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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
significant military support—of US Special Operations Forces. Spring: Bouncing Back from Rejection By Ambi Parameswaran (AMP 186, 2014) Westland “Spring: a twisted piece of metal that can be pushed, pressed or pulled but which always... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
they really need to be able to analyze what the chances are that the mortgage will be prepaid - in other words, what the risk is to them. What our analysis did, in addition to improving the means to price options, was to provide a way to... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
returning to the American market. Oscilla Power’s Triton-C, which will was recently deployed off the coast of Hawaii (Courtesy Oscilla Power) The situation has improved considerably in recent years for Verdant and Oscilla. Both now enjoy... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
Road Bill Gates may have been selected as the most influential business leader, but the internal combustion engine beats Windows as an operating system by a mile - the automobile rules as the most significant consumer product of the last... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
improve inner cities a decade ago. In the early 1990s, with support from then HBS Dean John H. McArthur, Porter oversaw a series of field studies that looked at potential solutions to the problems facing America's inner cities. This... View Details
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
the astute section-members, and the discussion ideally ends with a probable, though unknown, outcome. A historical case has to close with the question, "What should have done?" Concerns and observations are similarly made, but with the aim of View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
at certain points in my career but only in hours, never in responsibilities. My advice is to always take the promotion or new job and then figure out how to make it work. Once you have the job, you can redefine it as needed. Women in particular often View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
both. William D. Washburn (MBA '34) February 1961 Heard from Pete Foster, who continues to operate very successfully as a brand man for Procter & Gamble's Germasetic Dreft Soap - which is especially for diapers. His wife reports adequate... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
original limited partners was in place. (By the 1980s, six more families had been added to the group.) At a time when venture capital was little more than a cottage industry that operated on a small scale and invested at a slow pace,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
Meredith Weenick. "It was really rewarding to walk into an organization and immediately start using skills I'd learned in school, while also making a direct contribution to HLW's operations and strategic planning." Neera Nundy agrees: "I... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
conclusion turned her toward business school to research “how to build a sustainable business with a ‘double bottom line’ — a firm that is profitable and benefits society.” Choi aims to lead a company that will provide low-income individuals with productivity tools to... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
it’s clear who does what and why. And after that, stay in your lane. Due to COVID-19 lockdowns there were no domestic flights, and you had to have special permits to travel by road. We had to think through the logistics of how to operate... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
workplace relationships, sharpen their communication skills, improve their personal brands and, ultimately, make an impact. The World’s Littlest Book on Climate: 10 Facts in 10 Minutes about CO2 By Mike Nelson, Pieter Tans, and Michael... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
operations for the anti-Communist newspaper, part of an underground publishing movement that would grow to be the largest in history—tens of thousands of people working to write, print, and distribute information the government wanted to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
improved the movie in the long run. Over time, it became clear to Hill that Pixar’s leaders didn’t profess some great vision that they expected others to follow. Rather, they created an environment in which employees were inspired to... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
resources are stretched very thin, we've had to become very entrepreneurial," Britt explains. "To generate income we license toy companies, retailers, and park operators to use our Sesame Street characters, and we publish are own... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
reversible moves to deepen their understanding of the unfolding game being played, and to build capabilities. They accept ambiguity and some apparent failures in exchange for improved learning and market position. Imperfectionists succeed... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
patients than any other hospital in the state—to bend without breaking under the pressure of the pandemic. Professor Robert Huckman is an economist and health care researcher who serves as unit head for Technology and Operations... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
1996, and she moved back to the States, taking a job as vice president of operations with Warner Brothers Television in Los Angeles. "What I missed most about America was the attitude that you can be anybody and still get ahead in the... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
student—had been awarded the 2020 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said “Their discoveries have benefited sellers, buyers,... View Details