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- 24 May 2017
- News
David G. Bradley, MBA 1977
knack for recruiting and retaining the right people. And just as he does in all aspects of his life, he brings his natural bias for information-gathering to the task of hiring. “I don’t believe in 51/49 decisions,” he says. “You want to wait until View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Richard Pechter: Learning New Lessons
national training program geared toward recent college graduates. He was eventually placed as a mathematics teacher at Jersey City, New Jersey’s Liberty High, an ethnically diverse high school for students who have struggled in traditional academic environments. The... View Details
- 30 May 2023
- News
Finding PRIDE
there are gay people around you, you just don’t know it.” “I was scared to death that someone would figure out where it came from, but I typed up a letter to my section saying that there are gay people around you, View Details
- 22 Sep 2022
- News
The Beauty Guide
be talking to you today if I hadn’t left marketing,” declares Freyre. The move to sales taught her about retailers, how consumers shop, and ultimately made her a better marketer and leader. “I tap into that diversity of experience every... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Demola Gbadegesin - In the Right Direction
Gbadegesin has lived more than half of his life in the United States and speaks perfect English with a slight Midwestern accent, he is still at heart a Nigerian. Armed with his MBA, he will return home to launch an identification system... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Marketing Giant Ted Levitt Remembered
SCHOLAR, WRITER, TEACHER: Levitt, in a photo from 1983. His research tranformed the study and practice of marketing. The HBS community lost a legendary member of its faculty June 28 when marketing expert Theodore (“Ted”) Levitt died at his View Details
- 24 Jan 2020
- News
Clayton M. Christensen Dies at 67
Listen to Christensen discuss how his business theory has affected his home life (Skydeck podcast 2016) Christensen writes on "How Will You Measure Your Life?" (HBR 2010) View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
civil disobedience. This really matters—as Erica Chenworth’s research has shown, no government can withstand a challenge of 3.5 percent of its population without either accommodating the movement or (in extreme cases) disintegrating. How could View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
sports. “But what struck me was how much people hungered for something to lift their spirits in the middle of sitting at home in various stages of lockdown and how impactful sports was to driving that sense of psychological and mental... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Very Continental
new, for big, and that’s what the United States embodied to me.” As a college student majoring in economics and finance at Bentley University, outside Boston, she interned and later worked full-time at Merrill Lynch. “They said, ‘Sometimes we don’t understand your... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
trucking routes that offer faster point-to-point service, a reduced carbon footprint, and useful analytics. “The long haul is the most challenging for drivers and has the largest shortage of drivers,” explains Lu. “If you can help... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Edward D. Bullard: The Personal Touch
Walking around the Cynthiana, Kentucky, manufacturing plant of E.D. Bullard Company, the firm's chairman, Jed Bullard, is in his element. "This is Sandy, she's been here a hundred years," he jokes with a woman affixing decals to hard hats. "I want View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
signature cocktails, and what happens next is just what Royle and Wood had hoped for: Around the tables, people start to talk about what exactly they were tasting, just like you might talk about a wine or any other cocktail. Those who... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
children in Middle American suburbia, his businessmen protagonists acquired the extroversion “necessary to be at home in a smiling rotarian world.” But like MacDonald, who admitted that he himself had done “miserably in the business... View Details
- 25 Feb 2021
- News
Building Hope
prescribed antidepressants, which can take weeks to have an effect, ketamine’s impact is almost immediate. It also seems to have particular potential as a counter to suicidal ideation. “That’s the Western medicine approach that people need,” Zapolin says. In a View Details
Keywords: Daniel Morrell
- 10 Nov 2020
- News
Learning to Fight
Eventually, he found a treatment trial at the Mayo Clinic that was testing a new combination of chemotherapy and high-dose radiation. Slowly, Susan’s tumor began to shrink, until there was nothing left but scar tissue. Although she would... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Case Study: Your Data, Your Health
potential fertility with her ob-gyn, Tariyal was told that she could come back for a clinical workup after she had tried and failed to conceive for a year. Determined to give women more agency over their health, Tariyal cofounded NextGen... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 06 Dec 2012
- News
New Thinking on Healthcare Reform
of minicomputers created more of a midpoint (clinics) before desktop PCs became prevalent (home healthcare and services such as MinuteClinic). "We need to bring technology to outpatient clinics and patients' View Details
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
interdisciplinary team—doctors, nurses, optometrists, and administrative staff—from across the organization, to represent our different clinics and areas,” she says. “We then run projects to tackle the improvement opportunity using Lean,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Research Brief: The Best Medicine
only about 5 percent of participants in clinical drug trials. In the working paper, “Representation and Extrapolation: Evidence from Clinical Trials,” coauthors Marcella Alsan, Maya Durvasula, Harsh Gupta,... View Details