Coupling - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Nov 2018
Blog Post

Student Portraits - Armed Forces Alumni Association

offered at most colleges. So, I settled and went to the Naval Academy to just fly jets. How I ended up underwater is a much longer story. REFLECTION ON SERVICE: Somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, a couple hundred men I helped train are... View Details

08 Feb 2021
Book

How to Make the World Better, Not Perfect

bad choices, not only for themselves, but also about how to best help others. For example, he draws from negotiation theory to introduce the concept of a trade-off, considering not only what each party gets, but also how much they value something. If a View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

15 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

every time you saw him there was that unquenchable curiosity. Chandler's curiosity was a force of nature, and it didn't stop. When I last spoke to him he was going great guns on his next project. My sense was that Al took his measure of you by asking himself a View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

12 Mar 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

Managing the Family Business: Firing the CEO

good leader and a kind father, he protected the core values of his company and endured serious conflict in his family. The son went on to start another company and did well as an entrepreneur. The father stepped back into the role of CEO. After a View Details

27 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Working to Change the Food System

high-throughput genome engineering capabilities that enable dramatically faster genetic innovation. Coupled with the discovery of extremely fast-growing photosynthetic microalgae and racing against a worsening climate outlook, we’re full... View Details

04 Feb 2010
What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?

crowds' breeds convenient conformity and creativity is often lost in the process." At the other end of the intuition-analysis spectrum, R. C. Saxena opined, "I believe intuition ought not to play any part . Sincere effort to harness all the collective wisdom... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

underutilized. Historically, Japan has disproportionately suffered from natural disasters. Coupled with that, within Japan’s large corporations are skilled engineers and high-quality, advanced technologies. As a business leader based in... View Details

22 Feb 2022
News

New Urban Order

within a 10-mile drive of an EVgo fast charger. But large swaths of the population still need to be reached. “One of the biggest changes over the last couple years is just awareness about electric vehicles and education about charging”... View Details

Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services

29 Aug 2023
News

Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details

10 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

and complements perfectly the physical business we have built so far.” Another example is MyoMaster, a company that specializes in recovery products and knowledge for athletes. Founded by couple Joe Gray and Lottie Whyte, MyoMaster... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden

18 Jan 2018
News

The Lessons of All-Day Breakfast

operate as a leader? Cunningham: Well, I think it's a combination of a couple of things. So part of it has to do with finding the right people who do provide certain pieces of credibility along the way. I'll give you an example-- again,... View Details

Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

28 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

couple of years could top what we saw during the 2008-2009 Global Financial Crisis, when there were more than 100,000 business bankruptcies. Some analysts are forecasting that by the end of 2021 up to 20 percent of high-yield corporate... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

20 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?

talk of a couple of the new incubators going public themselves. Four leaders in the evolving incubator space — Timothy Rowe of Cambridge Incubator, Toby Corey of Intend Change, Flip Filipowski of Divine Interventures and Jeff Crown of... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

25 Aug 2022
News

Up on the Corner

the government of Angola on foreign direct investment. That experience, coupled with childhood memories of the painful structural adjustment programs foisted on Cameroon by the IMF (her own mother lost her job due to austerity-induced... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Melissa Golden; Real Estate

08 Nov 2013
HBS Seminar

Laura Diaz Anadon, Harvard Kennedy School

10 May 2020
Blog Post

Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers

Theo’s first couple of months of life but we’re appreciating the time together and the quietness of it all. Claire Wagner | Class of 2020 Little(s): Leon, 8 months Pre-HBS Industry: Global Health, Harvard Medical School Proudest... View Details

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Press / Media

By: Debora L. Spar

I'll have a girl, please

American Public Media [Marketplace], 12 September 2006

DR. DEBORAH SPAR: "The ability to choose gender is really only the first... View Details

11 Mar 2020
News

America’s Hottest New Dating Sites: Business School Campuses

iStock iStock The Wall Street Journal had a story this week on the growing trend of couples who meet while at business school. The piece argues that the trend is due in part to growing gender parity at business schools, noting that women... View Details

17 Nov 2020
Blog Post

Partners and Families Are an Integral Part of the MBA Experience

to HBS with her partner Bethany. Enjoying the business school bubble together can also be a bonding experience for couples at HBS and may bring couples closer together. “This is a once in a lifetime... View Details

01 Mar 2016
News

Delivering Trust

dimmer than they’d thought: In addition to Deborah’s ovarian cysts, Jake had a lower- than-normal sperm count. The couple went through three rounds of fertility treatment, all unsuccessful. Their experience made one thing clear: “We had... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

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