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- 24 Jul 2020
- News
Reimagining Chicago’s Schools
challenges can only go so far, Zaikos admits. So Intrinsic also encourages self agency by asking students to set their own schedules one day a week. “We know that, at two-year colleges, the students who tend to be more successful are the... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
brittle page from the R.G. Dun & Co. Collection provide a slow-motion close-up of a 50-plus-year span when American business expanded from small, local exchanges within a day’s horseback ride to transactions spanning multiple states and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
nature preserve and perhaps the most pristine marine area in the world,” Cohen notes. But collecting that gem of the Pacific would be trumped by her lead role in a Florida swampland deal: the landmark agreement designed to restore the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
kicked out of the game?” The first case HBS Archives Photography Collection, Baker Library Special Collections In 1980, just as he was joining the HBS faculty, Bill Sahlman met an interesting character named Jeff Parker. Parker, then 37... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
three-day school trip weaving woolen swatches on a collection of old-fashioned floor looms. Later that day, he notes, the students will learn about—and even pet—indigenous Appalachian wildlife (including a pink-eyed albino corn snake)... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
How to Fix Wall Street
"I'm making this decision on principle, just to see how it feels." ©The New Yorker Collection 2003 Leo Cullum from Cartoonbank.com. All Rights Reserved. Another bubble is brewing. Only this time it is a regulation bubble. As View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Revitalizing America
contributing to both quality treatment and prevention. Young people joining a health corps for a year could be patient advocates, provide community health education, collect data, or prepare for health-care careers while observing needs... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
Avenue Manslaughter: An Inside View of Fee-Cutting Clients, Profit-Hungry Owners, and Declining Ad Agencies by Michael Farmer (MBA 1971) (Lid Publishing) Farmer, formerly a director of Bain & Company, describes the key trends that have... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
The four professional leagues have varying systems involving collective bargaining agreements, free agency rules, and financial penalties that, to different degrees, set, or act as a "drag" on, upper-level... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
job which he thought he should do.” (US National Archives) Established by presidential order in June 1942, the OSS was charged with collecting and analyzing intelligence and running counterespionage missions, a predecessor to today’s CIA.... View Details
- 11 May 2020
- News
Better Than Cash
partnership is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, BMZ, Flourish, Mastercard, Norad/Vipps, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, the US Agency for International Development, and Visa, and hosted by the... View Details
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
assist with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s transition team at the Pentagon. After shoring up new leadership, he moved to the US Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance and helped to create the Global Development Alliance, an agency... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
SK: I think it’s going to be a blend. We started the Khan Lab School because we believe so much in in-person instruction, especially with the younger age groups. In terms of higher education, by the time kids are 18, 19, 20, they have the View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
is an independent foreign aid agency with the mission to reduce poverty through sustainable economic growth in some of the world's poorest countries. "Farmer training was at the heart of the Ghana program," says Jonathan Bloom (MBA 1972),... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Take 2: From Ad Copy to Cuneiform
executive vice president and director of the Ted Bates Agency in New York City (then among the top five advertising agencies in the world), managing the firm and million-dollar accounts for big-name clients... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
partnerships, but the coordination was a real challenge—particularly when there was classified information involved.” It’s a broad point, but apply it to cybersecurity, says Lefkowitz, and you see why the National Security Agency might... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
wrongdoers were just a disparate collection of lone bad actors on the corporate stage. End of story. Alternatively, the scandals reflected something systemic and pervasive in American business culture, with the trail winding its way back... View Details
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
collector of traffic data—those tubes across the road that counted cars—but we have far surpassed that,” says Mistele. “Government is now mostly out of the business of collecting traffic data. The result, however, is much better data and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
collect — may sicken or even kill them. The ocean-dominated Earth is indeed the “blue planet,” but only 1 percent of its water, the equivalent of one tablespoonful in a gallon, is fresh and accessible. Agriculture and industry are thirsty... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
A New Approach to Contact Tracing
the fight against COVID-19. Government-led innovation such as this is a subject that fascinates Mitchell Weiss (MBA 2004), a professor of management practice and Richard L. Menschel Faculty Fellow at HBS. Upon hearing that Singapore’s Government Technology View Details