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- 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
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
focus their energy based on how people’s spending is changing. Also, it's forcing us to think more about the non-spending aspects of someone's carbon footprint. Right now, we ask people for some survey information to tell us about their... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
9/11, Jeff Immelt had already built an impressive nineteen-year career at GE in its plastics, appliance, and medical systems divisions. With revenues in 2007 of $173 billion and more than 300,000 global employees, GE has seen significant... View Details
- 27 Oct 2020
- News
HBS Votes
to increase trust in the system is to increase voter participation,” says Malik, who sees voting as “the most critical civic responsibility in our lifetime.” Bloomberg Helps Florida Felons Regain Voting Rights Mike Bloomberg (MBA 1966)... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Alfred L. Cheauré - A Dog's Life
has attended more than one hundred dog shows across the country, converted an outdated mainframe computer system to a client server system, streamlined internal procedures, cut expenses, introduced DNA as part of the dog registration... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
Sigma aficionado, Agarwala puts it this way: “Our business is about setting up systems and processes that result in good customer service.” On the technology front, a first-rate in-house IT team built the company’s Web site and stocked it... View Details
- 03 Jul 2024
- News
Surviving the Iditarod
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Sunny Stroeer: Many folks have heard of the Iditarod Sled Dog race, which is the last great race on earth where mushers compete to cover the distance from Anchorage to Nome as quickly as possible. The... View Details
- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
capture—which isn't tied to a specific place. Those systems can be anywhere that CO2 is available in the atmosphere. Which is everywhere. JM: The density of those molecules is much less, therefore it's a much more difficult sort of energy... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
to break down silos and provide a unified body of knowledge to inform public policy. Two proposed legislative agenda items from an earlier version of the group’s white paper were voted into state law last year: making the... View Details
- 19 Dec 2024
- News
The Musts of 2024
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. I love these end-of-the-year lists where you can get recommendations from smart people about things that are worth your time and money. It always sets me up really... View Details
- 02 Jun 2021
- News
On the Road Less Traveled
was able to get through it. Disadvantages become advantages. You know, there's probably, that may have been the worst point in my life and I got it over early. Before he left, his father had arranged to get Ed into the foster care system... View Details
- 03 Dec 2019
- News
Two Tales of Connection: Over Meals and Mentoring
(and has since sold) a startup company that lets people connect over a home-cooked meal for a small group. Hosts post dinner details and interested guests can register to attend. “Building Bridges is based on that,” says Gupta. “But we use the Harvard LEFA View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
science and health services from Harvard’s School of Public Health, even she couldn’t successfully navigate the health care system for her mom. It set her on a path of discovery that led to not only a better understanding of the... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe
is a big misconception a lot of people have. People assume that because, the United States, we have high school, college basketball, then it leads to the pros, that the same system is in effect pretty much throughout the world. Well,... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2
of like knowing when and how and who to do it with and all those other things are actually quite hard, right? So I think the data and analysis is always critical, right? And doing good work is always critical. And that helps inform what... View Details
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
needed a third meeting and by the time you finished the third meeting, these questions were answered in writing, nobody trying to pass one over on you by the time you set up a system like that, you could get a really good answer, and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
to complete the manuscript of Silent Spring, which documents the effects of pesticides such as DDT on the environment and the campaign of misinformation surrounding their use. “Leaders are obligated...to translate information into... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
revenue.) The exchange and nearby buildings were checked for safety and cleaned up, power was reestablished, and computer systems tested and retested over the weekend. On Monday, September 17, Lhota stood by as the bell rang to open the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
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Doing It Your Way
companies are springing to life up and down the virtual lanes of the Information Superhighway. As the use of color and moving pictures becomes routine, says Sahlman, Internet "stores" may well be able to give customers an experience that... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
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Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
entrepreneurs have to build the full stack. Morrell: Which usually means developing both the ultimate product and the infrastructure that underpins it, says Alex. Think of Amira having to build not only the consumer-facing website for BulkWhiz, but also its last-mile... View Details