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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
intense, markets tend to form, with supply responding to demand, in spite of controversy. Thus, with the potentially huge, lucrative, and beneficial industry that could emerge from embryonic stem-cell research, the question seemingly becomes when, not if. “Prohibitions... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 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 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
one on the opposite side of his office, which offers a panoramic view of ... an enormous, muddy hole. Site of the former Busch Stadium, demolished in November 2005, the six-block area in downtown St. Louis will be home to Ballpark... View Details
- 06 Oct 2022
- News
On the Road to Recovery
indeed, the entire travel-nursing sector—entered a growth phase as newly insured people sought health care and the demand for nurses surged. During this time, many of Nightingale’s competitors sold to private equity firms. But Moreno took the View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Herzlinger on Health Care: Revolution in Evolution
use expensive technology, which many people cite as the reason for high U.S. health-care costs? Actually,the opposite is true: advances in medical technology have made health care cheaper and better - and this is the third major market... View Details
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
and Section Bingo based on commonly used words and nonwords such as “incentivize”), the funniest day for our section had to be when we had “come as your opposite sectionmate” day. For our first class in the morning one day late in the... View Details
- 26 Jun 2025
- News
The Vinyl Revival
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Caren Kelleher (MBA 2010) was at HBS, she started managing bands, mainly as a way to stay involved in an industry that she loved. It was right... 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)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
been driven to explore faraway regions, although I walk with the help of crutches. My physical limitations never hindered me from visiting dangerous places and leading an adventurous life. The opposite is true: They helped me face... 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
- 08 May 2019
- News
Lessons from the Ashes
the heart of the company is very much tied to the economy. And so with the amount of debt we had, we had no margin. So we had to file for bankruptcy in late 1990. My hope was to preserve the company and family control. And what I ended up doing was leading to the exact... 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
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
she adds, come from these kinds of opposite pairings: "That also describes me and my husband." Building a whole new culture, forging this new company—that's an ongoing, long-term project. This year, she's also operating with a few more... 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
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
Gompers found that the gender of male venture capital partners’ children had an effect on hiring; parenting more daughters led to hiring more women partners. He posits that this shift in hiring was the result of the “true removal of gender bias”—that is, the View Details