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- 07 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the City of Boston
parks, the order of our streets, the success of countless individuals and families. And yes, the online payment of parking tickets. From birth certificate to death certificate, City Hall affects the lives of every one of its citizens.... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
"Rising to the Challenge" Program Addresses Post-9/11 Issues
"Dehydration is the leading cause of death among refugees. Before this panel ends, nearly eight hundred children will die of dehydration caused by diarrhea." Noting that the mortality rate for Afghan children under the age of five is 25... View Details
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
across space and over time, several patterns are documented. Conflict-related deaths are significantly higher in poorer districts and in geographical locations that favor insurgents, such as mountains and forests; a 10-percentage point... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Righting the Ship
keep as many people as possible alive and healthy, and reduce the number of deaths and hospitalizations. Second lesson from Shackleton: you never vary from that mission, because so much else depends on achieving it. For example, wrestling... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
James E. Burke, MBA 1949
competition for nearly one hundred years," Burke recalls. "Whenever we cared for the customer in a profound-and spiritual-way, profits were never a problem." The Tylenol crisis could have been a death blow to the brand and, potentially,... View Details
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
office at the company's headquarters in Alexandria, VA, and closed the door behind her. It was 10:00 a.m. on Monday, September 22, 2014, and she had just addressed her staff after the sudden and tragic death of the company's well-loved... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Cast a Longer Shadow on the 21st Century: Friedman or Galbraith?
they best be addressed by individuals free to choose, communities (represented by governments) interested in influencing choice, or a combination of both? What do you think? Original Article With the death of John Kenneth Galbraith on... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
who spent six years commercializing drugs and diagnostics in East and West Africa before earning her MBA. “There are frequently delays in diagnosis, where the turnaround time for a biopsy could be several weeks or months.” That lag time, she explains, can be a matter... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 06 Nov 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?
under fire. Among the reasons were lack of demand from existing customers (not always the best ones to ask) for disruptive technologies and the kiss of death for new ideas in large organizations; the fear among business unit managers that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems
Paul R. Lawrence Conference: Connecting Rigor and Relevance in Institutional Analysis honored the memory of a prolific scholar and longtime HBS faculty member who, at the time of his death in 2011, was the Wallace Brent Donham Professor... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino
- 25 Apr 2012
- What Do You Think?
How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?
The challenges Big Data pose for managers include "identifying which data are relevant" (Subrata Chakraborty) and "seeing through the woods to know what to use and what not" (Pieter J de Beer). Scott Waller expressed the fear that "the age of Big Data seems to be... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 30 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers
context of the health-care industry drew instant attention. Preventable medical errors resulting in injury cost the industry somewhere between $9 billion and $15 billion a year, the report stated. Even more shockingly, by some measures the number of patient View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Turning Point: Change, Stat
60 percent. I remember one shift at the end of March where we were crushed by the number of patients, and for the first time in my career I had to specifically schedule extra time after my shift to complete all of the death certificates... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Class of 1975 in Review
think I would have predicted that Ken would rise to managing director of Goldman Sachs and that Giff would become a widely respected CEO before his tragic death in 1990. We all have similar stories of friendships begun or sealed at HBS --... View Details
Keywords: J. Hans Stumm
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges
she describes as her “wake-up call” followed the death of her mother in 2001. “I thought, Why am I waiting to do something that matters?” she recalls. She flew to India to work with CARE, the disaster-relief organization, in helping... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Ruling from the Bench
including “Ice Princess” and “Judge 232,” a number referring to her sentence for one defendant (the actual term was 213 years). Her hard-line stance has led to numerous death threats and the necessity for 24-hour police protection. “I... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Where Conservation Means Business
reputed to be one of the richest men of his era, donated $5 million to Harvard University in 1924 to fund the construction of the new HBS campus. Among the artifacts is a finely crafted cherry wood “Resolutions” chest containing leather-bound tributes to Baker written... View Details
Keywords: Roger thompson
- 15 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.
The ongoing pandemic is forcing a rethink of how the health care system operates in the United States as the death toll climbs, unemployment soars, and leaders debate how best to diagnose, vaccinate, and potentially treat millions of... View Details
- 06 Sep 2017
- What Do You Think?
Summing Up: What Are the Limits of CEO Activism?
suggesting that “both sides”—one group that included neo-Nazis and the KKK and another group of counter-protesters—were to blame for the violence, injuries, and deaths on or near the University of Virginia campus last month. This prompted... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
understand why there are so many diarrhea-related fatalities in developing countries. (Diarrheal diseases account for one in nine child deaths worldwide, according to the Center for Disease Control.) This, despite the existence of an... View Details