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- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Fulfilling Their Promise
problems.” Schooner was floored. As a former high-ranking executive in the automobile industry, she was used to taking a problem and solving it. But the frank discussion about a very complicated and sensitive social issue with no easy... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Going Forward
complicated challenges. To achieve this, we are focused on several critical priorities. We must continue to build a world-class faculty by ensuring that we are able to attract and develop outstanding junior faculty members. While we have... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Ready for Launch
adviser: Professor Tom Eisenmann. His best advice: Figure out how to explain a complicated business in a straightforward way. What’s in a name? “One aspect of our service is providing firewall-like security in the ‘cloud’ of the Internet.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Virtual Plant Tours and Beer Game Dysfunction
unfolded, with the plant manager himself fielding some of the queries. Boston’s unpredictable winters can also complicate travel and transport. But when a severe snowstorm brought the city to a halt last March, “students at home simply... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
K.O. Chia: The Voice of Experience
A seasoned mentor who can stand behind a novice entrepreneur is a valuable asset for anyone attempting a start-up, but especially for those who are now launching ventures in Asia’s complicated business environment. K.O. Chia believes that... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution
unload them at the border, and reload the goods into an Israeli truck for delivery in Israel. This convoluted process severely complicated logistics, not to mention its role in driving up transportation costs. It was only when Mr. Lautman... View Details
- 03 Mar 2016
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Pamela Meyer (MBA 1986)
being paranoid. But the costs of deception are high. It pays to develop a close team of colleagues you absolutely trust and would go to war with. A complicated stew in our culture is creating a deception epidemic. Social media, for... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
New MBA Leadership Course
“The discussions forced us to think about complicated issues,” he adds, noting that there was never a right or wrong answer. “It gave us a systematic approach to thinking about difficult situations.” That’s exactly what the... View Details
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
Capturing industrial carbon dioxide and pumping it back underground to help extract energy from old, unproductive oil fields seems like a plan that might be good in theory but is probably too complicated to pull off in the real world.... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Doctor Is In
government's administrative costs for Medicare are only about 5 percent. And I'm not sure that untrained consumers can ever become sophisticated enough to make truly informed choices about their medical needs, a scenario that some tout as a way to reduce costs through... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President’s Report
in June 2006. The world is certainly more complicated these days, and it has become increasingly challenging to host these events around the globe. Thank you for your patience and flexibility as we wrestle with the various forces of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Ruling from the Bench
sharpened my analytical skills, which was invaluable for law school and beyond,” she says. “I also greatly enjoyed the courses on organizational behavior and production — some of those lessons were useful later on, when I had to preside over a View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
side, it’s still very complicated even just to get a crypto wallet. I think for many applications, a lot of this technical complexity is eventually going to get submerged. NBA Top Shot is a system for trading digital NBA video “moments”... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania
Afya Pamoja cofounders Patrick Anyanga, Robert Smith, Dr. Helga Mutasingwa, and Simon DeBere at the company’s office in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. In Tanzania, women are 100 times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Carla Small
son's childcare - all while launching a new company!" After graduation, Small plans to move into another family-related field: health care. "It's a complicated industry that increasingly appreciates a business perspective," she says. She... View Details
Keywords: Linda Goodspeed
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
The Exchange: The Tech Leader’s Tightrope
Image by John Ritter Image by John Ritter In the wake of the Snowden leaks in 2015, the New York Times dropped the bombshell news that one company had played a unique role in enabling the National Security Agency’s domestic spy program. The report, “AT&T Helped US Spy... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum
prison" and becomes easily accessible by less complicated means and is accepted "as just being out there, like the electricity system." As for achieving commercial success through the Internet, writer and computer industry observer Esther... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
streamlining the flow of data. When Ranadivé arrived at Goldman Sachs, his first potential client, he was astounded by the complicated assortment of monitors, cable, and wire surrounding each trader — the mix even included strategically... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
Square, set out to answer this question after she started to wonder about her own complicated feelings concerning the changing Square. Diving into Harvard Square’s past and present, Turco explores why we love our local marketplaces and... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
New Releases
that the more things change, the more strong leadership is needed and the more complicated the interconnected web of relationships becomes. While effective leadership and management are both necessary in organizations, Kotter points out,... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry