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- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Classmates Rally to Help Family Stricken with Rare Disease
a genetic enzyme deficiency that leads to rapid muscle deterioration and death from respiratory failure, usually before age five. Although fewer than one thousand children worldwide suffer from any form of Pompe's disease, the Crowleys'... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Sherman Baldwin: Leadership under Fire
death -- from antiaircraft artillery that filled the sky with exploding shells or surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) that, in Baldwin's words, "looked like burning telephone poles" as they streaked through the air. Maneuvering the plane to... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- Web
Mapping the Salt Tax That Helped Shatter a Monarchy | Working Knowledge
list of grievances collected by the king in spring 1789. Legislators from areas with higher salt taxes were more likely to advocate for the end of the monarchy and support the death penalty for the king. Extractive taxation undermined the... View Details
- 19 Apr 2018
- News
One Last Pitch
Dr. Abraar Karan took the stage in custom-made ties adorned with cartoon mosquitos. With Hour 72+, they hope to minimize deaths caused by mosquito-borne illnesses like malaria, dengue fever, and zika virus. “For us it’s exciting, but for... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 21 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Lessons for Retailers from the Rebirth of Indie Bookstores
As big box bookstores Barnes & Noble and Borders spread across the landscape in the 1990s, retail observers sounded the death knell for small, independent booksellers. But they had no idea of the onslaught that was coming. Amazon.com... View Details
- 04 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon
knew the goal of the procedure, and making sure they had ample blood available. Since the checklist system has been deployed throughout several operating rooms, he said, there has been an average reduction in death of 47 percent.... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Rapid Response: Inside the Retailing Revolution
sector of our economy is more advanced and productive than ever," concludes Hammond. "As Mark Twain might have put it, any reports of its impending death are greatly exaggerated." View Details
- 06 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Socioeconomic Inclusion at HBS: Alexis Jackson (MBA 2021)
pandemic, but the sudden death of Jackson’s brother. It was the first time, she said, that things were not going according to her plans or expectations. It also led to her greatest lesson—which was tattooed on her shoulder all along:... View Details
- 12 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager
businesses." Wulf hastens to say that the research is by no means a death knell for general managers, but their jobs may change. At the least, they will likely find themselves in more meetings than ever before. "The general... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 23 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
AIDS in Africa—What’s the Solution?
On a continent with many challenges to development, no issue is more pressing in Africa than the heavy toll of the AIDS epidemic. In addition to the staggering costs in terms of social upheaval and human suffering, AIDS cuts down workers in their prime years of... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
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1.5 Attendance | MBA
excused from class. Excused Absences have no impact on a grade when used in moderation. Reasons for excused absences are: Birth or adoption of a student’s child. Court summons or jury duty that cannot be postponed. Death in the student's... View Details
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
age, there are more consumers than ever before suffering from chronic conditions. Most no longer see disease and the timing of their death as inevitable. Supported by the Internet, many actively seek out information to increase their odds... View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
You Won't Make It If You Fake It
consultant at McKinsey and for Treasury Secretary Larry Summers for six years before joining Google at 32. When she and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg began working together in 2007, Sandberg requested that Zuckerberg provide her with weekly feedback. After the tragic... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 14 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Growing CEOs from the Inside
HBS case study mentioned in Bower's book, Mulcahy drew counsel from a wide constituency of friends and acquaintances at the company to help set its future direction based on color printers and office services. Xerox has since rebounded from near View Details
- 18 Oct 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech
without massive follow-on funding. This creates a catch-22 situation. A clean-tech company can't prove its ability to scale without actually scaling. And venture capitalists are wary of funding a company that can't prove its ability to scale. Valley Of View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
The high-profile deaths last year of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and George Floyd were not the first tragic outcomes of racial injustice in the United States to send shock waves across the globe. But in their wake—and in... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
7 percent, with lots of appreciation on top of that. Do you have concerns about Japanlike deflation in the United States? Some fear that with a very low inflation rate of 1.5 percent, the United States is in danger of following Japan into a deflation View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
risk of using heroin. And with heroin being so available and inexpensive, then we've got a real potential nightmare on our hands. We've already got very high overdose death rates. Hanna: Do you think in developing these ads, I know you're... View Details
- 30 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID Not Slowing VC Investment
looking to do new deals. They’re just sitting on a ton of money.” During that period, global daily deaths had topped 9,000 for a second time as infection rates were soaring across the Americas. Almost all of the world’s 10 largest... View Details
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Morse and Polaroid’s Creative Ethos | Baker Library
Land preserved Morse’s office for company visitors; in it was a color photograph of Morse taken by Marie Cosindas a few months before she died. 5 Albert Hyland, who worked with Morse on the Artist Support Program, described her as the guiding spirit of Polaroid and... View Details