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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Get Well Soon
takeaway for students is the power of transparency as a mechanism for change,” says Tucker. “Another is the motivational value of benchmarking themselves to an internal standard of zero accidents instead of... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
New Releases
Spencer, president and CEO of Sematech, bring together top technical managers from Alcoa, IBM, Intel, and Xerox and leading scholars of the history and economics of technological change. The result is an important discussion of the View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Short Takes
groups that fear the social consequences of making errors. "There are real differences in the levels of 'psychological safety' that exist across teams - even those within the same company - and those differences correspond with... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
offering occasional remote workdays—they will redesign every aspect of how work gets done, from defining how they measure organizational success to training their managers to make it happen. How the Future Works offers a blueprint for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
The School of Life
Christensen For the past several years, in his last class of the academic calendar, Professor Clay Christensen has made life after HBS the topic of discussion. Why is it, he asks, that despite considerable professional accomplishments, so... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Private Equity under Investigation
efficiency of capital markets, the opaqueness of the groups’ operations, and the abuse of inside information. It is hard not to feel that history is repeating itself. For not only is this investigation sure to fatten the profit pools of... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Expanding Summer Fellowships to Support Students
myself in a difficult situation,” says Powers. Such internships enable MBA students to gain valuable work experience, explore career options, and apply their classroom learnings. As the economic consequences of the pandemic took hold,... View Details
- 15 Dec 2011
- News
An HBS gift guide
football, repair capitalism Business lessons for a global century Chocolates for a cause Safe water for millions Nature belongs to everyone Capitalize on the network The world... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989
on the entire mining industry as well. Carroll’s mettle was tested early on when she was visiting South Africa and learned that another death had occurred in a nearby platinum mine. “That’s enough,” she said, and ordered the mine closed, keenly aware of the financial... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
decades of mismanaged immigration, lack of growth, and the threat of the euro bringing down the EU. The book offers a multidimensional, irreverent portrait of a decaying Europe and the causes and consequences of its decline. Breakthrough... View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012)
science and the consequences of inaction. I realized we were making miniscule progress toward solving it. We still are. I realized that even the smartest people I knew were misinformed about what climate change meant View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
now if K-12 education performance doesn’t substantially improve?” The consequences of each year sending tens of thousands of unprepared kids into a harshly competitive world are already clear. They include rising social safety net... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
ELY: Drilling down for valuable perspectives on how gender issues affect efficiency, safety, and productivity in the workplace. Field-based research can take HBS faculty members to some unusual places. Professor Robin Ely’s recent working... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
inadequate protection from disasters that occur infrequently and have consequences beyond the routine responsibilities of commercial enterprises. “Resilient societies need deliberate actions for the... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer and editor for the HBS Alumni Bulletin. In 2019, I met Egyptian alumna Amal Enan (MBA 2014) when she was on campus for her 5th reunion. Enan had already held a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
Africa within the space of a couple of weeks, Richard America (MBA ’63) appears upbeat and none the worse for jet lag. Dressed in a crisp suit and tie, the tall and affable Georgetown University Business School professor chats easily... View Details
- 20 Dec 2019
- News
The 19 Musts of 2019
worker productivity, equality of opportunity and economic mobility, even economic growth—are consequently all eroding and threatening the economic, civil, and political life of our democracy. Of course, Adam Smith makes an appearance,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
Illustration by Martin Leon Barreto In a lot of ways, it didn’t seem like a very good experiment to run. A young HBS professor—a rising star in the Finance area, an economist by training, by then already looking down the road at an all-important tenure decision—had an... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
Revival of the Fittest by Donald N. Sull (Harvard Business School Press) Your company has been outperforming competitors for years, your charismatic CEO was just featured on the cover of a national business magazine, and your city boasts... View Details
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
the behavior and economics in agriculture, and, secondly, in industry. Misuse with no consequences and the lack of incentives for proper use are extremely problematic. At WaterRev, we are investing in... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley