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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
What Makes a Good Leader
authority on leadership — sees this phenomenon as a sign of the times. "The transition from the industrial age to the information age is a huge shift," he notes. "In all of human history, there have only been two other socioeconomic... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Vital Signs
Image by Edmon De Haro Illustration by Edmon De Haro The signs of strain were there long before the pandemic: Health care workers had been managing under tremendous pressures while working long hours in understaffed hospitals. Then COVID unleashed an unprecedented... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Game On
top-flight amenities? “Trust me, it’s cheaper,” McCarthy says. “There are people out there saying they’ll have 500 pickleball franchise locations around the country, and you can get caught up in all that. They won’t have to worry about the financial risk and the View Details
- 22 Feb 2024
- News
Combat-Tested Cancer Coaching
critical value of a North Star in any cancer journey. READ MORE Dan Morrell: So many of these pieces of practical advice that you give about getting the right team in place, making sure you have an action plan, rethinking what really... View Details
- 09 Nov 2023
- News
From the Brink
members nominated to the new oversight and management board. Meanwhile, Sebastián Negrón-Reichard (JD/MBA 2024) was watching the rescue effort with a keen eye. A Puerto Rico native, he had graduated from the University of Pennsylvania... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
The Musts of 2023
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. At fall reunions, we set up shop on campus and asked alumni about what media moved them this year. What changed their minds or their hearts. And their answers ran... View Details
- 11 Oct 2023
- News
Soldier On
your personal cell phone, should I give it to him?” And I was like, yes, you should definitely give it to him. And he called about five minutes before I went live and he said, listen, I watched the CNN interview, we're proud of you.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Again and Again
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Jason Holley Whenever he’s presenting to a large audience, Professor Michael Norton likes to pose this question to the crowd: After you get up in the morning, do you brush your teeth first and then shower, or vice versa?... View Details
- 22 Sep 2023
- News
Skydeck Voices: The Most Important Person I Met at HBS
Photo provided by Harvard University Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Who was the most important person you met at HBS? And why? This is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck, and when my colleagues set up on Spangler Lawn during Spring Reunions... View Details
- 30 May 2024
- News
How to Have Effective Conversations
congratulations, that's fantastic. Okay, here's the agenda, let's get down to business. But think about how powerful it is. If you just take half a second and you say like, oh, congratulations, that's awesome. What did it feel like View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Rounding the Bend
Illustration by Fernando Cobelo To help people visualize what a circular economy could look like and bring the challenges down to a closet-sized scale, Emily Bolon (MBA/MPA 2007) recommends the following exercise. First, make a mental tally of the number of garments... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
On the Radar
efforts to identify biological threats and safeguard against the use of bioweapons. That’s not enough, warns Matthew McKnight (MBA/MPP 2012) of the Boston-based biotech firm Ginkgo Bioworks. McKnight believes a comprehensive global warning system is needed to maintain... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
watch for shoplifters, and keep smiling to maintain customer service. I was 16 and it was a real stretch, but I became quite good at juggling it all and was made a department supervisor. By age 17, I was managing coworkers in their 40s... View Details
- 19 Jan 2024
- News
The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix
Why did it take so long for us to realize the inherent value of those? AM: I think the presence or absence of trust, of course, has been around since the beginning of human relationships. I mean, our core trust model, which we call the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Buy Big, Sell Small
If you live in a rural village or small city in India and run low on toothpaste, rice, or cooking oil, you’ll likely visit your local kirana, the equivalent of a US neighborhood variety store and a mainstay of the country’s $932 billion retail economy. The shops are... View Details
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
acquisition-led growth? What will be the impact of increased competition from private equity players? For how long can its strategy of “continuous improvement” continue? “I’m the chief human resources officer of a Fortune 500 company, and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The War Within
touted from the highest levels of government. Last December, Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska launched the “How Are You?” campaign to destigmatize mental health care. “Against the background of daily alarming news, missile attacks, View Details
- 26 Jan 2022
- News
Making Peace with Anger
made me and Walker & Dunlop special. That sense that everything had to go right and when everything didn’t go right I had the right to get upset that it didn’t go View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock
society, but that alterations to the regulation and taxation of ESOPs had made them less beneficial. When he became head of industrials for the global investment firm KKR in 2010, Stavros began experimenting with new approaches to broad-based ownership. “It is the... View Details