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- 01 Feb 2000
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Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
senior executives from Fortune 1000 companies. Among employees, 73 percent expressed interest in a defined contribution system, citing advantages such as the ability to choose the best quality plan in which their physician participates... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
Mount Koonka could be that high?” Mount Everest—then considered the world’s highest peak—had been measured at 29,002 feet above sea level; it had never been successfully scaled. Carpé was skeptical. He knew there were still unsurveyed mountain ranges in the... View Details
- 15 Feb 2023
- News
Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains
Skydeck mini-series on carbon capture. In the first episode, we explored the scope of the problem—and the potential size of the business opportunity at this moment. If you haven't listened to that episode yet, View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
but this is a time when focusing on the short term is necessary. As a woman in a male-dominated industry, you stand out. Indeed, women have long been considered bad luck in mines! How do View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Book Review: Getting Beyond Yes
folks aren’t without blame. Because of their need to be on-the-ground, in-the-moment thinkers, it can be difficult to get them to look beyond the next handshake and sealed deal. To combat this, Cespedes has written Aligning Strategy and Sales View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Career Peak
(photos courtesy of Sunny Stroeer) “When your Monday morning looked like this you know it’s going to be a good week,” Suzanne “Sunny” Stroeer (MBA 2011) wrote on Instagram recently. Her view: Sunrise from... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
got control of my destiny." « Back Hers for the Asking As your sure-fire idea for a new business still on hold because you haven't got the nerve to ditch that pesky day job? Do View Details
- 26 Feb 2008
- News
The Right Stuff
a memorable column about Brighton’s 16-8 championship victory over West Bridgewater, told the gathering that in the playoff round, Brighton topped suburban schools that had “a lot more stuff than you: booster clubs, facilities, all that jazz it just means more when... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Unleashed
Culture carries its guidance to the farthest corners of the organization to places you may never go and people you may never meet. There’s a story about the salvation of FedEx... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
As a teacher at Harvard, Schumpeter soon became a campus “character” — not an eccentric but certainly no conventional professor. As Schumpeter’s former student and Nobel laureate Paul Samuelson put it, “The... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Last Look
What’s Going on Here? Who, what, where, when, and why .we’d appreciate any information that will help us identify what’s going on in this photograph plucked from the archives of Baker Library. Please contact... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Natural Fit
schedule. Patty ultimately left the US team and went on to ski for Dartmouth, where she was a three-time All American and won the NCAA Skiing Championships in 1988. She never looked back, going on to HBS and a successful career in... View Details
- 25 Aug 2016
- News
Having an Impact on Development and Poverty Issues
lot of charity programs and philanthropy, there is no way that is going to solve the problem. Bringing business principles to solve that issue is a very interesting and exciting thing to do.” Gandhi’s approach to microfinancing is to help... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
look at leadership in American public life. If you spend as much time as I do around politicians, you hear a lot about leadership. They all... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Aug 2016
- News
Leading the Way for Dallas Arts Community
of the Perot Museum of Nature and Science. “The decision was you can continue to have an impact on a huge beast, or you can come back to Dallas and have a bigger role on a smaller team,” she told D Magazine... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
problem-solving, so you’re probably going to be able to see two or three solutions around something in a way that other people don’t.” The other benefit, the neurologist noted, was creativity. While Lo never saw herself View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Road to Recovery
as acknowledgement of having achieved a sobriety streak. Such incentives and nudges may seem inconsequential, but they can go a long way toward changing behavior, says HBS professor Leslie John. She has not... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Contributing to a Better Future
feels like a fairly traumatic time in world history as a result of the pandemic, increasing vectors of inequality, and the looming threat of climate change. And at this moment, business is playing a strangely two-headed role. On the one... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
her name on the card, and if you got five in a row, you had “bingo.” Variations ensued (“X”, four corners, whole card, etc.). At first, the “free” spot was free. As it evolved... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
What’s Next for You?
seasoned MBAs, the experts urged career downshifters to begin any transition by doing what Jeans described as “some personal R&D.” “You should try to look at what it is in your current work that makes you... View Details