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- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
says, usually less than 24 hours, while longer outages have been more localized and the areas affected have been able to rely on outside help. The recent collapse of Puerto Rico’s power grid after Hurricane Maria, however, is a frightening example of what could happen... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
true. But this has really made me think more about the role that institutions and public policy play and about how vulnerable the system is unless we really do have checks and balances. In addition to formal controls, that also includes... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Turning Point: Power Outlet
to be killed by police than their white counterparts. Yet the simple act of exposing my vulnerability and fear when it came to my own sons’ safety is what connected, because so many others were feeling the same thing. That understanding... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Short Takes
Be Flexible In today's competitive and volatile business environment, depending on forecasting as the basis for planning and strategy has become a particularly risky way to operate. Especially vulnerable are manufacturing projects that... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey
- 07 Jun 2018
- News
Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
As the second president of the Costa Rica–based EARTH University, Arturo Condo (DBA 2000) is following his passion for education that has a demonstrable impact on the world. “EARTH’s students have the potential to lift people out of poverty in some of the most View Details
- 29 Sep 2022
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
industry. The plan’s design was guided by several key outcomes: saving jobs; protecting businesses with liquidity and fiscal incentives; building tech infrastructure to support work-from-home initiatives; providing basic food and information to the most View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
different books resonate in different seasons. Recently, I’ve enjoyed Brené Brown’s work, especially Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead. I appreciate her data-based advocacy... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Vision: Into the Breach
for vulnerabilities in much the same way an attacker would. If those tests reveal chinks in an enterprise’s digital armor—obsolete servers, outdated software, lax protocols—then At-Bay’s security experts help to address the problems.... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
discs) Restaurants (grocer's takeout) Steel production (minimills) Telephone-long distance (Internet telephony) Are some industries more vulnerable to this threat than others? There are some industries, or at least parts of them, that I... View Details
- 02 Apr 2014
- News
Disrupting the Criminal Supply Chain
science and engineering. But those paths never felt like quite the right fit. "Since high school, I had done volunteer work with homeless kids and vulnerable children and domestic violence victims," she says. "Somehow, that really spoke... View Details
- 08 May 2019
- News
Lessons from the Ashes
undergraduate at Oxford. Do I ever wear Oxford or Harvard shirts? Never, because I think boasting is just awful. I'm just not into that. But, you know, I think it's a process. I'm not trying to be vulnerable just to be vulnerable. It's if... View Details
- 22 Oct 2018
- News
Capital Murder
some insecurity that is inherent in writing—in being vulnerable and creative. Every time you sit down you wonder, Are all of the words gone? Are all of my ideas gone? Every time you sit down, it feels like a leap. And in almost every case... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Fiscal Year Ends on Upbeat Note
Executive Education — typically contribute more than half of the total budget. But both units are vulnerable to economic downturns, and demand for HBP products and programs offered by Executive Education were projected to suffer from a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
One-on-One with Tom Oreck
the way we go to market, there’s a real need for significant flexibility and nimbleness. That kind of nimbleness is impossible if you’re dealing with an overseas manufacturer. We now understand the vulnerability we have, and by the next... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping the Beat
and not others. Criticisms even of elite education and where it is of enormous service and where it does disservice. But this album is more emotional. The activism lies truly in the desire to want to be the best version of ourselves. To want to lead from love. To want... View Details
- 30 Mar 2017
- News
Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest
flow from the moment. If something was troubling me, I would try different ways of exploring it, et cetera, in my own mind before the meetings. But at the meetings, the intent is at those meetings to learn. You have to be open to what the other-- View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
are used only once or twice in a person’s lifetime—a far different business opportunity than the one presented by drugs that treat chronic diseases. In addition, governments are the major purchaser of many vaccinations, effectively capping prices, and vaccines are... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
interests of vulnerable or disenfranchised consumers are protected. Encyclopedic in scope and authoritative in substance, the papers represent the sole major work on the subject to date. Herzlinger, the School's Nancy R. McPherson... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
guide than certain other disciplines that are sometimes regarded as more rigorous, like economics, for example. Economists with their more mathematical approach to social science conspicuously failed to anticipate this crisis, whereas a sense of history made it clear... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Disaster Master
the business world, succession planning.” Yet the impact and frequency of disasters has increased, Beer notes, making it even more important for businesses to integrate disaster preparedness into daily operations: “The vulnerability of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna