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- 03 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Is It Even Possible to Dam the Flow of Misleading Content Online?
that it’s time for platforms to admit defeat when it comes to trying to flag, edit, or block misinformation on their sites. Instead, they should focus on curtailing specific information that can lead to direct harm, such as hate speech or... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Skydeck: Reddit’s Rise
through Google searches, you notice we don’t block you from the information because we believe in the open internet.” “This issue and question around communities, I think, is pervasive. I read The Death and Life of Great American Cities,... View Details
- 29 Jul 2021
- News
A Clean Start
chemical (a substance used as a building block for other chemicals) from carbon dioxide. After four months of weighing alternatives, he settled on formic acid: a commodity chemical and energy-rich... View Details
- Profile
Gerald Chertavian
with their first two (of three) children, and Gerald began to use his network to put the building blocks of Year Up in place. Since founding Year Up in 2000, Gerald Chertavian has steadily grown the endeavor... View Details
- 03 Aug 2020
- News
A Clean Start
help solve this environmental conundrum. A chemical engineer, Brix had spent his career at Chevron in research and technology and then at Microsoft in IoT and automation. Then, in 2017, he turned his attention toward creating a renewable platform chemical (a substance... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 06 Sep 2018
- Blog Post
How to Thrive in an Unstructured Environment
and cons in real time, and picked the one that worked best for us. You want to expedite the virtuous cycle of trying, learning, and adapting. 3. Surround yourself with the best resources: people. Books, blogs, and articles are great places to learn the View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
New MBA Admissions Director Gets an Interview
deferred admission program at HBS. “Dee is a remarkable leader,” says Losee, “and I feel the great responsibility of stepping into this role.” DM: Tell me about your experience applying to HBS. CL: I was working in consulting—a great, but demanding job—so I View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 23 Dec 2009
- News
In the Zone
approach of education, social-service, and community-building programs targeting 100 square blocks in New York City. Ninety percent of high school students who attend HCZ’s after-school programs go on to college; 100 percent of its third... View Details
- 07 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Looking to Leave a Mark? Memorable Leaders Don't Just Spout Statistics, They Tell Stories
in recall, in turn, stems not from loss of memory, per se. Instead, it has to do with conflicts with other similar memories that wind up blocking efforts to recall the specific piece of information or story, the study finds. Stories have... View Details
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
innovation. Perhaps somewhat surprisingly, we show that more IP protection and building stronger barriers around innovation are not always the best path to capturing value. Paradoxically, innovators can sometimes benefit by weakening the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Action Plan: Fruit of the Vine
Knudsen Cowles: building for the future at the family vineyard in Oregon’s Willamette Valley (photo by Hilary Bobel Cronon) When they inherited the family vineyard a decade ago, Page Knudsen Cowles (MBA 1983) and her three brothers knew... View Details
Keywords: Ryan Jones
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Gerald Chertavian, MBA 1992
i-Cube, and he was able to put all his energy into realizing his dream. Ready to return to the Boston area, where Kate had gone to college, the Chertavians moved to Cambridge with their first two (of three) children, and Gerald began to use his network to put the View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 28 May 2019
- News
Action Plan: Border Crossing
has taught me to find beauty in things such as the unintentional color blocking in a row of buildings or the intricate designs of an ordinary fire hydrant or doorknob. Opening your eyes can open your heart.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- Web
Changing the World: Life Choices of Influential Leaders - Course Catalog
the course, you will learn the key concepts needed to understand how people rise to positions of prominence. We start by defining key personal characteristics. Next, we consider the building blocks of a... View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
gas, and those are natural vessels for us to put the CO2 back into the ground. DM: But that doesn't have to be the carbon's final destination. JM: I'm a big fan of CO2 as a building block to actually make... View Details
- 22 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day: Recent Research on Sustainability
environment. HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?In a recent field study seminar, Professor Forest L. Reinhardt discussed the case "Woolf Farming & Processing," which illustrates how access to water—a basic building View Details
- Portrait Project
Ryan Kennedy
McDonald's – seeing firsthand the building blocks of opportunity. Hard work, sacrifice, and support for one another. I retired my McDonald's uniform many years ago. I won’t retire the learning: opportunity... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Teaching Teachers
been a major stumbling block in LBS's bid to build a library of Nigerian cases,” Okonedo comments. Company executives are more likely to be cooperative, she learned, if they're made aware of the “fictional”... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
John Doerr, MBA 1976
Compaq.” While KPCB’s investments today have grown larger, the basic principle is unchanged. “We are a service organization. We aid entrepreneurs in building new businesses or even whole new industries,” says Doerr, who helped shape many... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Slum for Sale
idea is that the slum dwellers are living on very valuable land in one- or two-story shacks,” says Iyer. “If you build multistory buildings, you can give them accommodation and still have space to sell so that it will be a for-profit... View Details