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- 15 Sep 2015
- News
Easing the Costs of Saving a Child
When Kerr Taylor (OPM 39, 2010) and his wife, Jill, returned from Russia in 1998 with his adopted baby girl, Christina, another child remained in his thoughts: a blue-eyed little boy named Andrew left behind in the orphanage. “He’s in my View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
HBS grad, too, just for the record. He said, "You know, as a CEO, you've got to be focused on the key issues. There are so many things coming at you. But always have in your mind what are the five or ten key things that have to get... View Details
- 08 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?
creative than their younger peers. Again, this turns out not to be the case: “While it's true that young minds may produce a higher volume of ideas, business guru Frans Johansson argues in his book The Medici Effect that creativity comes... View Details
- 16 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
history of creativity studies. Indeed, an examination of these seminal papers helps the new generation of creativity and innovation researchers to be mindful of the past and unafraid to explore it. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism
execute this study? How did you choose Maverick as a research site? Was the company open to this kind of study? Sandra Cha and Amy Edmondson: Hypocrisy was not at all on our minds when we started the research. Our initial interest in this... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
helped with your business career? The HBS approach to case studies and the analytical frame of mind that they teach are invaluable. My whole analytical framework came from Harvard. Now, what didn’t work very well for me was everything... View Details
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
indirectly, whether we want to own it or not. Things cannot, and will not change all at once, but it is vital to have that recognition in mind to guide your own direction and life course. What type of world do you want to build? View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
arise. Although she does her best to support and empathize, she also keeps in mind a key lesson that she says took years of perspective to learn: not everyone will be happy all of the time. In other words, don’t fret that there will never... View Details
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
a picture of a pasture and cows on it. None of the cows involved in making any of the butter in our country, essentially live in that kind of a pasture. But I think the impression is created in our minds and I think that the best way for... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
that the system is today less popular than it once was. There are other reasons, as well, that could be covered in a different, longer speech. But we should all keep in mind that the benefits of capitalism are not so obviously and... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
afforded Middlebrooks precious peace of mind at work, knowing her children were in a safe, loving, and familiar environment. In addition, she credits husband William, who owns a customer service and training firm, with sharing equally in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
tap the best minds in genetic research. Fresh out of HBS, Cindy Ko (MBA ’05) joined a nonprofit economic-development organization dedicated to supporting entrepreneurs in emerging markets. Although their missions are different, these... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
comes to mind as I sit in on a value stream analysis meeting of Emory’s clinical trial process with Chief Nursing Officer Susan Grant. A lean manufacturing technique that originated with Toyota, this particular exercise has produced a... View Details
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
http://sloanreview.mit.edu/the-magazine/2013-winter/54215/how-to-identify-the-best-customers-for-your-business/ Prolonged Thought: Proposing Type 3 Processing Authors:Dijksterhuis, Ap, Madelijn Strick, Maarten W. Bos, and Loran F. Nordgren Publication:Dual Process... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
minds of those responsible for governance. When a business is profitable and paying healthy dividends to its stockholders, fraudulent activities and accounting irregularities can go unnoticed. However, when revenue and cash flow decline,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Web
Commencement 2013 Address | About
Galapagos Islands. In my academic career I’d studied and written about Darwin, and so this was a particularly meaningful trip for me. When people think of Darwin, or for that matter Harvard Business School, the first thing that comes to View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
begin, just across Western Avenue from our campus. As we think about Allston as a growing hub for innovation and the expanding opportunities for partnership across many disciplines with the University, I’m also mindful that whenever we... View Details
- 07 Apr 2021
- News
Road Work
to get real calm in situations like this and what my mind does, what I've trained myself to do, is first of all not panic and focus strictly upon what are the options, which I think in life is an important lesson too. I'm going to make a... View Details