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- 13 Apr 2022
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New School
Within a month, Waldron’s far-reaching predictions proved accurate. And Curriculum Associates was ready, not just for the new world of remote work but also with respect to the increased demand for remote learning. The company committed to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Ink: Alumni Books and Recommendations
be brought in.” Her advice: “Sometimes leading is creating and communicating the vision, inspiring people, and then getting out of the way.” What I’m Reading Leader: Insights from Indian Mythology by Devdutt Pattanaik “This book helped me realize that at View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Case Study: Welcome Aboard
Illustration by Chris Gash Illustration by Chris Gash In his pre-HBS life, Ross Lerner (MBA 2020) worked alongside Paul Holder at a software company that served some of the largest owners of commercial real estate in the world. While many... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Back to School
working with leadership teams from nine urban school districts over the course of three annual sessions to coordinate research and create coherent, scalable systems for education reform. Two cases written for PELP and taught by HBS... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Marked Managers
conditions favor imprinting. Consider companies that have the following characteristics: distinctive corporate cultures, strategies, and structures, with large cohorts of young managers who are hired at roughly the same time and who... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Faculty Books
with little overt guidance from the hierarchy. Anteby suggests that this model, which tolerates moral complexity, may be one of the few that can adapt and endure. Faculty Research HBS Working Knowledge offers a first look at new thinking... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
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Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
headquarters in Washington. You chose to become head of one of America's least popular institutions. Why? A number of factors had coalesced -- public discontent, mounting congressional criticism, technological advances, to name a few. They created a unique situation in... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 18 Nov 2021
- News
Strength in Numbers
attention to mental health, it was data that shaped the Goodness Web itself: One in five adults in the United States suffers from a mental health illness each year, and 46 percent will have a mental health condition during their lifetime.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
of the French pointillist painter, and it’s easy to imagine Bill Gates or Oprah Winfrey humming the same tune. But if creativity is integral to business, and to entrepreneurship in particular, how exactly does it occur? Where does this unicorn-like creature come from,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
A CEO Goes Undercover
had agreed to work at different jobs in my company. But I would not appear as myself, the president and CEO of Herschend Family Entertainment (HFE), one of America’s premier, privately held theme-park operators. Instead, I would be “John... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
The Sky’s the Limit
marketing for the budding business. “It provides all the charting information on your computer, but it also connects to Internet databases and brings in all the latest weather and other flight condition information.” Hamilton discovered... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Inside MBA Admissions
paperwork. An all-time high of 10,382 applications arrived for the Class of 2004. Dewey characterizes that number as a spike influenced by poor economic conditions that unleashed pentup demand. The Admissions Office received 8,526... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
in emissions is enVerid’s Sorbent Ventilation Technology. Commercial buildings contribute 17 percent of US carbon emissions, and heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) is responsible for 36 percent of commercial-building energy... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
careful allocation of risks and returns among the various parties so that they have incentives to manage efficiently. Also important is the possibility for adjustments in risk allocation and responsibilities should the project’s definition or underlying View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Driven
world and of ourselves; and the drive to defend ourselves, our loved ones, our beliefs, and our resources from harm. The authors' findings are based on their collective seventy years of research on human behavior in the workplace and their synthesis of scholarly View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
What You Know Depends on Where You Go
grow up just like ‘ours.' This approach has led to many failures,” says Arnold. Indeed, research by Arnold and Quelch has found that emerging markets tend to develop and grow quite differently, sometimes with a tighter product life cycle, sometimes much slower,... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Research Brief: May I Ask Your Advice?
implicit effort to not seem negative, but reserving that input has performance consequences later on,” Whillans says. “A better understanding of how advice-seeking closes those gaps would be a really powerful effect of this work.” For more on the research, see their... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 26 Sep 2018
- News
Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure
environmental issues, a stance that had sparked protests at its annual meetings. This led the U.S. Congress to use its influence by demanding that the World Bank set environmental standards as a condition of the nation’s capital... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
should keep the social dimension of your work in mind-that is, the opportunity to do something good for others.” CURRENT READING The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace, by Dennis Ross Sir Ronald Cohen... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Effective Communication in the Age of Zoom
the way we communicate. Rachel Greenwald (MBA 1993) (photo by Marea Evans Photography) READ MORE April: Rachel, your interest in communication techniques grew out of what you've seen in your work as a matchmaker. What do the dating world... View Details
Keywords: Zoom