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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Faculty Books
activating two forces that enable progress: catalysts (events that facilitate project work, such as clear goals and autonomy) and nourishers (interpersonal events that uplift workers, including encouragement and demonstrations of respect... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Enabling Students to Pursue Their Passions
and development manager for the United States—and sole US employee—of a Canadian pastry company. The job exposed him to many facets of the food and tourism industries, but it also kept him on the road 200 nights a year, and Bagala yearned... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
long-term goal of buying and managing his own company. Sharpe, who hired his wife, Debby Stein Sharpe (MBA ’81), as CFO, sold Extrusion Technology (an aluminum extrusion fabricator) to a private equity firm in December 2008. In 21 years,... View Details
- 14 Aug 2019
- News
Leading from Within
look at business development and values, management practices and ethics, and their roles. And that’s all well and good, says Lim, in that CEOs typically walk away renewed and clear-headed about their next steps within their... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Future of Foreign Aid
worked for the Millennium Challenge Corporation. Is the MCC development model an effective one? The MCC, a US agency established in 2004, is viewed by many as a success, in part because it aims to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
pandemics more likely. Aside from pandemics, what are WHO’s chief concerns? WHO has four major objectives: enhancing global health security by detecting and responding to disease outbreaks; accelerating progress on the UN Millennium View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum
the worlds of technology and e-commerce gathered for the daylong "CEO Millennium Forum," an event jointly sponsored by HBS, Microsoft, Forrester Research, and the Wall Street Journal. The forum was also the subject of an hourlong... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Curb Your Smartphone Habit
you asked at BCG? In the BCG experiment, our immediate goal was to make it possible for team members to have predictable time off each week. Typically, the target was one night with no work contact, but it could be any predictable unit of... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Better Mousetraps: At Product Design Fair, Student Ideas Get Real
Actually, we like to see them fail as often and as early as possible," Assistant Professor Stefan H. Thomke said with a wink as he watched students in his elective MBA course Managing Product Development (MPD) set up their display booths... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Roads to Recovery
Step Forward: Incremental Improvement In 2000, Amtrak and the Pennsylvania Department of Trans-portation resolved to make the Pittsburgh-Philadelphia train route "auto-competitive" by 2015. That goal is within reach, thanks to modest... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Inciting Wonder
Asked by the Chicago Sun-Times (November 25, 2008) about how she conceived of her new role and her goals in it, Rogers replied, “Having people feel comfortable, and having people be able, in the warmth of wonderful surroundings, to View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All
develop tolerance for minor annoyances - at home as well as in the office. Many organizations are still unprepared to meet the Y2K deadline. Why? The further you are from something, the less dangerous it appears. And, as already... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
president for product design and development with the company’s Old Navy chain of casual-clothing stores. Her influence is evident even in the corridors of Gap’s unassuming Chelsea office building in Lower Manhattan. There for everyone to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Platforms and Collaborations
When Dean Kim B. Clark took the HBS helm in October 1995, one of his immediate goals was to create a state-of-the-art technology infrastructure at the School. A centerpiece of that effort was the Course Platform, launched in the fall of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
scenarios early on in the product development process, while the financial and organizational costs of changing course are still relatively low. In Experimentation Matters, Thomke defines six principles that managers should keep in mind... View Details
- 15 Nov 2013
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Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again
company, Zetta Research, is dedicated to rescuing those patents and reselling them to companies that wish to unlock their potential. Of course, the CEO's goal also is to make money, but he also sees his company's efforts as serving a... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
groups such as the Global Business Coalition for Education have been pushing governments to meet the UN's Millennium Development Goals around education." —Ashish Dhawan TAKING... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
“A National System of Income Supplementation”
neighborhoods. It also called for “a national system of income supplementation,” whose goal was not so much to increase “welfare,” but to economically stabilize impoverished communities in order to encourage private-sector investment and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rwanda Provides Students with Hands-On Learning
students worked with seven NGOs, small businesses, and a government agency, variously focused on issues of social enterprise and business development. Student teams tackled projects with the goal of providing concrete solutions to... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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A commitment to conservation supports the bottom line
sustainability. “We strongly believe in the appeal of a strategy that achieves the goals of both purely financial investors and mission-driven investors, as it allows us to access more capital and have a greater impact,” explains Hoffer.... View Details