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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
decoration. Before the lively party began, one man offered a prayer of gratitude “for our deliverance from the high winds of the wintry mountains and from the cruel snows fallen upon us, and from the perils of the black night and dark... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
At the conclusion of the session, McCormick inquires, "So, how did this case method discussion feel to you?" "Frustrating," comes one response. "There are so many ideas and not enough opportunities to discuss or express them," says another. "There isn't one lesson or... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
Lo, is carbon neutral—vertical farms set up next to, say, a giant solar field or a wind farm. “We look at the industry, and it’s pretty clear you can’t put a sustainable label on yourself unless you solve the energy piece of it—and we... View Details
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
from a family perspective, his business runs into challenges when he merges it into a Canadian company and winds up with 30% ownership. McCrea eventually resigns and has to deal with his role in the failure of the company and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
rhetoric these days is all about jobs, jobs, jobs. It's easy to understand why: if you lack a job, it is all about jobs. But if you set out simply to create jobs for their own sake, you wind up investing in areas not where you're... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
Communism. And somehow in this strange brew, you take Nazism, add it to Communism, divide by two and wind up with one of the most important capitalists in American business history. So because of its very distinctiveness, it sets a lot of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
the job done. And everybody who meets him winds up saying, ‘What a great guy he is!’ As I said, in my business, you need people like that.” Quietly, McArthur steered Harvard energy and resources into Boston, and into the School’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
street, even along the winding country road that leads to the Bush ranch, the “Western White House,” you see campaign signs touting the reelection of Democrat Chet Edwards (MBA ’81). He’s an eight-term congressman representing the 17th... View Details
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
as on how it should evolve. Since 1980 General Electric, for instance, has continued to reinvent itself in every field from wind energy to medical diagnostics; and it enjoyed a $22.5 billion profit in 2007. Organizations that foster... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
flexible hybrid approach COVID-19 has accelerated the adoption of remote work practices such as “work-from-anywhere,” a form of remote work that I have studied even prior to the pandemic. While adoption of work-from-anywhere in all-remote organizations is likely to... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
with a duopoly, no operating system ends up exploiting fully its potential because developers' efforts wind up divided between the two systems. However, with a monopoly, the efforts to develop new software and improve the platform are... View Details
- 15 Jun 2018
- News
Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life
if he got lucky, maybe there was a gust of wind that stopped them, maybe things weren't as injured as they thought it was when it was in the air. He will tell you that the only decision he made that he is certain of is that he decided to... View Details
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Past Issues - Alumni
Lessons for All A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill Complete Table of Contents October 1998 A Long and Winding Road Reflections by 1973's Class Secretary A Business World Gone Global A Community Investment Social Enterprise and the... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
he thinks it’s his ticket out of small-town captivity. What he lacks in connections and Beltway polish, he makes up in smarts, and he soon finds a friend and mentor in fellow staffer Ariel Lancaster. That is, until she winds up dead. As... View Details
- Web
Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
local banks in the 1850s, include images of a single Native American standing on a promontory, waving a train onward as it winds unimpeded through a picturesque and, more importantly, settled valley below. This, like other images of... View Details
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
split the difference. Several other states subsequently adopted similar incentive programs. Currently, the fourth version of "NEESPLAN," the company's resource management plan, includes a wide array of conservation projects, including using renewable energy sources... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
(Routledge) This textbook examines the key energy sources—both fossil fuels and renewables, including oil, coal, solar, and wind power—and summarizes how the current economics of energy evolved. Later chapters explore issues concerning... View Details