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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Where Conservation Means Business
four-inch-thick volumes of Moody’s financial directories from the early 1900s. And Anderson demonstrated the delicate work of making an almost invisible repair to a torn page in a Dutch commodities price ledger dating from 1719. “If you... View Details
Keywords: Roger thompson
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Turning Point: Network Effects
positive impact of meaningful interaction. All too often, mental illness is an invisible enemy. Let’s be proactive in routinely addressing depression as an aspect of simple wellness—and of productivity, if you want to look at it from a... View Details
Keywords: Bruce Shuttleworth (MBA 1997)
- 15 Jun 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Invisible Americans: The Tragic Cost of Child Poverty by Jeff Madrick (MBA 1971) Knopf By official count, more than one in six American children live below the poverty line. But statistics alone tell... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
China, and others will grow rapidly. The authors predict probable new principles for commercial success, among them that an obsession with return on equity will give way to more broad-based measurements of success, and that Adam Smith’s View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Fostering a Supportive Community
“Many people aren’t comfortable sharing that they don’t have much disposable income.” Fetter adds, “Socioeconomic status is such a salient and stressful part of many people’s lives, although there’s not a lot of open conversation about the topic. There is an View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Mele
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Short Takes
catalyst for new ideas. "The creativity necessary [for] innovation derives not only from the obvious, visible expertise but from invisible reservoirs of experience," they write. Such reservoirs, they note, are particularly helpful in... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Making It Count
and diffused over time about the invisible hand of the market and that—somehow—things just happen. That is a very uninspiring view of the world. The reality that I’m witnessing and experiencing, through my interactions with students and... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Faculty Research Online From HBS Working Knowledge
Professor Mihir Desai explains what managers can learn from one unlucky investor’s experience. The Compensation Game Do CEOs deserve “star” compensation? The idea that their pay is driven by the invisible hand of market forces is a myth... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Campaign Ends, Exceeds Expectations
information and intellectual hub, offering a full menu of resources to help scholars understand today’s world. Like the ubiquitous but invisible wireless network that connects the campus, many of the changes brought by the campaign are... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Faculty Books
Invisible Engines by David S. Evans, Andrei Hagiu, and Richard Schmalensee (MIT Press) Assistant Professor Hagiu and his coauthors offer detailed studies of the personal computer, video-game console, PDA, smart mobile phone, and digital... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Ink: Start Small, Rise Above
by so many financial and regulatory systems that can be invisible or unexpected. If we can inspire more small businesses to stand up, identify the obstacles ahead of them, and work together to change them, then I think we could experience... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
inadequate protection from disasters that occur infrequently and have consequences beyond the routine responsibilities of commercial enterprises. “Resilient societies need deliberate actions for the long-range common good,” Popik says. “The View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Invisible Trillions: How Financial Secrecy Is Imperiling Capitalism and Democracy—and the Way to Renew Our Broken System By Raymond W. Baker (MBA 1960) Berrett-Koehler Publishers Over the last half... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Doing Something Real
Ever Need (over one million copies sold); Fire and Ice (a biography of Charles Revson and Revlon); Getting By on $100,000 a Year (and Other Sad Tales); and The Invisible Bankers, an irreverent look at the insurance industry. He has won... View Details
Keywords: Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
multinational corporations (MNCs) and local businesses are serving the previously invisible BOP market: Nestlé, with its “milk-district model” that encourages supporting businesses to spring up around its dairies in rural India; CEMEX’s... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
economy, Giants of the Sea makes the case for its role in reducing poverty and increasing peace around the world. Packed with interesting and fun facts, this broad sweep of a largely invisible endeavor is an informative and enjoyable read... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
criminals? What, if anything, has been stolen or destroyed? Do your systems now harbor invisible “sleeper” worms or viruses that will cause more damage later and perhaps move on to attack other, outside systems? What are the company’s... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
coauthor of Own the Room, is a leadership coach with a track record of helping CEOs and senior leaders take their effectiveness to the next level. The AEI Presents: The Invisible Men A video podcast sharing stories of amazing Black men at... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
shrinking labor pool of talented people," Thomas continues, "today's companies are courting and working with diverse constituencies that were all but invisible to firms even a couple of decades ago. It is now widely accepted that... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
environment didn’t help. Supporters of tidal energy often claim that because underwater turbines are invisible from the surface, commercial deployments will not face the NIMBY opposition that has confronted some offshore wind projects.... View Details