit countries in Asia. —Anuj Maheswari (MBA 2006), managing director of Investment, Temasek. Maheswari and a group of volunteers leveraged the company’s networks to secure and deploy thousands of... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

25 Feb 2020
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How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Business

course—and buoyed by student interest—the professors are developing an MBA elective to be taught in fall 2021 and eventually through HBS Online. The new course will explore questions managers face when adopting AI with cases addressing... View Details