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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well By Amy C. Edmondson, Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School Atria Books We used to think of failure as the opposite of success. Now, we’re often torn... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The End of the Noncompete Clause
Johnson say the clauses stifle innovation and hamstring employees. Currently, only three states largely ban noncompetes: California, North Dakota, and Oklahoma. Opposition groups in other states are working on several fronts. If they... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Last Look
pennies. The game (called rayuela in Spanish, Henriquez points out) is a competition to see who can toss a coin closest to a wall or line (in this case, the opposite bricks lining the pathway) without hitting or crossing it. The winner... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
What I Do: Minnie Ingersoll (MBA 2002)
it’s consistent from company to company.” Her new COO role at Code for America, a San Francisco–based nonprofit dedicated to improving civic tech and “strengthening America’s basic social safety net,” has proven this maxim true. “I actually own kind of the View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Linda B. Kanner: All in the Family
"counterphobic move." Punch cards and mainframes were the technological order of the day when she enrolled at HBS, and a successful career in marketing -- including top-level positions at J. Baker Inc. and Bank of New England -- had required little direct experience... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
that appear to have never been debated. That includes ‘nation-building’ or what would happen after we passed through major military operations.” Despite his eventual, lonely opposition (now hailed as courageous by many observers) to the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
intense, markets tend to form, with supply responding to demand, in spite of controversy. Thus, with the potentially huge, lucrative, and beneficial industry that could emerge from embryonic stem-cell research, the question seemingly becomes when, not if. “Prohibitions... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 06 Oct 2022
- News
On the Road to Recovery
indeed, the entire travel-nursing sector—entered a growth phase as newly insured people sought health care and the demand for nurses surged. During this time, many of Nightingale’s competitors sold to private equity firms. But Moreno took the View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Herzlinger on Health Care: Revolution in Evolution
use expensive technology, which many people cite as the reason for high U.S. health-care costs? Actually,the opposite is true: advances in medical technology have made health care cheaper and better - and this is the third major market... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Perspective: The Morning After 9/11
know those squares meant to helpfully highlight correlation? They show that data points in the lower left box are typically at the opposite end of a recognizable pattern from those in the upper right box. Well, Frances lives for the... View Details
- 18 Feb 2014
- News
Stick with Plan A
world. Initially, Maddy pursued an early dream of working for the United Nations Development Program. "Soon, however, I became very disillusioned that economic aid was the path to economic development," she says. "I found that it actually had the very View Details
- 02 Nov 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
We are focused on building, in some ways, universities that are the exact opposite of my great alma mater. We want to invest in good institutions and help make them great by making them accessible and affordable to as many people who have... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 04 Jan 2016
- News
Getting ‘Them’ Out of the Equation
dialogue. “I’ve been involved in an organization called Young Presidents Organization, or YPO, for international CEOs. Shortly after September 11, a few of us said, ‘This is crazy! We have members on opposite sides of all these conflicts.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum
based upon international cooperation; the opposite extreme, Haass said, would be a modern Dark Ages of failed states and disharmony. But he speculated that the most likely scenario would be the rise of a Cold War–style competition between... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
health and education in the localities where the company operates. While critics feared that her cooperative, compassionate approach would hurt the 95-year-old company’s bottom line, just the opposite has been the case. A New Jersey... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Matter of Opinion
right-wing cant: Liberals are humorless drones. Truth be told, Navasky is more mensch than menace, an old-school crusader for social and economic justice who can’t bring himself to say anything mean about anybody. That includes those benighted souls at the View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
creative guy. Since high school, he’s paid homage to both — becoming an engineer who also loves to act in community theater. Still, the question loomed: Could his seemingly opposite sides be united in a common career goal? As a youngster... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
far in the opposite direction and lost something in our inability to give students more interim feedback and written tests. With that said, I think the School has contributed substantially to business as a discipline that succumbs to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Creating a more just and celebrated multicultural world
a celebration of togetherness, diversity, and understanding, just the opposite of a civil riot. “Social change is embedded in our business model,” says Endline. “Every unit we sell impacts a farmer, a plant worker, or an artist. It’s a... View Details
- 15 Jun 2018
- News
Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life
to be happy on a daily basis. But the way that we achieve happiness, the way that we find the precondition of meaningfulness that let's us be happy is that we in some ways do the opposite of this. We look for the opportunities when we... View Details