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- 12 May 2016
- News
What Ernest Shackleton has in common with Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk
Will space explorers create new ventures that benefit us, or will they (like the old factory whaling ships) exploit and ravage natural landscapes that had been untouched? Will even less human restraint in space require even more... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Book of Esports: The Definitive Guide to Competitive Video Games by William Collis (MBA 2011) RosettaBooks Almost overnight, esports—or competitive video games—have exploded into the largest entertainment and sporting phenomenon... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
The World's Banker
African manner, with the local chief, the two men deep in conversation about rural issues. The tableau seemed confirmation that Wolfensohn himself embodied the grassroots, humane approach he has espoused as essential for the troubled... View Details
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Becoming the Next Real Estate Mogul
the firm's people was the most fulfilling of all. You need to know how to work with people, and that skill is largely experiential and driven by personality.—Kevin McCall Peter Palandjian (HBS MBA '93), chairman and CEO of... View Details
- 14 May 2014
- News
(Re)moving the Needle
study method. You need to be street smart, not just book smart. The case study method gives you both." Anquetil also found unexpected value in the diversity of his classmates. "It didn't matter what field they were from; there was a level... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Qiao Ma (MBA 2010)
investors to be better risk managers—and that makes better investors in the long run. We already have the numbers, or the “what,” when we meet with a potential investment. We need to drill down to the “how” and “why.” Only a View Details
- 24 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?
central role in a variety of corporate settings ranging from strategy and marketing to finance and human resources. Behavioral economics provides frameworks for knowing where and how to augment standard economic analyses with more... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
It's Climate Week in New York City. The schedule features a UN Climate Summit, a People's Climate March, the Clinton Global Initiative, substantial criticism of the whole endeavor, and plenty of agitated interaction. There is a lot of noise here. How can businesses cut... View Details
- Profile
Carter Romansky
that need them." As one of five early team members, Carter pursued a mission to "equip and inspire" students to pursue, and excel in, nonprofit careers. Empowered to take risks Through the case method and the section... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Takeaways
Edited by April White Peter A. Gudmundsson photo by Susan Young Peter A. Gudmundsson photo by Susan Young “All organizations need great people. Veterans are great people, so all organizations need to hire... View Details
- 05 Dec 2013
- Op-Ed
Encourage Breakthrough Health Care by Competing on Products Rather Than Patents
University of Utah not given Myriad an exclusive license to a discovery the university made in its own labs, there may have been no need for a conflict whatsoever. But among other things, the dispute resonates deeply with a call to action... View Details
- 09 Sep 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics
presentations had been essentially identical and the audiences at first blush quite similar, the attitudes he encountered were disparate. "In Northern California, 80 percent of the audience thought climate change was largely man-made and that urgent action to address... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
South Dakota Wheat Growers (SDWG) serves the needs of its 3,600 active farmer-members by supplying farm inputs and organizing the marketing and transportation of grain produced in the co-op's service territory. For almost 80 years, the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research
human mind works, since it has important consequences for all sorts of behaviors," says Francesca Gino, an associate professor in the NOM Unit. "I think the most exciting change I've seen is the increase in the interest of behavioral... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Lesson Plans
short-term spike. What makes for good online learning? Patrick Mullane: First, you need to start with a pedagogy. What’s your way of teaching? It’s your teaching soul and you need to stay true to that,... View Details
Keywords: Jen Mele
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A U.S. Turnaround?
will not be reversed quickly, if it can be reversed at all. To do so will require exceptional leadership from the new president, since some aspects of life in the United States may get worse before they get better. To get started we will View Details
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Janina Motter
an operations manager with a team of six. As the company expanded to fifty people, “I saw a bit of a plateau in terms of how much I could contribute. I needed skills that fell on the MBA side: how to raise funding, how to manage View Details
- 12 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers
founders to translate their passion and vision to their hires, saying: “Harley has to build a team, but doesn’t have all the skills necessary to do it.” The hustle to woo investors For example, Blakeman needed to learn how to talk to... View Details
- 22 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23
reason to reject the moral approach and to adopt the institutional approach instead. The commentary highlights key questions that need to be addressed if human rights are to play a central role in framing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
DZD. “The thing about founding a company in life sciences is that what you are trying to do has never been done before.” Aikili founder Laura Kelley (MBA 2019) agrees. “There’s a certain amount of passive skepticism required in this space,” she observes. “You View Details
Keywords: Susan Young