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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
decision; we have to look at our values and find the right course based on that.” The board of directors and executive team have been chipping away at a list of commitments designed to strengthen governance and build in mechanisms for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
he cofounded Giant Otter, a startup that developed anti-bullying software designed to make both a social impact and a profit. The company’s foreign-born coders, however, lacked the cultural competency to develop the conversational... View Details
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
Abstract—Liability laws designed to compensate for harms caused by defective products may also affect innovation. We examine this issue by exploiting a major quasi-exogenous increase in liability risk faced by U.S. suppliers of polymers... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
inventing high-quality, cost-competitive products. One problem is that it's hard to tell when moving production far from R&D will do damage. To make that determination, we say that executives need to examine two things. The first is modularity, or the degree to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
“Crush it!” I was test-driving a Tesla Model S 75D under the watchful eye of Kristin, the “owner-advisor” tasked with accompanying me while I took one of Elon Musk’s battery-powered luxury cars for a spin on the Far West Side of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
departments. “The underlying logic of much of decision and control theory was similar to the underlying structure of how we at JPL would design trajectories and track and control a spacecraft,” says Light. “So intellectually, though this... View Details
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
Along with co-founder Stacey Abrams, the pair had designed NOW's business model three years ago, and the company was at a critical juncture. NOW offered a program—called NOWaccount—that provided working capital to small businesses by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
companies in Turkey. But the world had additional designs on McArthur. By this time, his HBS classmate James Wolfensohn was deeply into the huge challenge of reorganizing the World Bank, and — in need of an ally whom he could trust... View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
Eugene B. Kogan Abstract—President Richard M. Nixon was elected in 1968 with the widespread expectation that he would bring about an end to the costly and unpopular war in Vietnam. The task largely fell to National Security Adviser Henry... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
about how to create social impact. Against this backdrop of intellectual and social ferment, Bradach and Tierney hatched their plan for Bridgespan. They came to the task well prepared. While at Bain, Tierney had spent years serving on... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Meal Plan
restaurants? And Keith, what has the situation been with Act III’s smaller, fast-casual portfolio of restaurants? Christian Charnaux: We established our first task force in late February; at that point, the virus wasn’t hitting our... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
OCTOBER 6 Rajendra Aneja (AMP 175, 2008) brought his expertise in marketing in rural areas to the task of stopping the spread of the COVID-19, which he deems “the biggest and most serious problem facing mankind since World War II.” In... View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
in the area. The product had been in development for years prior to the disaster, says Polatoğlu, developed to address a rise in natural disaster–related emergencies caused by climate change. “Moreover, we have designed a special... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
delivers a message of hope for a better world where no social mission is impossible. Cindy Ko (MBA ’05) Endeavor www.endeavor.org POSITIVE IMPACT: With help from Endeavor, Drillco Tools has become a leading designer and producer of mining... View Details
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
designed to enhance safety and effectiveness created a culture that unintentionally released men from societal imperatives for "manly" behavior, prompting them to let go of masculine-image concerns and to behave instead in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
progress and enhance inner work life every day. The book shows how to remove obstacles to progress, including meaningless tasks and toxic relationships. It also explains how to activate two forces that enable progress: 1) catalysts—events... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
Europe. "The NFL has the difficult task of trying to introduce a sport that people don't understand, into cultures where soccer is an obsession," Alcacer notes. "For MLB, the NBA, and the NHL, the globalization strategy was to bring in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
Reinventing Work and Life by Linda Rossetti (MBA 1991) (Palgrave MacMillan) Rossetti introduces women to a new way of thinking about the events that shape their adult lives—like marriage, job loss, or empty nests—and offers a step-by-step toolkit View Details
- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
but this article shows it has never been true historically. Using longitudinal data on individual firms from the nineteenth century onwards, it reveals evidence of how entrepreneurs and firms with multinational activity faced by market imperfections changed the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
care today is not how expensive it is. It's that we're held down by force, our money is taken, and then we're shoved into a medical system that is not responsive to us." Athenahealth's cloud-based services are designed to make... View Details