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- 20 Jul 2020
- News
Responding to Racism Amid a Pandemic; LGBT Alumni Take Pride Celebration Online
fostering an actively anti-racist culture both in and outside the organization. The move comes as a direct response to Dean Nitin Nohria’s recent pledge that HBS would make more urgent progress toward being actively anti-racist, and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 26 May 2016
- News
2016 Alumni Achievement Awards
doing. I had no interest, association, or connection to the entertainment industry, nothing—until I met a mentor who took a chance on me.” “When Norman Lear asked me to take over the creative direction of his television shows, it was a... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Come Clean
Simon. But he saw an opportunity in a sleepy family company with a great reputation. He introduced systems that track customer preferences and check an order’s tiniest details, reducing the opportunity for error and improving efficiency.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed
members of the Fed pay attention to media speculation? How do they deal with a situation where the speculation is going in the wrong direction and will likely result in a “surprise” to the markets when announced? Would they View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Unleashed
better or simply adapt to the status quo. What’s more important, growth or excellence? Action or analysis? Being direct or saving face? Strategy drops hints, but it’s culture that has the definitive answers. THE WAY FORWARD See more from... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path out of Polarization
good to have the voices on the left or on the right to make it clear why one direction would be preferable to another. But now, when the extremes are disagreeing over facts and they’re shouting, they don’t... 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
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
corn—how it changes color to optimize filtration of ultraviolet light: Soon, he explains, the corn leaves will be tinted a deep purplish-red. Keen has taught a course on the economics of corn at Creighton University's Heider College of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Case Study: Power Nappy
direct relationship with the customer and customer data. —Ayelet Israeli is the Marvin Bower Associate Professor in the Marketing Unit. She co-developed a scorecard to help companies make this very decision. It’s available in the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
“port city” will rise here, featuring office space, housing, and retail—essentially, an independent, international financial center with a direct link to Colombo’s central business district. Fernando mentions additional investments in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
base. As a result, they get cost savings, and we get sales.” Welcome to the new reality in U.S. manufacturing, where, more than ever, intense foreign competition is driving product and strategy innovations. Even those firms without direct... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
strategy and projects for CarbonCapture, Inc. She is currently overseeing the development of Project Bison, a planned direct air capture (DAC) facility in southwest Wyoming. Meghan Kenny (MBA 2019) is the director of strategy and projects... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
and other book clubs, then vice president of marketing, then president of the book clubs, and finally president of Dell Publishing—all before I turned 40. Direct marketing and book clubs is a pretty no-BS field in which results are easily... View Details
- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
that even more than the student-to-teacher ratio, this is optimizing the student-to-valuable-time-with-the-teacher ratio. This model we’re experimenting with gels with the best learning experiences I had in my own public school in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
bring you closer to being how you mean to be. The Three-Box Solution: A Strategy for Leading Innovation by Vijay Govindarajan (MBA 1976, DBA 1978) (Harvard Business Review Press) Leaders understand that creating a new business and View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match
to ‘Dr. Famous,’ who was booked for 17 weeks out, while brand-new doctors only had 30 percent of their schedules filled.” Inspired by the efficiency that companies like Travelocity brought to the airline industry, Gardner created Kyruus to View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
need help. The students also teach each other. So every student is working at their own pace, and time is freed up in class to work on more open-ended projects. We think that even more than the student-to-teacher ratio, this is optimizing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
preference to neighborhood schools. For Nielsen, the key to meaningful ed-ucation reform is getting topflight candidates to run for school boards. “There is no more important position from which to transform a school system than the... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
property might fetch 20 percent more now, he adds. Like many other sectors in Greece, commercial real estate is on the rebound. It’s a direct response to the July 2019 national election in which Kyriakos Mitsotakis (MBA 1995) of the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
business. These essential insights for enduring and optimizing the middle miles will outfit managers to find their way through the messy middle of any bold project or new venture. Denial: How Refusing to Face the Facts about Our Autism... View Details