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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ink
Book Review: Learning from Bill, Andy, and Steve The tuxedoed trio looking out from the cover of Harvard Business School Professor David B. Yoffie’s new book on strategy can be seen as the modern-day Mount Rushmore of business. At their peaks, Microsoft’s Bill Gates,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Summit Sound Bites
Numenta, Inc. “Given how instantaneously information moves, regulators can never possibly move fast enough to create real change.” —Jim Breyer (MBA ’87), Partner, Accel Partners “If you have fifty scientists, you don’t need 150 projects.... View Details
- 20 Jul 2022
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Wired to be Inspired
be in everything they did. It informed their strategy, it informed their organizational practices, it informed their culture and hiring, it really permeated the organization in... View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
is one of the keys to fixing the system is having technologists want to work in government and having government have the ability to hire those technologists, and it becomes either a virtuous cycle or an unvirtuous cycle where once you... View Details
- 22 Jan 2020
- News
What It Takes
make that senior person make the decision so if they ever turn you down, you can get angry at them. There's all kind of interpersonal ways to try and manipulate outcomes. What we did is, I figured out all the ways a system could be... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Value of Difficult Conversations
residents were killed and homes and businesses along 35 square blocks of the city were destroyed at the hands of a white mob over the course of 18 hours. Unfounded accusations that a young Black shoe shiner had assaulted a white woman sparked the massacre. This event... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
instance, ecommerce companies have had to develop systems that allow buyers to pay cash on delivery so they can address trust issues and serve unbanked populations. But more generally, it also means that startups are being built for a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Wyss Gift Sets Harvard Record
disease-reprogramming technologies, which will provide a deeper understanding of living systems and will lead to more efficient bio-inspired ways of creating a more sustainable world. View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Church on Sunday, Work on Monday
In Church on Sunday, Work on Monday: The Challenge of Fusing Christian Values with Business Life, Laura Nash and Scotty McLennan explore the gap that exists between Christian ideals and the realities of business life at a time when many are searching for guidance in... View Details
- 22 Jul 2021
- News
Mentoring Fashion Startups in Singapore; Rising Star Accolades for Mid-Career Women
mentors are pre-matched to each startup team and given detailed information and problem statements in advance so they can provide practical solutions to the challenges the startups are facing. The June session was the fourth one that... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
instance, would be something to bridge the gap, to try and upregulate, to make use of the silenced part of the gene. To use those, you have to be very specific and very targeted. Knowing where the mutations are in the gene, knowing is he producing any dystrophin, how... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
The US Patent System’s Uncertain Fate
Lerner: Not only is the system not doing its intended job, which is to encourage new ideas, it is essentially being hijacked to tax the innovators. Still, it’s a real struggle to get people excited about patent reform. What are the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Books
affect the decision to go public. As the authors shed light on the structure and operations of venture capital firms, three major themes emerge. First, all venture capitalists confront tremendous incentive and information problems, in... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
too long. Three years is better because the world changes so rapidly. So every three years, we basically reinvent ourselves, or try to. My brother calls it a process of institutionalizing change. You’ve got to institutionalize the process of reinvention. We’ve used... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
examined the role of business in ending global poverty, strike anyone else as being in poor taste? If “Every day, nearly 3 billion people have to get by on this,” as the headline and stark image of two crumpled dollar bills on the magazine’s front cover View Details
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
prison. Studies by the US Bureau of Justice Statistics show that nearly seven out of 10 former inmates reoffend and return to prison within three years. The Reset Foundation tries to break that cycle by diverting people from the penal View Details
- 11 Jun 2021
- News
The Power of Resilience
what my priorities are. I actually didn't know what that mission-driven work would be at the time. But I came across a company whose mission it was to democratize access to genetic testing for hereditary cancers. It was that power of genetic View Details
- 02 Jan 2018
- News
Bringing Teachers to All of America
education system that's very unequal across the United States. I you're born into a low-income household or you're born into poverty, it is dramatically harder for you to reach your full potential in the American education system. “Teach... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
information junkie, but I did generally know every answer to every nit-picking question that the higher-ups threw at me (e.g., the cost of capital at Playboy was 10 percent). I even developed a working knowledge of things as abstruse as... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
Road Bill Gates may have been selected as the most influential business leader, but the internal combustion engine beats Windows as an operating system by a mile - the automobile rules as the most significant consumer product of the last... View Details