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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
An Advocate for Women's Equality
"staff assistant to the president for executive manpower" was an irony not lost on many, including herself. Manpower? As she answered a press inquiry about the title at her introduction, "This is a good question with no View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Turning Point: Sum of the Parts
backgrounds. While I kept up a good game face for two years, internally I registered great emotional dislocation. It was difficult to be the only Asian American in a classroom of 80 students. Some of the View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
through sheer size and number of transactions. Unfortunately, there are quite a few good reasons that the marketplace model doesn't work for reCommerce of used electronics (see my article in the March 2013 Harvard Business Review, 'Do You... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Status Update
Swisher; Pod Save America. “I worked in the White House with those guys. They’re really good.” Best business advice: “It’s summed up in a great quote often attributed to Einstein. ‘If I had an hour to solve a problem, I would spend 55... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
Products, Companies, and the World—with a Single Step by Mark Hurst and Phil Terry (MBA 1998) (Creative Good Inc.) This book provides a road map for executives and entrepreneurs who want to create better products and services. Using... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
House of Bread on the Rise
ground daily on the spot. The sample board, always filled with fresh bread slices, gave customers the chance to try the regular and seasonal favorites, including Grandma’s White Bread, honey whole wheat, cinnamon swirl, nine-grain, and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Alumni Books
protectionism could prevent nations from achieving the gains - in household income, availability of goods and services, and other quality-of-life metrics - of cross-border openness. Ghemawat describes how private businesses, policymakers,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
(Diane) Davidson (MBA 1980) (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) Buddhapada: Following the Buddha's Footprints by Jacques de Guerny (AMP 82, 1979) (Orchid Press) Good from Grief: How to Turn Unimaginable Grief into Something... View Details
- 02 Oct 2012
- News
Green Pioneer
White House conference on environmental quality that convened engineering firms and federal procurement officials, both the Defense Department and the EPA approached the Zofnass Program to learn more about Envision. Zofnass Program... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
economy, wanted to see how the algorithm performed. What she found surprised her: Although Airbnb had designed the pricing tool to be race-blind, the algorithm nonetheless widened the revenue gap between white and Black hosts. The reasons... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Robots Are Coming to Save Your Job
Sawyer is one of two bots that Rethink Robotics has developed for the small-business market. (courtesy of Rethink Robotics) You can tell Rethink Robotics’ products by their faces: A small, white digital screen with two expressive eyes.... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Finding sustainable solutions for humanitarian crises
market-based solutions to difficult problems. "Business can be the greatest force for good on this planet," says Goodwin. Following the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, he led the establishment of a nationwide recycling program that currently... View Details
- 03 Aug 2020
- News
A Clean Start
other chemicals) from carbon dioxide. His goal was to demonstrate—through research, discovery, and good business—a new way forward in reducing CO2 emissions. The first step was to lay out the photosynthesis process in black and View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
good at it. Fit for the Presidency? Winners, Losers, What-Ifs, and Also-Rans by Seymour Morris Jr. (MBA 1972) (Potomac Books) Every four years Americans embark on the Super Bowl of democracy: a presidential election campaign filled with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Research Brief: The Power of Could
Say you’re in a bind, a tough one. You’ve got cancer and your only hope is chemo—the problem is, it’s wildly expensive and you’re flat broke. Do you follow your moral compass, even if it means dying? Or do you leverage your knack for chemistry and raise some quick cash... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
but also a Nebraska Golden Gloves boxer. "I found my sweet spot in heavyweights, although I was a lot smaller, because I was a good inside fighter," Keen says later. "I could take a lot of stomach hits. You get me up against the ropes and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Meal Plan
in terms of compensation will be directly affected by how restaurants approach dine-in versus delivery and takeout; it will also look different in the quick-service restaurants versus the fast-casual or higher-end, white tablecloth dining... View Details
- 05 Mar 2025
- News
Uncertain Terms
After Amar Bhidé (MBA 1979/DBA 1988) became an HBS assistant professor in 1988, then-dean John H. McArthur (MBA 1959/DBA 1963) gave him a copy of economist Frank Knight’s 1921 book Risk, Uncertainty and Profit. Knight’s idea that “uncertainty” must be distinguished... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
photographed by Susan Young; edited by Julia Hanna and April White See full profiles and more photographs here. Recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award reflect the broad influence of HBS alumni as a whole, representing as they... View Details
- 06 Jul 2015
- News
Lights! Camera... Market!
afterward I thought it could really work. “We felt that this project just fit with our brand,” Simon adds. “At Terra, we’ve always taken chances. We made sweet-potato chips when everyone was making white potato chips, and we always push... View Details