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- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Jeffrey Immelt: How I Remade GE
defining the future of the internet of things.” How did Immelt lead that transformation? “You have to be all in,” he says, one of six key leadership lessons he shares as he reflects on his 16-year tenure. “My legacy at GE will be a View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Short Takes
environmental management. Reinhardt argues that in order to manage the environmental challenge successfully, firms should improve their cost management, reduce risk, create and capture value, and help develop new approaches to complicated... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Elevator Pitch: Good Vibrations
fractures and subsequent complications kill 20 percent of their victims, and debilitating spine fractures represent a health care cost of $19 billion annually. “There are a number of medications to treat osteoporosis, but they’re... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
A Deal on Wheels
Will Boland (MBA ’09) cofounded CarLotz, based in Richmond, Virginia. It’s an innovative venture that’s designed to take the hassle out of the automotive sale-by-owner market. “Most people describe the process of buying or selling a used car as View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New Releases
smart participants, but successful investing, whether direct or through syndicates and REITs, is a complicated undertaking. In The Real Estate Game: The Intelligent Guide to Decision-Making and Investment, HBS adjunct professor William J.... View Details
- 16 Oct 2013
- News
Progress Through Preservation
Trust for Public Land has a people-focused mission," says Rogers, "to protect the places or create the parks where people can connect to nature and each other." It all sounds simple and perhaps a little idealistic, but this kind of conservation can require some View Details
- 16 Apr 2013
- News
A Walkabout to the Ocean
job in the office of San Francisco's then Mayor Dianne Feinstein opened his eyes to the skills he really needed. "I was working on some complicated subsidized housing plans," he says. "It became shockingly apparent that I did not... View Details
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
between 1995 and 2007. Multiple linear regression analyses were conducted to determine the relative impact of key factors on operative time. Explanatory learning curve models were generated, and complication data were analyzed to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Buy Now, Pay Later: Imagining Pre-Industrial Credit
mourning the "death of credit," depicted as a human corpse, scold the viewer for destroying the trust on which economic exchange is founded-and suggest that the blanket condemnation of credit was more complicated in practice than in... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Wendell P. Weeks, MBA 1987
distills complicated ideas down to their essence, and, as one colleague put it, possesses “a forward-looking vision.” Named a vice president in 1996, Weeks ran the company’s optical communications division and invested heavily in the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Creation of parks connects people to nature and each other
grasslands, for example—the Trust does it all, from inner-city parks to the wilderness of Alaska. This kind of conservation can require some complicated business deals; Rogers, a former urban developer, likes the art of closing. The Trust... View Details
- 06 Aug 2020
- News
Defining Flex Work
case-by-case basis. Still, the company was wary of a blanket policy. “We saw many companies rolling out one-day-a-week or fully remote policies—extreme options with complicated rules that often defeat the purpose of flexibility,” says Kim... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Mr. Coffee
great battles and wars that were won by finding an adversary’s weaknesses, rather than making a frontal attack on their strengths. It contains a lot of wisdom that can be applied to business situations.” Now streaming: Luther, a BBC detective series starring Idris... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Gazprom Goes Global
helpless neighbor and to flex its geopolitical — and potentially expansionist — muscles. Big bully vs. little innocent. Case closed? Nyet. “The Western notion that Russia uses energy as a weapon is a media oversimplification of very View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Case Study: A Place at the Table
The case was taught to MBA students on March 8, in observance of International Women's Day, in addition to HBS staff, and to 800 alumnae and alumni at the W50 Summit on April 4. "I think it made some complicated issues much more... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Long-Term Interest: Bill Crozier, a Banker Pegged to the Customer
is between companies that serve traditional banking needs and those catering to clients with more complicated financial lives. A crucial delineation," he says, "may be between those for whom federal deposit insurance is important - that... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 04 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids
Responding to COVID-19 in early 2020 was an exercise in crisis leadership. In 2021, the pandemic feels like a painful marathon that will never end. The rapidly spreading virus forced a precipitous shift to remote work at many companies, View Details
- 30 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.
it. This can be a win-win for online lenders, banks and the borrowers that both lenders seek to serve. As a case in point, when large banks decline small business applicants, they leave them to sort through complicated loan options from... View Details
- 25 Jan 2018
- News
Living and Learning in a Local Context
they're actually based on the place in which they're trying to serve. If you're trying to come up with a new, unique instructional method, or you're trying to teach a very complicated concept, if you can connect that to where a child has... View Details
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Israel - Global Activities 2021
2020, when the demand for software engineers was endless, while many of the 3,000 engineers graduating annually from Palestinian universities could not find jobs in the nascent Palestinian tech sector. Could these dots be connected, the case asks, as it highlights... View Details