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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
trajectory of overdose deaths from prescription drugs and heroin. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the US death rate from opioid overdose has increased over 400 percent since 1999; the picture is even grimmer... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
and the costs sometimes associated with implementing "green" strategies - strong government regulation at home and abroad will continue to be necessary in order to motivate many businesses to become more environmentally accountable. He... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
Street’s outsize pay packages “shameful,” especially for companies in need of federal bailouts. Such pay, he said, is “exactly the kind of disregard for the costs and consequences of their actions that brought about this crisis — a... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Beyond the Numbers
Robinson in 1986 as assistant controller for their international consumer businesses, including bank cards and retail banking. His first task, he recalls, was to "take a look around and advise my boss what his group should be doing... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Research Brief: Lost in Translation
In an increasingly global business world, English is the lingua franca that tethers companies and their investors together. Executives without a deep fluency in English could be costing their companies more than they realize. According to... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Short Takes
to ensure that environmental resources are replenished for future generations - as there are people discussing the issue. But with increased pressure on businesses to consider the costs of their actions to society and the environment... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
but rather as a portfolio of flexible and interlinked roles and relationships." While the outmoded top-down management structure of corporate divisions gave managers tight control and enabled their companies to grow, Bartlett says, "it... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Decoding the Promise and Perils of Generative AI
ChatGPT burst into the public consciousness on November 30, 2022. Within two months, the generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) software, which leverages a large language model (LLM) to produce human-like, text-based conversations, had reached an estimated 100... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
health-care system is in critical condition: The cost of U.S. health care not only hampers its citizens’ well-being and the country’s ability to compete globally, but it also draws funding away from other sectors, such as education, where... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
After Ozempic
Back before Ozempic, when Kate Mulroney (MBA 1984) spoke at technical conferences about her work at Novo Nordisk, people often assumed she was talking about Novartis. “I’d have to explain that’s a Swiss company; we’re Danish,” says Mulroney, now head of advanced... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
the field of health care has evolved differently despite a decades-long scramble to control spending. HBS professor emeritus Bob Kaplan described the state of affairs in a 2011 interview with the Harvard Business Review: "When I encounter... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
or worked in 20 countries, including Colombia, Eritrea, Morocco, Nigeria, Peru, and Romania, successfully addressing difficult issues involving corruption, cost overruns, and inefficiency. Every situation had a shared trait: No one had... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Flight Path
engineers devoted a good chunk of 2015 and most of 2016 to developing a drone that could be piloted in real time through a complex, three-dimensional course of gates and obstacles. That meant creating a lightning-fast radio system and View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Mickey Herbert (MBA 1969)
were providing better health-care coverage for Americans. By the early 1990s, the industry had undergone an almost complete transformation to for-profit health care. I took my own HMO public in 1993. But by the mid-1990s, health plans began working much harder to View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
but he's not interested in the bulls and bears. Instead, his focus is on helping people in emerging markets pay their bills—which can often require hailing a taxi, heading out to a payment point, standing in line, and using cash to settle up. "There is a lot of time... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Stephen Covey's Successful Habits
principles we espouse for taking control of one's life - steps such as being proactive, putting first things first, and establishing clearly what you want to achieve. The universality of these principles resonates with people. Which habit... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Giving Amazon the Boot
would ship it for us,” she says. “And you didn’t have to sell anything on Amazon. So they would store it and ship it, and it was really cost effective.” Ultimately, realizing that Amazon “is like the world’s biggest mall,” Ford decided to... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
payload—this one delivered the company’s New Shepard module that someday could give human passengers a taste of space travel—and are destroyed on the way up or crash back to Earth in pieces. With rockets costing tens of millions of... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 11 Dec 2014
- News
Revolutionizing digital medical records
A two-time entrepreneur at 79 years old, Merle Bushkin (MBA 1960) created MedKaz, a unique system that encapsulates a lifetime of medical data on a keychain device. It gives patients control over their complete medical record from all... View Details