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- 13 Jul 2016
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From Money to Ministry
Admiral Norvell Ward, who commanded a fleet of 52 supply ships deployed in the Gulf of Tonkin, supporting US troops in Vietnam. It was there that he observed a tragedy that only added to a series of hints at what would become his later... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Power Trip
as a resource for understanding and learning from business leadership legacies. “The whole process of building a canon of business leadership has been fascinating,” observes Mayo. “There are some obvious similarities in the backgrounds of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
of management practice Rob Kaplan, a former vice-chairman of Goldman Sachs who served recently as acting head of the Harvard Management Company, observed that the financial crisis is symptomatic of another very serious issue, a severely... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
disparity between rural and urban populations widens. Wanda S. Tseng, deputy director of the IMF's Asia and Pacific Department, offered an overview of Asia's current economic strengths and weaknesses. "There are no quick fixes," she stated, an View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
University in the spring of 1970. "I went over mainly out of curiosity - to observe and see what was going on," explains Belkin, now chairman and CEO of Trans National Group, a large direct-marketing company he started just three years... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
their best moments, can lift people up, and in their worst, let them down.” Teaching by Heart isn’t designed to be an academically rigorous analysis of teaching, he adds. It’s personal, based on decades of classroom experience and his View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
industrial company, providing wood slats to pencil manufacturers; Levitt urged him to form a separate entity to focus primarily on the marketing of a branded, high-quality firelog, which continues to dominate the market. “Ted had an intense desire for people to think,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
international students do seem more familiar with it from observing it in their own countries. As it happens, the Lincoln Electric Company is now a thriving multinational — and its Cleveland plant remains as successful as ever.” Good... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Research Brief: Lessons from Last Place
the operational implications of that behavior for service providers. Buell’s research, which included observing the behaviors of people both in a physical line at the grocery store checkout and in virtual lines when asked to take an... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 24 Mar 2022
- News
Well Said
college and the effort that I took, at the time, to really improve my speaking skills. And at the time, I didn't really have any resources. So I remember it was very much trial and error, observing other people, asking friends for help.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
a prototype, and maybe you even raised some money. Now what? Julia Austin is here to answer that big question. She has both experienced and observed that the differentiator between the startups that succeed and those that fail is... View Details
- 20 Aug 2014
- News
With No Time to Lose
an effective biomarker—a kind of test that could measure the progression of ALS over a short period of time—did not yet exist. Without it, drug trials relied on longer, more costly observations of disease progression. Next, collaboration... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
fact that a major industry’s conventional wisdom could go unchallenged for so long, and eventually prove to be so misguided, was striking to McNamara. It exposed a serious flaw in organizational and management systems, both public and private, that he would repeatedly... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
Observes Steven B. Lipner (PMD 57, 1989), Microsoft’s director of security assurance, “With organizations moving to a higher level of connectivity via the Internet, security has become a major issue for everybody, both suppliers and... View Details
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
Lifting Fallen Families
get to see it firsthand. Kim thinks of Jervon Lemon, a scholarship administrator on his team. After her father, Sergeant Jerome Lemon, was killed in Iraq in 2004, Children of Fallen Patriots stepped in to help fund her college education. Today, she speaks to the kids... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
online streaming field with Otter Media, a joint venture with the Chernin Group. And industry observers agree that more acquisitions and partnerships in the years ahead will only accelerate the pace of change in a tech-heavy business that... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
“Prices adjusted and real estate became more attractive. And we got back to relative equilibrium through the tech bust in 2001. After the bust, a lot of money began to pour into real estate.” Suddenly the old economy looked good again. “People didn’t know where else to... View Details
- 05 May 2022
- News
Lesson Plans
I’ve observed it directly talking to teachers: extreme fatigue. People have theories about what’s causing it two years on Zoom, every week having changing COVID guidelines. Not just what’s going on in your work environment at the school... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
pitching. Her 2014 paper on the topic produced headlines: Investors prefer attractive men. Even when the content of the pitches—as observed both in lab experiments and in the field—was the same, attractive men were significantly more... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
your career choices. Be who you are everywhere. Finally, establish a female network and maintain it in spite of distance and demands on your time. When constructing this group, ensure that at least one member has the gusto to disagree with you. Why? As Jonah Lehrer... View Details