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- 14 Aug 2019
- News
Leading from Within
Leng Lim (left) and Arjan Overwater Leng Lim (MBA 2001)—a partner at Mindkind Institute, Episcopal priest, and practitioner of Vipassana meditation—considers himself an oddity among HBS alumni. So when he met Arjan Overwater (AMP 164, 2003)—a former senior VP for... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Eyes in the Skies
Image courtesy BlackSky There was a time not too long ago, says Amy Minnick (MBA 2000), when only governments and the military had the hardware and human resources necessary to acquire and interpret... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 25 Mar 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
working poor families a modest tuition of 50 cents to $1 per day. “Education is a human right, in my opinion,” says Crane. “The lack of access to good education in developing countries is one of the greatest problems in the world today.”... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
about patient-focused changes, the work can be deeply fulfilling. Dallis Howard-Crow, Emory’s chief human resources officer, would sometimes accompany her father, a hospital CEO, as he walked around the... View Details
- 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
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
things to different people," says HBS assistant professor Forest L. Reinhardt, who teaches the MBA elective Business Management and the Natural Environment. "For example, many economists, in particular, take the view that harvesters of natural View Details
- 12 May 2022
- News
Turning a Moment into a Movement
volunteers," including leaders from her previous company, human resources platform Gusto. She is most proud of the fact that the initiative led to real action, rather than mere words, after the racist... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 17 Nov 2015
- News
Carbon Neutral
Walt Minnick (MBA 1966), a successful businessman and former Democratic congressman from Idaho. “It’s the most serious problem facing humanity in the 21st century. If we want a future for our kids and grandkids, it’s imperative that our... View Details
Keywords: Michael Blanding
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
strategies. "Few Asian countries have done this," Porter commented, citing chronic problems such as inadequate infrastructure, skilled human resource shortages, deficiencies in science and technology, and... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
The School of Life
technology giants, Intel and SAP. Pandesic was designed to create a more affordable version of SAP’s enterprise resource planning software, targeted at small and midsize companies. It was founded in 1997 with high hopes—and $100 million... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Books
common. Each of the successful organizations they studied, including Mobil, CIGNA, and Duke Children's Hospital, used the balanced scorecard to align and focus all resources on strategy. The authors document how executives... View Details
- 12 May 2015
- News
A Flash of Insight
Bank. The fund’s early performance, however, had not been impressive. It was the height of the dot-com frenzy, and Cooper was betting against the dot-coms. Although he was hedged by long positions in cheap, cash-flow-producing natural View Details
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
course when we invest, we want to make money, but when we’re investing in space, I think you and others might have the view that there’s more at stake perhaps when we think about our planet and resources here and whether it’s sustainable... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
will learn about the challenges of entrepreneurship and undertaking new projects. Herrera Ronco teaches that entrepreneurship is a path to plenty and offers a real possibility to build a more prosperous and humane society. A... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
Leadership and Innovation in a New Global Economy So-Young Kang (MBA 2004) (Awaken Group Pte. Ltd.) Too often, people look at leaders and focus on their accomplishments and successes, but Kang examines the more human side of 12... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
payload—this one delivered the company’s New Shepard module that someday could give human passengers a taste of space travel—and are destroyed on the way up or crash back to Earth in pieces. With rockets costing tens of millions of... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
divides resources to a process-based perspective focused on ways to link and leverage the individual competencies and capabilities that exist within the organization. And," he concludes, "they need to shift their attention from... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
different attitude from what most people had. To boost the status of entrepreneurial study, I knew I had to get someone whose credentials, integrity, human qualities, and values were unimpeachable. Howard was known as an extremely smart... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
about how to manage and grow the company? The turning point was when Deng Xiaoping opened up China, making available the most important natural resource it had, its labor, to the rest of the world. Starting in 1979, China began to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big
of how it affects decision-making. At almost every stage of a start-up’s evolution, founders face a tension between attracting the resources needed to maximize the venture’s value and maintaining control of the enterprise—what I call the... View Details