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- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
support because a lot of these small communities, they are not going to be able to fund it by themselves. April: Sheryl, you wrote this book in economic boom times. Unemployment rates were at 50-year lows and still many people were being left behind. Things have... View Details
- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
foundations alike, and—as he tells associate editor Julia Hanna in this episode of Skydeck—the goal is to make a real change in the culture of work so more people can have the same kind of life-changing experience he had. READ MORE Julia Hanna: You've mentioned a View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
calls from the Dean saying, ‘Hey, can you get me 35 seats in the back room? I’ve got the Allston Little League coming in.’ And sure enough, he’d come striding in with the coach, a couple of parents, and 35 Little Leaguers. I mean, he... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Steady as She Goes
independent company on the Australian stock exchange, and diversified its leadership team, which had been primarily male before she joined. “For a couple of years, it felt like we were building everything from scratch,” says Weckert, who... View Details
- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Innovating for International Aid
jobs. Wu’s private-sector résumé is also filled with enough experience for a couple of different careers. He cofounded and served as general partner of FTV Capital, a private equity firm with more than $1 billion of capital under... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sea of Dreams
Then it got worse: He fell for an audacious Ponzi scheme that swallowed up much of his fortune. A mild-mannered man who began his career as an accountant, Von Allmen was an unlikely victim, but as he told me a couple of years later, "I... View Details
- 26 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Deal: Negotiauctions
talking about. Imagine that you are looking to replace the fence around your backyard, as my wife and I were a couple of years ago. What do you do? You talk to several fence contractors, and you get bids from a few who you think would do... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 29 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want?
cases where founders were able to achieve Rich and Regal. In my current case writing, I'm looking at a couple of entrepreneurs who have been able to keep control of the CEO position for much longer than we might expect, along with more... View Details
- 30 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning
There are a couple of things I am working on at this time. One has to do with the negative effects of product variety. The basic premise is that certain types of product variety increase the attractiveness of a brand and other types of... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Mahoney
- 20 Jun 2019
- News
Reframing Modern Art
financial institution, but our clients were the heads of equity, the heads of sell-side research, sales and trading in investment banks. So, you have this career, which I really enjoyed. There were a couple of transitional points with the... View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
movement as there is, say, in the tech space. I might have worked at Google for two years and then Dropbox for two years and Facebook for a couple years, and you know, there's a lot of cross-pollination of what are the best practices in... View Details
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
risk in the financial system. Individually, each of these trends is benign, but when they occur simultaneously, as they did over the past decade, they impose an unintentional synchronization of homeowner leverage. This synchronization, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership
"Plane Smart." It seems that Stevens Aviation had already been using "Just Plane Smart" as their slogan for the past couple of years. But instead of calling on his lawyers to get things straightened out, Herwald phoned... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
caring American woman, Edna was a research assistant at HBS when she first laid eyes on Doriot. For the next 48 years, Edna was his devoted wife and closest friend, and the couple enjoyed a lifelong storybook romance. Doriot would often... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
their previous state subsidies reduced and replaced by more modest payments from the insurance plans now covering their patients.” But overall, Slavin says that the Massachusetts model could work nationally, though he notes the state started out with a View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
Museum's Web site are increasing dramatically — with well over two million expected this year. The Field has also branched out into distance learning with a program that reaches people who otherwise could not visit the museum. "We put a View Details
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
different," Conforti confesses. "The plan all along was to turn Finale into a national dessert chain. We ran into the buzz saw of the recession just as we opened a fourth restaurant in a high-end mall. That's now a couple of years in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
chain. We ran into the buzz saw of the recession just as we opened a fourth restaurant in a high-end mall. That’s now a couple of years in the rearview mirror, but you can’t deny that the recession had an impact on our trajectory.” Last... View Details
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Ansel Adams and Polaroid R&D | Baker Library
at Polaroid, Adams learned the delicate balance of becoming “more resolute to the challenges of quality, yet more understanding of the realities of the marketplace.” (24) The dedication of Morse and Adams to the practical development and commercial viability of the... View Details