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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
going through major reorganization or collapse were probably headed there in five to ten years anyway. It’s a difficult transition, but it’s exciting in the sense that this economic recession is forcing transitions faster, quickly... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
points out that given that "a series of people have fallen off the wagon," more formal measures will probably be called for soon. "There's really deep suspicion out there," Silk says. "I think issues of privacy are going to come under... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
the system for how we lead and manage,” Kaplan explains. “Virginia Mason used to be a physician-driven organization,” he continues. “Now we’re patient-driven. Our goal is to be the highest quality provider in our area at the lowest cost. We’re View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Reza Satchu (MBA 1996)
both my business and my teaching. Entrepreneurs are often solely focused on trying to sell as little of their company as possible to an investor. If you take that logic to the extreme, it means you're probably going to end up selling to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
New Art
in 1995, Schwartz inaugurated an annual gallery trip to New York to purchase contemporary art for HBS — an ongoing tradition that continues to change the look and feel of community space where students, faculty, and staff come together. While a visitor’s first... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Health IT at the Bedside
occurred when a CT scan of Dad’s belly showed a “spot” on his liver. “It’s probably a benign collection of blood vessels,” his doctor told me. “But it is something we’ll watch closely.” I was able to tell her of a similar, earlier... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
ourselves,” Coup says. “We aim to be about twenty times our present size in five years in terms of sales. In terms of personnel, we’ll probably be only two or three times our current size.” Keeping the company in Boulder and operating... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
language of historical explanation, a major conflagration can start to seem unnervingly probable in our time, just as it turned out to be in 1914. Some may even be tempted to say that the surge of commodity prices in the period from 2003... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
picture. But if they aren't able to grow, they'll probably be bought," notes Hackett. Ocean Energy's most recent merger was with Seagull Energy in 1999, and Hackett foresees more such activity in the future. "Within the next three years,... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
quality that is special," he says. "It's part of the leader's job to discover the genius in each employee and create an environment in which that can flourish." photo by Rick Friedman Peter B. Vaill (MBA '60, DBA '64) "My HBS classmates would View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Waxing Philosophical
(Johnson showed it at his 50th HBS reunion.) Alcoholism afflicts 5 to 10 percent of the general population, a figure that experts say is probably higher among CEOs. That’s attributable to the greater levels of stress and work-related... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a... View Details
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
lot of these things in place. Hanna: And you've been involved in this work for about 10 years now, which is quite a bit longer than you probably anticipated. Langford: That's right. Hanna: Why do you do it? Langford: Well, it's a good... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
them. And so I sort of approached the investment process with some degree of skepticism in terms of how interested they would be, and it was a very fast turnaround. They basically decided in a day to invest in our seed round, and it was-- that was View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
treated accordingly, his swelling decreased, and soon after Kevin was discharged. For a couple of years now, IBMers have told this story as a way to highlight Watson’s strengths, that if Watson were utilized it would have shown the doctors the View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
life; move past common misconceptions—such as the idea that asking for more will make people dislike you—and understand why your go-to negotiation strategies are probably making you less influential; discover the one thing that influences... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
heard all too often. Then, taking a deep breath, Tufano adds, "There may be a fairly low probability that we'll help all forty million people with this. But even if we could reach a fraction of the total, just think of the potential." The... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn
mountain, on an island between Norway and the North Pole. "He said we should be doing something like it ourselves," Keen recalls, "and I brought up what Deward had said, and asked if he thought big ag had our Cherokee seeds and what we should do about it. "His answer... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
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June 2021 Books and Podcasts
specifically, to that roadblock. If you want to work out more but find exercise difficult and boring, downloading a goal-setting app probably won’t help. But what if, instead, you transformed your workouts so they became a source of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
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Higher Ground
orchestra’s longest-serving members, his tenure extending to the group’s previous iteration as the New Orleans Symphony Orchestra. When that orchestra went bankrupt in 1991, felled by poor management, the musicians decided they probably... View Details