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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
strong—there’s always the next project, the next deadline. Research by Assistant Professor Anat Keinan may help prevent those feelings of regret. In a study of present-day college students and of alumni returning for their 40th reunion,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
after they've contracted an illness, compared with public health's cost-effective preventive approach. I realized that public health is all about policies, systems, and distribution on a wide scale. As an investor, I could see huge... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
from a business prevention function to a values-based framework for thriving in increasingly perilous times. Faculty Books Building the Future: Big Teaming for Audacious Innovation by Amy C. Edmondson and Susan Salter Reynolds... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
the flowers are cultivated on easily accessible platforms. Porter's ideas, while inspiring to some, remain controversial. "Many people would argue that although pollution prevention is good business in some cases, it is not good business... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Case Study: Confidence Builder
need: sexual assault prevention on college campuses. “We didn’t feel that enough was being done or that students were being engaged,” Brooks says. “We really believed that we’re well positioned to do something about that.” Confi is now... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Promoting a Healthy Policy Agenda
As chair of the public health committee in the Massachusetts legislature, state senator Jason Lewis (MBA 1995) focuses on promoting prevention and wellness. In this video, he talks about applying his business training to public policy... View Details
- 19 Dec 2024
- News
The Musts of 2024
protein aggregations that a disease is coming. And if you can predict it, you can prevent it. The third P is personalization: coming up with recommendations for you about what you should do, what you should eat, type of exercise,... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
the new entity. "Only a well-conceived process for integration and a spirit of partnership can prevent a clash of cultures," he warns. A clash of cultures can be bad enough, but an even more tangible nightmare arises if the new entity's... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
The FBI Makes Its Case
FBI Director Robert Mueller and three high-level bureau executives spent a day on campus in late April talking with first-year students about the bureau’s transformation since 9/11 to focus on domestic intelligence gathering and View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
having attended private school prevented me from participating in the culture of HBS,” he recalls. “Coming to the School was a wonderful rite of passage.” Over the years, Salmon has served on the boards of organizations as diverse as... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
incentives embedded in those plans is key to resolving the current crisis and preventing another. That task falls, by law, to corporate boards, clubby groups that are widely criticized as the handpicked “captives” of self-serving... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Ticked Off
prevent the disease, been an information clearinghouse, and helped establish the country’s first endowed research dedicated to finding a cure for the disease. The HBS club provided pro bono consulting to help TFL identify ways to achieve... View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
prevent those types of things with our risk management, risk advisory services. So it's not just about premium. And that loss, all those being paid when claims occur. It's about the services that we can provide. That's on the commercial... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Entrepreneurs’ Fund
month. Said Rumennik, “The Minimum Viable Product Fund, or MVP Fund, alleviates the daunting financial barrier preventing students from building initial prototypes or test products, and encourages them to connect with like-minded peers.”... View Details
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
Class of 1977, Section H. The story that I will tell is the one after I graduated the B school. In our freshman year we had a case that was called the "chicken lens case." I don't know if it survived. It was about a farmer in California who invented contact lenses to... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
putting users at the center of strategy leads to an almost unfair competitive advantage; ways to build an organizational system that delivers a superior user experience that is replicable, consistent, and scalable; common shortfalls that View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
finally liquidated at the end of 2013, it employed a few dozen people. Now some of those workers, mostly women in their 50s, were occupying the factory around the clock in eight-hour shifts to prevent the sale of the equipment and to... View Details
- 12 Dec 2015
- News
Racial Discrimination in the Sharing Economy
there’s no way I’m letting somebody who’s African-American stay in my place.’ I think more of what’s happening is a subtle, unconscious bias.” The solution: Debias Yourself, a browser plug-in the research team created for Airbnb hosts. It hides an Airbnb guest’s name... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
investments are managed by large institutions, dark pools provide a way to protect those investments by preventing other traders from jumping out ahead of a trade by a penny to get a better price. Konstance does agree that a shift in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Faculty Books
compete in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of specific health conditions. The book lays out a framework for redefining health-care competition based on patient value: from prevention and diagnosis... View Details