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- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
on, I got a job fixing rotary compressors in refrigerators. DM: Mm-hmm [affirmative]. JI: I was leading, kind of, 7,000 people. I was 32 years old. It was the biggest product recall in the history of GE. So it was a crisis every day. And I View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
other thing we can do is pass democracy reform legislation. If we actually ended gerrymandering, if we got more disclosure and small-donor matching on campaign finance as well as automatic voter registration—those reforms would really... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
the imperative to improve school quality and its key importance to the health of a regional economy. She also cited her work in the US Treasury during the financial crisis: “I witnessed that it’s possible to address enormous problems if... View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
the VC world, sitting on the other side of the table, that she realized the extent of the funding problem that female founders were facing. It was bizarre, Dodi thought. She knew that a diversity of views meant a higher return on... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A U.S. Turnaround?
electronics industries were developing momentum. We took our leadership for granted, ignored this shift, and became complacent. Our problems became more serious when communism failed in Russia, Chairman Mao died, and reforms that were... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
50 Years & Counting
how research can benefit from cross-University collaboration." While Bazerman thinks that overt bias against individuals or groups is less of a problem than it was a couple of decades ago, "that does not mean we've solved View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Turning Point: Change, Stat
so many, I thought practicing medicine would be similar to what I saw on Scrubs or Grey’s Anatomy, where you’re presented with an immense diversity of medical problems to solve through brand-new, exciting, innovative procedures. But the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
music from this out-of-tune orchestra. Every day was a performance. He never told us how we sounded. At the end of class, he’d say, “See you tomorrow. Crumbley Corporation (A) and (B).” He was giving us our musical score. None of this was... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
a magazine that would be mailed to members of the Alumni Association nine times a year and would include material on developments at HBS, discussions of "actual problems used for written reports in the School," summaries of cases from the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
University, 1964 A.B. Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (Economics) Columbia Law School (International Fellows Program), 1967, J.D. "Pick a career that you will really enjoy. If your choice is based on just prestige and money, you may View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
event/development for business World War II Women in the workplace "Other" Cold War's end Crash of 1929 Second place (tied with "Other") went to "Women in the workplace" , which "broadened the talent base and revolutionized U.S.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
the North continued to suffer crushing numbers of casualties. Pressure grew on the Union side to end the conflict, even if it meant foregoing universal emancipation. Facing the prospect of an upcoming presidential election against a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Alumni Books
anyone in business and sales. The book ends with a series of analytical exercises to illuminate basic principles on which readers can base business plans. The Power Curve: Smart Investing Using Dividends, Options, and the Magic of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
retirement security. Many of today’s US workers will lack the resources to retire at traditional ages and maintain their standard of living in retirement. Solving the problem is a major challenge in today's environment in which risk and... View Details
- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
his knitting and ended up doing quite well in the end. But I think that's where FOMO really hits the business community. So you see this over and over and over again with economic bubbles going back to the dawn of time. So the book really... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
now." Inventing things to do has not been a problem for our sample of nontraditional career track women. "I never said, Oh my gosh, I'm not working, how am I going to use my business skills for the next few years?' " laughs Edee... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
didn’t pay off. But generally, the New Bedford whaling industry of the 1800s thrived using this investment model, averaging over 14 percent annual returns, says Alex. Holding up the high end of that average was the firm Gideon Allen and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
things like happy hours and team get-togethers. Now we have Zoom lunches so people have an opportunity to eat lunch together. We have “bev bashes,” as in beverage bashes, on a weekly basis on Fridays. I do a bev bash every other week with... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
strictures, the lack of schools, and her poverty, her education almost certainly will end there. Her family will be reluctant to let her go away to school because they will not be able to prot ect her.” The eldest of five children, Van... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
HBP. Dean McArthur was keen to see that I would do justice to his work, and he specifically wanted to give me more context on the original case and the protagonist. The key lesson in the original case was on the sorts of accounting practices that could hide a company’s... View Details
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