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- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
longer than three years, that's very costly to companies. I've seen companies that already get that. I've seen venture capital firms. I've seen law firms. I've seen tech firms. But it's really, I think, bringing that evidence to the fore.... View Details
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
Cushing, considered the father of modern neurosurgery, was operating at Harvard Medical School nearly a century ago. And even with all the activity Amadio describes, the bench-to-bedside time for new treatments has averaged more than a... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
years, biomedical technology firms have been notably unprofitable,” he observes. “It sounds counterintuitive, but the industry may well suffer from its very ability to attract venture capital and entrepreneurs — every View Details
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
district on the HBS campus each summer. Most of the materials for the program are new cases we develop in urban school districts, along with a few classic business school cases such as Southwest Airlines and the View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
disasters. Photo courtesy Gregg Bemis Mysteries of the Deep Gregg Bemis Jr. (MBA ’54) Age: 76 Home: Santa Fe, New Mexico Gregg Bemis walked out the door of his last corporate job in 1979, at the age of 51. “It became readily apparent that... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
sector financial help a joint venture was set up with POEMA, a modern high-tech factory built, and coca plantations developed. Some 5,000 people were employed. Literacy levels soared. Political participation increased. Change had been... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
learning how to manage. Ultimately though, he would go on to spend 35 years at the company, becoming CEO in 2001. He was so dedicated to GE that, at age 50, he got the company's logo tattooed on his leg. Immelt, now venture partner at... View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
of his new book, Life is a Startup, which Wasserman—who was recently named dean of Yeshiva University Sy Syms School of Business—discusses here with associate editor Jen Flint. READ MORE Flint: One of the things that you describe in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
power and the attraction of capital from unproductive government uses to free enterprise," all of which has contributed to a "globalization of markets and free-market economies." One alum issued a gloomy warning: "The new 'cold war' is... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
Photographed by Melissa Golden David Bradley was painting a picture with words. The owner and chairman of Atlantic Media had gathered about 400 staffers in a small Kennedy Center theater near the company’s Watergate offices. It was the fall of 2006, and many were View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
country, manufacturing capacity, supply chains, and money, lots of money. As the head of the United Kingdom’s new Vaccine Taskforce, Kate Bingham (MBA 1991) has a bird's-eye view of the whole process. A life science View Details
- 11 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?
or where they are crossing ethical boundaries for the good of their own group.” Gino and colleagues write about this paradox in a new paper forthcoming in the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes with a decidedly... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
book to articulate the nuts and bolts of what goes into creating an environment for this transformation to occur.” As seen in these excerpts from DeLong’s new book, teaching—whether the milieu is the classroom or a conference room—is a... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
Illustration by Marcos Chin It’s market day in Barrio Curtidores, which means the main thoroughfare is packed with shoppers perusing makeshift stands that offer everything from jeans and blenders to vegetables and tacos. Moto-taxis putt-putt by, pausing occasionally to... View Details
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Negotiation is Like Jazz
exchange form the foundation of the larger improvisation. Each of the six improvisations described below involves a specialized set of fundamental guidelines for interaction. Haggling, perhaps the most familiar negotiation improvisation, is a View Details
Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn
- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
that Khan finds himself turning to science fiction to try to make sense of it all. Meanwhile, financial backers such as the Gates Foundation, Google, and venture capital’s Ann and John Doerr (MBA 1976) are adding credibility and momentum... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
of New York, especially during the Gilded Age. —Karen Tumulty (MBA 1981) is deputy editorial page editor and a columnist for the Washington Post. Before joining the Post in 2010, she wrote for Time and the Los Angeles Times. She is the... View Details
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
new book, Career Imprints: Creating Leaders Across an Industry, is scheduled to be published in April by Jossey-Bass. Mallory Stark: What is career imprinting? Monica Higgins: Career imprinting refers to the process by which individuals... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
human-capital development that Khan finds himself turning to science fiction to try to make sense of it all. Meanwhile, financial backers such as the Gates Foundation, Google, and venture capital’s Ann and John Doerr (MBA 1976) are adding... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
people before coming to HBS, I shot my hand up in the air, and we proceeded to have at it, as to how you motivate people to follow a new course of action. I now teach at HBS, and I have never forgotten John’s kindness to me. In fact, I am... View Details
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