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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
research management, to pay more attention to achieving results rather than expanding knowledge for its own sake,” Van Etten says. “In part, we’re encouraging academics to team up with industry in the hopes that the private sector’s View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
ten-year time frames for your next move. It's better to focus on what you're doing and stick with it until it becomes redundant or isn't fun anymore.” CURRENT READING Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, by Doris... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
of society. Donham now declared that in institutions (such as his own) that called themselves schools of “business administration,” too much emphasis had been placed on the first of these two words and too little on the second. Admin-istration, he said, required... View Details
- 14 Nov 2019
- News
Keeping Red Lobster Fresh
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Courtesy Red Lobster Dan Morrell: Kim Lopdrup (MBA 1984) is a turnaround expert. Early in his career, he helped revive Dunkin Donuts’ American coffee business and then turned his View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
institution needed to do better. It made us more mindful that society had new expectations of business leaders, and we needed to redouble our focus on developing leaders with both the competence and character to make a difference in the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
management system that's held together with baling wire. It's an unacceptable situation that will require sustained attention and support over time to correct. Tell us about your modernizing effort and its View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 15 Jun 2018
- News
Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life
up, and Susan is going to disagree with him because there's like something weird going on there, and then I'm going to jump in and win the meeting as they're fighting with each other. This act of building more robust stories in our heads, it tends to allow us to pay... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Ron Shaich’s Café Society
the attention of consumers on the go, fresh bread fans, and people looking for a place to relax with a cup of coffee in the afternoon. Expected to top $1 billion in sales this year, the publicly held Panera has also satisfied the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
At Your Service
care organization that has embraced the concept of tradeoffs with positive results. Some time ago, the Mayo Clinic decided to focus on the priority of reducing the amount of time patients wait to be seen. As a result, today you can get a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
New Program Helps Restless Alums Answer the Question, ‘What’s Next?’
like a misfit at the bustling consulting firm he cofounded — Oliver Wyman. Increasingly, the human side of consulting that he thrived on took a backseat to the analytical side that clients demanded. Sensing her husband’s growing unease, Ro Wyman directed his View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
the venture-capital turnaround that took root in 2004, venture firms returned to the fundamentals of dealmaking, with primary focus on the entrepreneur’s ability to build a good company, says Clint Harris (MBA 1977), a cofounder and... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
most companies, the financial risk remained too high to justify the potential reward—a situation that too often led to dangerous vaccine shortages. It was at this moment that Moderna turned its attention to vaccines. The company had been... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
and in a few cases by economies of scale. The Chemical/Chase merger is an example of the latter; there was so much overlap in back office costs and overhead that the new entity will save hundreds of millions in those outlays alone." The Big Picture While public and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
Policy Christensen is most widely remembered for his contributions to case-method teaching, but that focus was actually the second of what he called “the two great adventures” of his career. Born in 1919 in Tyler, Minnesota, Christensen... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
professional level. She broke off her engagement to another man and reconnected with Ryan after a five-year hiatus, then moved to Scranton in June 2016. Cognetti’s post on the school board is unpaid but takes up a significant amount of her time; her other main View Details
- 18 Nov 2021
- News
Strength in Numbers
attention to mental health, it was data that shaped the Goodness Web itself: One in five adults in the United States suffers from a mental health illness each year, and 46 percent will have a mental health condition during their lifetime.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
30, 1975). “In our very first class he opened my eyes to how people are motivated to make decisions. Before, I thought as an engineer — the best attributes and the best price sells the product. From that day on I focused my attention on... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
New Jersey, I was the project director for the introduction of the Exclusive Bus Lane (XBL) on the New Jersey approach to the Lincoln Tunnel. This was the first contraflow freeway bus lane anywhere; it remains the highest hourly passenger-volume bus lane in the world.... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
feared—but Japanese emergency crews were able to replenish the spent-fuel pool water in the nick of time, preventing massive evacuation of Tokyo. US regulators took notice. In 2012, Popik and Mott cofounded the nonprofit Foundation for Resilient Societies with a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Clark Bids Farewell to HBS
addition to writing and teaching about these larger issues, the School has the responsibility to focus society’s attention on them. The School will go from the periphery to the center of the University’s... View Details