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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
origins and evolution of the idea of the individual, finishing with the modern-day ideas of political theory and public policy. By identifying the key characteristics governments should either adopt or avoid to enable their citizens to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
and interviewed with several firms. But she encountered a politely impenetrable wall that was common at the time: "They all said that they had no women partners and didn't anticipate ever having any," she reports. "We'd see that change... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
University. While there, she studied abroad in Ghana in order to learn more about that part of the world. “I had initially imagined a future in international diplomacy but quickly realized the political side of things was not for me. I... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
exemplifies energetic government and vigorous federal programs for economic growth. Gallatin symbolizes low taxes and less intrusion by government." Not surprisingly, the two men (after whom two HBS buildings are named) were political... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
capacity. In illustrating this point in a book on macroeconomics that I wrote a number of years ago, I quoted three people: President Herbert Hoover, who was the US president when the Great Depression started; President Franklin Roosevelt, who succeeded him and was... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
who is invested in keeping it that way. The book presents a new vision of how health care could work if it were truly designed to meet consumer needs, creating a call to action on how to demand and help create such a system. A wake-up... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
to make “transforming commitments” — managerial actions like exiting a legacy business, publicly committing to a new goal, or firing a powerful executive who defends the status quo. Such actions break the... View Details
- 28 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Connections Drive Career Opportunities for Students
his positive college experience, business school became very appealing. “I have always been extremely curious. I have found some success in finance and investing, but in order to get to where I was, I had to neglect a lot of other... View Details
Keywords: Becca Carnahan
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Leadership on a Global Stage
and youth in Singapore’s “heartland.” He returned to Singapore three years later as a leadership consultant with McKinsey & Company, creating and delivering leadership training and development programs throughout Asia Pacific that were View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
Making A Beautiful Planet was the most important thing I did as an astronaut, because so many people have seen it as an IMAX movie and will see it in the future. I came away from that experience thinking, you know, all is not lost. Earth is beautiful. But we need to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
children for modern American startup success—lost $10 billion between January and October of 2020. There’s also been huge social and political pushback against some of the tech giants, who are under fire for exacerbating issues of... View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
- News
Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart
audience for your HBS Class Day speech, you have an extremely popular TED Talk, you're an in-demand speaker generally. In the book, you recount your first speech, though, as a fifth grader in Miss Davis's class. Can you talk a little bit... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
attended the course. "Having them right there to clarify points and add to the SOS-KDI case was extremely useful for all of use who are dealing with questions of how to move our organizations forward." Turning Around Cleveland - Business... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
sound decision making as it is about money. And when it works, innovative finance gives us the tools, motivation, and security to invest in our shared future. Off Script: An Advance Man’s Guide to White House Stagecraft, Campaign Spectacle, and View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
money, talent, or pilot projects. The big banks and insurers that have since signed up as customers weren’t interested in them, and the lack of an ecosystem made the process of securing seed funding extremely challenging. (They eventually... View Details
- 23 Sep 2021
- News
Confronting Sustainability in Business; Pro-Bono Consulting for Black-Owned Companies
“We believe, where political processes fail to come up with solutions for our society, equipping businesses with the right ideas is a very important aspect of dealing with sustainability issues. Therefore, it is of utmost importance for... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
challenge will be the extremely concentrated demand, as more than 3 million visitors travel to Cup matches spread over a country that is the world's fifth largest by geographical area. "The dimension of Brazil poses a bigger challenge... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
site who has lived that turnaround experience and done it with confidence would be extremely powerful." —Carl Christopher ON- AND OFF-LINE LEARNING "The US education system is doing the same thing over and over, yet expecting different... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
gives leaders a simple vocabulary and set of tools for managing and measuring the different sets of behaviors and activities, across all levels of the organization. Wedged: How You Became a Tool of the Partisan Political Establishment,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
(UNI). “Involvement in Model UN definitely led me to my current work,” says Van Gerpen. “I always had a strong interest in travel and other cultures, and I quickly gravitated to the international studies side of political science.”... View Details