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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
his fellow activists didn’t know at the time how scared the Communist government was of the voices of mere students and the resources it committed to silencing them. Attempts were even made to expel Maj from the university and when that failed, to View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
incorrect paperwork, the IT team programmed an electronic “poka-yoke” (a term from lean manufacturing in which an engineering solution prevents a mistake) that keeps a mailing label from being printed unless the bar codes on the SmartPak... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
prevent encroachment on their citizens’ private spheres. Choppy Waters by Laure Wang (MBA 1997) (Pacific Venture Partners) Life Lessons: Prayers from the Heart by Laure Wang (MBA 1997) (Pacific Venture Partners) Rising Phoenix by Laure... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
fibrosis treatment. Williams got into pharma by chance. After working in investment banking before and after HBS, he took a job at the consulting firm Corporate Decisions (now Oliver Wyman). One of his first clients was launching a drug that would help View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
strong—there’s always the next project, the next deadline. Research by Assistant Professor Anat Keinan may help prevent those feelings of regret. In a study of present-day college students and of alumni returning for their 40th reunion,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
after they've contracted an illness, compared with public health's cost-effective preventive approach. I realized that public health is all about policies, systems, and distribution on a wide scale. As an investor, I could see huge... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
systemic challenges that prevent Congress from fulfilling its duties as an independent and coequal branch of government. JB Lyon (MBA 1996), codirector Reform Elections Now was formed by HBS alumni with a mission to recommend practical... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
growth preventing it from achieving critical mass. Ironically, it was the financial crisis of 2008 that gave the city’s fintech scene the jolt it needed to reach the next level. Suddenly, the big banks had much less money to throw at... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
men also highlights the humanity common to both sides. Only by working together will Cattani and Levchenko find a way to prevent a global nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union. Shift Your Paradigm By Dionis... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
composed of “propaganda written in white-hot anger with words tumbling and stumbling all over the page.” ...Several chemical companies threatened legal action. Velsicol Chemical Company, maker of chlordane and heptachlor, tried to prevent... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
the massive increase in eggs orders. “That had prevented it from really even being seriously considered before,” she says. But 2015 was a good time for revenue-generating ideas at McDonald’s. “Part of the mantra we were pushing was, if... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
Union and started pulling billions of euros out of the banks. To prevent total collapse, the government closed the banks for three weeks and limited withdrawals to 60 a day. The capital controls hit the population hard; for many... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
steps of the BC legislature, and environmental groups drove metal spikes into the trees to prevent logging. The animus was a preview for The War in the Woods, which began in the summer of 1993. All told, more than 900 protesters were... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
the flowers are cultivated on easily accessible platforms. Porter's ideas, while inspiring to some, remain controversial. "Many people would argue that although pollution prevention is good business in some cases, it is not good business... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
from a business prevention function to a values-based framework for thriving in increasingly perilous times. Faculty Books Building the Future: Big Teaming for Audacious Innovation by Amy C. Edmondson and Susan Salter Reynolds... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
describing how individuals, leaders, and organizations can more effectively prevent complicity. By challenging the notion that a few bad apples are responsible for society’s ills, Complicit implicates us all―and offers a path to creating... View Details
- 19 Dec 2024
- News
The Musts of 2024
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. I love these end-of-the-year lists where you can get recommendations from smart people about things that are worth your time and money. It always sets me up really... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
the new entity. "Only a well-conceived process for integration and a spirit of partnership can prevent a clash of cultures," he warns. A clash of cultures can be bad enough, but an even more tangible nightmare arises if the new entity's... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
having attended private school prevented me from participating in the culture of HBS,” he recalls. “Coming to the School was a wonderful rite of passage.” Over the years, Salmon has served on the boards of organizations as diverse as... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
incentives embedded in those plans is key to resolving the current crisis and preventing another. That task falls, by law, to corporate boards, clubby groups that are widely criticized as the handpicked “captives” of self-serving... View Details