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- 22 Oct 2018
- News
Capital Murder
plot are taking you in directions you wouldn’t have anticipated. And oftentimes it’s that allowance for improvisation that makes a sentence, chapter, or entire book better. The analogy to the business world is clear—you start with a plan... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT
products - a construct they call "the virtual value chain" - which is analogous to the physical value chain. They discuss this concept in their forthcoming book Managing in the Marketspace. MIS professor Lynda M. Applegate is also... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
analogy of cyberdefense as a castle—a favorite of his—he tends to the moats, the walls, and the gates. Get past those, and he deploys the dogs. And he’s watched many people scale walls, break gates, evade dogs, and leave with your AmEx... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 30 Apr 2021
- News
Revealing the Rules
with speaking the unspoken rules. This is all analogous to some interesting research that I read about the color blue. Linguists found that words to describe that color were introduced to our vernacular later than other colors like red.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
care and life sciences issues, with the lion’s share focusing on the biotech and pharmaceutical industries. More than twenty HBS professors from different disciplines have contributed to this effort, which Pisano says is analogous to the... View Details
- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
to get away from that and to be able to make much smarter decisions. Morrell: But these are two different forces. You have a nice analogy where you say FOMO is kind of like a glass of wine, but FOBO's kind of like smoking a cigarette,... View Details
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
whether you are doing the right thing. Your decisions are your legacy.” One of Fisher’s favorite analogies is that being in business is like rowing crew. “When the team pulls together, and everybody is at their best, there’s nothing like... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
of bits and pieces that we’ve been working on into a coherent scaffold,” says Hawkins. “It helps orient us and helps us think about our research and where to go next.” VP of Research Subutai Ahmad also employs the puzzle analogy to... View Details
- 20 Jun 2019
- News
Reframing Modern Art
ask them to loan you a painting for an exhibit. I imagine that being challenging. In some ways, you're kind of asking them to release this very valuable baby in their collection to you. Murrell: The process of convincing museums to lend major works of art is very much... View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
analogy that Jen Pahlka who's our executive director here uses, is the house is on fire right now. That means we actually need to run towards it, not away from it. Luna: And how does Code for America work? What are the fires that you're... View Details
- 04 May 2018
- News
How to Win the Kentucky Derby
and a Pro Bowl player. And that's the analogy I garner with her. She broke her maiden after, I think, six or seven starts. All of a sudden everything changed. She was a different filly. She was eating better. She had a lot more... View Details
Keywords: horse racing
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
latecomers, as we build a technological infrastructure, it will be the newest and most advanced," Sicupira explains. "That has happened in Brazil with our digital cable installation, which surpasses the analog cable that is the core of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
solicit input on the ground, refine, and finally present their completed proposal to their partner organization. Moon draws on a medical school analogy to describe the immersion experience. “For decades medical schools have understood the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
unevenly and somewhat unpredictably, alternately buoyed and buffeted by shifting oil prices, government policies, and consumer tastes. Cox’s Juan Camargo sees an analogy in the gradual adoption of internal-combustion automobiles. The... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
world will have recognized the urgency of the climate change problem. I think the best analogy for the state of the industry, once that realization has set in, is aerospace in the 1960s and the moon shot, where there’s a real problem and... View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
discussions about the pitfalls that might cause that high rate of failure? The ways in which we resist architecting prenuptial agreements or other ways that could be where we see a lot of analogs from founding teams, the founding teams... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
international League of Legends tournament (photo courtesy of Riot Games) Almost everyone relies on traditional sports analogies when discussing esports. “Esports,” like the term “sports,” refers to the entire universe of competitive... View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
impressed by the public health community's ability to communicate this virus to the population. As someone who spends my time thinking about how to communicate an invisible, deadly crisis that's creeping up on us, I have been so impressed by the flattening-the-curve... View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
we need to be profoundly mindful of that. There are some important similarities, of course, but focusing only on the similarities would be a catastrophic mistake. Could we look to the flu pandemic of 1918 to 1919 for a more analogous... View Details