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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
conflicts in both theory and political sensitivity: Should Midwest motorists have to pay a price for gasoline that includes a questionable element for environmental impact? The opposition would rise when this “externality” is seen to pay... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
everywhere I could to help craft an action plan, identify job openings that were occurring, create new ideas to make this initiative known, and outwit or overcome opposition to the appointment of more women. Those alliances were crucial... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
Castaldo attributes Pollo Tropical's success to a “high-value equation” that features freshly prepared food of restaurant quality at fast-food prices. “While the quick-service business has tried to take the labor out of food preparation, we've gone in the View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Perspective: The Morning After 9/11
know those squares meant to helpfully highlight correlation? They show that data points in the lower left box are typically at the opposite end of a recognizable pattern from those in the upper right box. Well, Frances lives for the... View Details
- 18 Feb 2014
- News
Stick with Plan A
world. Initially, Maddy pursued an early dream of working for the United Nations Development Program. "Soon, however, I became very disillusioned that economic aid was the path to economic development," she says. "I found that it actually had the very View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
dead.” It might be tempting to believe that the long run is simply a series of short runs, but the reality is that immediate pressures can overwhelm the long-run view, and even cause us to take actions that are the opposite of what a... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 02 Nov 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
We are focused on building, in some ways, universities that are the exact opposite of my great alma mater. We want to invest in good institutions and help make them great by making them accessible and affordable to as many people who have... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
do since I was a little kid. When I was younger, I thought engineering, math, and science were most important and that the rest didn’t matter. Now I realize exactly the opposite is true. Engineering is important if you want to make... 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... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum
based upon international cooperation; the opposite extreme, Haass said, would be a modern Dark Ages of failed states and disharmony. But he speculated that the most likely scenario would be the rise of a Cold War–style competition between... View Details
- 21 Dec 2018
- News
Bridging the Gap
undefined space between two stages of life when what we know is that, when we use this year by design and on purpose, and not by default, it’s the opposite of a gap. It’s a launch pad, it’s a bridge, it’s a transformative foundational... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
karate practice and that another friend had brought beer to the printers. Later he would provide a detailed account of Maj’s getaway. Janek had told his friends that the SB had captured him after he and Maj had run in opposite directions.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
health and education in the localities where the company operates. While critics feared that her cooperative, compassionate approach would hurt the 95-year-old company’s bottom line, just the opposite has been the case. A New Jersey... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Matter of Opinion
right-wing cant: Liberals are humorless drones. Truth be told, Navasky is more mensch than menace, an old-school crusader for social and economic justice who can’t bring himself to say anything mean about anybody. That includes those benighted souls at the View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
environment didn’t help. Supporters of tidal energy often claim that because underwater turbines are invisible from the surface, commercial deployments will not face the NIMBY opposition that has confronted some offshore wind projects.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
critique, agrees that HBS is different. In an interview, he noted that the School often has been criticized for the opposite problem — in essence, for being “too practical.” Light also questions Henry Mintzberg’s argument that MBA... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
creative guy. Since high school, he’s paid homage to both — becoming an engineer who also loves to act in community theater. Still, the question loomed: Could his seemingly opposite sides be united in a common career goal? As a youngster... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
definition means being comfortable with failing.” “Failure is not just the opposite of success,” says Shikhar Ghosh, a senior lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit who has founded or led eight tech startups over the past 20... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
far in the opposite direction and lost something in our inability to give students more interim feedback and written tests. With that said, I think the School has contributed substantially to business as a discipline that succumbs to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 15 Jun 2018
- News
Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life
to be happy on a daily basis. But the way that we achieve happiness, the way that we find the precondition of meaningfulness that let's us be happy is that we in some ways do the opposite of this. We look for the opportunities when we... View Details