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- 26 Jan 2015
- News
The Ingredients for Success
in charge of a large-scale construction project, developing our team, developing ongoing partnerships with university administrators, managing my board, and even making sure the plumber unclogs drains in the building. In a weird, strange way, it’s exhilarating to use... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
A Call to Innovation
shores.” In fact, becoming an innovation nation should not only be presented as a generational challenge, he argues, but also as a means of solving the world’s thorniest problems: poverty, disease, global warming, energy sustainability, and View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
then relatively obscure field of microfinance. As the head of ACCION International, a global microfinance organization, Chu helped develop microfinance into a global weapon against poverty while establishing it as a legitimate component... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Gazprom Goes Global
helpless neighbor and to flex its geopolitical — and potentially expansionist — muscles. Big bully vs. little innocent. Case closed? Nyet. “The Western notion that Russia uses energy as a weapon is a media oversimplification of very... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
member) Neil E. Harlan (MBA '50). During that leave of absence, he served as Harlan's deputy for management systems at a time when the nation was rapidly developing expensive top-performance weapons systems under exigencies created by the... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Forward Thinking
book, Space to Grow: Unlocking the Final Economic Frontier, Weinzierl and his coauthor Brendan Rosseau—a former teaching fellow and research associate at HBS who now works for Jeff Bezos’s space company Blue Origin—explore how the commercial space revolution became the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
if needed, so we have to be careful not to use up all of our fiscal weapons now. And it’s not only a question of money, it’s also a question of political will. That is, if we've spent however many trillions of dollars on this first phase,... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
Weapons of Peace by Peter D. Johnston (MBA 1990) Goldrook Publishing What If the Nazis developed the Atom Bomb first? Recovering from gunshot wounds and confined to an ancient English castle, America's top negotiator shares the secrets of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA: Lance Batchelor (MBA 1993)
talked for 10 minutes with the benefit of real, personal experience about what it feels like to be on a ship at sea, operating a complex weapons system. The ex-military guys and girls brought something interesting and unique to the... View Details
- 26 Jan 2017
- News
Finding a Path out of Poverty
positive change to South Africa. “Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start,” he says. “Nelson Mandela, former president of South Africa and 1993 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, said, ‘Education is the most powerful... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
using entrepreneurship as a powerful weapon against poverty.” Three years ago, Cohen helped create and fund The Portland Trust to alleviate poverty and ease tensions in the Middle East through economic means. Working out of London, Tel... View Details
- 01 Apr 2020
- News
What My Time in Vietnam Taught Me About Dealing with Shortages
nothing away from the brave men and women who brought victory in World War II to say that without the outpouring of weapons and equipment from US companies, the war might have been lost. American companies can do the same thing today to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Cast of Characters
is a thriller: Pakistan, India and the Bomb: Spy Versus Counterspy. At the center of the book is Asaf Ali Khan, a Pakistani university professor pushed by his uncle to spy on India’s secret nuclear weapons development. THE WINEMAKER:... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
and hugging us. It was an incredible moment. Odom on the flight deck Courtesy Brett Odom A 1992 graduate of Annapolis and the U.S. Navy’s Fighter Weapons (“Top Gun”) School for the top 1 percent of Navy and Marine Corps pilots, Lieutenant... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
employees knowing each day that they must do better than the employees at any other airline if we are to fulfill our mission. The employee commitment that accompanies that sense of purpose has certainly been a powerful competitive weapon... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 21 Oct 2010
- News
Hell? Maybe Not.
stories to pass along? If you’re prepping for an interview yourself, you might want to check out this popular article at HBS Working Knowledge about faculty member Amy Cuddy’s research on the positive effects of “power posing.” Who knows, it may be the secret View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Eric C. Feagler: Against the Odds
Feagler’s interest. His favorite assignment was supervising 75 enlisted men responsible for maintaining the electronics and weapons systems. “Most aviators are unhappy unless they’re flying,” he says. “But for me, the pinnacle of my... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Primer on Patents
rule for the patentee. So, ironically, patents have been turned into weapons against innovation and competition? Unfortunately, yes. One of the themes we heard repeatedly from practitioners was that the current patent system has created... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Case Study: Welcome Aboard
But if the two greatest challenges of an entrepreneur are finding a massive pain point and hiring enough exceptional talent, remote-first is worth the price as your greatest weapon to address the latter. —Samuel Clemens (MBA 2004), HBS... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
“We’re not going to occupy Berlin, and everything simply goes away,” says Rothrock. “Cyberdefenses must be part of business.” Winning means cyberterrorism and cyberwarfare have become a sort of manageable tax or a cost of doing business, and not a nuclear View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai