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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
know what I was talking about — I wanted to change that. I also wanted to understand business, one of the most powerful institutions in society, and learn about leadership and how to galvanize resources, human and otherwise.” As is the View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
OPM Celebrates 21st Anniversary at Gala Florida Reunion
home of James Barnes (21st OPM), who, along with fellow Central Florida OPM alumni, hosted an evening of delicious dining and spirited camaraderie. "The Reunion was a tremendous success," notes Norm Berg. "Many participants told me how... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Fostering a Supportive Community
Rules: Secrets to Starting Your Career Off Right. “Navigating norms and rules in the workplace and on campus can be difficult for people from different socioeconomic backgrounds,” says Insik Kim (MBA 2023), who is copresident of the club... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Mele
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Short Takes
winners and losers?" he asks. Bradach will continue to study these issues in future work. Coordinating Patient Care With tight hospital budgets and shorter hospital stays the norm today, hospitals must not only improve the coordination of... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
last spring. But for Gisholt and Minard, the satisfaction of running a business continues to be worth it, despite the logistical complications that can arise around raising a family when long hours are more the norm than the exception.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
authors examine how 20th-century shifts in global governance norms and structures eventually left the high seas open for predatory attacks. Reviewing contemporary debates about how best to combat piracy, they conclude that the solution... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
number of HBS alumnae founders runs around 25 percent, which is somewhere between VC industry norms and the current HBS class composition of about 46 percent women. There’s more we can do, but we have fantastic role models who have had a... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
other organization, is actually part of a community. And it cannot differ in terms of behavioral norms from the community you’re operating in. Like any American business school at the time, the only thing that Harvard could teach me was... View Details
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
real good data, maybe at all. And to the degree that we have it, in ways that are so aggregated that it's kind of meaningless. It is these normed averages that don't mean a whole lot. What we're hoping to do is to take the data that's... View Details
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
to bring the private, public, and nonprofit sectors together to work on making India cleaner and greener. In this special edition of Skydeck honoring recipients of the Alumni Achievement Award, associate editor Julia Hanna talks to Kidwai about how to change cultural... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Sister Soldier
Author Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (MBA 2006) has been here before—speaking with palpable enthusiasm and urgency about women who have defied cultural norms and changed the world around them through acts of bravery and heroism. In her first book,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
still a low-cost producer. HBS professor emeritus Norm Berg, who developed the case along with research assistant Norman Fast (DBA 1977), was at the time course head of Business Policy, the School’s required general management course.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
the elders over a cup of tea to explain what you’re doing, he was told. Notify a village two days before beginning tower construction—that way the men can ensure their women will be inside and not visible over compound walls. “Two years later, our competition didn’t... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
— is the first condition. Second, you need to cultivate an atmosphere of psychological safety, where people are assured that behaving in ways that aren’t stereotypically masculine won’t result in ostracism or punishment. And third, through its View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Books
that are far from the norm in most organizations today. The authors take their own advice and deliver this message with vivid images of innovative, real-life change in action. A broad range of stories drawn from the military and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
When Johnson was born, social norms and her government-issued birth certificate said she was Negro, nullifying her mother’s white blood in her identity. Later, as a Harvard-educated business executive feeling too far from her black roots,... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
establish new norms of collaboration and respect. Capital Allocators: How the world's elite money managers lead and invest By Ted Seides (MBA 1999) Harriman House The chief investment officers (CIOs) at endowments, foundations, family... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Effective Communication in the Age of Zoom
than interesting.” April: We have a lot of new things to think about when we're sort of rebuilding the work environment in a virtual world. And it's obviously going to take us some time to create these new norms and figure out the best... View Details
Keywords: Zoom
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
million property that generates $100,000 in cash flow would have a cap rate of 10 percent.) Historically, the cap rate for commercial real estate has averaged 9 percent. As property prices soared in the 1980s, cap rates sank to between 5 percent and 6 percent. After... View Details