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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
global system must become stable and equitable. The Future of Market Capitalism Market failures framed the Tuesday keynote presentation of University Professor Lawrence Summers, treasury secretary in the Clinton administration. Directing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
Framing the Future Cindy Song (MBA ’07) is in the business of building. As director of capital expansion and financial services at Habitat for Humanity International, Song manages a $34 million loan portfolio that funds construction and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
the power of CEOs, but I frame the issue in terms of enhancing the power of boards. Over the last decade, I think there's been a lot of progress made in boardrooms. Problems remain, of course, but cronyism has diminished, the principle of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
Schultz (MBA 1983) was working as an executive chairman for a tech company, and on his way home from a fundraising presentation at a venture firm when he had an epiphany. A longtime executive with a personal interest in history, he had been struggling with how to View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
or life-support systems operating. In the living room, there is a small, framed photo of Gershanik in a helicopter, using a hand pump to squeeze air into a tiny bundle in his lap. “I had this baby in my arms, he weighed only 1.5 pounds,”... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
Galbraith, who arrived at Harvard two years after Schumpeter, remembered him as “a slightly swarthy man of solid frame and a little less than average height.” At 5’8” he was actually about average, but to the 6’8” Galbraith almost... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
Afghanistan’s largest taxpayer and private employer. Starting any sort of company in Afghanistan in that time frame would have been a tall order, but a telecom operation posed a number of special challenges. “There was nothing there,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When he was just three years old, Chad Foster (PLDA 21, 2016) was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative condition that would ultimately leave him... View Details
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
if anybody has purchased them, they're very, very expensive. And they wanted to disrupt that as well. But what they recognize is that the older customer wanted the hipster brand, they wanted the same frames. They did not want their frames... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
history, is a framed copy of the front page of the August 8, 1992, San Francisco Examiner. On that particular day, the editors co-opted the signature home-run call — “Bye-Bye Baby!” — of the Giants’ Hall of Fame broadcaster Russ Hodges to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
crippling civil conflict: Sri Lanka is at a pivotal moment in its history, he says, a moment that represents a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to do no less than help shape his country’s future. He turns back to the lake, framing the view... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
did. The assault went on for hours. Bradley took the list with him the next day on a flight to Los Angeles and found a way to frame what had just happened in a concept recalled from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey... View Details
- 01 Sep 2022
- News
Your Family, Your Work, Your Way
frame and not sort of bickering over who took the dishes out of the dishwasher. JH: I love that. We all want to do our best, but inevitably we trip up here and there. What are some common mistakes you do see working parents make, and what... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
long-term decisions I could.” A room-filling presence, from his broad-shouldered frame to his toothy grin and exuberant eyebrows, Draper embraces feats of physicality. Video clips show the 57-year-old dancing wildly to Pharrell Williams’s... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
Groysberg. Still deep in the research phase, he estimates that close to 70 people (including men) will be interviewed for the case by its completion. Those very personal experiences will be framed in the context of what was happening in... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
guessing where this might be going. “Let’s not.” Joe left the room briefly, and then returned with two long gray pillows off the couch in the TV room. He handed one to McArthur, who still had the oversized frame of the football player he... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
institution needed to do better. It made us more mindful that society had new expectations of business leaders, and we needed to redouble our focus on developing leaders with both the competence and character to make a difference in the world. Throughout your tenure,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
health-care reform in this country, we have to frame it as a managerial challenge. It’s not simply a policy issue. We won’t improve the system as a whole until we’ve improved the performance of individual health-care delivery... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
First and foremost, innovators are good at associational thinking, or simply associating. They make connections between seemingly unrelated problems and ideas and synthesize new ideas. I would frame associational thinking by asking this... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
law, but now he walks into the new building’s lobby. The carved marble door frame that was once the entryway to the censorship office is preserved here, another reminder of a not-that-long-ago time. For Maj, though, the Free Speech... View Details