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- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
learn about the course's issues in context. They are experiencing a response to a real problem, not unlike problems they will have to solve in the real world. *Special thanks to Evanthia Malliris and Patty... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
every decision. I don’t have to tell anyone here that we face an uphill battle in Scranton, but I have seen that with a collaborative effort, public officials can accomplish extraordinary things. It can’t happen overnight, and officials must be given the space and the... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
encouraging, though their release is. Last year marked the first time most of the leading technology companies publicly reported statistics on gender diversity. The conversation is changing. The question is no longer, does the tech industry have a gender diversity... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
value for society. You gain society’s confidence when you are seen as solving the biggest problems and contributing in ways that are innovative and imaginative. We need to return to creating real value for... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
vacation, or a long vacation. I always joke. I mean, how many people do you know that have taken a long vacation? Not only does that not really exist, especially in American work culture, now we've tried to solve that View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
don’t know what the answer is. They have to act, not plan their way forward. Hill began to despair of finding an answer to her problem until a chance meeting with Pixar executive Greg Brandeau in the lobby of a biotech firm—Hill was there... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
increasing the overall profitability of the concession. "I like to fix things," Richardson reflects. "I'm attracted to unstructured environments where I can solve problems and create systems that help... View Details
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
Connecticut. So it's how do you manage this process. And you're like a CEO. You can't micromanage every part of the process, because there are a lot of things that are out of my control. So it's how do you set a vision? How do you hire the right team and empower them?... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
the WeChat ecosystem. The biggest and best and most inspiring tech companies are not just from Silicon Valley, they're coming from everywhere and they're being inspired by local problems that are getting View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
manufacturing, which would allow a store to digitally download from a central facility any CD a customer requested and press it on the spot in a matter of minutes. "This could eliminate the need for inventories and would solve the View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
relative handful of African Americans and women on campus daily confronted cultural problems that could not be solved with a slide rule and pencil. READ MORE Steve Belkin Eve Benton Mike Feeley Ed Mathias... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Embracing Creative Tensions to Solve Your Toughest Problems By Wendy K. Smith (PHDOB 2006) and Marianne W. Lewis Harvard Business Review Press Life is full of paradoxes. How can we each express our... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
the nature of what Numenta is doing.” Most people assume that the human brain was solved long ago. That some scientist figured out how humans learn, published the findings in a white paper, and put it on a shelf, and it was settled. But... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
to brainstorm solutions to problems that still plague the community. One of the Cleveland visitors this January was Richard Shatten (MBA '80), a faculty member at Cleveland's Weatherhead School of Management. Just after graduating from... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
to measure. How should we measure ours? This book of advice on life is dedicated to the younger generations, which have so many capabilities and the potential to solve the many problems that we face today.... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
Teaching you to deal with a problem when it's small. That fair is fair. Unless you're early, you're late. But how do you think your upbringing shaped the way that you managed and led? JI: Yeah, look, I mean, I think it's a combination of... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
core of this organization is our membership, including people like Rye: leaders in business and their own communities who are committed to contributing their mindshare to solving the problems facing our... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
useful when collecting information on a problem, Assistant Professor Ethan Bernstein and his fellow researchers found, but it can be detrimental in solving the problem, leading people to a consensus before all the solutions are explored.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
her discovery, this brilliant but socially awkward research scientist finds her life upended by a series of unrelated events. Forced to confront and deal with problems well outside her areas of expertise and training, Susan must figure... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
want to solve this problem. Unfortunately, the need is great,” Feingold told WBZ-TV. Feingold noted that his organization has distributed more than 1.5 million items during the pandemic. “We are one of the largest of only a few... View Details