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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
HBS Student Battles ALS
face of this frightening disease. “The diagnosis was shocking,” says Kremer, a former officer in the Israel Defense Forces and project manager at a high-tech Israeli defense-industry firm. “I had so many plans for the future, so many... View Details
- 17 Nov 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Are Optimists or Pessimists Better Leaders?
office or leading the family are less likely to foster a culture of growth, risk taking, and wealth creation. According to Jeremy Dean, a researcher at University College London, optimists prefer to think about how they and others can advance and grow. Optimists also... View Details
- 08 Oct 2013
- News
The Green Giant
Coca-Cola and Walmart, and governments like South Africa and Bhutan and even China, investing in sustainability," he says. The 51-year-old Atlanta native is married to Jackie Prince Roberts, director of sustainable technologies, climate and air for the Environmental... View Details
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2021 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
who focuses on democracy innovation, public health and health equity, justice reform, education, and political economy. She also directs the Democratic Knowledge Project , a K-16 civic education provider. Her books include Our Declaration: a reading of the Declaration... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
eleven responses and landed three interviews. “It was,” she says, “a searing experience because I felt it was totally directed at women.” Two job offers came from government — OMB and Defense — but Cohen opted for a private-sector... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Working Behind the Scenes — Alan F. Horn (MBA 1971)
preachy." Horn was subsequently asked to become a board member of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) in 1990. "In the face of the Contract with America's rollback efforts, NRDC is a staunch defender of clean air, clean water,... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- Web
Winning with Digital Platforms Online Course | HBS Online
defensive plans to effectively develop or compete against platform companies Who Will Benefit Current and Aspiring Leaders Early- and Mid-Career Professionals Entrepreneurs Explore platforms’ associated opportunities and risks to inform... View Details
- 01 Nov 2016
- News
Paving the Way to College
Children’s Defense Fund; and helped to select the first secretary of education while a senior White House aide in the Carter Administration. Now semi-retired, Frankel is executive director of College Match, a nonprofit he founded in Los... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Status Update
employees to more than 1,000, while its community of users expanded from 300 million to more than a billion. Despite the big-picture scope and pace of her latest role, Levine still finds time to enjoy the small, user-generated moments that pop up in View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 16 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How to Compete Like a Judo Strategist
stay a leader," as Donna Dubinsky (CEO of Handspring, Inc.) says. Once a smaller or weaker firm starts to play defense, the game is usually over. So "play offense and play to win," is the advice of Intuit founder Scott Cook. "If you play defense,... View Details
Keywords: by David B. Yoffie & Mary Kwak
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Short Takes
environmental management. Reinhardt argues that in order to manage the environmental challenge successfully, firms should improve their cost management, reduce risk, create and capture value, and help develop new approaches to complicated economic and View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
outreach and social justice advocacy, justice system reform, and education parity. Its past campaign, the Take Action Initiative, raised $400,000 for The Bail Project, the Black AIDS Institute, the Equal Justice Initiative, the NAACP... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 09 Dec 2015
- Research Event
When Hosts Attack: The Competitive Threat of Online Platforms
later Twitter acquired competing app Periscope and cut off Meerkat’s access to Twitter’s social graph. And then there was the iPhone flashlight app from Noah Corp., which you’ve likely never heard of because Apple now includes a... View Details
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Time that Government Reopens for Business
other segments of the economy such as defense contractors. Since the shutdown follows on the heels of the sequester, it's a second whammy for them. If you are a defense contractor, you've probably seen a lot... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
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Faculty Spotlight: HBS Racial Equity Fellow Professor Ivuoma N. Onyeador - Blog: RGE Report
Fellow Professor Ivuoma N. Onyeador tag RGE Blog Professor Onyeador examines topics surrounding social cohesion , particularly conflict as it relates to racial dynamics. Her research is particularly timely given the politicized... View Details
- 15 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction
speculates about whether Microsoft or Adobe would be better positioned to establish the dominant ebook standard. The possibility that the world’s biggest bookstore might eventually win that race hadn’t dawned on me. Social networks. We’d... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
Sell High includes chapters explaining the events leading to the creation of the Internet bubble, from the Internet's humble beginnings in the 1960s as a federally funded defense research tool to the “wild excitement” generated several... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 28 May 2019
- News
INK: Maker’s Manual
“Why didn’t I think of that?” I’ve learned to trust that there’s an endless well of good ideas. And when you put opportunities in the hands of wild-eyed optimists—instead of established companies that are in defense mode—people create... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World
The following article is the seventh in a series on the activities and research taking place in each academic unit at HBS. Professor Michael C. Jensen has a simple explanation for why people sometimes don't listen when they are angry and why they get View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 28 May 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: In Security
credit card companies have become much better at shutting that down quickly.” Now hackers look for personally identifiable information—think birthdays, social security numbers, and addresses—that they can sell on the underground market... View Details