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- 30 Mar 2017
- News
Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest
get into that behavior pattern and language pattern where-- I'm so knowledgeable, I'm working so hard, I'm trying so hard to reach out to others, and they still don't agree, therefore they must truly be bad people with dumb ideas. That... View Details
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details
- 22 Jul 2014
- News
Hungry for Change
200 food banks, the organization has access to surplus food donations from manufacturers and producers throughout the country. "The nature of our work means that we have been tightly coupled with the food industry," he notes. "But we are... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
my teeth, and nobody had had the common courtesy to tell me that it was there. So this really got me to thinking why had no one told me and also the plaintive question from Bob: "Why didn't you tell me?" But also what was it about Sheryl that made it seems so View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Kelp Is on the Way
experiment with seaweed and asked kelp farmers if he could buy some. “They said, ‘Sure, but what are you going to do with it?’ ” Perkins recalls. “Then I realized there was no infrastructure to store it or process it.” Further downstream,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
New Releases
management. The Development Factory by Gary P. Pisano (Harvard Business School Press) Product development has long been a source of advantage for firms. In The Development Factory: Unlocking the Potential of Process Innovation, Associate... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Ink: The Habit of Innovation
academics—most notably Rita Gunther McGrath of Columbia University (a certified zombie killer if ever one existed)—suggests six keys to success: Predetermine criteria. Shutting a project down can be very emotional. Setting and sharing a shortlist of criteria before the... View Details
- 03 Dec 2024
- News
From One to Many
podcasts, including Future Ready Leadership and The One Thing, where he discussed moving from conflict avoidance to candor; from feedback as a directive to feedback as data; and from energy-sucking meetings to modern-day collaboration tactics. We asked Ferrazzi how to... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Rationale for Non-Rationality: Why We Make Bad Choices
brain called the amygdala. This area processes sensory stimulation before it reaches the conscious part of the brain. If the amygdala perceives a threat, it boosts the production of adrenaline, increasing the heart rate and creating other... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA '88)
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Just Chillin’
evaporation and four refrigeration machines, or chillers (in background). Through the blue pipes, cool water is pumped to campus from which it returns as warm water, which is sent through the chillers. Heat is transferred to water in the green pipes, which is pumped to... View Details
- 21 Dec 2018
- News
Bridging the Gap
school and college? And where are you starting to see the idea get traction? Falik: It starts with the language we use. The metaphor of a gap year is exactly the wrong one—this idea that you’re sending your kid into a gaping hole that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
clear how you solve that problem,” Ferguson said, noting that it is a topic that commands considerable attention in HBS classrooms. Another problem is that new financial regulations imposed after a crisis occurs may “impede the process of... View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- News
Beating Pain with Brain Power
Dr. Elvira Lang (AMP 169, 2005) is a former Harvard Medical School professor and the founder and CEO of Comfort Talk, a firm that promotes hypnotic techniques that allow patients to tap into the mind’s natural ability to block pain and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
more familiar legal and judiciary system, better protection for intellectual property, and strong English language and engineering skills. The Indian banking system is improving and has a much lower percentage of nonperforming loans than... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Negotiating in 3-D: An Overarching Way to Get to Yes?
familiar - consists mainly of the process taking place at the bargaining table, elements such as setting a positive atmosphere, establishing trust, and being persuasive, creative, and sensitive. It also includes deciding who makes an... View Details
Keywords: Anita M. Harris
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
traditional landline side, preaching process innovations to technicians. Define jobs around innovation. Make it a job prerequisite. Consider 3M’s move to become one of the first companies to tell professionals that they could spend 15... View Details
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
and you capture carbon; and it’s a natural consequence of growing grains, growing row crops,” he observes. Wiviott and SFP have come up with a win-win, market-based way of getting farmers to go organic. The model affords investors the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade
Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez The Los Angeles–based startup Stell was borne of a pain point almost as old as recorded history itself: paperwork. One of Stell’s cofounders, Malory McLemore (MBA 2022), had landed a job as an engineer at Airbus after earning a... View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
on carbon conversion and turning his garage—temporarily—into a laboratory. TB: I ultimately came upon an electrochemical type of process which turned out could be pretty easily prototyped at a very small scale in one's garage—buying some... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
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Technology for Learning's Sake
technologies. Particular areas, such as Finance, Marketing, Control, and Managerial economics, seemed to lend themselves naturally to computer analysis, as did cases on manufacturing, where computers could provide instant feedback on, for... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig