TED - Publications - Faculty & Research

June 2012
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Buro Happold (Abridged)

By: Robert G. Eccles and Ryan Johnson

In 1996, Ted Happold, the founder of the engineering services firm Buro Happold, passed away, and Padraic Kelly became the firm's new managing director (MD). One of his first initiatives was "Aim for Growth," which was intended to help the firm grow beyond its current... View Details

Keywords: Learning And Development; Managing Growth; Organizational Design; Diversification; Client Management; Leadership Skills; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Leadership Development; Management Skills; Training; Programs; Customer Relationship Management

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Podcast - Business & Environment

low-carbon natural materials being used in fashion. Bolt Threads CEO Dan Widmaier describes Mylo, a substitute for leather that’s derived from mushrooms, via the TED Climate podcast that we’re bringing here a bonus episode of Climate... View Details

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About the Project - Managing the Future of Work

1955 Professor of Business Administration Joseph B. Fuller Professor of Management Practice Raffaella Sadun Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration Staff Manjari Raman Senior Program Director and Senior Researcher Maggie Bourdon Staff Assistant View Details

01 Sep 2023
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In My Humble Opinion: Futures Investor

In the half-century since his graduation, Theodore Roosevelt IV (MBA 1972) has earned widespread respect as both a forward-thinking investment banker and an influential activist through his efforts to address climate change and preserve public lands. For much of that... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; climate change; investment banking; leadership; carbon tax

07 Aug 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Debating the Responsibility of Capitalism in Historical and Global Perspective

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones

PRESENCE

New York Times bestseller, Wall Street Journal bestseller, Washington Post bestseller, Chicago Tribune bestseller, Publishers Weekly bestseller, USA Today bestseller, Amazon "Best Books of December" pick and... View Details

01 Sep 2023
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Solving for Z

lets employees around the globe share their personal experiences with each other in print, on video, and even live onstage in what Chen describes as TED Talk–like segments. The results can be startlingly candid. People have told their... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Illustrations by Doug Chayka; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Government

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Leadership Initiative - Leadership

named by Business Insider as one of “The 20 Best Business Books” and received the Gold Medal for the Leadership Axiom Business Book Award. Hill’s TED talk on how to manage for collective creativity has more than 2.9 million views. In... View Details

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HBS - The year in Review

Hispanic/Latinx, and other communities of color within the US prior to enrolling at HBS. The 2021 RISE fellows are MBA Class of 2023’s Adán Acevedo, Jerome Fulton Jr., Amari Griffin, Tarebi John, Zoe Matthew, Alejandro Molina, Ted Obi,... View Details

01 Dec 2023
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Action Plan: Life Study

Above: photo by Beth Perkins “There’s an artistic spark in everybody,” says Ted Hartley (MMP 4, 1956). “If you can get rid of that left-brain inner critic, you can explore what will open up in the right-brain side in all of us.” Hartley came to painting a little over a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

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Past Programs - Crossover Into Business

Larentowicz MLS Theodora Larsen NFL Ivory Latta WNBA Jonathan Ledbetter NFL David Lee NBA John Leglue NFL Brady Leman Skiing Charles Leno Jr. NFL Ted Ligety Skiing Magda Linette WTA Sabine Lisicki WTA Shaun Livingston NBA Sebastian... View Details

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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

University with her BA in Political Science with minors in Economics and Public Policy and her Masters of Public Policy. She interned for former Representative Christina Minicucci, and former Governor Charlie Baker. Her interests include economic inequality, public... View Details

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Profiles - MBA

translating scientific breakthroughs to directly impact people. 2. Founding Harvard OpenBio, our student-run biomakerspace, helped me appreciate how VC/industry can enable scientific discovery and foster communities to create change. 3. Reading “Exhalation” by View Details

01 Dec 2023
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Drop Everything, Read This

The Bookshelf Rick Rubin is one of the greatest music producers of all time. His book, The Creative Act: A Way of Being, is about the creative process and is based on his experiences with era-defining musicians. He encourages the reader to be open to clues and... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

January 2021 (Revised May 2021)
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Delta Air Lines: Navigating the COVID-19 Storm

By: Ted Berk and Ryan Flamerich

This case examines Delta Air Lines’ response as demand for its services plummeted in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, with a focus on the company’s funding needs and capital structure. Following a series of initial actions, the company’s cash “burn” had reduced from... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19; Health Pandemics; Financial Condition; Capital Structure; Crisis Management; Risk Management; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Air Transportation Industry

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Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming HI 1 of 10 Lisa Davalos Waimea High School Waimea, HI Subjects: U.S. History HI 2 of 10 Ted... View Details

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Career Re-Entry & Flexible Work - Alumni

Cohen, CEO and cofounder of iRelaunch, TED Talk speaker, and globally recognized career reentry expert, discusses the importance of taking the long view of your career and anticipating the career path that includes a career break. Carol... View Details

04 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

Scrap the Big New Year's Resolutions. Make 6 Simple Changes Instead.

can learn,” says Takeuchi. To improve your narration abilities in the year ahead, Takeuchi recommends listening to the top 10 speeches ever delivered, or the 10 most popular TED Talks of all time. 6. Try a high-energy outdoor activity By... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

30 Nov 2015
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Donors Are Turned Off by Overhead Costs. Here’s What Charities Can Do

toward clean water projects. Still, Keenan acknowledges that many in the nonprofit sector worry that enabling overhead-free donations will perpetuate the idea that overhead is a bad thing. For example, activist Dan Pallotta argues in favor of overhead in his viral... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

23 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation

off. While he acknowledges that ignoring data seems “pretty provocative,” McDonald quotes Netflix’s chief content officer Ted Sarandos: “Data tells you what happened in the past, not the future.” 4. Crowd sequence to accelerate innovation... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

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