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- 06 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Socioeconomic Inclusion at HBS: Alexis Jackson (MBA 2021)
pandemic, but the sudden death of Jackson’s brother. It was the first time, she said, that things were not going according to her plans or expectations. It also led to her greatest lesson—which was tattooed on her shoulder all along:... View Details
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Commencement 2012 Address | About
Life? ” This question seems especially apt today, when Nate Bihlmaier’s death has reminded how us fragile life truly is. I want to welcome Nate’s parents, wife, brother, and their extended family and friends. The German poet Rainer Maria... View Details
- 24 May 2023
- News
Balancing Acts
Hanna: In addition to serving as COO and treasurer of the Ford Foundation, Depelsha Thomas McGruder (MBA 1998) started the nonprofit advocacy group, Moms of Black Boys United, after the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile in... View Details
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove on the Confident Leader
absolutely well placed. WK: We've been speaking of the founder's leadership; what about corporate leadership and the public's confidence in it in this era of accounting scandals? It seems that the entire corporate community is in its own valley of View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
ice and an accessible Arctic, it is still a cold, dark, forbidding place that requires special provisions and extensive preparation. Last spring, we mourned the deaths of two sailors on a British submarine; the summer before that, two... View Details
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Reddit as COO in 2018, the user-generated content site wasn’t exactly a burning building...but it might have been... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #6: Climate Change, Peacebuilding, and Business: Lise Grande and Dr. Teagan Blaine, USIP.
straightforward equation: climate instability exacerbates the risk of armed conflict around the world. Examples are happening around the world every day. They include mass migration as food and water resources literally dry up; mass death... View Details
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Ansel Adams and Polaroid R&D | Baker Library
his death in 1984 and left behind an archive of more than 10,000 test photographs and 3,000 memos, now in the Polaroid Corporation Collection archives at Baker Library. If a stable, simple, and high-quality photographic process could be... View Details
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
the world's most dominant retailers. Could Brandless change the way consumers bought the essential items that filled their pantries and medicine cabinets? Industry pundits had long predicted both the death of brands and the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
extreme dehydration caused by diarrhea, which was a leading cause of death among young children in developing countries, particularly in Africa and Asia. Heralded in the 1970s as one of the most important medical advancements of the 20th... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
age, there are more consumers than ever before suffering from chronic conditions. Most no longer see disease and the timing of their death as inevitable. Supported by the Internet, many actively seek out information to increase their odds... View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
You Won't Make It If You Fake It
consultant at McKinsey and for Treasury Secretary Larry Summers for six years before joining Google at 32. When she and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg began working together in 2007, Sandberg requested that Zuckerberg provide her with weekly feedback. After the tragic... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 14 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Growing CEOs from the Inside
HBS case study mentioned in Bower's book, Mulcahy drew counsel from a wide constituency of friends and acquaintances at the company to help set its future direction based on color printers and office services. Xerox has since rebounded from near View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
The high-profile deaths last year of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and George Floyd were not the first tragic outcomes of racial injustice in the United States to send shock waves across the globe. But in their wake—and in... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
7 percent, with lots of appreciation on top of that. Do you have concerns about Japanlike deflation in the United States? Some fear that with a very low inflation rate of 1.5 percent, the United States is in danger of following Japan into a deflation View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
"knowingly, for valuable consideration, purchase or sell a [body] part for transplantation or therapy, if removal of the part is intended to occur after the death of the descendent." However, the Act excludes from this... View Details
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
across space and over time, several patterns are documented. Conflict-related deaths are significantly higher in poorer districts and in geographical locations that favor insurgents, such as mountains and forests; a 10-percentage point... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
ways to fulfill it" still inform today's politics. Excerpts from the book follow. After the death of his mother when he was a young child, and with no father in his life, Alexander Hamilton (1757–1804), who would become America's first... View Details
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
discussion from one point to the next—are remembered often by the legions of MBA students, doctoral candidates, and faculty members Christensen taught during an HBS career that spanned half a century, from the 1940s until his death in... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
and Thomas K. McCraw, Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, and his wife, Susan, an attorney, all of whom spoke about how personal events such as death and illness have affected their careers. "I was amazed at how candidly they... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young