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- 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
- 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 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
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
EHR system. The scan might as well be stuck in a manila folder. “The biggest problem with health care today is not how expensive it is. It's that we're held down by force, our money is taken, and then we're shoved into a medical system... 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
- 26 May 2016
- News
2016 Alumni Achievement Awards
really wanted to be a pilot, but I had an astigmatism and couldn’t fly—a big disappointment, but I still served over four years as captain. I then applied to HBS, which changed my life.” “When I speak to young people today, I emphasize the serendipity of life. You may... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
people. When Cohen visited Nairobi to survey the damage, she found the embassy site a “tangled, chaotic mess,” with stairs that ended in midair and entire floors blown open to the elements. SaysCohen, “The bombings were horrific. The... 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 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
school in that capacity was rejuvenating for me as well. Suddenly I was in a situation where I could really think about different kinds of business problems and potential opportunities because I wasn’t constrained by my own operating... 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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- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
end of the line. Her goal, as both a leader and a human being, is to listen to others, empathize, and respond accordingly. She begins the conversations sharing a bit about herself so that people can immediately feel a sense of comfort and... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
surprises. Mainstream economics, however, hides from uncertainty, banishing it to the mystical world of unknown unknowns or reducing it to mechanistic calculation. Its textbooks ignore everyday problems that lack demonstrably correct... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
end of the studio’s decade-long string of successes that included Toy Story, Monsters, Inc., and Finding Nemo—each movie breaking new ground in its own way, pushing the boundaries in terms of both technology and storytelling. It was... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
Cummings saw the potential of the city dwindling. The change was partially economic—the city’s credit rating, which had improved by the end of the 1990s, slipped again in the 2000s—and partially personal: Cumming’s children had graduated... View Details
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- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
only I could think of a way to really butter them up. At the end of the tunnel I see that everyone's lights are on. It's 9:00 a.m.! Why are their lights on? And then I drive out into what was just a beautiful fall day, and it's pouring.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
the ambient atmosphere. The density of those molecules is much lower, so it’s a much more difficult energy-mass problem. And energy-mass challenges turn into cost problems in the end. So it’s really about asking, Can we capture these... View Details
- 01 Sep 2022
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Your Family, Your Work, Your Way
with some of firms’ highest-achieving employees often ended with questions about how to manage the demands of parenting and work. Much of the information she found was long on platitudes and short on practical, actionable advice—so she... View Details
- 15 Feb 2023
- News
Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains
but also what the end of this process means. I think people have a lot of questions. DM: In October 2022, the company held a town hall meeting on Project Bison in Rock Springs, Wyoming. About 130 people attended the meeting, which... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
opening several “desal” plants a year worldwide, costing up to $300 million each. “Seawater desalination provides the ultimate answer for water-supply problems because its source is effectively limitless,” says Brown. “Its drawbacks are... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
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Green Light
“We have to produce 70 percent more calories than we produce today to feed that population.” Addressing a problem with that kind of span requires scaling beyond the 8' x 40' units—and beyond Millis. “The modular unit that’s going into... View Details