Time And Cost Control - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 1999
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Eight Among Many: Kenneth A. Goldman

finance, Goldman's time has come. "I had one primary career goal: to become a CFO early on and eventually do it as well as or better than anyone else," he says, seated at company headquarters in Redwood... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Sep 2024
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Ink: Framing the Full Picture

“Oh, my gosh, you must’ve wanted to do this since you were a child,” and I’m like, “No, I never, ever wanted to do this.” I was very happy at business school. I was quite happy doing management consulting. But the difference is finding... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

02 Feb 2023
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Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?

computer to predict important properties of molecules. DM: Like how much energy it takes to bind the molecule to CO2. Or how much it costs to produce the molecule. AS: And the other part is using machine... View Details

28 May 2019
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2019

first time I got it under way I was out for a week. Coming back, I crashed it into a buoy. It took me about 11 years to recover from that, professionally.” Moving up: “If after 21 years the Navy had said to me, ‘You’ve commanded three... View Details

11 Jun 2021
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The Power of Resilience

remission, Somani drew on the lessons learned during that difficult time to launch an inspirational speaker platform called Silver Linings in an effort to champion resilience, advocacy, and mental wellbeing.... View Details

01 Dec 1997
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"Economists are puzzle solvers..."

raced up a steep hill to Broadway, found a cab, and for the first time in his life he gave a driver a couple of extra bills with instructions to get him on the next shuttle at LaGuardia. He said his son had... View Details

01 Dec 2020
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A New Approach to Contact Tracing

actually only a small part of that, even though it’s become a meaningful contributor to the overall response, shortening the time between when you test positive for COVID and your contacts get notified,”... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Government

01 Jun 2006
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India Arrives

growth — exceeding 9 percent for the past three years — China sends a clear message to the world of progress and power. The country’s singular focus on economic development has been shaped by top-down government View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Dec 1996
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An Entrepreneurial Journey

young media and medical enterprises, de Weese has helped bring to market some twenty computer, medical, and biotechnology products. Of these, perhaps the most well-known is Nicotrol, a patch worn on the skin... View Details

01 Jan 2003
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Greylock

with them regularly-originally eleven times a year-to make sure there were no surprises, either good or bad." In a matter of months, Elfers brought five prominent families into the fold, including inventor View Details

01 Jun 2020
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Homeschooled

students, Khan wants parents to feel “Oh, I can do this. This isn’t impossible.” Today, Khan Academy usage is up about 250 percent, student and teacher registration rates are six times higher than normal,... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; online learning; Educational Services

01 Mar 2013
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Sizing Up Social Impact

influence an organization can have on social factors beyond its boundaries." Most research on organizational performance focuses on cause-and-effect situations that assume degrees of linearity and control... View Details

08 May 2019
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Lessons from the Ashes

subscriptions. So it was doing well, but there’d been friction within the family, as there often is in family businesses, over the last few decades. Kind of towards the end of my time at HBS, my dad died in January '87. View Details

01 Mar 2017
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The Middle Way

peace was announced with drums and dancing. Two things were happening to Eamer simultaneously around the time of the 2006 announcement. First, he was going through religious discernment—a religious... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous

01 Dec 2020
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New News

work is not just the pricing but also the cost. What are you doing on the cost side to make your business viable? SS: I looked up a lot of public 10-K forms of pure media companies like the New York Times... View Details

Keywords: entrepreneuship; digital media; startups; news; business models; young alumni; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services

16 Dec 2016
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An Environmental Epiphany

relentlessly. The learning curves point to improvements of 20% every time the globally installed capacity doubles. And already, in many parts of the United States and beyond,... View Details

01 Apr 1997
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Facing the Music

industry revenues. (Of late, however, they have been showing considerable strength; in 1996, independents collectively rallied to grasp the number one spot in total U.S. album market share for the first time - climbing over industry... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

16 Jul 2019
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The Making of a Movement

Equinox with a spirit of celebration and hope,” David says. “Our former classmates made sure the event was fun.” They also ensured it was profitable. The Linns hoped to raise $10,000. Instead, they raised nearly $250,000. Unfortunately,... View Details

Keywords: Greg Forbes Siegman; cancer

02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word

information junkie, but I did generally know every answer to every nit-picking question that the higher-ups threw at me (e.g., the cost of capital at Playboy was 10 percent). I even developed a working knowledge of things as abstruse as... View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

19 Feb 2021
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A Playbook for Progress

especially Black women, are the most educated segment of the population, and that's according to the US Census. We control some one and a half trillion, with a T, trillion... View Details

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