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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Squeeze Play
in Iraq. He has spent millions traveling to Iraq, lobbying Congress, and supporting antiwar media outlets. LaMagna has mellowed with age, and the entrepreneurial fires burn a bit less ardently. But he was excited as he showed a reporter a recent purchase: a View Details
- 03 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 3
goal of residency training. The Confederacy of Heterogeneous Software Organizations and Heterogeneous Developers: Field Experimental Evidence on Sorting and Worker Effort Authors:Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani Publication:In The... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Nov 2021
- News
An Aria for the Ambidextrous Organization
organization—one that, as Tushman says, has “the dynamic capability to exploit existing strategies better than anyone and simultaneously explore new terrain.” Doing this can present a contradiction for organizations, Tushman admits, but being able to “live into the... View Details
- 13 Jun 2016
- News
JetBlue Chairman on How to Handle Betrayal
say how did I participate in this? I think that gives you insight and sort of the first ability to start approaching it in a way that allows you to heal.” If the betrayals are fixable, Peterson says they must be addressed quickly, so as... View Details
- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
scrolling through Instagram and that, "Oh, must be nice to be in Havana right now," or all these sorts of things. But talk about its applications to business decisions, to being an investor. How does that manifest itself? Patrick... View Details
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
and stuff. Yeah, you’re welcome to, to taste some of it. It’s like, it’s sort of seedy, it’s not like a modern fruit. Julia: It looks ancient. Ayr: It has... it’s sort of like figs and dates. I would say.... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- Portrait Project
Jocelyne Moyer
Bankruptcy is a word I learned very young. Bankruptcy is when a company's liabilities exceed its assets, so a process is used to sort everything out. But to me, bankruptcy is the process of my family tearing apart. It is having the locks... View Details
- 09 Nov 2017
- News
A Chance to Lead
in the mutual fund business. An opportunity that in many ways you couldn't make up. Somebody came and went as the president pretty quickly in that era, and I sort of quickly replaced him. I was young—30, I guess—and formally became the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Takeaways
leads to action that produces needed results.” —Professor emeritus John Kotter (DBA 1972), That’s Not How We Do It Here!, a book written in fable form “It is now possible to build a new sort of firm that promotes open communication across... View Details
- 26 Jun 2008
- News
The First HBS Class Notes
Hinman Ave., Evanston." — is exactly the sort of dry recital of facts that we try to avoid in today's notes. The first class-notes photo, in the August 1926 issue, enlivened the notes in a staid way. It shows a get-together in Chicago of... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Skydeck: Reddit’s Rise
Jen Wong (MBA 2004), COO of Reddit (Illustration by John S. Dykes) “I met Steve [Huffman] at SFO, I think at like 6:00 AM. We were sort of ships passing and had a great meeting and I got really excited because it’s really rare that you get to work on an asset that is,... View Details
- 22 Apr 2008
- News
The Next Harvard Square? Really?
building will be open to the public and include retail and restaurant space. For those of us who like to plan lunch while eating breakfast, this last detail is of key importance. Once it’s revealed what sort of dining establishment will... View Details
- 12 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Amager Bakke: I Like This Waste Incinerator in My Backyard!
as landfills (even factoring in emissions associated with transporting it that distance). Only residual waste is incinerated—consumers sort trash into up to ten diferent streams including food waste, plastic, cartons, glass, cardboard,... View Details
- 22 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
CEO Succession: The Case at Ford
a very good record which are the LBOs, almost never go for that sort of CEO. They look for an industry figure who really knows a lot about the business and that company—often a retired CEO. Q: Is it easy to predict who's going to be the... View Details
- 21 Feb 2012
- News
Sustainability Is Good Business
The recent uproar over the Sierra Club’s acceptance of $26 million in undisclosed donations from an energy company prompted some environmentalists to warn against “sleeping with the enemy.” This sort of us-against-them rhetoric is all too... View Details
- 09 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
Startup Balancing Act
CEO and CFO were pleased with my performance and I soon realized that my first day of work was also a sort of interview. Over the next few weeks, I hope to find answers to my career-related questions and complete my project. It would also... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- 07 May 2018
- News
What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries
want to travel to all 54 countries in Africa? What was the sort of motivation for this undertaking? Tapon: I had never been to Africa before, and I had this grand ambition to visit all the countries in the world. There's 193 countries.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
have numerous criticisms of overpaid chief executives and those sorts of things; but in these interviews, we found a lot of leaders who are very sincerely interested in the welfare of their societies, who out of genuine concern do a lot... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Qiao Ma (MBA 2010)
compassionate. In investing, we talk about a hubris-to-humility cycle. When you’re on a fantastic run, it’s human to think you can take risks and sort it out on the other end. I love investing in companies that have been humbled, after... View Details
- 23 Aug 2020
- News
In the UK, She Leads the Search for a COVID Vaccine
money in,” she explains. “So they want us personally on the hook with skin in the game for everything we do. That sort of approach is actually what you need in this case. It’s government money, not my money, but the mentality is the... View Details