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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
of the great aspects of this sport is its element of uncertainty,” says DeWitt. “A losing team still wins about 40 percent of the games it plays, while a winning team wins around 60 percent. That means the team with the worst record can... View Details
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Wired for Innovation
long-distance oil and gas pipelines are guided by modern regulations and an infrastructure blueprint,” Skelly explains. “But existing US electric lines were erected by utility companies several decades ago, to connect local customers to nearby fossil fuel sources. That... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Borders and the Self By Chinwe Ajena-Sagna (MBA 2003) Masobe Books “Who are you?” Every border tells a story. Every story has its origins. Tracing a cultural lineage from the beginnings of Igbo history in the ninth century by delineating... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
Nickelodeon and Univision. "We know," O'Reilly observes, "that other entertainment and sports interests are competing for these groups and that we can never rest on our laurels." Innovation can mean basics like reducing parking and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
way—flexible work. But flexibility means a lot more than a day or two a week to “work from home”: 93 percent of your employees want more flexibility in when, not just where, they work. They want choice and they are leaving their roles to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
An Investment in Tomorrow's Leaders
Fellowships School’s Socioeconomic Inclusion Task Force and First-Generation Students Club (see related story), HBS aims to help students feel part of a supportive community. “We want them to immerse themselves in the HBS experience and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Taking Time to Make Time
People should think, "What are the to-dos, and who's going to do them?" Senior executives tend to think that they can accomplish this by just telling people what to do. But there's a big difference between assigning a task to be completed... View Details
Keywords: Time management
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
Illustration by Marcos Chin It’s market day in Barrio Curtidores, which means the main thoroughfare is packed with shoppers perusing makeshift stands that offer everything from jeans and blenders to vegetables and tacos. Moto-taxis... View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
Karacesme (MBA 2021) and Süleyman Onay (MBA 2016) are working with the Turkish Education Foundation to raise awareness about a unique fund designed to support students called “Keep Them in School.” “The foundation initially had plans and View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
been blighted by changes in industry.” Finally, Marietta says the lack of resources and infrastructure means that anyone committed to growing local enterprises and organizational capacity beyond the big city must be prepared to tackle... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
brings real value to our customers. “Innovation isn’t just about engineering discoveries,” Timken adds. “It also means getting close to customers, understanding their needs, and finding ways to address them.” Doing so was part of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
difficult, that doesn't mean it shouldn't be done; if anything, we should devote even more attention to the task so that outcomes can be improved." AFTER: Farmer-training programs and improved feeder roads... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
One-on-One with William H. Donaldson
December 2001 had severely eroded investor confidence and prompted Congress to legislate sweeping corporate reforms contained in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Donaldson’s predecessor, Harvey L. Pitt, had been forced to resign under pressure. And the agency was woefully... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Exchange: Chance Encounters
there was a lot more experimentation earlier, in terms of letting people be at home, but now you can see more large establishments requiring folks to come back. I’ve been talking to the largest technology firms about this: They’ve created View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
incentives embedded in those plans is key to resolving the current crisis and preventing another. That task falls, by law, to corporate boards, clubby groups that are widely criticized as the handpicked “captives” of self-serving... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
athenahealth's work is geared toward the less glamorous tasks of administration. But less time spent on those details, of course, means more time spent doctoring. "Those first steps of connecting medical... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
experiences, and the meaning of leadership. Click on each heading below to read their responses. What career advice do you have for today's female MBAs? As a trailblazer, how did you proceed when there was no established route to your... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
have to make sure our actions always match our values,” she says, and that means being as open about the little things as the big ones. Here’s a sense of what that can look like when the stakes are higher: The second phase of the... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
she moved out of her home in the Bay Area, settled into a condo in Los Angeles, and set about the task of transforming this idea into a revolution. There’s really no script for that, of course. It’s similar to the situation she found upon... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
New Releases
1996 faculty symposium titled "Breaking New Ground: Initiatives in Management Education, 1980-1995." Organized by Clark, the three-day event gave faculty an opportunity to take a step back from their ongoing research and talk about the larger View Details
Keywords: Susan Young