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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Philip L. Yeo: The Next Big Thing
sciences and bioengineering. "In the next generation, we will know the genetic and molecular mechanisms of disease," Yeo declares. "Biomedical science will control and eradicate cancer and AIDS, and individualized medicine will be the... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
his musket factory. And I also look at Oliver Ames who was making shovels just down the road from the Business School in Easton, Massachusetts, mechanizing that process. Now we start to get things like the telegraph and the railroad and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Scott C. Bolick
where he instituted the Student Association/MBA Awards to complement the annual Dean's Award for exceptional leadership and service. "HBS students are just fantastic people," remarks Bolick. "I felt that it was important to have a View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: Cents and Sensibilities
you might say—about the mechanical effects of an economic policy. We are not very good at thinking about the broader value judgments underneath those decisions. What part does the minimum wage debate play in larger policy discussion about... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
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Ban the Butterfly Rule for Corporate Directors
And mechanisms exist to handle such contingencies both efficiently and effectively. Depending on the facts and circumstances, for instance, a job change could lead to a decision not to renominate an incumbent director. In a case of... View Details
Keywords: Joseph Hinsey IV
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Broad Range of Interests Among Nine New Faculty
years, that’s an enormous technological transition. So the questions of how firms can organize themselves to do it, and what kinds of governance mechanisms will support and encourage them to do that, seem to me a natural extension of what... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 21 Oct 2013
- News
Moving the Needle
investing, also known as impact investing. "I wanted to understand how to use the financial capital markets and for-profit mechanisms to move the dial on the world's most pressing problems." Seegull had a unique perspective from an early... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
requirements — the cushion against losses — for all financial institutions creating a mechanism to deal with those institutions regarded as too big to fail Thain characterized the crisis as a classic bubble “fundamentally fueled by... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Stephen M. Moret: A Campaign for Positive Change
poll. This spring, the second annual poll garnered an impressive 92 percent response rate among first-year students. Moret was first drawn to student affairs at Louisiana State University, where he had been admitted on a music scholarship and ultimately studied View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Short Takes
organizational settings. (One such useful psychoanalytic concept is "splitting," a defense mechanism against anxiety in which the individual ascribes positive attributes to one entity—usually one's own group—while imbuing another group... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
develop a support mechanism whereby alumni could receive training through volunteer IT specialists. Highlights of its recommendations included a broader marketing effort to all alumni, publicizing the benefits of the online services... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Professor Ramchandran Jaikumar Remembered
was a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology, where he received a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering. He also held an MA in industrial engineering from Oklahoma State University and a Ph.D. in decision sciences from the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
New Releases
performance, customer knowledge, internal processes, and learning and growth. The balanced scorecard is a practical management tool that marshals the value-added potential of people throughout the organization toward the achievement of long-term goals while providing a... View Details
- 01 Aug 2013
- News
A Cure for Cold Storage
Tufts biomedical engineering professor who had discovered a way to employ silk to create stable vaccine storage. Schrader, with a mechanical engineering background and experience in product development, was intrigued, and joined up with... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
create a prototype of an off-road vehicle, recruiting local mechanics and welders in the coastal town of Kilifi. That laid the foundation for the company’s latest model, the Mobius II, a sleek SUV designed and made in Kenya, with rugged... View Details
Keywords: Amy Yee
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International
its pragmatic use of the profit motive and market mechanisms to make a sustainable, self-perpetuating, and effective impact on the lives of poor people. When the ACCION opportunity came along, it forced me to confront those late-night... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HIV/AIDS and Business
governance and structure, China has not developed strong internal scanning mechanisms for confronting its public health problems,” notes Barrett. “I do feel optimistic, however, because these workshops have created a body of community... View Details
- 16 Aug 2022
- News
HBS Club of Japan Event Highlights HBS Fellowship
against these in-game lottery-like mechanisms and their broader implications for the gaming industry and beyond. Sasago, who was a recipient of the HBS Japan Fellowship in 2019 and 2020, says he was working in finance while Japan was... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
New Releases
research has led to the development of a new organizational framework - the differentiated network - that will enable MNCs to succeed. Through systematic examination of MNCs, Nohria and Ghoshal show that differentiation coupled with strong integrative View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Case Study: Declawing the Competition
into a community of cat lovers. — Doris Banchik-Moxley (MBA 1984) 1) As a subscription service, invoke a simple recurring mechanism to allow faster feedback on your customers’ preferences. This will allow you to improve products and... View Details