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- 19 Apr 2017
- News
Chicago Becomes a Hub of Startup Action
a clone of Silicon Valley, but as a unique, networked support system with its own identity. Positioning Chicago as a city conducive to entrepreneurship required ongoing, deliberate efforts on the part of Emanuel (who was sworn in as mayor... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Jules Kortenhorst (MBA 1986) is CEO of the Rocky Mountain Institute, a leading think tank focused on sustainability and energy use. It has become a go-to source of analysis... View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
power structures and the fact that our economic system doesn't account for the negative externalities of pollution, injustice, etc. And that's why I think it's even more important to emphasize the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
At Your Service
system has been designed to favor speed of diagnosis over choice of physician. You will still get high-quality health care, but within a system designed around the concept that tradeoffs exist. When health... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
book based on their expertise. Les chantiers de ma vie by Claude Lefebvre (OPM 10, 1985) with Hélène-Andrée Bizier (Cyfbel) An autobiography of an engineer and entrepreneur from Québec. Design Thinking for the Greater Good: Innovation in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
productive teamwork. Enhance creativity through more flexible organizational structures. Bet on people. Think big. Say no respectfully. McArthur liked to say that the faculty was the “whole ball game,” and in fact, he lavished time and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
How I Got to Google
end of the day, product managers are judged on execution and the quality of their launch. SS: Any advice for people who want to be a PM but don’t have a technical background? PR: I’m a computer and biomedical engineer by training, and spent two years working as a View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
The start of a new century is certainly a momentous time. When I think about the last century and what it has meant to HBS, I am struck by how much the School has grown in stature and scale. Our alumni play a pivotal role in reinforcing... View Details
Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
Cleveland Day in January, agrees. "The Cleveland Turnaround is an excellent example of the kind of impact business can have on society," she says. "It's important that HBS is training us to think not just like business leaders, but like... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
customers, in other words — and its position vis-à-vis competitors. If an enterprise had different lines of business, it might view these in historical terms — “First we got into radio, which led us into television” — or as a capital allocation puzzle. But it wouldn’t... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
for true disruption, this book outlines what consumers can do themselves and demand from doctors, hospitals, health plans, and policymakers to get more for their health care spending and, in so doing, reshape the health care system into... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Shattering Glass
50 or 60 years ago. Discrimination used to be perfectly legal; it wasn’t until the 1980s that the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission defined and prohibited sexual harassment in the workplace. We certainly have made progress on the legal front, and I View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
Camino business is underbanked and informally run, lacking the data footprint that regular cash deposits and a digital bookkeeping system provide. Finally, some of Camino’s borrowers are undocumented immigrants to the United States.... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms
from the majority of corporate executives in two important ways. First, they necessarily have highly developed knowledge in their profession, be it investment banking, consulting, or another area. And second, they tend to think and act... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Streamlining the Supermarket
few healthy-eating options. 2–3.When your order is received, mobile robots retrieve storage containers of products from the shelves and deliver them to picking stations staffed by TakeOff employees. It’s a more efficient system than... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
to run the regulatory process in parallel with research. To save time and labor, the task force has developed turn-key trial protocols and invested in consistent assays for analyzing vaccine effectiveness, and the UK’s centralized health View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2
different, right? They're smart. But they're much less trusting of the system, right? DM: Hm. JI: They don't think that the system is capable of necessarily solving problems. So they need to figure it out on... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
65-year-old person in Southern California and everybody in between. We think there’s a real appetite for this. With our initial free product, we got to over 100,000 subscribers in under 12 months. We’ve since shifted to a subscription... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
has ever seen. In the past, biographers of Lord Liverpool have not sufficiently acknowledged the importance of his foremost skill: economic policy (including fiscal, monetary, and banking system questions). Here, Hutchinson's decades of... View Details
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
directors do, but the role of a producer is a little more mysterious. I just wonder if you could talk a little bit about what you do as a producer and why it's so fundamental to producing a successful film. Dan Lin: I think the best way... View Details