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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
"Our goal is to triple the number of visits by inner-city Chicago children," he says. "We have the power to be a great centralizing institution." With fewer square feet, the MCA in Chicago cannot accommodate as many visitors as some of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
impact on the success of employees and companies. “I came to the program on the late side, but I think I’ve found a set of research topics that thread the needle between relevance to real organizations and scholarly interest,” he... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
inadequacies and missteps than on our strengths and unique talents. He explains why this is so by dissecting and analyzing his own experiences--using himself as a case study. The book's goal is to help readers learn about the intricacies... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
IBM team pitched their superiors on the company building a computer that could compete on Jeopardy!. It was bold, even risky; Jeopardy! was the ur–game show of idioms and double meanings. Building software for natural-language processing meant coding a small View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
billion to legacy transporter Boeing, $2.7 billion to upstart SpaceX—was a sign of changing attitudes. It also showed the benefits of market competition: Since the space shuttle program shut down, the United States has relied on Russia for flights to the ISS, which... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
might say that's what you're doing at Harvard. But I've been doing it since I was a freshman in college, trying to help people and encouraging them to go into leadership roles and build organizations—like I did at Medtronic—of leaders. And that's what I've been doing... View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Early on in Kim Scott’s career, she had a few wake-up calls that set her on a mission to become a better boss—a leader who was highly effective but still very... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
manage its operations for another three years. At that point, Murphy says, “I wasn’t sure if I wanted to keep being the guy on the ground in the developing world or get the credentials to become more involved in the big picture.” His acceptance to HBS tipped the scales... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
insular world, reviewing ideas from thousands of companies across the country. In his personal life, Doriot was cautious to a fault at times. But in his professional life, he realized venture capital was all about taking huge but calculated risks. “He always thought... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
selling its assets to E*Trade in early 2010. “I never set out to be the failure example in an HBS case,” he says. “But I think everything we do is part of who we are as people and professionals. Cake helped me understand that I’m... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
home," 36 percent were actually working parttime, and another 12 percent worked on contracted projects. Of those who had left the workforce but planned to return, 61 percent said they were seeking nontraditional business careers and had far different View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
engineering major with a goal of building cars, he saw a future spent designing door handles in some automaker’s basement and switched to international affairs and foreign policy. After graduation, he spent three years in China helping... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
knows, an inspirational business concept is only the beginning of a long and complicated journey marked by unexpected obstacles at every turn. The successful entrepreneur must possess an unshakable belief in his or her goal and - as the... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
philanthropic dollars in this space. It’s given us an ongoing set of analyses, both to demonstrate in a data-driven way what’s going on in our democracy, and to pinpoint where you could have the most impact at a state or national level.... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
districts. Teacher layoffs were also on the table: The number, initially set at 89, was whittled down to 51; after months of debate and conflict with local teacher unions (there are two in Scranton), 16 teachers would be furloughed in... View Details
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details