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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
the economy or the taxpayer.” Finding a Middle Path Neither has to happen, says Moss, who ardently believes that his approach finds a middle ground between the harm and moral hazard extremes foreseen by Sununu. Today, financial... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
from 15 percent to 30 percent or more. Would such an increase harm venture capital? I don’t think it would be a good thing, and I say this, of course, with an admitted strong bias. Long-term investment in particular should be viewed as... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
chaos, damage to customer relations, and harm to the brand that swirl around any product recall. Nope. By five o’clock that afternoon, the SmartPak customers who had purchased the batch of the product in question had received either a... View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
harming my ability to get to something I’m going to celebrate at the end and it’s going to spark a lesser regret, whereas taking the right fork might be able to go and enable something a lot better for me, given my motivations and my... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
to something big. After a second field study, Solomon and Hillerstrom launched NeuroPhage. In tests on mice, the drug they developed improved both memory and cognitive abilities. “We believe it can identify harmful aggregates in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
an economic crisis erupts, something that has happened with regularity. Nor does it stop governments from intervening at the risk of doing more harm than good. Few, it seems, learn from the lessons of history. In Ferguson’s view, the real... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Effective Communication in the Age of Zoom
the pandemic? Because the virus scares the crap out of everyone.” April: Rachel, you've studied a lot about conversation styles. Are there particular conversation styles that are either helpful or harmful in the online environment?... View Details
Keywords: Zoom
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
Moss Kanter: Silos, Cronies, and the Business Monarchy When organizations are structured into narrow territories that reinforce “silos” or “cells,” that can be harmful in several ways. Under such conditions, individuals in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
slow or even shift into reverse, but without disastrous consequences. “Higher rates would moderate the froth in the market,” says Furber, who sees no harm in knocking out players who depend too much on easy credit. “An upward movement in... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
On Purpose
problematic stereotypes. Instead of shelving the titles, Cohen says Disney decided to address the harm done, look into how it happened, and make it a part of their conversations around DEI and the role of stories in our culture. A handful... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Additional alumni books for your consideration.
company to still lose money, Byrnes explains how managers can rethink their business for maximum profit. Along the way, he punctures such harmful myths as revenues are good, costs are bad; all customers should get the same great service;... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
it’s all about empowerment. Says Johnson, now a senior executive at PepsiCo in New York, “Coming to work and doing no harm is very different from coming to work and changing the way people perceive themselves.” —GE Jamie Houghton A Leader... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Alumni Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books 20+ Years of Urban Rebuilding: Lessons from the Revival of Lower Manhattan after 9/11 By Patrice Derrington (MBA 1991) and Rosemary Scanlon (PMD 42, 1981) Routledge Following the destruction of the World Trade Center and the... View Details
- 23 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method
(MBA 1967), and Herb Kaplan (MBA 1965) hope that energized reaction from the business community will turn into active engagement in fixing a decidedly broken electoral system. “Our political dysfunction is harming American... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
a one-time treatment that’s going to make your lupus go away for life, then I don’t have to be governed by the economics of pill manufacturing — especially when long-term medications may prove harmful over time, as recent headlines remind... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
his eyes were still red. Everyone had assumed his eyes were red because he had been crying. But the nurse wondered if Kevin might have Kawasaki disease, a rare childhood illness that can harm the coronary arteries, and whose symptoms... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
harmful consequences of climate change fall disproportionately on poor nations that have done little to contribute to it. Agreement on a fund to mitigate the disastrous effects of climate damage in poorer nations was seen as a surprising... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Down the Memory Chute
particularly harmful to our record at HBS, were not truly representative of our performance. The one woman in our class who was significantly older than the rest of us, and therefore not a social threat to the WAC readers’ hopes and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
unless the pay is perfor-mance-related, did more harm than good. It caused companies to come up with sham performance criteria that work on paper but really are not pay for performance. I automatically advise any board I work with to make... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
in the corporate environment and how harmful their absence can be." Bringing Soul to Work Many organizations have begun to tend to the needs of the spirit by hiring holistic consultants who offer classes and seminars on topics such as... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso