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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Untold Story of the US Auto Bailout
business guys, you need 1 union guy.’ So they let me in. All I’ve ever done is try to work on complicated problems involving multiple stakeholders in large manufacturing companies that are important to the country and that are in trouble.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Undercover Alum Faces the Music in HBS Show
trial. Enter Whit Sellblower, a Baker Scholar graduate of HBS, who goes undercover and returns to the School to pass as a student once again. Predictable — and unpredictable — complications ensue. Such were the Terms of Endowment, this... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
they know what disruptive innovation means, but I’ve found it’s often misunderstood. The simplest way to describe it — in a way that applies to health care or any industry — is innovation that transforms a product or service that historically has been very View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Effective Leadership and Decision-Making
down to allow moral instincts to emerge); "Pick your battles" (don't waste political capital on lost causes); "Bend the rules, don't break them" (in order to resolve a complicated dilemma); and "Find a compromise" (view situations as... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Lessons from a Megacity
Lima toll road in Peru. In Buenos Aires, despite Argentina’s economic difficulties, the team found a model transit system—including a new bus rapid transit system to alleviate congestion—that residents have embraced for its convenience and affordability. In Lima,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Jonathan Mariner
watchdog since early 2002. “Baseball is a public trust,” elaborates the thoughtful CFO who oversees MLB’s $800 million budget. “Every decision you make is analyzed, debated, and second-guessed by fans, politicians, sportswriters, and players. It View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Outtakes with Russ Wilcox
digital content. We hope that a by-product of the e-reader is that young people will do more long-form reading and raise the level of debate on some of the world’s more complicated problems.” Related Links E Ink's wild ride View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
John C. Sawhill Remembered
John Sawhill, a senior lecturer at HBS and president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy, died of complications from diabetes in May at the age of 63. Sawhill, whose research focused on the nonprofit sector, joined the HBS faculty in 1997... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Dhivya Suryadevara (MBA 2003)
XT4; and in Michigan, I drive a red Chevrolet Camaro. The auto industry has a reputation for being stodgy and bureaucratic, but that perception is outdated. I think the professional opportunities are unmatched when it comes to working on large, View Details
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Murray Named Class of ’08 Fellow
As a student of mechanical engineering at the University of New Mexico, Sean Murray (HBS ’10) learned to manage complicated projects. During three years of working for the Stryker Corporation, a medical-device firm in Kalamazoo, Michigan,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Leadership: Getting Down to Fundamentals
power of leadership through example, persuasion, and culture. Leadership is a complicated phenomenon that is not easily broken down through just one lens; it’s an accumulation of these perspectives, which is what we’re trying to get at.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 30 Jan 2012
- News
Shopping Around
the concept of designer shopping outlets—a relatively new phenomenon in Europe—has been a priority that has required both patience and diligence. “In Europe,” she explained, “the nature of planning, zoning, and design is very political, View Details
- 29 Apr 2019
- News
A Global Mission
countries by his count—looking for places where his business expertise could reshape response to complicated humanitarian crises. His first project was in Bangladesh in the 1970s, when he led a project on agricultural restoration after... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Elevator Pitch: Good Vibrations
fractures and subsequent complications kill 20 percent of their victims, and debilitating spine fractures represent a health care cost of $19 billion annually. “There are a number of medications to treat osteoporosis, but they’re... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
A Deal on Wheels
Will Boland (MBA ’09) cofounded CarLotz, based in Richmond, Virginia. It’s an innovative venture that’s designed to take the hassle out of the automotive sale-by-owner market. “Most people describe the process of buying or selling a used car as View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Virtual Plant Tours and Beer Game Dysfunction
unfolded, with the plant manager himself fielding some of the queries. Boston’s unpredictable winters can also complicate travel and transport. But when a severe snowstorm brought the city to a halt last March, “students at home simply... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
What’s in a Name
the brand. And I can defend this brand.” Jim Birch describes a reframing of how they thought about their interactions with their community, a broader perspective on who they saw as their buyer, and that complicated reckoning: What parts... View Details
- 25 Jan 2018
- News
Living and Learning in a Local Context
they're actually based on the place in which they're trying to serve. If you're trying to come up with a new, unique instructional method, or you're trying to teach a very complicated concept, if you can connect that to where a child has... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
New MBA Leadership Course
“The discussions forced us to think about complicated issues,” he adds, noting that there was never a right or wrong answer. “It gave us a systematic approach to thinking about difficult situations.” That’s exactly what the... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
Do You See What I See?
that would complement the students’ discussion of The Sweet Hereafter by novelist Russell Banks. In his story of a deadly school bus accident told from four points of view, Banks depicts the complications that arise when media and... View Details