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- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
2008 Financial Crisis ultimately found more interesting career paths than some of the previous sort of standard choices that we’d all thought about. I think there was a lot more stress and uncertainty, but everybody landed on their feet... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Extraordinary People
This year’s recipients of the School’s highest honor have made remarkable contributions to their companies and communities while upholding the highest standards and values in everything they do. “These five distinguished alumni are role... View Details
Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
Harvard’s initiatives in stem cells, bio-inspired engineering, systems biology, chemical biology, and innovative computing. The colloquium featured a number of case studies about academic labs as well as private-sector firms that are setting operational and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
explains. “They were very entrepreneurial and had great niches. And now we have to pull all of them together to act as one company.” He reels off a trio of management challenges: retaining valued workers whose knowledge and entrepreneurial zeal powered their former... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
should bear the cost of insuring against it, just as commercial banks pay into an FDIC insurance pool. And the government should insist on appropriate capital standards and liquidity requirements to limit the type of risks that these... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
bucked the odds, winning the company accolades in the press, shelf space at major (and minor) retailers, and the Game of the Year awards at the American International Toy Fair, the industry’s annual trade show, in 2001 and 2002. Like LEGO, Cranium is not a product that... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
Valley or Shenzhen. And so this innovation movement of automobile production internationalized—but so did best practice. Think of things like just-in-time manufacturing that emanated out of Japan and is now standard practice around the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
cancer at age 87 on June 2, 1987), all of the strands of Doriot’s life connect to form something quite profound. In the second half of the 20th century, the United States experienced a historic transformation, in which a society dominated by large corporations such as... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
telling you that you're good or bad, right? I think it's just-- school drives that home. Standardized testing drives that home. And from the beginning, pymetrics has always been around, no, it's about finding your fit. Basically, no one's... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
will only increase as hospitals learn all it can do. Once they learn, they tend to incorporate Watson quickly. For instance, at the University of North Carolina’s teaching hospital, Watson moved from a novelty assisting doctors to the View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
coordinated with local agencies. In roughly 10 percent of the medical emergencies, EMTs save a patient’s life. Ambulances generally arrive on the scene in under 15 minutes, and the mean service time from a call to 108 to arriving at the hospital is just 34 minutes —... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
Times-Picayune. The other attraction: program selection. Other orchestras may pay a bit more, says Waddington, but members may be forced to play standards like Beethoven’s Fifth for weeks on end. “He’s built a real esprit de corps by... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
lectures.” McFarlan points to the participation of so many leading CEOs, to Tsinghua University’s standard of excellence, and to the “local content” of the new cases as keys to the program’s success. “The cobranded program was a catalyst... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
auditing standards in China, while Associate Professor Huang Yasheng closed the first session with a detailed briefing of his ongoing study of foreign-invested enterprises on the mainland. The afternoon concluded with an open discussion... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
Cardinals. “Bill DeWitt Jr. and his partners have far exceeded the standard for private investment in a professional sports facility and have earned hearty praise for their spirit of partnership with and commitment to their host... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
Green Revolution has indeed begun," he said at the launch. From the beginning, Notore focused on Nigeria's smallholder farmers, who use about a tenth of the fertilizer of their peers elsewhere. Because farmers making a dollar or two a day couldn't afford the View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
auditoriums at AMC Studio 30 offer the same full menu to guests 18 and over, as well as children accompanied by a parent or guardian. There's also an IMAX theater (AMC has more than any theater group in the world); the remaining 17 screens have View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Down the Memory Chute
terms of direct practical benefits.” But report-writing courses were dogged over the years by confusion about what they should accomplish and how; shifting standards of evaluation and grading; faculty ambivalence about the courses’ role... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
Google isn’t completely shutting down the online ad industry, says Gupta. In March, the tech giant unveiled its new cookie-alternative technology called FLoC (Federated Learning of Cohorts), a browser standard that will allow companies to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
global market, electric vehicles have become a government imperative. European Union member states, for instance, are preparing to implement the Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Directive, which mandates the buildup of publicly accessible charging points and the... View Details