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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Research Brief: Subject Expert Matters
expert committees, which are ubiquitous in science. Yet exactly how those experts deliberate and what factors may influence or bias their determinations has remained a mystery. “To ensure that the decisions coming out of such committees... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
detection of cancer is a key factor in survival rates. Day Zero Diagnostics research team (photo by Susan Young) Working with a team from Harvard Medical School, Kelley, who holds a master’s in public health, is commercializing a method... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
a thriving organization of significant scale. Gordon M. Binder (MBA '62) played a key role in just such a transition at Amgen, which now ranks as the largest biotechnology firm in the world. A California-based firm that discovers, develops, manufactures, and markets... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
Twain, Henry James, and Ernest Hemingway, to name just a few, and was well known for fostering a productive national debate around the pressing issues of the time—the modest goal being nothing less than advancing the sum of human... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Meeting the Challenges of Third-World Development
confront daily," Lu notes. "Working directly with people and their families humanized those numbers. Witnessing the impact of these enterprises on my clients' lives and the benefits gained by the community was incredibly rewarding." Lu... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Books
world. Kanter believes that attaining this higher level requires "deep systemic change ...and a deeper emphasis on human skills that build meaningful community out of mere connections." Based on a landmark project with rare on-site... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
at a time when there are really important contextual changes taking place in the world. Let me highlight five such factors that we discuss in the book. One is the changing nature of the geopolitical economy. When I came to the United... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home
and accurate commercial data (to facilitate business forecasting, for example), and a skilled workforce with seasoned supervisors. “That mix of factors does not come standard with every country,” Fields notes. As for government’s role in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
firms in the US, why have only 140 companies been able to exceed the $100 million mark? What do these firms do differently from the rest? Do they have a better strategy or talent? Are they simply beneficiaries of good fortune? While each of those View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Four Promoted to Full Professor
environment. He has written on a broad range of restructuring topics, including corporate bankruptcy and debt workouts, tracking stock, equity spin-offs, corporate downsizing, bank mergers, and employee buyouts. Currently, he is studying the View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
will learn about the challenges of entrepreneurship and undertaking new projects. Herrera Ronco teaches that entrepreneurship is a path to plenty and offers a real possibility to build a more prosperous and humane society. A... View Details
- 29 Apr 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
end, human dynamics are the only real lever we can pull, and they are incredibly hard to learn. A business can get everything else right, but if the human dynamics aren’t what they need to be—both internally... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
less in their first jobs even when differences in job level were taken into account, and didn’t catch up on either front throughout their careers. These findings still held true when we controlled for factors such as industry, pre-MBA... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
students to this, the initial meeting of his second-semester elective. McAfee emphasizes that students should feel free to call a “technology time-out” if someone uses a buzzword or acronym they don’t understand. Knowing the technical details will not be the only... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
the Syrian Electronic Army, which then tracked down an email with the Twitter login info. To Rothrock, one of the easiest ways to reduce the human factor and make it harder to hack is to treat digital... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: The Kids Are All Right
tools to get beneath the surface of their impact. These include a massive four-year study of industry disruption by millennials, which included responses from more than 20,000 people about 125 brands spanning 25 industries. It revealed two View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
States. "Like the supermajors, we have to be global in our orientation — albeit on a smaller scale — and that includes how we manage our human resources. It can be a challenge to find skilled, multilingual employees who are willing to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
talks about. In a short space of 30 years, China has transformed itself radically and become a major factor in the world. Victor and I saw this abrupt change as the beginning of a golden age for a trading company like Li & Fung. The... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Q & A: Pat Russo - Focused on the Future at Lucent Technologies
years before Lucent Technologies was born. At AT&T, she held executive positions in strategic planning, marketing, human resources, and operations. In 1992, Russo assumed the position of president of Global Business Communications... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HIV/AIDS and Business
significant factor in my decision to return after graduation,” she says. As a student, Ballou-Aares worked in Liberia with the International Rescue Committee (Bulletin, December 2000) and conducted a field research project on delivering... View Details