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- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’
by serving as a central organ for distributing news of corporate activity to internal as well as external audiences. In effect, it served as a vehicle for making human conversation all but unnecessary, at least from an organizational... View Details
Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg
- 03 Nov 2022
- Op-Ed
Feeling Separation Anxiety at Your Startup? 5 Tips to Soothe These Growing Pains
was fair game to chat about. A typical chat might go: Full Stack Engineer: “I’m thinking of moving the ‘Learn More’ button to the bottom right of the home page.” CEO: “Sounds good. What do you think about what that potential customer said... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
career change at that point and why you decided to join the nonprofit? Ingersoll: There's a lot of different things all sort of converging at once. I heard Robert Reich speak. He was a former Secretary of Labor, and he said that if we don't fix these problems in our... View Details
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SPACE: Space, Public and Commercial Economics - Course Catalog
the Market Class session 12: Planetary Resources: Property Rights in Space Summary: The founders of Planetary Resources wanted to give humanity access to the entire solar system’s resources and energy, not... View Details
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
aside from the financial returns when it comes to investing in space? Garriott de Cayeux: Humanity is at stake. Without trying to make it bigger than it is, we can start right there with all the extinction... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
International Energy Agency’s chief economist announce that 2010 saw the largest annual rise in carbon emissions in history. So just how hot is it? Climate change, Bloomberg says, is “the greatest challenge that humanity has ever created... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Nancy J. Karch
years later, it's clear that she made the right choice. As a director of the Atlanta office of McKinsey & Company and managing partner of McKinsey Southeast United States, Karch has become an expert on numerous business topics, such as... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 11 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness
"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind." —Henry James As a professor of business administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at the Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
mountain in the world or how many zeros you tally up in your portfolio. New levels of human performance take us closer to the gods and set the stage for what we hope is excellence in our own DNA. These moments also make good copy.... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
Publication:Annual Review of Psychology 60 (2009): 475-499 Abstract As technology has simplified meeting basic needs, humans have cultivated increasingly psychological avenues for occupying their consumption energies, moving from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2021
- News
Holding Business to Account
the naming rights to the team’s Maryland stadium and, in 2003, FedEx’s CEO became a minority owner in the team. In protest of the shipping-services giant’s involvement with the football team, a group of impact investors—including the... View Details
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
power, hard and soft, to protect American investments all around the globe. Why did the United States get into the business of defending its citizens' property rights abroad? The Empire Trap looks at how modern U.S. involvement in the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
graduates, to address climate change?” Ratnika Prasad (MBA 2020), Associate Director at The Nature Conservancy "There has been a seismic shift in the last few years, whereby concern about the climate and sustainability has finally begun to take a View Details
Keywords: Energy / Cleantech
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Research Brief: The Fresh Start Effect
Humans can be self-destructive. We overindulge in food and fail to make time to exercise, and we delay saving for retirement. Associate Professor John Beshears, whose research focuses on behavioral economics, has identified hope: The idea... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- Web
Institutional Voice | About
themselves to matters within their area of expertise and responsibility. Humanity and Compassion are Paramount Institutional Voice, as prescribed by the Working Group, does not equate to neutrality. The University is obliged to speak out... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Effective Communication in the Age of Zoom
lot since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. At sort of its most basic level, how has this crisis changed how we communicate? Rachel: Well, this is an important time for human connection, a great opportunity for leaders to innovate in... View Details
Keywords: Zoom
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
to make long-term-oriented decisions, to put aside the short-term performance pressures and personal career or compensation considerations to do the right thing for the business. With excessive short-term pressure, even the wisest and... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Road to Recovery
in 2016, with Gastfriend as CEO and his father as chief medical officer. A 2014 study estimated that 12.5 million Americans had substance use disorders, and that number was rising, largely due to opioid use. In addition to the human toll,... View Details
- 06 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?
Every public health crisis—whether it’s the availability of highly addictive opioids or junk food marketing to children—prompts consumers to question how far companies will go for profit. It’s not an unwarranted concern. After all, cigarette makers once used... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Dog’s Best Friend: Jim Hawes’s Charles River Rescue
shore. After we got onto dry land, I was a bit numb and I started to jog over to the other side of the river to take a warm shower. The dog stayed right at my side until I got to my apartment, where we parted. A photographer happened by... View Details