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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Rediscovering America
not to mention our own self-esteem — are on the line.” Kanter’s recommendations, which span economic, social, and government concerns, include securing the country’s future by nurturing innovation; getting the work-family balance right; View Details
- 26 Jul 2018
- News
Running the Numbers
she continues, “because they encourage that style of management, both internally with my team at KAGR and in our approach to helping client companies gain an edge on competitors. In sports and in business, the key to good leadership is to... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 17 Aug 2015
- News
The Play Alchemist
energy-generating products to teach about science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM); inspire invention with limited resources; and encourage students to see life as a game that can be won regardless of age, religion, race, or... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Academic Cross-Pollination
to encourage the development of new technologies that focus on clean, renewable, or efficient energy resources. One of our teams developed last year’s winning idea: a polymer-producing bacteria that eats away at microbial scale formation... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham
fiction," remarks Pamela Thomas- Graham. A few years into her career at McKinsey & Co., Thomas-Graham remembers feeling that her work/life balance was "starting to get a little askew…I wasn't having much opportunity to explore the creative side of my personality."... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf
people, with sophisticated tactics for building partnerships with them. The book explains the dynamics of power and encourages managers to engage in difficult conversations, overcome their fear of no, let go of their problems with... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
going to Ukrainian relief funds. (Poznansky also encourages anyone looking to help launch a Buy Ukrainian campaign or who knows of Ukrainian companies exporting goods or services to the USA to contact him at joelpoz@hotmail.com.) “It does... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
Neighborhood Revival, former HBS senior lecturer Paul S. Grogan, who also served as Harvard's vice president for Government, Community, and Public Affairs, and coauthor Tony Proscio point to four encouraging trends that give cause for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
who can really afford credits [to offset emissions] are funds like Frontier and the Microsofts of the world—organizations that want to encourage growth and development. But costs will naturally come down over time, the way most industrial... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
technology offered two advantages. First, the company had been focused on creating not a single drug, but a platform for analyzing proteins and producing synthetic mRNA. That same process could be used to analyze the proteins on a virus and develop a synthetic virus... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
capital in the world. It's time we had some kind of a health-care/SEC equivalent. There are some encouraging trends in the private sector. For example, Sears Holdings Corporation and Darden Restaurants are now giving employees cash... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
ever seen. By offering 10 years of policy certainty, the IRA encourages technology innovators to form companies and it reassures larger corporates to be their buyers. So as early-stage investors in clean energy, electrified... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
people, sometimes totally new, came to the village for the first time. In a few places I visited, genocide victims were given plots of land right next door to someone who had been a perpetrator of the genocide, thereby encouraging some... View Details
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
Unless we have colonies elsewhere than on earth, there is a time that humanity could disappear. That’s the doom scenario. There is a talk by Jeff Bezos on that... For those of you who haven’t seen it, I would encourage you to look for it.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
coursework similar to what I had been doing at JPL.” As his doctoral work progressed, Light became “more and more interested in the Business School side of the joint program.” He found mentors in Raiffa and Finance Professor Eli Shapiro, who View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
share to around $1 a share in two years. With the company’s survival in question, Houghton was called back as CEO in 2002. This time, leadership required lifting spirits, not dropping the hammer. He exhorted his employees (“We will succeed”) while View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
successes have been nothing short of extraordinary. Goodwin encouraged Marriott to build a hotel in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake. The hotel—which Goodwin calls both an astute business decision and smart social one—is scheduled to... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
School, the article evoked a flood of encouraging letters and e-mails. “The response wasn’t ‘you’re crazy,’ or ‘competition has no place in health care,’” recalls Porter. “We felt obligated to turn the diagnosis in the article into... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
significant district vendor, and a family relationship between a partner and senior school district administrator. But the fact that the discussion happened at all, and will be debated further, was a step forward. Cognetti also cites View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
motivated by the desire to encourage change within the venture sector, but mostly she was driven by the same consideration that has driven every entrepreneur since the founding of the venture capital system more than eight decades ago:... View Details