Fundamentals - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2020
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Prognosis

like the use of iPads to help communicate with patients in hospital rooms need to remain in use after this pandemic has passed. Unfortunately, this virus has resulted in the tragic loss of many lives and a lot of suffering. My hope, though, is that the system can learn... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; COVID-19; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

09 Sep 2016
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MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding

time. White: Is there a common thread that runs through all of the projects that you have worked on? Tai: I'm very drawn to disruptive technology that could have broad impact. I think because I was trained originally, as technologist, when I see something that is View Details

01 Jun 1996
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Keepers of the Flame

reminder that Atlanta is no stranger to entrepreneurial, global enterprise. And that is what the Games have become - a huge commercial and organizational endeavor that is as much about management as it is about medals. Indeed, a world-class management team is now as... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

30 Nov 2017
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Happy Meals (Are Here Again)

underperforming?” says Kempczinski. It was a fundamental question about the company’s future: Did McDonald’s just need a revival? Or did it need a reinvention? In 2016, McDonald’s surveyed 30,000 customers in nine US markets to get to the... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Saverio Truglia

01 Apr 1999
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Spirit at Work

inappropriate to talk about such things in an HBS classroom, they should remember that people on their deathbeds often say the only thing that mattered about their lives was the amount of love they'd given and received. I think the move toward integrating spirituality... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Sep 2017
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City of Dreams

more concrete (sometimes literally) world of doing that affected a great many more people in far more fundamental ways. For the next seven years, he served as an urban development specialist for the Asian Development Bank, working on... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

18 Aug 2021
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Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

“Despite the progress the United States has made, Black Americans are too often denied basic privileges that others take for granted,” wrote Mason. “I am not talking about the privileges of wealth, education or job opportunities. I’m talking about View Details

01 Dec 2012
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From Where We Stand

Leslie Hale (MBA 2001), CFO and sVP, RLJ Lodging Trust, Bethesda, Maryland The fundamental responsibilities of a leader today have not really changed over the past 50 years. However, the context in which we operate today has shifted the... View Details

01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016

bring you closer to being how you mean to be. The Three-Box Solution: A Strategy for Leading Innovation by Vijay Govindarajan (MBA 1976, DBA 1978) (Harvard Business Review Press) Leaders understand that creating a new business and optimizing an already existing one are... View Details

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