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- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
clear that what the Bank and other development agencies were doing was not reducing poverty. In some instances it was actually making it worse by sustaining the political and social arrangements that caused poverty, while increasing the country's debts. My interest in... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
Fienning, MBA Class of 1970, Section C. Five years after graduation, I was a partner in a mobile-home retailing company in Greensboro, North Carolina. I was a bachelor, living in a mobile home, and trying to create a manufactured housing... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe
little bit about how American women basketball players began playing professionally in Europe? Levy: Well, it happened like this. There were leagues in Europe-- very amateur except that the players would get paid modest sums. And no one really earned a View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
two vantage points. I think telemedicine has been like a plane heading down a runway for a long time and not getting the lift that it needed to take off. In a matter of weeks, it is now soaring. At Mass General a couple of months ago,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
feet off the Roosevelts’ mountain. With that, Moore and his fellow explorers had turned their attention to Machin Shan. But there remained a question mark atop Minya Konka, the “great snow mountain” considered sacred by the Tibetan Buddhists who View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
there so that we could replenish our water supply. As we got to the watering hole-- looking forward to the cold, fresh water-- we found a dry hole. And somehow, the inside struck me-- how dependent we are, as humans, on this planet we View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
manufacturing process for quality and compliance (including regularly uploading video of work in progress back to McHenry for review). Says Chirchirillo, “It doesn’t matter that it’s being built halfway around the world. Even remotely, we... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
consumer technology - no matter how amazing or elegant - means nothing unless it is useful, convenient, and readily accepted by customers. The fact that his wife's MBA degree didn't ease the drudgery of tracking the family's finances gave... View Details
- 16 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience
the recognition that no matter how much technology we have, how many PowerPoint slides we have, how many knowledge management systems we have, the fact of the matter is that people learn from experience.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
the method prepared future business leaders, however, Harvard faculty and administrators have long been aware of a nagging truth: learning how business operates and actually doing business are very different things. No matter how well... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
going to be taken into the receivership process and liquidated or restructured. “One thing the critics don’t fully acknowledge is the world we live in right now,” continues Moss. “It’s one of massive implicit guarantees that are... View Details
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
such as ground grasshopper miso and live shrimp dipped in brown butter. In doing so, he has resuscitated Nordic cuisine, spawning new restaurants all over the world and expanded his own repertoire of super-local cuisine with a pop-up... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
products that make people’s lives easier, safer, and more enjoyable. In many capitalist economies in 2018, and especially in our own, innovation is unending, and its pace may even be accelerating. The creative destruction of capitalism... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
make for a lively discussion. Bohmer describes how TPS can force a clear understanding of each element of the production process — in this case, the treatment of a patient from intake to discharge. “Every activity is actually an... View Details
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
anticipated that digital media using rich profiling data would intrude marketing messaging more deeply and more precisely into consumer lives than broadcast media had been able to do. But the technology that threatened intrusion is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Sep 2017
- News
The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice
pirate—believe it or not, you can look him up—named Black Caesar, who was marauding across Biscayne Bay in the Caribbean and was an escaped slave who was rumored—legend had it that he docked his boat there. And here you have, maybe a... View Details
- 30 Sep 2016
- News
Competing Against Luck
statistics. Does that mean, though, as a manager that things like ethnographies would be more important? Or is it just the filter that we're using to look at some of the statistics? Christensen: Boy, that's a great question. Absolutely it means that stories View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
Noting that nearly 40 percent of the alumni present had graduated from HBS since 1980, Piccus predicted a lively exchange of ideas between dynamic business professionals and some of the School's leading academicians. "This is an historic... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
energy future — it has too sensitive an address and too much oil to continue in chaos. horgan, at right, with driver, examines bullet hole in his car. Currently serving as Iraq’s Interim Minister of Trade, MIT graduate Ali Abdul-Amir Allawi (MBA ’71) has spent much of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
Storrs Prescription: Build a Killer App Silicon Valley is known for being open to innovation, risk, and failure. At the opposite end of the table sits health care, with its strong emphasis on hierarchy, training, and experience—no surprise, given that human View Details