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- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
years. "President Bush felt strongly about normalizing relations with China and opening that market to American business," says Franklin. "My mission to Beijing to reconvene the Joint Commission was a win-win situation. The sanction was lifted and a View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
A New Approach to Contact Tracing
devise a new way to do contact tracing, Weiss says, “I became very interested because I’ve been so focused on the question, ‘Can governments try new things?’” Bluetooth vs. GPS Technology When TraceTogether is downloaded and left running, the mobile application... View Details
- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Paying It Forward
software works by interpreting patterns in the pixels of digital video images that signal attempts to override or skip checkout scanners. ScanItAll can also detect fraud at self-checkout counters, a growing problem in retail worldwide.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Case Study: Inside Story
cheapest and most effective form of marketing, but it’s also the best signal that you actually have a good product that people want. Don’t know what your net promoter score is yet? I promise you it’s high if your customers are finding you... View Details
- 20 Dec 2019
- News
The 19 Musts of 2019
work on signaling and persuasion can help enact urgently needed change.” —Laura Huang, MBA Class of 1954 Associate Professor of Business Administration and author of Edge: Turning Adversity into Advantage, forthcoming in January MUST READ... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
single-handedly helped lessen the severity of a national recession. Soon after his appointment as P&G's CEO in June 2000, A.G. Lafley publicly acknowledged that the company had forced too many changes too quickly, thus signaling to the... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
number one objective is not to mess up a good thing, so we will definitely remain a not-for-profit, because it generates so much goodwill and signals to people that we are genuine about what we’re trying to do. We are contemplating a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
goodwill and signals to people that we are genuine about what we’re trying to do. We are contemplating a capital campaign that will give the academy the staying power and the ability to have a longer-term vision. One concern is finding a... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
Campus Martius Park. The city’s mile road system originates here; 8 Mile is eight miles away. In the 1990s, when the park was first conceived, it was a signal of a future for the neighborhood; Cummings sat on the board that designed it.... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
Cespedes provides sales managers and executives with the tools they need to separate the signal from the noise. These include how to hire and deploy the right talent, pay and incentivize your sales force, improve ROI from your training... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Books
Predictable Surprises by Max H. Bazerman and Michael D. Watkins (Harvard Business School Press) Professor Bazerman and his coauthor show that many disasters are preceded by clear warning signals that leaders either miss — or purposely... View Details
- 23 Jun 2014
- News
Freedom to Explore
HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation. “I recognized the impact alumni giving has had,” she remarks, “and decided that this was the right time for me to make a gift that at least partially signals the benefits that I personally received,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Head Games
The football season is about to begin, a familiar signal that summer is over. The game is a huge money-maker on one level and a powerful societal binding agent at another — think Friday Night Lights. But increasing revelations about brain... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Evolving HBS Campus
appreciation of a gift from Lilian and André Esteves, cofounder and CEO of Brazil-based BTG Pactual. A “topping off” ceremony signaled the completion of the structural phase of the Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center, scheduled to open in summer... View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
Photo credits: Brenae Bowers Brix and Russ Campbell Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: This story starts the way all classic stories of tech entrepreneurship do: In Todd Brix's garage. Brix (MBA 1997) started his career in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Jen Wong (MBA 2004)
When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Time Inc. as president of digital operations in 2016, the internet cheered. With stints at AOL and PopSugar, Wong was a respected veteran of the young digital media industry, and her hire signaled the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: Cents and Sensibilities
rising dramatically over the past several decades. If rising inequality is a signal that more people are falling too low, the minimum wage feels like it is a way to provide a floor below which no family can fall. But that’s not always... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
How to Take a Stand On UBS and Climate Change
if an NGO or activist organization like Greenpeace wants to reward the companies that contribute to the greater good, it won’t know how to ‘read’ this company,” he observes. “To send credible signals to the public, you need to do things... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Nurturing Emerging Scholars and Leaders
(i-lab). Doris and Sauer were a natural fit for these roles. In 1986, they left Lucasfilm to found Sonic Solutions, where they developed and marketed audio signal processing, professional sound editing, and later DVD and digital video... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Outside Voices
In just 15 years, Greece managed to seesaw from one economic extreme to the other, from almost breaking the eurozone at the depth of its debt crisis to becoming one of the fastest growing economies in Europe in 2023, according to the IMF. Now wages are rebounding,... View Details