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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
observes. At press time, Neurosmith was in the process of restructuring again, as it lacks the scale and financial resources required to compete effectively in the mass market. While Abercrombie admits that if she doesn’t find a partner... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
brain is structured to lie to you. There is a process called homeostasis, or the tendency toward equilibrium. You can’t stay out of equilibrium for long, but you’re going to try to get back out of it again by chasing success [which... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
working with members of Congress to modernize the rules and processes on the internal side. It’s been about 20 years since we’ve had a commission in this country to look at restructuring the way Congress does its day-to-day business. One... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
money, talent, or pilot projects. The big banks and insurers that have since signed up as customers weren’t interested in them, and the lack of an ecosystem made the process of securing seed funding extremely challenging. (They eventually... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
recommend that a bright, young associate with five years of experience pursue an MBA, the answer was, “No, absolutely not. She would advance just as quickly staying with us.” A number of recruiters said that what they value most is the screening View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
Sigma aficionado, Agarwala puts it this way: “Our business is about setting up systems and processes that result in good customer service.” On the technology front, a first-rate in-house IT team built the company’s Web site and stocked it... View Details
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
wonderful investment committee process where the key was depersonalizing decision making. You know, everybody had a speak. There was inquiry, and questions and answers. There was a second meeting because the first one basically just ended... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
leads the Athens-based multinational producer of cement and other building materials. He ticks through a long list of issues that have made Greece unfriendly to business, from thickets of overregulation and archaic labor laws to the lack of a national land registry—a... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
to do.” To that end, Bradley explains, he and editor-in-chief James Bennet will go on a “listening tour,” pen and legal pad at the ready, to jump-start the process of figuring out what that “something” might be. The destination is... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
and destruction, but we can help the victims. Help them to feel human—and in the process to heal them, ourselves and, hopefully, the world.” MARCH 23 Dr. Herbert Bleier (AMP 109, 1991), who lives in Austria, is working with his... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
formative years, his decorated career, and his postwar life. Sail the World: Everything You Need to Know to Circumnavigate the Globe by Erick A. Reickert (MBA 1965) CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Reickert explains the whole View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
which can be broken down, processed into rocket fuel, and used to refuel these satellites—all without ever returning to Earth. The technology exists, Landon says; companies are just waiting for the first galactic oil well to be dug, so to... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
tools, models, frameworks, whatever. The suite of things we can use in our bat belts to think about how we want to improve our mindset. So, no, I'm not happy all the time, but I do think it's a process and a practice, and something we can... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
To with Zibby Owens (MBA 2003) Writer Zibby Owens interviews other writers, health experts, and more, from the perspective of a busy mom of four. Capital Allocators with Ted Seides (MBA 1999) Meet the people who allocate vast pools of capital, and explore the View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
around a culture shift. There are small wins, however. At September’s meeting, when the board began the process of hiring a new district lawyer, it did so under the guidelines of that resolution passed back in May—the one requiring the... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
processes used by many firms to develop a workable strategy often feel overly bureaucratic and behind the curve. There is no question that strategic decision-making has become more challenging and complex. In fact, many companies seem to... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
instant hits. Last summer, Nicotrol became the first of these products to receive over-the-counter approval. De Weese left Cygnus in 1992 to head up M6 Pharmaceuticals, a New Yorkbased vaccine and antibiotics company. In 1995, he launched Hemox Therapeutics, a blood... View Details
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
Novartis as a boy, being in an iron lung for a year. He learned he wanted to be a great doctor and then he wanted to use those doctors' gifts to help other people with pharmaceuticals that could save lives. And he did just that. But he had to go back and View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
led the second successful ascent of the dormant Chimborazo, once considered the tallest mountain in the world. In the process he logged the highest overnight stay in the Western Hemisphere, a sleepless six-degree Fahrenheit night at... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
mourned it for a while, then picked myself up and moved forward. And part of the moving on process was to really stop. It’s a lot of work to shut down a company—almost the same amount of work as starting one up, but in reverse and a lot... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios