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- 03 Jun 2021
- News
What It Takes to Run a Great Hybrid Meeting
- 27 Nov 2020
- News
Managing Someone Whose Life Has Been Upended
- 02 Mar 2017
- News
Such Great Heights
reason that they did back in 100, 110 years ago or the first expeditions on the big mountains like Everest or K2. It's that spirit of challenge, and accomplishment, and adventure. I think as human beings, we're naturally wired as... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
THAIN: Regulations failed to keep up with innovations in financial markets. A year after the federal government rushed to rescue Wall Street from its own nearly fatal excesses, former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain (MBA ’79) worries “that we aren’t using the crisis to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
An Advocate for Women's Equality
Even with Nixon's backing, pressure against her came from inside the administration. When Barbara Hackman Franklin (HRPBA 1963, MBA 1964) was appointed to recruit women for leadership positions in the Nixon administration, there was a problem right from the start: her... View Details
- 15 Nov 2021
- News
6 Strategies to Boost Retention Through the Great Resignation
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
John Doerr, MBA 1976
Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION Rice University, 1973 B.S., Electrical Engineering Rice University, 1974 M.S., Electrical Engineering LESSONS FROM HBS “The Human... View Details
- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
essentially is the gathering of the global community to discuss climate. I think all those things combined with the experience that humans are having, living in the world with changing weather patterns, with rising sea levels and changing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
deepest human needs. The author suggests thinking like an entrepreneur as a way to improve one’s business, life, and relationships. Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg (MBA 2003)... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Research Brief: If State Pensions Clean Up Their Books, Who Pays?
to a later date. “What we might actually be seeing is politicians lobbying in the interest of their own reelection chances,” she says. “We might need a bit more skepticism when a state says, ‘We have things under control.’ ” “Lobbying View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 24 Jun 2020
- News
Unleashing Greatness in Others
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Transforming the IRS
Rossotti Courtesy HBS Press When Charles O. Rossotti (MBA ’64) was appointed commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service in 1997, it was the most feared and loathed of all federal government agencies. People told him that he was taking on a no-win situation. But... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
life; move past common misconceptions—such as the idea that asking for more will make people dislike you—and understand why your go-to negotiation strategies are probably making you less influential; discover the one thing that influences View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
the airport’s few runways. On the ground, there’s traffic congestion of an entirely different sort. Cars, trucks, three-wheelers, bicycles, rickshaws, and even a couple of horsemen jockey for position on a road far too small to accommodate such a volume and variety of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Unleashed
reinforced the company’s shared basic assumptions, including the belief that everyone, at every level, was in service to JetBlue passengers. The most important assumption he surfaced—a somewhat radical idea at the time—was that customers are people. JetBlue’s mission... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
be hyper-focused on developing the next Lipitor or Levitra, creating a constant drain on financial and human resources. And companies are running out of big ideas and facing gaps in their revenue thanks to patent expirations, leaving... View Details
- 30 Apr 2021
- News
Revealing the Rules
wine-dark. Ancient languages didn’t have a word for blue—a realization that prompted linguists to ask whether humans could even see the color if they don’t have a word for it. So a researcher went to Namibia to study a tribe that has no... View Details
- 29 Jan 2021
- News
Holding Business to Account
leaders on issues of climate change, human rights, and environmental solutions, among many others. Aiyer sees these efforts as a partnership between a company and its investors. “These kinds of changes are positive for the company's... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Road to Recovery
in 2016, with Gastfriend as CEO and his father as chief medical officer. A 2014 study estimated that 12.5 million Americans had substance use disorders, and that number was rising, largely due to opioid use. In addition to the human toll,... View Details