Echo - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2019
News

Remix

center her, she says. Later on she made elaborate mix-tapes, borrowing tracks from her mother’s record collection (Luther Vandross, Anita Baker, Hall & Oates, and Billie Holiday), grabbing new songs off the radio, and adding her own alternative tastes, from View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Chris Sorensen; #MeToo; DefJam; Arts, Entertainment

01 Jun 1998
News

Simmons Family Endows Professorship

important in shaping who we are as businesspeople," echoes David E. Simmons (MBA '85), president of Simmons Family, Inc., a firm established by Roy Simmons in 1978 that owns and operates radio stations in the western United States. "The... View Details

27 Jun 2011
Research & Ideas

Recovering from the Need to Achieve

presidents he managed still echoed in his head. He couldn't escape his frustrations about carrying one partner who hated travel, didn't know how to sell business, and—while good at producing work that was assigned to him—hadn't progressed... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

10 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Do You Have Change Fatigue?

know-it-all leaders unnecessary for successful change, they often muck it up. Echoing Garvin, Rosabeth Moss Kanter notes that it's very difficult for leaders to spell out in advance precisely what the future state should look like—so many... View Details

Keywords: by Nick Morgan

04 Nov 2015
What Do You Think?

Why Does Gender Diversity Improve Financial Performance?

comment from “The Real Deal” echoes this belief: “If you want real diversity, surround yourself with people from different backgrounds who do not think like you. You could hire 50% women, and if they are clones of your existing leaders,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

26 May 2003
Research & Ideas

When Silence Spells Trouble at Work

discuss different perspectives. But one speaker after another just echoed what the previous speaker had said. When any manager did dare to dissent, a colleague would quickly dismiss his idea. Having effectively tabled every discussion in... View Details

Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow

25 Mar 2015
HBS Case

Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum

and attracting entirely new ones. Rethinking A Trip To The Museum A museum trip has traditionally been an intensely physical experience: walking gallery floors, hearing footsteps echo off spacious halls, and seeing up-close the brush... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

01 Mar 2018
News

Every Trick in the Book

a discovery. “If they know what they want, [they are] going to buy it on Amazon.” (photo by Eric Millette) From the West Coast, Kathryn Grantham (MBA 2005) echoes those challenges—and opportunities. Grantham’s Black Bird Bookstore, which... View Details

Keywords: April White

13 Apr 2021
Book

How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations

someone I always thought was inclusive, but in hindsight he was not. He put women in top roles, but they did not get an equal voice. Many times, I was told what decisions were rather than being asked to make the decision or provide input.” This experience is View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

Jane Trahey

Trahey was one of the first women to own and manage a major advertising agency in the United States. A prolific copywriter and author, Trahey is credited with the inspiration for the long-running “What becomes a legend most?” campaign for Blackglama mink. Her agency... View Details

Keywords: Services

Portrait Project

Jacquie Sandberg

laughter filled recovery rooms and echoed from hospital hallways. Together we transformed tear-streaked cheeks from a symptom of grief to the mark of a particularly winning joke. My metric has changed, and the lesson didn't come cheaply.... View Details

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Prizes & Benefits | New Venture Competition

as ACCION International, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, Echoing Green, Invested Development, and The Bridgespan Group. Fast-tracking & in-kind awards for winners and runners-up, in addition to financial awards totaling $75,000.... View Details

15 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender

2016 Echoing Green Fellow Christine Su is co-founder and CEO of PastureMap. The for-profit software company helps sustainable ranchers record their grazing practices on mobile devices. (Photo courtesy of View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

18 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Beyond Heroic Entrepreneurs

traditional nonprofits, what's most important is the social purpose, but hybrids also have economic objectives to generate enough revenue to sustain their operations." Echoing Green Battilana and Lee, who were designing the database... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

11 May 2016
News

World Bank Vice President and Treasurer: Negative Rates Not the Answer

and the European Central Bank as lenders who have already adopted negative rates. Nobuyuki Hirano, president of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc., echoes Oteh’s warning in the article, arguing that the policy will “gradually undermine... View Details

18 Aug 2009
First Look

First Look: August 18

other slums in Asia. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/710004-PDF-ENG Echoing Green Harvard Business School Case 410-013 This case presents the leadership challenges that Cheryl Dorsey, the president of View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Jul 2020
News

Accounting for Real Change

of this moment echoes back to the Wall Street crash of 1929, he writes, when investors realized that they didn’t comprehend the nature of a company’s true profits. By 1933, the US government started mandating that companies adhere to... View Details

01 Dec 2019
News

The Race Against Resistance

resistance, we will fall back to a time when simple infections killed people.” “We are approaching a cliff. If we don’t take steps to slow down or stop drug resistance, we will fall back to a time when simple infections killed people.” The World Health Organization... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

Portrait Project

Mark Giragosian

My parents said not to worry about those kids. Thirteen years later I took the stage as a professional. I lived my dream. I even met the love of my life. My parents were always in the audience. Today, the passion I cultivated on that stage View Details

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Change Your Unix Command Prompt - Research Computing Services

bash tell me what the current directory is. Execute the following commands at your Unix prompt: export PS1='[\u@\h \W]\$ ' echo "export PS1='[\u@\h \W]\$ ' " >> ~/.bashrc After this your login prompt will appear as [jharvard@researchgrid... View Details

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