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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
for low- and moderate-income housing to be built and renovated throughout Cambridge and Boston. "The housing crisis is reaching well into the middle class," declared Paul Grogan, Harvard's vice president for government, community, and public affairs. "The View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 02 Dec 2018
- News
Fostering Great Leadership
Ken Olivier (MBA 1979) and Angela Nomellini While an undergraduate at Stanford, Ken Olivier met a Ford Motor Company executive he admired. “I asked his advice on how I could get to his position,” he says. “That’s how I ended up earning... View Details
- 27 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work
Bumping up against accepted theories in process improvement, a new research paper from Harvard Business School questions the value of prioritizing problems identified by frontline employees. Citing a hospital safety improvement program... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
- 12 May 2015
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship in General Management
packaged goods company that makes some of the country’s most well-known brands, I learned how to approach a problem from a marketing perspective. I feel that the additional granularity this gave me is a great complement to the strategic... View Details
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Create Winning Streaks
disasters, strategic threats, fumbles ("dropping the ball") and fatigue. The key to winning is recognizing that troubles will occur, and finding a way to win even when experiencing problems and making mistakes. This can occur by... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
Read the preview: http://hbr.org/2010/04/fixing-health-care-on-the-front-lines/ar/1 Happiness Adaptation to Income beyond "Basic Needs" Authors:Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch Publication:Chap. 8 in International... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
tendency to prefer poor agents as they are easier to monitor. More generally, we describe the basic problem of choosing agents and monitoring consumption with the aim of reducing corruption and discuss features of the practical... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
are likely to find in coming years that the problems borders create are easily solved by forward positioning goods and services. Free-trade zones and special warehouses that preposition products for anticipatory delivery, helped by data... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 29 Jan 2015
- Op-Ed
The Fall of Greece
and, in any case, did not manage to reform the country in a fast enough pace. Driving from Athens to Thessaloniki in 20 hours is hardly an achievement—even if there is a lot of traffic. Moreover, I am happy to see old faces go: I am a big... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 13 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 13, 2007
observations to analyze problems facing the United States in recent years and to create an agenda for renewing American strengths through returning to core American principles—but in new ways suitable to 21st century conditions. On the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Sep 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?
problem may result, however, from differences in the timing of the end of cheap oil and the responses it provokes, whether market driven or not. If these differences lead to a period of very high prices, the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Sep 2016
- News
Ideas with Economic and Social Impact
given at a G8 summit in 2013 and resulted in a report published by the OECD in 2015. That work has continued with the next report coming out at the end of 2017. “We’re looking at economic, environmental, and social challenges in developed... View Details
- 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 things as the people who are... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Faculty Debates Lessons from Enron's Collapse
consensus that Enron's demise was what one faculty member characterized as “a creeping disaster” that can only be understood when it is viewed through a variety of lenses. “I think it's safe to say,” posited Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter near the View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Peter Harf, MBA 1974
Harf's daughter Katharina, who serves as DKMS's COO. Like the happy endings that Harf has brought to many blood cancer patients, there is a silver lining to his personal struggle with loss. In 1995, while... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Straight to the Heart
question, “What business are you really in?” How would you respond? When people come to a matchmaker, their natural expectation is “find me the person I’m looking for.” That is not at all what I consider to be my job. I’m in the happiness... View Details
- 06 Jun 2017
- News
Many Rivers to Cross
largest rivers. “Our biggest problem in Colombia, as in most of our underdeveloped countries, is poverty,” states Ospina. “And one way to fight poverty is through engineering.” The son of former Colombian president Mariano Ospina Perez,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
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.... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- Web
Work & Life - Race, Gender & Equity
children under 18 at home “My (white, male, upper-middle class) spouse and I desire an egalitarian relationship and if anything, I have more career ambition and have better credentials. But it just hasn’t worked out that way. He has ended... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Futures Made Bright Through Opportunity
tick — putting structure to chaos and solving problems from big to small.” Before discovering what truly excited him, Wu was on a more traditional course. After graduating with an accounting degree from the University of Connecticut in... View Details