Respect For Improvements - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 1996
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Class Acts

on the enormous success of the event, last summer the Dean's Office invited Dobron to work full-time to refine and implement suggestions for improving campus life that were generated during the case... View Details

01 Jan 2012
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Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989

Appointed Managing Director, Alcan, Limerick, Ireland 2002 Appointed CEO, Alcan Primary Metal Group 2006 Named one of “50 Women to Watch” by WSJ 2007 Appointed Chief Executive, Anglo American 2008 Implements “zero harm” policy to improve... View Details

25 Jul 2024
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Mentorship Program in Singapore is Still Lighting the Way to Success

becoming the bottleneck of the process. When the lockdown lifted, we decided to take a step back for a year so we could strategize with our mentee school partners to improve our process.” The program... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Sep 2015
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The Protagonist Goes Prime Time

Buell sprints from the Skydeck, his gray jacket flapping, to add another student idea to the slowly growing list on the chalkboard. The Managing Health Care Delivery Executive Education class is brainstorming ways to improve the customer... View Details

Keywords: April White

14 Feb 2019
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Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change

microorganisms that improve crop health and productivity, reducing the need for chemical fertilizers and pesticides. “We could absorb all the carbon humans have put into the atmosphere since the beginning of... View Details

01 Oct 1999
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Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act

An extraordinary career based on the development of innovative, cutting-edge technology products was launched twenty years ago from the front row of an Aldrich Hall classroom. Crunching numbers for case studies late into the night was... View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs

01 Jun 2008
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Team MBA

GROUP DYNAMIC: (Clockwise from bottom) Andrew Saunders, Sonia Sahney, Tyler Koop, Courtney Hughes, and Peter Stone. Not pictured: Amyn Pesnani Photographs by Webb Chappell For this year’s feature on the School’s newest alumni, we selected... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2020
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Vital Signs

around for a long time but with slower adoption than what we’d like to see. COVID has provided the momentum to bring more care online as providers adapt to the situation. Especially for clinics and hospitals... View Details

Keywords: Jen Mele; COVID-19; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2017
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Case Study: Something New

suggesting voluntarily sharing cost information improves retailers’ sales. For more information about pricing strategy or retail supply chains, check out ABI and other resources on eBaker. View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jan 2007
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Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965

patient's range of motion. "One-third of every board meeting is devoted to new products," he states. "It continues to fascinate me, because it represents the future." Wyss's passion for improving medical... View Details

02 Jun 2019
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A Data-Driven Approach to Gun Policy

meetings in San Francisco and switched on the TV to watch the news. For the next six hours I was transfixed,” he explains. “I don’t get emotional very often, but I was overwhelmed.” Back in Boston, fellow HBS faculty member Mike Luca had... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

26 May 2016
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Sunil B. Mittal, OPM 27, 1999

around his vision, Sunil Mittal easily could have followed in his father’s footsteps and earned a name for himself as a politician. Instead, he chose to focus his talents on changing the world as an entrepreneur. Growing up in Ludhiana, a... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

15 Jun 2021
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The Value of Difficult Conversations

The Tulsa Massacre, which took place from May 31 to June 1, 1921, remains one of the worst incidents of racial violence in US history. Ashley McCray (MBA 2022) was a little nervous as she prepared to join 700 of her first-year classmates in February View Details

Keywords: April White; Tulsa Massacre

20 Jun 2019
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Reframing Modern Art

imperative.” For Murrell, who spent 25 years working in finance before earning her PhD in art history, it is a culmination of her second career. And in this episode of Skydeck, Murrell talks to associate editor, Julia Hanna, about what... View Details

01 Dec 1999
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The Way You See It

In response to a special Bulletin survey, hundreds of HBS alumni selected the people, products, and events that in their view have most affected business over the last 75 years. These intrepid respondents also did some crystal-ball gazing, hazarding predictions View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons. Data collection by Ericka Webb.

14 Dec 2015
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A Leader’s Call to Action

Nick writes in her preface to Lenses of Leadership. “We are all hungry for visionary leaders and engaged followers. We all have something to contribute to improve the state of affairs in our families,... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

06 Aug 2020
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Defining Flex Work

estimated that some 30 percent of women would leave the professional world to become caregivers, but that 70 percent would have stayed if they had access to a flexible schedule. It was an “aha” moment for Auerbach. She initially launched... View Details

03 Apr 2019
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Finding Common Ground

photo by Chad Kirkland Randy Shumway (MBA 2000) and his family were regular supporters of clothing and blanket drives for shelters in their Salt Lake City community. But, like many well-intentioned people who are moved by the outcomes of... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

23 Apr 2018
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Sowing the Seeds of Leadership

The online bio of EARTH University’s new president Arturo Condo (DBA 2000) describes him as “Ecuadorian by birth, Latin American by heart.” Condo, a distinguished scholar and author, and the former president of INCAE, followed both his heart and a lifelong passion... View Details