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- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977
program known as "Sound Global Enterprise," he undertook a series of wide-ranging initiatives that permeated every corner of the company, from improving corporate governance and restructuring the corporation to improving the management of View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
in “water-stressed” countries, where either the quantity or the quality of water supplies will have sunk to levels ranging from inadequate to economically crippling. At the same time, another valuable water-infrastructure system, the environment, is in steep decline... View Details
- 22 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Summit Explores Leadership for a Sustainable Future
intelligence to help or hinder human progress; University of Montreal Daniel Jutras who elaborated on the implications of these new stakes on younger generations; and Ilham Kadri, CEO of Solvay, who described the concrete steps required... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
differently. Frankl calls this “the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.” The second is the counterintuitive idea that the less you aim directly at success and happiness, the more likely... View Details
- 20 Dec 2019
- News
The 19 Musts of 2019
does Charles Darwin, who wrote that cooperative social behavior was a trait of survival and prosperity. Pearlstein ends with a beautiful quote from Robert Kennedy from 1968, that the GNP statistic our country so relies on captures... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
humanity. Badaracco presents a five-question framework offering a way for managers to balance their analytical work with the human side and find a way forward when analysis falls short. Chasing Rainbows and Beyond: A Spectrum of Life and... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Short Takes
interdependencies." Looking Out for Number One The tension between the desire to maintain cordial relations with others and the need to act in one's own self-interest affects all human relations. This conflict is particularly apparent in... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Time to Vote in University Elections
Eversley, Jr., EdD '76, CAS '73; MA '70, University of Colorado; BS '68, University of Minnesota. Executive Officer/District Superintendent of Eastern Suffolk Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES), Patchogue, N.Y. Rajat K.... View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
people. I have been working with them for the last 70 years of my life,” says Bermek, who has worked as a human rights activist in the country and the region for the last twenty years after a long career in business. “We are not taking... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
work that our HBS colleagues have done illustrates this very well. Rosabeth Moss Kanter has written a piece for the project titled “Enriching the Ecosystem.” Her argument is that many of the untapped, rich opportunities for greater US competitiveness lie in getting... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
proteins were created inside the human body. The company launched its first vaccine trial for a strain of avian influenza in 2015. If developing vaccines for widespread and endemic diseases has long been considered a financially... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
weighed in on the current economic crisis but quickly moved on to advocate for energy independence and cross-sector cooperation between business and government. The panel featured John Doerr (MBA ’76), Jeff Immelt (MBA ’82), Anand... View Details
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
cats—this one will say yes if that one does. It’s a vicious circle, so you have to do a little magic to make it happen.” Exactly one month later, news breaks that it worked. Bradley Cooper will direct and star in a movie that he and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
exceptionally favorable factors in France such as its wealth of assets, human capital, and the French brand. And the disadvantages of the system (the burdens of administration, law, and the cost of labor and taxes) are comparatively much... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
balance between work and home life, and expressing oneself using theater exercises. At Coopers & Lybrand and Goldman Sachs, consultant Benjamin Zander, for example, conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, has used music and... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 02 Mar 2017
- News
Such Great Heights
mountaineers, and they were having a hard time finding good climbing gear from Europe. And so they formed a buying cooperative mainly to support their friends from The Mountaineers so they had better gear to go out and explore the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
now GFI, Baker has become a leading expert on the world’s shadow financial structure and illicit money supply. He also understands corruption’s human toll. Burned into his memory is the Nigerian lady who helped care for his children,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
know what I was talking about — I wanted to change that. I also wanted to understand business, one of the most powerful institutions in society, and learn about leadership and how to galvanize resources, human and otherwise.” As is the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
sent support. "In cooperation with the American embassy in Kuwait, we opened a new charity account to receive donations from those who believe in the power of altruism and contribution." Kamran Kashani (DBA '74), from Lausanne,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
Businesses in Agribusiness, New Opportunities in the Health Care Industry, and Managing in the Marketspace. "This cooperation among various units has greatly enhanced EM's ability to deal with the cross-disciplinary research required to... View Details