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- 15 Oct 2001
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the Rubble
the advent of the virtual economy does not remove the constraints of the physical. Planes smashed into buildings on September 11, and information was incapable of stopping them. Firms lost physical assets—computers, files, desks, and... View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
- Web
Eligibility | New Venture Competition
entrepreneurs and investors who have agreed to maintain confidentiality of all submissions. We have asked them to treat your work product with the same care and respect for confidentiality. We also ask them to remove themselves from... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Where Conservation Means Business
carefully removes decades-old tape from the corners of photos from the United Fruit Company collection. Its 75 albums with 10,400 photos provide a vivid visual history of the company’s early 20th-century operations in the Caribbean,... View Details
Keywords: Roger thompson
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Classroom Hijinks: Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
and making it fair, but it was 1974I, apparently, that removed the biggest obstacle to smooth, somewhat undisruptive playing of the game: they used an agreed-upon bingo phrase rather than shouting out “bingo” itself. If you got “bingo,”... View Details
- 04 Jan 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?
all earners and remove private money from our lawmaking process (2) Remove a publicly traded company’s ability to repurchase their own stock, or allow it to continue under a steep tax penalty (3) Invest in... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
Community Values & Honor Code | HBS Online
you may be removed from a Harvard Business School Online course or program and be ineligible to earn a certificate. Examples of Honor Code Violations The following list highlights current situations and scenarios that are not permissible... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Short Takes
soccer balls stitched by twelve-year-old Pakistani workers. Levi Strauss, Macy's, Liz Claiborne, and Eddie Bauer all removed their operations from Burma amid frequent citations of human rights violations on the part of Burma's repressive... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- Fast Answer
Sustainability in the Transportation Industry
concrete initiatives which the European Commission adopted for the next decade to build a competitive transport system to increase mobility, remove major barriers in key areas and fuel growth and employment. At the same time,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Islam’s Great Culture Is Dying
redefine itself in modern times based on its own values and beliefs. In the current crisis, Allawi sees the politicization of Islam and rejection of the modern world as its possible undoing because both remove the possibility of a... View Details
- Profile
Allen Yang
like for most people who live there. On our first day, we got a tour of the downtown city and of one of the townships, where we spent hours interviewing families. We asked about where they shopped, where they got water, what life was like every day—it was so far View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Things Everyone Should Know How to Do
topics, but I also looked for practical expertise. Who has more experience with snow removal than the mayor of Buffalo, New York, for instance? Who has changed more diapers than the parents of sextuplets? So the experts actually wrote... View Details
- Profile
Samuel Racana
life was again turned around when he was removed from his position because of his religion. In the face of the injustice and humiliation, he led my family to build a new life in Sweden. His endless resilience, ability to start anew, and... View Details
- Profile
Prita Kumar
turns in investment banking and private equity, “hoping that I would love that career path because it was filled with extremely intelligent people and highly analytical work.” While Prita did “work with C-suite executives and saw various initiatives and growth plans,”... View Details
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Linking the Globe: The Role of Media and Communications
he said, for a number of reasons. First, the 'Net removes the "tyranny of distance." "Life is not limited by national boundaries on the Internet, nor is it limited by how far a van can travel in the night to deliver a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- Op-Ed
A Golden Opportunity for Ford and GM
board chair. Since that time, he has acted decisively, removing Fritz Henderson as CEO and assuming the mantle himself. Whitacre quickly reorganized the company from top to bottom, cut out layers of middle management, initiated new... View Details
- 22 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies
geographic office location," Stuart says. Although the research doesn't try to answer why corporate silos are so difficult to tear down, Stuart hopes the data will help managers understand, pinpoint, and remove bottlenecks within their... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Feedback
Collins (MBA 1984) via LinkedIn We have removed almost all price signaling from health care. The only way to align supply and demand is by correcting this. A bureaucracy will never get it right. Only a political bureaucracy could have... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 09 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 9
assessing the startup health care company's 2014 marketing plan. On December 31, 2013, Vaxess had obtained an exclusive license to a series of patents for a silk protein technology that, when added to vaccines, reduced or removed the need... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
Desktop Search and Revenue Streams
information…(but) the problem is at the end of the day, the user wants an answer—he doesn't want more and more of them." Herve Gellaire, chief technology officer of Xerox and president of Xerox Innovation Group, said, "I believe there may be means to... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 17 Dec 2021
- Blog Post
Student Conference: Climate Symposium 2021
innovation and progress that businesses are uniquely positioned to bring, from spearheading voluntary corporate carbon removal programs to reimagining sustainable agriculture. You had over 300 people register for the conference. What do... View Details