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- 07 May 2018
- News
What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries
to cross the border. Getting a visa to Nigeria once took me a couple of months. It's very inefficient. And that's, in fact, the worst part about traveling in Africa are the borders and the visas. It is really a pain. But they are making View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Intellectual Debate: The Business of Business
disagree about the pace and progress of change," he said, "but we've always understood the need to work together to achieve the highest possible standards." Dean Clark concurred and concluded the day's proceedings by noting: "One of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
"Unheard Voices" Brings to Light Three Centuries of American Women at Work
currently documenting late-19th- and early-20th-century materials, which show women’s progress as office and industrial workers, professionals, and entrepreneurs. “The Western Electric Hawthorne study is probably the gem from this... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
other thing we can do is pass democracy reform legislation. If we actually ended gerrymandering, if we got more disclosure and small-donor matching on campaign finance as well as automatic voter registration—those reforms would really make a difference. There’s a lot... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?
rich” and a highly visible wealth gap could mean for political stability. In Latin America, they’re concerned that economic progress may not be fast enough nor redistribution of income sufficient to forestall more Chavez-type leaders.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
something other than just recruitment activities would be necessary to create the kind of progressive change needed at HBS. At UC Berkeley he and I agreed that we would combine our efforts to usher in an organization to be our collective... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
Workforce." John Weber Newly Energized John Weber's career over the past decade has progressed as many only dream. He has moved successfully through a series of increasingly important assignments at companies such as General Electric and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
Loews Corp., Michigan State University, Cornell University’s Hotel School, Bank of Hawaii, HR Spinner, the NCAA, and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles illustrate how effective teams drive progress in business, associations, and education. The six... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Faculty Books
choosing group members, establishing norms, and dealing with conflicts to evaluating progress and deciding when it’s time to restructure. Capitalism at Risk: Rethinking the Role of Business by Joseph L. Bower, Herman B. Leonard, and Lynn... View Details
- 25 Aug 2021
- News
Reimagining Chicago’s Schools
high-achieving students and those who needed academic support grew considerably. A report from Stanford University a few years later confirmed her observations. “Chicago had made a lot of progress in elementary schools,” says Zaikos, “but... View Details
- 01 Jul 2018
- News
Celebrating and Supporting Leadership
and business in the world; to engage with the University in mutually beneficial ways; and to increase flexible funding to support innovation at the School. We made real progress on all these dimensions, and we are extremely proud of what... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
East, and then burning it up in the atmosphere. Every part of that equation has to stop in the next decade, or we are going to have a carbon crisis that is going to make this financial crisis look like a minor blip.” Progress in deploying... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
competition policy to their benefit. At the turn of the 20th century, this widespread fair trade movement borrowed from progressive law and economics, demonstrating a persistent concern with market fairness—not only fair prices for... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
cloud. Not long thereafter, Microsoft introduced a new programming language designed specifically for quantum computing. (In addition to novel hardware, quantum computers require new software to exploit their unique capabilities.) Since then, View Details
- 28 Oct 2021
- News
Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity
stating that under current global conditions, women won’t achieve equality for another 208 years, Applegate used frameworks to illustrate Pivotal’s progression toward its stated goal of gender equality by 2030. After detailing Pivotal’s... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Value of Difficult Conversations
scholarship isn’t overriding the years of systematic oppression of these communities. “That’s the sign of a great conversation, conflict but progressing the issues forward,” she says of her participation. McCray remembers thinking that,... View Details
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
progress can come when you look for common ground.” For business leaders who want to have an impact on solving big social problems, Shumway observes, “There’s so much need. Look around and start with something small. Our work on... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal
concentrate on his progress in his current position. “I think we are 75 percent of the way there in terms of laying the foundation for client services, but we’re probably 25 percent in terms of achieving all the things we want to. There... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
billion, split between McDonald’s and the franchisees. As for convincing the customer that McDonald’s is now a modern, progressive burger company—a turnaround shorthand CEO Easterbrook has often employed—Flatley says it will require new... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Advance Racial Equity in the Office
moved the needle at all.” Accountability is what will differentiate an insipid pledge from real progress. The objective is to define what progress looks like in practice. “There’s a basic framework for this, that organizations apply to... View Details