Managing up - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Jan 2022
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Untapped Potential

technologies and providing services that are designed to improve water management worldwide. Already, the fund has invested more than $9 million in 12 companies that address such pressing problems as flood tracking, water waste and reuse,... View Details

01 Sep 2012
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Who Owns Yoga?

yoga style. Then there’s the former model and ballet dancer Tara Stiles, who isn’t particularly interested in yoga’s roots or rules but rather in mixing up styles of yoga to create a beneficial exercise. “These are two different examples... View Details

Keywords: Kim Girard; yoga; Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Educational Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

13 Nov 2020
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Insatiably Curious

college, Ma worked as a project manager at Hewlett-Packard (HP), where she first realized she had an interest in business. “I had this insatiable curiosity about HP’s customers and the company’s competition,” she recalls. “I also found... View Details

01 Oct 1996
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An Atypical Case — Robin G. Berglund (MBA 1971)

At the Cedars-Sinai Hospital complex in Los Angeles, patients, visitors, doctors, nurses, and delivery people stream up and down the hallways on a busy summer afternoon. The bank of phones in the lobby is fully occupied. On one of them,... View Details

Keywords: Thomas Frick

01 Jun 2007
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KPMG for Mayor!

individual, a group of people, or some sort of board? Where would those people come from? New York? Nigeria? London? To my mind, it should be left up to the elected entity. If KPMG wanted to fly in a vice president from the Chicago... View Details

Keywords: Eric Werker; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

01 Mar 2025
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Patch Work

The week before the November 2024 US elections was like so many that came before at Winning Connections, with John Jameson (MBA 1991) padding around his firm’s Capitol Hill town house in athletic shorts, trying to demonstrate that the telephone still has a role to play... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg; Illustrations by Dan Bejar

01 Dec 2018
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Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter

crafting innovative ways to make that happen in the Bay Area, where median home prices sail north of $1 million. In Oakland, for example, the nonprofit used a little-known tool called the Chapter 8 Tax Sale to acquire 24 blighted, tax-defaulted lots that had amassed... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Mar 2005
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A Primer on Patents

LERNER: Congress won’t address needed patent reforms until CEOs get involved in lobbying for change. Professor Josh Lerner, who holds a joint appointment in the School’s Finance and Entrepreneurial Management units, is best known as an... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2010
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Leslie Gold

weeknights on www.shovio.com, with podcasts at www.radiochick.com. Tell us about life before RadioChick. I grew up in Bridgeport, Connecticut, where my dad ran a construction-related business, which is probably how I got business in my... View Details

Keywords: Talk Radio; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Oct 2000
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The Class of 1975 in Review

think I would have predicted that Ken would rise to managing director of Goldman Sachs and that Giff would become a widely respected CEO before his tragic death in 1990. We all have similar stories of friendships begun or sealed at HBS --... View Details

Keywords: J. Hans Stumm

01 Feb 2001
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The Doctor Is In

the hallways, patients and their families mingle with physicians in loose-fitting scrubs making their rounds, earnest administrators with armfuls of files, busy nurses, and other hospital personnel who team up to make MGH a world-famous... View Details

Keywords: healthcare; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2011
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New Venture Winner Mines E-Waste

consumers to access core components. Take circuit boards, for example. The process would begin with grinding up the circuit boards and would end with a yield of refined commodity-grade metals.” Modeled after the School’s student Business... View Details

Keywords: contests; awards; Mining (except Oil and Gas); Mining

30 Nov 2017
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SEAS Complex Reaches for a New Frontier

The beam going up (photos by Ashley Garrett, MBA 1987) The Harvard community marked a major milestone on Wednesday as members gathered along Western Avenue in Allston to celebrate the “topping-off” of the new Science and Engineering... View Details

07 Sep 2021
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Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2

this to students, which is, there's so many nights I went to bed feeling like a failure. Right? So many nights. Because at the end of the day, as much crap as we all take, we're our own worst critics. And I always was. But you have this sense of like you wake View Details

27 Jul 2017
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Seeing a Way Forward

surgeries, 40 percent of which were free of charge. The enterprise has been able to reduce the cost of surgery by up to 60 percent, working with support from partners that include Duke University, World Diabetes Foundation, Pfizer... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

25 Feb 2020
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Action Plan: Just Breathe

pain: major surgery requiring months of recuperation or meditation to manage the stress that was at the root of his health issues. But the practice didn’t fit with his image of a type A, high-powered executive. “I came to meditation... View Details

Keywords: April White

02 Mar 2016
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The New Space Race

rocket fly more than 62 miles up in the sky on November 23, deliver a vehicle into suborbital space, and return to Earth intact on a landing pad a few miles away. The experience was visceral: A sonic boom when the rocket entered the... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

13 Oct 2016
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Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease

company’s scientists and management team have shown “extraordinary commitment” to Cytokinetics. “Attrition is a constant challenge in biotech,” he observes. “The bar for continuity in management is pretty... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

10 Mar 2015
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Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling

managers were women. Google’s disclosures led other major tech companies to follow suit. Apple (98,000 employees) and Twitter (3,300 employees), for instance, reported similar overall percentages: about 70 percent men and 30 percent... View Details