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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
initiatives, including loss and damage—the idea that the harmful consequences of climate change fall disproportionately on poor nations that have done little to contribute to it. Agreement on a fund to mitigate the disastrous effects of... View Details
- 24 Jan 2020
- News
Clayton M. Christensen Dies at 67
importantly, Clayton had a passion for helping others be their best selves that permeated every aspect of his life. His loss will be felt deeply by many in our community and his legacy will be long-lasting.” A gifted teacher across all of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
Combining action and analysis, they are a formidable crime-fighting duo. In Pale Gray for Guilt (1968), Meyer carries out an intricate con to trick a wealthy bad guy into stock market losses that will benefit a widow whose struggling... View Details
- 11 Mar 2021
- News
Leading with Heart
speaks to Ranjay Gulati—his former college classmate and his eventual HBS Executive Education professor—about how Panera has faced the myriad challenges of the pandemic, the leadership values that guide him, and how a deep, personal loss... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
Dlodlo’s university education, a loss that can still bring Dlodlo to tears. After earning a degree in finance at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, Dlodlo remained in South Africa, working in international marketing and... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
to educate and empower consumers. The task has been assumed by a few pioneering nonprofits, such as Resilience Action Fund (RAF) that I founded. It’s time for business to step in. My book, Resilience - The Ultimate Sustainability, explains why the US has the world’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
grocery. All of the new businesses were unprofitable, though, and the losses from rural retailing threatened to overwhelm the entire company. Even worse, the avian flu had dented the poultry feed business, hitting the pockets of its... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Vision: Sound Science
of scientific inquiry in gene-based hearing loss and inner-ear drug delivery: “In some infants with profound hearing impairment, there’s a mutation in one of those genes that results in loss of a protein... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
- 15 May 2023
- News
From Scientist to Business Leader
cohort of 15 students to enter the joint MS/MBA program, Kim interned for Boston Consulting Group, working with health care clients. She also explored the current landscape of hearing loss therapeutics—“something I'm so passionate about... View Details
- 10 Jan 2017
- News
Paying It Forward
“People find us because everyone has the same problem,” says Malay Kundu (MBA 2003) of his company, StopLift, which is using software and video technology to stop massive losses in retail profits due to theft and checkout fraud. “Retail... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
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Harvard Endowment Grows to $32 Billion
endowment grew to $2.8 billion, up 20.3 percent. Endowment distributions in fiscal 2011 constituted almost a third of the University’s operating budget. For the second year in a row, the endowment earned a double-digit investment return, compared to a View Details
Keywords: Endowment
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Vision: Into the Breach
cyber-insurance market: As claims pour in for losses due to everything from business disruptions to extortion, major carriers are raising premiums and reducing coverage. Not everyone is retrenching, however. In 2021, cyber-insurance... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 08 May 2015
- News
Adopting a common language can strengthen global companies
language must also equip their employees to work together more effectively,” she says. According to Neeley, common-language mandates tend to be poorly implemented, leaving employees feeling diminished and insecure, and lead to losses in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
The Governor’s Admission
estimate that, despite its modest size, Lynch’s Granite State exports more than $2 billion annually in goods and services. Lynch, who was inaugurated in 2005, entered politics after resuscitating national furniture-maker Knoll, Inc., where he turned sizable View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
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Ban the Butterfly Rule for Corporate Directors
has provided strong endorsement: "Boards should require that all directors submit a resignation as a matter of course upon retirement, a change in employer, or other significant change in their professional roles and responsibilities." The question is, why? If the... View Details
Keywords: Joseph Hinsey IV
- 01 Jan 2010
- News
James A. Lovell, AMP 62, 1971
leadership skills became a matter of life or death. As the commander of the Apollo 13 lunar mission, Lovell and his crew were faced with a serious problem: a fault in the electrical equipment caused a loss of power and oxygen. As the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
New Releases
Initiative at Arthur Andersen, in their new book, Broken Promises: An Unconventional View of What Went Wrong at IBM. Based on interviews with IBM executives, company records, and surveys of the company's customers, Broken Promises is a cautionary tale of strategic... View Details
- 16 Sep 2016
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Gaining Ground on ALS
Bucket Challenge to support the Phase 3 trial of a promising investigational drug that is designed to slow the loss of lung function and muscle strength in patients with ALS. “Clinical trials cost tens to hundreds of millions of dollars,”... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
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The Small Business Difference: How Smaller Companies Manage with Less
pursue a number of new avenues simultaneously, to be very honest about what was working and what was not, and to cut any losses early. While several seemingly promising approaches went nowhere, one looked particularly good, even though it... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
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Terrorism, Insurance, and Uncle Sam
that historically, federal disaster policy has not produced effective risk monitoring sufficient to curtail the kind of risky behaviors (such as reckless building) that compound losses when natural disasters strike. With that in mind, he... View Details