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- 02 Feb 2023
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Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
the world. I would invent a way for us to stop emitting carbon dioxide. But that problem is just so, so hard. So we have to build direct-air capture capability to cover for our failures to decarbonize now. DM: In the next episode, we're... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
develop relationships — skills and capabilities that were not about to be matched by a mere commercial-paper salesman. Like other traditional investment bankers, Weinberg believed that only the banker who would actually execute the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
management capability and skills once reserved for institutions or wealthy individuals. They provide a strong incentive to save and invest and have been a great source of wealth accumulation for individuals. Mutual funds also represent an... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
to make long-term-oriented decisions, to put aside the short-term performance pressures and personal career or compensation considerations to do the right thing for the business. With excessive short-term pressure, even the wisest and most View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 02 Jun 2021
- News
On the Road Less Traveled
influenced by both their environment, which I was, and also genealogical. I had a math capability that just came naturally. Somewhere between freshman and sophomore year I focused, this is my ticket. The only way to get that is to be a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
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Homeschooled
question will be, “Will this kind of change in our approach stick around for a while?” I certainly hope that online learning is not viewed as a temporary solution, but that it really gets integrated into a blended approach so we can leverage the personalization View Details
- 22 Jan 2020
- News
What It Takes
And how do we redesign what we're doing so this will never happen again?" If you plug some really bad holes so that things won't happen again, and because mistakes happen to everyone, no matter how capable you are, if you do that over a... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
managerial know-how and resources, "needs to shift its focus from macroeconomics and finance to sustaining and enhancing the capabilities of key organizations, from bureaucracies to schools and firms." Other faculty members who have... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
the consolidation of large food manufacturers has resulted in significant margin compression for his product. That brings CCC’s customer service capabilities to the fore, he continues, describing how the company worked with Frito-Lay to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
forward. Among other things, Marietta created a fundraising and development arm to take pressure off the school’s endowment; modernized the environmental education programs that are its primary moneymaker; upgraded its internet and Wi-Fi View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
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World Class Learning
that the number of international cases in the MBA curriculum will indeed grow as the HBS Global Initiative (see sidebar) moves forward, thereby enabling the School to strengthen its research capabilities around the world. Another priority... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
to apply what they have learned in the classroom is a logical extension of the School’s vaunted case method, says Moon. “The case method is so powerful because it is such a close proxy for decision-making in the field,” she explains. “But we realized that we’re now at... View Details
- 13 Feb 2019
- News
We’re All Going to Get Hacked
cyber capabilities in that network. It’s very hard to understand a network these days. This was hard to understand 10 years ago, when the company was founded. But it’s eminently more complicated today because we have wires, we have WiFi,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
company, only some brands were thought capable of being globalized. While Lux was a global giant, Unilever’s strategies with its other brands reflected a persistent belief in the dissimilarities rather than the similarities among markets.... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
the Present By Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, and Michael Szonyi, Editors Oxford University Press How do societies identify and promote merit? Enabling all people to fulfill their potential, and ensuring the selection of competent and View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
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Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
afflicting a city require a high capability for analyzing problems, delineating strategies, and ensuring implementation," says Austin. "These problems require an understanding of economic development and the capacity to mobilize and... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
HBS Alumni podcast, ICV Partners cofounder Willie Woods (MBA 1993) discusses what companies can do to improve Black representation in their ranks. “The approach I'm talking about is a team,” Woods tells Skydeck contributing host Chitra Nawbatt (GMP 6, 2009). “A really... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2
different, right? They're smart. But they're much less trusting of the system, right? DM: Hm. JI: They don't think that the system is capable of necessarily solving problems. So they need to figure it out on their own. So they're more... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
Multiply that level of commitment by a factor of several hundred million and it’s easy to envision the change India is capable of in the coming years. “Those young people could be the country’s demographic dividend,” says Ravi Venkatesan... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
Bloomberg Center: Japan's elderly population is the fastest growing of the OECD nations, but which country comes a close second? Germany. Learn how Global Age Watch ranks different countries in terms of income security, health status, View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance