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- 16 Feb 2022
- News
Holding Business to Account
Photo courtesy Geeta Aiyer In the early 1990s, company leaders for Albertsons, a rapidly expanding supermarket chain, flew to Boston to meet with Geeta Aiyer (MBA 1985),a young analyst and portfolio manager at the United States Trust... View Details
- 29 Jan 2021
- News
Holding Business to Account
Photo courtesy Geeta Aiyer Photo courtesy Geeta Aiyer In the early 1990s, Geeta Aiyer (MBA 1985) was an analyst and portfolio manager at the United States Trust Company of Boston. Among her investments was Albertsons, a rapidly expanding... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Brand New
outside where there weren’t a lot of people. To be on the river all day, fishing and having great conversations with friends—I was hooked.” Pandemic job change: “For me, it’s really hard, because connecting with people and building trust... View Details
- 26 Sep 2018
- News
Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure
obvious: Environmentalists have long known that the city has water run-off issues, but there had never been any political will to solve the problem. “Hurricane Harvey showed everyone that we just can’t be on the sidelines anymore,” Coady observes. He is currently... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Capital Architect
Skydeck podcast BRUNELL: Human motivation for supporting or catalyzing change only comes from within. We can’t “make” people’s behavior or “mandate” mindset. Citizens must have reason to care, want, and believe in the change agenda—and to View Details
- 25 Apr 2016
- News
Trail Blazer
asphalt-paved path, with unpaved shoulders for runners) with neighboring winemakers, who donated initial funds to memorialize Tom Shelton, a fellow vintner and vine trail leader who had lost his life to cancer. “We recruited the Land View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
There and Back Again: The Challenges and Rewards of Working Abroad
to Cabot Corporation, a specialty chemicals firm, where he is general manager of the Performance Products Business Group. He believes his Taiwan experience demonstrated his ability to adapt quickly in new situations, making his new employer View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
From Das’s Desk
Boston for a few days of learning, alumni are eager to connect with HBS when faculty and others from the School visit their city or region. Women continue to have unique needs for professional development, and HBS alumnae see the School as a View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Got Global?
differences, their shared experience at Soldiers Field created a common bond that helped increase trust and respect, which led to the desired de-escalation of tensions. In Shirazi’s view, this kind of global impact is “a uniquely HBS... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: A Fair Share
have the experience, or maybe one of their friends does, of “Hey, I rented my car to a stranger, and it worked out well.” As more people have those experiences and they talk about it with their friends, it’s going to help them trust in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
model. Why wouldn’t people do this before? Was a lack of trust driving an aversion to this? RC: Trust was definitely part of it. It’s also the habits that people have. Some managers would like to see people... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
which employees act like free agents. The solution? Think of employees not as family or free agents but as allies. Both managers and employees must trust each other enough to commit to mutual investment and benefit. Such View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Check In
1997; since that time, it has overseen six funds totaling more than $1.1 billion. With the coronavirus pandemic and travel restrictions continuing to batter the industry, Depatie takes a clear-eyed look at what the future might hold for a profession that depends on... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Investing in Innovation
Harvard President Drew Faust for the Inaugural Event, which included a morning and afternoon of case discussion, student interactions, and faculty-led alumni panel sessions. "In America and around the world, the public has lost trust in... View Details
- 18 Mar 2020
- News
Leading Change
out how business can do things better. This is a major international problem, and it will need a framework of policies to make a big difference.” Pat Coady, an investment banker and environmentalist who founded the Northern Virginia Land View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Same the World Over: Focusing on Customers and Innovation Brings Success
trusting atmosphere with decentralized decision-making." In the initial study, Deshpandé and his colleagues found significant differences in the way companies operated from one nation to another. "But a more important discovery was that... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
and gain the trust of their citizens. We’ve also seen more complex processes with the EU adopting a single currency as part of an effort to coordinate actions and act as a strong block. In terms of the speculative nature of bitcoin, given... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Doctor Is In
and to experience the personal bond that often develops between doctor and patient. "The relationships you build with patients are surpassed only by those you have with family members or close friends," Slavin says. "When people take you into their lives and put their... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
A Man without a Pause
then tried to calm the waters: “I stopped her. ‘I’m 72 years old. I have been negotiating at a reasonably high level for forty years. I know when I am in, and I know when I am out, so please don’t tell me that I am in. Don’t tell me that I’m a View Details
- 02 Jun 2019
- News
A Data-Driven Approach to Gun Policy
approach to prevent gun violence. “If it were not for the way the School works, the resources it provides for research, and the culture of trusting faculty to study what they think is important, there might not have been a study.” “If it... View Details