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- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
Business School's commitment to international business education has expanded. When Dean Kim B. Clark announced plans last fall for the opening of an HBS research facility in Hong Kong, he underscored the importance of the School's Global... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
experience. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50573 2015 Shaping Entrepreneurial Mindsets: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Leadership Development Design Thinking and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
risks, which threaten the achievement of the firm's strategic objectives, into the open and under control. Its organizational significance is that, by providing a process to identify, measure, monitor, and manage uncertainty in strategic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
Hekmatullah Ebrahimkhil prays next to a network tower on a hill overlooking Qargha Lake, outside Kabul. Ebrahimkhil is helping his father guard and service one of the mobile communication towers on the hill—part of an innovative community... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
com-pany's local dump site is piped to the factory and burned for fuel. In the Dutch factory, liquid waste has been reduced to nearly zero through an innovative retrieval, recycling, and reuse system. Johnson acknowledges, however, that... View Details
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
disease that wasn't open to us a decade ago," says Gail J. Maderis (MBA '85), president of Genzyme Molecular Oncology, also based in Cambridge. "Right now, we think of cancer as breast cancer, lung cancer, colon cancer.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
required 807,615, despite a reported personal investment of $5.2 million. Breaking up California, Draper reasons, would essentially offer a chance to return to first principles and get a fresh perspective on state government’s shape and size. It also would View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
developing innovative compounded formulations, should it base its decisions on market size, either by population or dollar size? Should it concentrate instead on the level of exploitation by the branded drug manufacturers—how much they... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
one, though, the innovations that seemed to open up new ways of reaching voters by phone lost their effectiveness—falling victim to caller ID, do-not-call lists, and voter exhaustion with once-novel tactics... View Details
- 18 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation
orphaned oil fields). These changes necessarily affect the way the industry thinks about diversifying its portfolio in the future and encourages one of the largest contributors to GHG to innovate in climate technology to survive (e.g.,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
the physiological state of the human body. A much better method is to get information about the DNA, RNA, and proteins. Understanding that information will help us detect a disease before it becomes symptomatic." "It's a way of thinking about disease that wasn't View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
Dear alumni and friends, We celebrated the opening of Klarman Hall on October 1 and used the occasion to spark discussion and spur thinking on important issues of the day. Beth and Seth (MBA 1982) Klarman, in providing the gift for this... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
at maximum efficiency because they didn't have much competition from abroad, but given the environment within South Africa, the strongest ones had come to survive and existed in the form of large conglomerates. When the economy opened up... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
differences and beckons all who dare to envision lives unshackled by present realities. Steel City: A Story of Pittsburgh By William J. Miller, Jr. (PMD 56, 1988) Lyons Press Steel City is the story of the 1890s golden age of Pittsburgh, when its technological View Details
- 13 Dec 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
health care. Those statistics are things that we have to keep in mind. And I don't think that the implication is that we have to open up our checkbooks and write bigger checks. I don't think the implication is that everybody necessarily... View Details
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
cultural fit with JLL. Staubach paid its brokers with a commission model, which accelerated JLL's decision to let go of its long-standing salary and bonus approach. The merger also surfaced two interesting business opportunities. First, local brokers were now empowered... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
entrepreneurs (like Waze or Uber) from open data sources—rather than being controlled by a central utility. Pricing can vary by demand or by user’s ability to pay. This provides an astonishing ability to improve how the existing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
innovative energy conservation program, they are improving American competitiveness. One of our major messages in this project is that business should not wait for government, but start taking action today that will directly contribute to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
The School of Life
coach’s school of experience didn’t offer open enrollment in a course on “How to deal with pressure.” It was closed for everyone except his five starting players. And the team paid the price. Sending Your Kids to the Right School Thinking... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
cooperation among divisions, more innovative fashions, more effective business strategies, and sales and profit growth. "We're also striving to foster a more creative environment for our associates," Charron continues. "Our designers, in... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry