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- 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 learning to connect the dots between what you've observed in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
industry) will ultimately be successful. Those associated with growth and so-called synergies - such as the Time Warner acquisition of Turner - will ultimately be viewed as unwise. Today's activity, he notes, is more like the "disastrous"... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
65-year-old person in Southern California and everybody in between. We think there’s a real appetite for this. With our initial free product, we got to over 100,000 subscribers in under 12 months. We’ve since shifted to a subscription... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
analysis but by values. Chainsaw Al Dunlap, a real person with a Hollywood moniker, told us that a dollar earned by killing a job was just as valuable as one earned by producing a valuable product, and Wall Street was seduced, even though... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Sep 2011
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Breaking Free from Fear of Change
office. There’s not much middle ground. What are some of the most common adverse effects that such individuals can have on an organization? When high-need-for-achievement individuals — who often are in leadership positions — exhibit dysfunctional behaviors, it can have... View Details
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Wired for Innovation
ultimate goal of selling transmission capacity to generators of renewable-energy seeking to get their product to market; or to utilities looking to access the lowest-cost clean power in the country. To make that happen, Skelly spends much of his View Details
- 20 Jul 2022
- News
Wired to be Inspired
thought about having an elevator pitch. What's your elevator pitch? Is it: I have a cute widget. Or I have a cute app I want to share with you. Or we’re going to transform the way customers buy and sell, we think we can solve a real... View Details
- 09 Jan 2020
- News
Your Whole Self
serious time crunch while, at the same time, their organizations are becoming more global and complex. And these pressures, coupled with internal pressures to succeed, are leaving these executives feeling like they are getting in their... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The First Scrum
lucky to have the 15 to field a team. It was a real United Nations, right from the beginning. There were Scots, English, French, Canadians, Australians, and the Americans, who made up less than half. The extraordinary enthusiasm of the... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
informal, interactive setting. They get real insights on how to build a brand and how to inspire people to believe in a brand.” For a decade, the HBSAB has partnered with Boston-based brand strategist and entrepreneur Larry Gulko to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Chasing the Silver Tsunami
provide the tools and services that will help older adults live longer, healthier lives. Investing in Experience Abby Miller Levy was motivated to start a venture fund in the older-adult sector after discovering a dearth of options for her parents as they looked for... View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Adam Enbar (MBA 2010)
payroll). Today, we have almost 50 people working at Flatiron School. One of the great benefits of working with an incredible team is that your job isn’t necessarily to manage them, as much as it is to make sure they have what they need to execute effectively. Today, I... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
its reasonable hours allowed Cohen time to raise her children, Amanda (now a lawyer at the Natural Resources Defense Council) and Eli (JD/MBA ’06). During her NTHP tenure, from 1980 to 1993, she focused on developing programs to preserve... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
communities desperately need and want." —Marc Sternberg Photeine Anagnostopoulos (MBA 1985) Senior Adviser, New Jersey Department of Education FROM RESEARCH TO THE REAL WORLD "Essentially, the past decade has been devoted to R&D in... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
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Keepers of the Flame
construction to finance. Atlanta, by contrast, has had to build about half its Olympic facilities (at a cost of $550 million) and raise about three times as much money as the LA committee. The 1996 Games will dwarf the 1984 event and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 03 Jul 2024
- News
Surviving the Iditarod
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Sunny Stroeer: Many folks have heard of the Iditarod Sled Dog race, which is the last great race on earth where mushers compete to cover the distance from Anchorage to Nome as quickly as possible. The... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
Business School Press) When he talks about his research on the process, economics, and management of experimentation, Associate Professor Stefan Thomke is fond of quoting Thomas Edison’s notion that “the real measure of success is the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
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Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
Duncan for the company’s Hack Week competition, in which employees are invited to spend a week pursuing a passion project. Their idea for a personality-forward voice assistant won an award and, with it, some funding. “Seeing that Spotify was interested in... View Details
- 22 Jan 2018
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The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
several times since then, including at CMS: which processes in health care should we try to standardize, versus which ones should be allowed to vary?” Who was your favorite HBS professor? Dhar:“Shikhar Ghosh. Professor Ghosh had an... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
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Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
force behind a joint HBS-Tsinghua University executive education program that premiered in January (see sidebar). “With a 24-hour plane trip and thirteen time zones between Boston and China, the language barrier, and cultural differences... View Details