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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Leadership: Getting Down to Fundamentals
basis. We want that to change. That sounds like a big undertaking. Where did you begin? There was not even commonality in the definition of what a leader is and what leadership behaviors are, so we started by developing a conversation... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 23 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method
will seem quaint in comparison, say the HBS alumni behind the nonpartisan group, Reform Elections Now (REN), who gave a virtual presentation to the HBS Club of Dallas in early September to educate and engage business leaders on the specific View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 17 Jul 2020
- News
Support System
the foundations of these communities.” The problem these shea-nut pickers faced, says Akuete, CEO and founder of Eu’Genia Shea and its Target-based sister brand, Mother’s Shea, is that they are largely women in villages without... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 31 Oct 2019
- News
Finding an Audience
agreed that the main reason is that people do not know about this. We realized that there were over 100 concerts of classical music in the metropolitan area every month, and they are not advertised in newspapers. “So we started to contact... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Faculty Books
7 Lessons for Leading in Crisis by Bill George (Jossey-Bass) Drawing on his in-the-trenches experience and lessons from crisis-tested executives, Professor George shows what leaders must do to become strong and survive any crisis. His seven lessons include Face... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Robots to the Rescue
Mountz Photo courtesy Kiva Systems Kiva's robots in action Main article: Where Innovation Rules In the News: Boston Globe: Amazon Buys Kiva for $775M Those who know Mick Mountz (MBA 1996) well were not overly surprised when he started a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
start and grow their own business. The president of the worldwide MIT Alumni Association, he brings an insider’s view based on three decades of successful, serial entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley. His book combines practical principles,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
“bestseller” of 1979 makes too strong a case that his policy recommendations should have been heeded. The basic shortcoming: We first need to agree on the priority of the problems and what viable solutions exist. Viability includes... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Live Long and Prosper: Lillian Too Reveals Ancient Chinese Secrets
successful ever since the commissioning of their new building in 1983. What Feng shui problems are commonly found in Western buildings? Long corridors, angular structures, protruding columns and corners, exposed pillars and structural... View Details
- 02 Apr 2020
- News
Patriots Plane Delivers a Million Masks from China
Courtesy New England Patriots In his daily press conferences in March, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker had been growing increasingly frustrated by the state’s shortage of N95 respiratory masks that help protect health care workers who are on the frontlines of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
An Emphasis on Teamwork
mission impressed me when I applied, and it still does.” Krebs appreciates the School’s emphasis on team problem solving and experiential learning associated with the field method, an increasingly important aspect of MBA pedagogy. “We... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
these things, people look on it as the most difficult country to change." And yet, a shift appears under way. A new reformist government has started treating agriculture as a problem to be solved by industry... View Details
- 25 Jan 2018
- News
Investing in India’s Nonprofits to Overcome Poverty Sustainably
Khushboo Maheshwari (MBA 2012) is new initiatives leader of The/Nudge Foundation and director and head of N/Core, which support nonprofits working on problems related to poverty in India. In this interview, she describes N/Core’s mission... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Escape from Alcatraz
people navigate groups of mental and physical challenges with names like Alcatraz, Superbanan, and the Jungle. If you break a rule—and there is no rule book—or run out of time, you have to start over. The Boda Borg experience is often... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
The US Patent System’s Uncertain Fate
problems are worse than they’ve ever been. Where do you see the US patent system in 5 or 10 years? LC: In a good world, some of the things that we have proposed for cleaning up the patent system itself and for fixing the patent litigation... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 13 Jul 2017
- News
Making Friends with Mother Nature
people, which is hopeless. We just can’t seem to do that,” he observes. “The other problem is people getting along with Mother Nature. We are in the process of wrecking the planet.” The second problem wasn’t... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 02 Jun 2015
- News
Pointing the Way to a Better World
start in school. They then show how these problems are being met with innovative solutions that can be supported by everyone. WuDunn took time away from her “day job” as managing director at Mid-Market... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
career change at that point and why you decided to join the nonprofit? Ingersoll: There's a lot of different things all sort of converging at once. I heard Robert Reich speak. He was a former Secretary of Labor, and he said that if we don't fix these View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
One-on-One with William H. Donaldson
Donaldson Illustration by Joe Ciardiello When William Donaldson (MBA ’58) was sworn in as the 27th chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 18, 2003, Wall Street and the commission itself were in turmoil. A wave of corporate scandals that View Details
- 19 Jul 2013
- News
All in Good Time
focused on creating social equity and economic self-sufficiency, Silbert has a simple take on what ties her career together: "I'm a problem solver. I love digging into an issue and the analytical rigor of doing a scan of existing research... View Details