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- 16 May 2017
- News
Facing the Board
weigh a strong, clear opinion to the board versus the spectrum of opinions. “It is hard to obtain approval for something if you have as many doubts as reasons to do something,” he said. It is valuable for the board to understand that the View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Leading Boston and Beyond
via the city’s Citizens Connect app were “closed” without a resolution. It is a balancing act between making residents feel their concerns are heard and helping them understand the process the city uses to prioritize snow removal given... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
entrepreneurs and slowing deal volume for VCs. But change cannot wait, says Barna, just one of many alumni and academics in the entrepreneurship and investing sectors who advocate steps toward inclusivity like the ideas offered here.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
Dean Light, the only participant who appeared on all three panels, gave an overview of the market events leading up to the crisis and outlined a three-part process for dealing with it. Using the metaphor of an emergency room, Light... View Details
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
the oil is burned, it will release roughly the same amount of CO2 as was pumped into the oil field. Dawe explains that making EOR essentially carbon-neutral is a big step forward. "I describe it as 'buy one, get one free,' since you can... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964
LIFELONG IMPACT OF HBS "What stood out for me initially was the first-year section, where I made some of my closest friends and thrived in the give-and-take of class discussions. I loved the case method as a process for testing ideas. It... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
loss of control, overbearing input, disproportionate reward to the wrong shareholders, or founders being squeezed out of their own businesses. Investment can also prop up a business artificially, building false hope and disappointment in the long term. Money Train... View Details
- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
BlackBerry's fortunes, though, as the company continued to post disappointing earnings. Heins stepped down on November 4, a few weeks after the company announced it would be laying off 40 percent of its global workforce. So where did... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
Workout: The Complete Guide to Asking Better Questions to Get Better Answers for Running Your Business or Your Life by Bennett McClellan (MBA 1981) XLibris McClellan outlines several stages to answering important questions: fully understand the reasons for asking it;... View Details
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
leading and overseeing a group of creatives. You have to be brave and flexible enough to allow them to bring what they’re able to bring, while also keeping the ship on course. Knowing where to step in and where to let go is very... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
India’s reform process is more arduous than in authoritarian China. But in India, there’s more of a collective “buy-in” to reforms because the interests of all constituencies have been considered. What areas do you see as most in need of... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
aren’t real purple dogs.” That is what Numenta is after, says Dubinsky: recreating human intelligence by first understanding the complex way that humans learn—literally, the biological principles that guide our brains—and then translating those View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Addressing The Financial Security Gap
leadership, BlackRock’s Retirement Group, which manages $1.3 trillion in retirement assets for some 35 million Americans, has taken steps to address these issues. In 2020 they held the BlackRock Savings Summit, a virtual retirement... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
people would want to use because of what it looks like or how it functions. OW: Once you came up with your idea, what steps did you take to validate it? SK: I wish I could say that I hired consultants and did a focus group, but honestly,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
The Golden Thread
meaningful work—however small the step forward—is the single most important driver of employee happiness, intrinsic motivation, and, in turn, creativity and productivity. “We were able to understand so much about people’s everyday inner... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
handheld e-readers that can download and carry thousands of books, newspapers, and blogs in one device. E Ink will continue to be based in Cambridge. Wilcox views the injection of resources as essential to speeding up E Ink’s R&D process... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Ink: Your Best Self
and peace—came out of taking a big step back and looking at all the different leaders I’ve worked with and the common denominators in terms of successful leadership. My greatest hope with these five principles is that they address the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 08 May 2019
- News
Lessons from the Ashes
take me from '87 to essentially 1990. That process and how that plays out. Warwick: One of the assumptions I made was I wanted to change management and increase profitability and that the family would somehow stay in, which was an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
the industry. Because, Williams's thinking went, the next step for DART was to implement a whole new model for drug development—one where a biotech company is funded by investors but driven by the very people benefiting from the outcomes:... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Enron’s Legacy
class-action suit against the corporation) had adopted the salient structural characteristics and processes of experienced private-equity boards, I believe that many of the red flags signaling Enron’s economic woes and ethical drift would... View Details