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- 28 May 2019
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INK: Maker’s Manual
worth the resources they might require and the money we might spend and the time we devote to using them. You write that being an entrepreneur is more about tenacity than intellect. Was that something you always knew you had? I knew I had... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 30 Apr 2021
- News
Revealing the Rules
driven people as quickly as it’s hiring them. The diversity discussion has so far mostly been centered on how to get diverse talent in the door. This is a start, but we also need to talk about how to set this talent up for success once they get in the door. Companies... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
acronym) operates today in 158 countries and territories. With 7,200 employees, nearly 90 percent of whom are in the field, UNICEF spends more than $1 billion annually on its worldwide programs. (Of the agency’s $1.2 billion in outlays in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
rootless too and how its mobility could serve the public good." Gallatin successfully arranged financing for the Louisiana Purchase and for the War of 1812, despite President Thomas Jefferson's push to reduce spending and eliminate the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
say two things about that: First, in most countries, it’s the government that addresses the social determinants of health. The social spending in this country pales in comparison to most other Western democracies, and that’s at the heart... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
mainstream consumers, not just environmentally conscious buyers and early adopters. Tesla’s forthcoming Model 3 boasts a 215-mile range and a $35,000 pre-incentive asking price. Virtually every major automaker now has an ambitious global electrification agenda. Ford... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
quickly, and spend your effort on implementation rather than on endless discussion. Be inclusive of everyone, regardless of department and rank. Understand that the opposite of one absolute truth may be another absolute truth. Encourage... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
opened a $100 million brewery, its fourth facility in the country. Africa's richest man, Nigerian-born Aliko Dangote, is putting some $80 million into processing factories for fruit and tomatoes, two crops Nigeria produces in abundance yet View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
Weinberg’s man.” After graduation from HBS, Whitehead would spend 38 years at the firm, rising to become its cochairman (with Sidney’s son, John Weinberg [MBA ’50]). Putting his stamp on the institution that his mentor had saved from... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and traveled the globe, spending time in South Korea, Egypt, and Bosnia. By the time he returned home, Andreichuk knew that his time in the Army had transformed him “from an officer into a leader.” Back in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
with 250 students will typically include 20 teachers and 50 tutors, with students spending five hours a day in classes and two hours in small-group or individual tutoring. In addition to operating charter schools, Match Education won... View Details
- 30 Oct 2017
- News
Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success
for.” That helps explain how it was that Rice managed to graduate with honors from Yale with a degree in Latin American studies, but without employment. He did eventually land a job after college, spending two years at AT&T in a... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 17 Mar 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Adam Enbar (MBA 2010)
payroll). Today, we have almost 50 people working at Flatiron School. One of the great benefits of working with an incredible team is that your job isn’t necessarily to manage them, as much as it is to make sure they have what they need to execute effectively. Today, I... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
example of what can push the system to a new approach. Another example, which I plan to visit, is Rocketship Education, a charter school system where students spend the first few hours of the morning in a computer learning lab and the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
beyond this letter’s scope to counter Tobias’s many fallacious arguments about the national debt, in which he ascribes no responsibility to the congressional Democrats who originated most of the spending over the past half-century. If... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
is, having chicken any way you want it. But there’s no single ad that’s going to convert you. The effectiveness derives from a thousand teeny things that, over time, can get you to believe that this is a brand that I want to spend time... View Details
- 19 Dec 2024
- News
The Musts of 2024
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. I love these end-of-the-year lists where you can get recommendations from smart people about things that are worth your time and money. It always sets me up really... View Details
- 11 Jun 2021
- News
The Power of Resilience
felt comfortable moving on and knowing that the organization was going to be in a good place, and I realized I wanted to move into more mission-driven work, and that this cancer experience that I had gone through had truly changed my outlook about what's important and... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
for true disruption, this book outlines what consumers can do themselves and demand from doctors, hospitals, health plans, and policymakers to get more for their health care spending and, in so doing, reshape the health care system into... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
managers who, with little of their own money at risk, were spending corporate resources on ill-conceived diversification and empire-building campaigns." "Unfortunately," Jensen concludes, "too much of the current M&A; activity falls into... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry