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02 Oct 2017
News

Radical Generosity for the Real World

course I'm always learning. I mean, I'm not—I never feel like I'm done, I've achieved everything I need to achieve to be a generous person. But as I've grown more generous, I just feel like, you know, more attuned to the needs of the... View Details

28 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Improving Accountability at the World Bank

Press, 2007), and a recent op-ed in the Financial Times, "The World Bank Must Fix its Business Model," Ebrahim has focused his research and teaching on the challenges of accountability, performance, and organizational learning... View Details

Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim

01 Sep 2017
News

City of Dreams

Mawilmada’s office in Colombo Fort, the city’s central business district. A somewhat hazardous stroll along broken sidewalks, ducking in and out of traffic, took us past the presidential palace, majestic colonial-era buildings, and,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

21 Dec 2009
Research & Ideas

Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer

banks by the federal government, it can divide them into good banks and bad banks. The good banks would return to the normal business of taking deposits and making loans; the bad banks would work out and sell toxic assets over several... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services

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1.18 Field Global Capstone | MBA

1.18 Field Global Capstone 1.0 Academic Information & Policies FIELD Global Capstone (CAP) is a semester-long course offered in the Required Curriculum (RC) Year that requires students to build on what they’ve learned so far and apply it to real-world View Details

19 Aug 2010
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Catchphrases, Mottos, and Cheers

strategy that the professor labeled “Ram it!” That became a catchphrase, which was often called out loud. 1989G. Several funny phrases originally used by sectionmates were regularly borrowed for openings and comments to great general... View Details

Keywords: Keith Larson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

13 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders

McGinn believe that negotiation skills are crucial to closing the gender gap in leadership. Riley Bowles, who earned her doctoral degree from Harvard Business School, is an assistant professor at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

20 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation

scientific problem solving? Yes, and it comes from an unexpected and unrelated corner of the universe: open source software development. That's the view of Karim R. Lakhani, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School with an... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

15 Nov 2018
News

Don’t Be Afraid of AI

those fears with some of these kind of analytical approaches but I find, generally speaking, people want to sensationalize things and they want the scary stuff to emerge. So, even if you counter it, we don't get quoted as much in those... View Details

Keywords: Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

01 Mar 2017
News

The Middle Way

canoes, dwellings, and totem poles. A road now bisects the hill and the coast, with a busy logging facility operating just off the water. Hulking yellow vehicles relocate felled trees around a dirt lot, navigating stacks of... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous

01 Jun 2018
News

The Long Run

some changes to the area around Calhoun in the late 1990s. One by one, farms that had been in the same family for generations were going up for sale. “I thought, well, I guess these third-generation kids don’t want to be farmers,” he... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Melissa Golden

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