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- April 2019
- Case
Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn: The Power of Writing to Launch and Sustain a Movement (Abridged)
By: Julie Battilana, Lakshmi Ramarajan and Michael Norris
In 2018, New York Times writer Nicholas Kristof and his wife, former Times writer Sheryl WuDunn (HBS ’86) who worked in finance, were planning for their next book. The couple’s earlier books had given rise to social movements around gender equity and poverty issues.... View Details
Keywords: Social Movement; Gender Equality; Writing; Social Issues; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Poverty; Books; Change; Leadership
- 04 Feb 2022
- News
Hour by Hour
application to connect employers and former workers in good standing, and allow employers to automate and manage their interactions with former employees. HourWork’s model—pooling and then nurturing former talent for future permanent and... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
and the City Library, and most importantly, helping the Office of the Mayor develop a system of collaboration where startups can play a role in doing pilots with dozens of city departments without the typical red tape.” “San Francisco is... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 11 Jul 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
The Transformation of Microsoft
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
opportunity you both saw. Who is the audience you’re going after, and what was the gap you saw in the market? MA: This is going to sound crazy but our target is the 200 million people who read the news online in the United States. The gap we saw is that staying View Details
Keywords: entrepreneuship; digital media; startups; news; business models; young alumni; Information; Information
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Artist Christo Visits HBS
To illustrate entrepreneurship from a different angle, HBS professors Josh Lerner and Felda Hardymon and research associate Ann Leamon wrote a case about Christo and Jeanne-Claude, the husband-wife team known for their massive, self-funded outdoor art projects. (Their... View Details
- 22 Nov 2013
- News
A Passion for Film
Management (TOM) Unit, which still resonates in the work he does today. "I bring some of the stuff I learned in that class to the majority of my days," he says, recalling a case study of Krups, the coffee maker, and analysis of cost,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Terrorism, Insurance, and Uncle Sam
In the wake of the September 11 attacks, business in general and the insurance industry in particular are examining ways to manage the high cost of insurance against acts of terrorism. Appearing before the Senate Committee on Commerce,... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Activist Investors Became Respectable
influence that activist investors such as Icahn are gaining on Wall Street.) Carl Icahn made news last month when he announced he had accumulated a large ownership stake in American International Group (AIG) and said he wanted the company split up. His letter making... View Details
- 1978
- Book
Public Management: Text and Cases
By: Joseph L. Bower
Bower, Joseph L. Public Management: Text and Cases. Homewood, IL: Richard D. Irwin, 1978.
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
manage the transition of their information systems? "If a company is addressing the transition of information systems after a merger, it is... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 1994
- Chapter
Customer Transaction Databases: Present Status and Prospects
By: J. A. Deighton, Don Peppers and Martha Rogers
Deighton, J. A., Don Peppers, and Martha Rogers. "Customer Transaction Databases: Present Status and Prospects." In The Marketing Information Revolution, edited by Robert C. Blattberg, Rashi Glazer, and John Little. Cambridge: Marketing Science Institute, 1994.
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Optimizing search technology
Olivier Dumon (MBA 1998) is managing director of academic and government markets for global publishing giant Elsevier, where he’s working on optimizing online search protocols. He believes that the more the technology is improved, the... View Details
- 19 Sep 2013
- News
Joy Covey, Top Executive in Amazon.com’s Early Days, Dies at 50
- 28 Nov 2016
- News
One Obstacle to Curing Cancer
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
@Soldiers Field
Understanding how the brain’s cognitive system relates to social and economic phenomena—including financial markets—was the focus of an April workshop on Belief Formation and Prediction, sponsored by the Behavioral Finance and Financial... View Details
- 20 Apr 2020
- Book
Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings
enhance cognitive performance. “Offices with the premier health story will get the premium rent and get the tenants, and the offices with a lagging health story will lag.” To convey to managers the benefits of the healthy building... View Details
- 06 Apr 2016
- What Do You Think?
As Tim Cook, How Would You Tackle Apple's Next Challenge?
peculiarity.” Guy said, “If you don’t have sizzle, who cares about security?” LarryWilhel added, “Cook should get focused on leading the company. Apple Pay has the opportunity to manage a trillion dollars of transactions a year ... There... View Details