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06 Dec 2021
News

New Wave

so. When Verdant began deploying prototype turbines in the East River nearly 20 years ago, for instance, the company’s actions raised immediate concerns among fishermen and federal regulators. And while the startup proved that its... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen

30 Sep 2024
News

The Making of a Streaming Sensation

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: When the Netflix series Geek Girl debuted this summer, it quickly became the second most-watched show globally on the platform. Based on the young adult book series by author Holly Smale about... View Details

01 Sep 2007
News

Ali Allawi

support their proxies than we have now, but no direct military involvement. Is there anything that can be done to bring about reconciliation among the various groups? One approach is to federalize the country, giving the Shias, Sunnis,... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; National Security and International Affairs; Government

13 Apr 2016
Research Event

What Does 'Diversity' Really Mean?

racial, sexual, or otherwise.” She noted that in Silicon Valley, which is dominated by wealthy, white males, major technology firms are creating positions like “chief diversity officer” and are commissioning reports on the state of the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

05 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

regime supporters. Communities that attract higher rates of public sector employment forfeit higher levels of fiscal revenue by permitting informality. This complementarity between public sector employment and forbearance amplifies... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

17 Jul 2007
First Look

First Look: July 17, 2007

decision for firms that aspire to develop platform-mediated networks is whether to preserve proprietary control or share their platform with rivals. A proprietary platform has a single provider that solely controls its technology, for example, View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Dec 2024
News

Solving the Underemployment Crisis

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, it’s Dan. Today, we are sharing a brief excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, the critically-acclaimed podcast from my colleagues at Harvard Business School. Each episode, HBS professors Bill Kerr... View Details

18 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 18

positions ranged from lawyer, judge, preacher, entrepreneur to the first African American commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and to the head of the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 5

leadership dynamics and team performance and find that the psychological effect of power on formal leaders spills over to affect team performance. We argue that a formal leader's experience of heightened power produces verbal dominance, which reduces team View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2015
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015

Roy K. McCall (MBA 1984) (iUniverse) Huai’an-born Zhou Enlai was contemporary China’s greatest statesman, spymaster, and negotiator. According to McCall, the People’s Republic of China would not exist today without Zhou’s skill as View Details

01 Sep 2009
News

Read All About It!

paths to pedal. In 1893, the roads became a cause of concern for the federal government as the U.S. Post Office Department instituted a system of rural free delivery (RFD). Members of the National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry — an... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 2012
News

The Accidental Pioneers

positions in youth soccer, as well as a land trust and a historic preservation commission in her western New Jersey community. "I gather there had been some internal controversy about accepting women, from little comments I heard here and... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia

08 Jun 2010
First Look

First Look: June 8

This case presents the logic and execution underlying the launch of Data.gov, an instantiation of President Obama's initiative for transparency and open government. The process used by Vivek Kundra, the federal CIO, and his team to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis

ongoing state support and federal emergency aid will be required to avoid a crisis.” Telepsychiatry may increase patient access David Theobald (HBS MBA 1991)’s interest in mental health technology commercialization has led him to Genoa... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Health

25 Jun 2014
News

A Man on a Mission

deal with financial matters, but later on the federal government and NASA administrators decided that managers should have total budget responsibility. "It was very important that I had gone to HBS, because I already had the skills, so... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; NASA; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Scientific Research and Development Services

02 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019

forthcoming Review of Accounting Studies The Effect of Enforcement Transparency: Evidence from SEC Comment-Letter Reviews By: Duro, Miguel, Jonas Heese, and Gaizka Ormazabal Abstract—This paper studies the effect of the public disclosure of the Securities and Exchange... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

16 Feb 2012
Op-Ed

Nitin Nohria: Why US Competitiveness Matters

of US competitiveness. Some of the issues they highlight are familiar: the struggle of US schools to produce employable workers, the hurdles faced by companies that hope to manufacture goods here, the federal government's maddening... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria

04 Apr 2024
Blog Post

Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #16: Tim Murdoch, HBS MBA 1990 – Learning about Climate Change and Water

place, or to community – than water. We hope these stories showcase a range of ways in which some alumni have connected their bond with water to action in the business world. Thank you for reading, and please share your stories with us at... View Details

15 Dec 2024
News

Back at the Ranch

will know exactly what’s being asked and how to do it safely. Minden founded the nonprofit in 2019, as a second act after his own military career. He’d gone straight from his New Jersey high school to West Point, then commissioned as an... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photos by Adler and Vance Jacobs; Animal Production and Aquaculture; Agriculture

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Contemporary Black Artists and Public Art | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

calls them, take cues from the modernist traditions of jazz. “The only way you can really achieve something is if you’re not working so much from a pattern. That’s also the essence of good jazz,” Mosley says of his method. Mosley had his first Karma solo exhibition in... View Details

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