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- 30 Apr 2019
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Leading Schools That Change Lives
from 6 percent to 15 percent in the last seven years and continues to grow. “We’re not yet where we want to be,” he stresses, “but we’re making meaningful progress on a challenge that’s been historically difficult for schools.” Helping... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act
a massive interstate highway system might one day provide. "We need to understand not so much the technology," he explains, "but the progression of technology and what might be built with it. E-commerce, like electricity or the telephone,... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
cloud. Not long thereafter, Microsoft introduced a new programming language designed specifically for quantum computing. (In addition to novel hardware, quantum computers require new software to exploit their unique capabilities.) Since then, View Details
- 23 Jan 2019
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The Promise of Personalized Medicine
University of Cincinnati every year for treatment? Why does he seem to struggle to walk? Horgan eventually came to understand that his brother suffers from Duchenne muscular dystrophy—a fatal, childhood genetic disease that impacts about 300,000 boys worldwide, and is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
Manufacturers. China and the World Trade Organization Within this context of quickening economic change, China was admitted to the WTO in December 2001, culminating fifteen years of on-again, off-again negotiations. It was a watershed moment in the country’s View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
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Phoenix Rising
things done. I also think he realizes that unless the country really changes quickly, his own political future won’t be very bright.” One sign of change was the prime minister’s nomination of Katerina Sakellaropoulou, a high court judge with a View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Feb 1997
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Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
core business of distributing financial information, Bloomberg has added print, broadcast, and other media, with 400 reporters in 70 bureaus writing 3,000 business and nonbusiness stories daily for outlets in 25 countries. This explosive work in View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
"The research became a catalyst for business education and civic engagement," she says. Kanter's action agenda, summarized in her book World Class: Thriving Locally in the Global Economy, outlines steps that communities and businesses should take together to make View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
rebate. While this practice is common in the financial services industry, it is illegal. iTrust hopes that, as a new generation financial services company, it can influence progress in the industry. In a blog post, Varma observes that it... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
conclusion by manually going through the data,” the lead doctor told the Japan Times, “but Watson’s speed is crucial in the treatment of leukemia, which progresses rapidly and can cause complications.” This is the beauty of Watson, which... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Breaking Free from Fear of Change
progress of a particular task, and show continued interest in that person’s work and career development. This approach goes a long way toward defusing the anxiety that can lead to some of the unproductive behaviors. If you fit this... View Details
- 22 Jul 2019
- News
A Way Forward for Women
cohort. They were great for education, she recalls, but progress was slow as far as gaining seats. So, Hagemann, CEO of Executive Development Associates, created a directory of the 2016 and 2017 WOB participants so the women could connect... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All
countries in our globally linked economy have barely begun to address the problem. Even if substantial progress is made in the United States by century's end, the global fallout from the explosion of the Y2K time bomb may be severe. A... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
pandemics more likely. Aside from pandemics, what are WHO’s chief concerns? WHO has four major objectives: enhancing global health security by detecting and responding to disease outbreaks; accelerating progress on the UN Millennium... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Power Trip
also been a widening of opportunity for African-Americans and other minorities, but the recent backlash against affirmative action has had a negative impact. Progress has been slow: There are now fewer than ten women among Fortune 500... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
about butts in seats—it’s about helping people learn and make progress in life. That experience set me on a trajectory to convert a passion for education into my career. Now I am leading a transformation at the world’s largest education... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
by Andy Goodwin However, when it comes to building certain tools, such as progressive dies for metal stampings, which is labor-intensive and takes up to three months, China often has a competitive price advantage. So, explains... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
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How We Make It Work
my parents have progressed to the nursing home of their retirement community, I cherish our memories of happy times together when they were more mobile. I realize that as a small business owner, working less may result in less business,... View Details
- 28 Feb 2025
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Joy to the World
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010), CEO of East Boston Social Centers, spent time in foster care as a child, living in more homes than he can remember,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Alumni Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books 20+ Years of Urban Rebuilding: Lessons from the Revival of Lower Manhattan after 9/11 By Patrice Derrington (MBA 1991) and Rosemary Scanlon (PMD 42, 1981) Routledge Following the destruction of the World Trade Center and the... View Details