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- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Paying It Forward
about what would come next. “I didn’t think I needed business school at first,” he recalls. “But, you know, there are two ways to learn things. One is experience, where you do things. And the other is through war stories. So when I heard... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Pursuing the Ultimate Deal
involved and a government in Tel Aviv that needed to learn that its hard-line approach wouldn't work. Such a passive stance suits Arafat, who, Ross said, “operates on the premise that ‘I don't have to do anything because someone will come... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Books
show the price paid and factory of origin. Confronted with an unforgettable image of redundancy and waste, division heads were immediately convinced that the purchasing system needed an overhaul. Many such successes — and pitfalls — in... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Faculty Research Symposium
most in need of improvement. Given the fallibility of human beings, creating a work environment in which it is possible to learn from one another's mistakes should be a key priority for managers in any field. Edmondson tested her theory... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
more difficult. They struggle with when to grant certain permissions and when to have difficult conversations and often avoid such decisions. They need a framework that can adjust to the development needs of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
country Sender wants the world to see—a new Brazil, more urbane, more professional. A place where tourists want to vacation and where companies want to do business, with cities they can both enjoy. It can happen, she says. People can begin to see Brazil in a whole new... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
challenges, we need to have everyone around the table. "The current generation of MBA students is thinking about global citizenship in a completely new way," continues Childress. "They've grown up in a world that is very connected, where... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
The Exchange: The Tech Leader’s Tightrope
Given the example of COVID, and how Apple had to ascertain the legitimacy of government requests, the students will need to make some pretty substantive ethical distinctions on these points. That is, at least for me, one of the key... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
inadequate protection from disasters that occur infrequently and have consequences beyond the routine responsibilities of commercial enterprises. “Resilient societies need deliberate actions for the long-range common good,” Popik says.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
skill of microtargeting — identifying small, intense subgroups and communicating with them about their individual needs and wants — has never been more critical in marketing or in political campaigns. The one-size-fits-all approach to the... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 26 Aug 2016
- News
Connecting with the Past
networking cards; Modular Visions Systems; and Gage Electronics, the first manufacturer of computer-based instrumentation. In 1991, the need to find and warn family members of their genetic heritage prompted Diamond to concentrate on that... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
despite ongoing violence, in meeting the humanitarian needs of the people in Darfur and in other parts of Sudan, without security we cannot fully carry out our mission and our fundamental programs.” Those programs are low-cost,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
James Ellman shows how to invest wisely as climate change impacts multiple sectors across the stock market. The costs of global warming and its mitigation will have a major impact on equity market performance over the next two decades. As the climate changes, investors... View Details
- 20 Dec 2019
- News
The 19 Musts of 2019
work on signaling and persuasion can help enact urgently needed change.” —Laura Huang, MBA Class of 1954 Associate Professor of Business Administration and author of Edge: Turning Adversity into Advantage, forthcoming in January MUST READ... View Details
- 04 May 2017
- News
Going the Distance
journey, developed trench foot from being constantly wet, as the 19-person crew battled 120-mph wind gusts and 35-foot waves. “There was a lot of problem-solving along the way and great effort to stay on the critical path needed to... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, at his request, I took a course he had revised for blossoming education professionals. He then became my doctoral thesis adviser. It was a marvelous course. He clearly had worked hard to adapt it to the particular... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
Own? Number of U.S. states where a $7 hourly wage is sufficient to rent an average two-bedroom apartment: 0 Hourly wage needed to rent an average two-bedroom apartment in the state of Maryland: $13.25 1999 U.S. minimum hourly wage: $5.15... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
always going to be here, but we needed to have a base of operations closer to California, where we do a lot of work, and Boulder is a great quality of life complement to Miami. Last year we had to close the agency for about a week after a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
1996, the concept of a privately funded stadium. “That vote cleared the way for some of the permits we would need and eliminated the possibility that someone would put forward a competing measure,” explains the politically savvy Baer, who... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path out of Polarization
calamity, world war—that there was a collective, societal, postwar understanding that what we had done in the 1920s and 1930s was so dangerous and so harmful, we just needed to agree to live in the center of the political spectrum. The... View Details