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- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
this one addressing a white audience, telling them exactly what they could be doing to help support the Black community. The positive response to that episode led Rogers, a retired senior lecturer to write his recent book, A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues:... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
science of Novacem, Evans is completely engaged by the strategic aspects of a high-stakes, capital-intensive industry. “A cement works is expensive, lasts a long time, and has to be built in just the right place, or you’re completely... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
Publishing Many companies make disruption their goal. They believe that if they develop the right innovation, they will disrupt their markets forever and drive the kind of growth worthy of a magazine cover story. But as bestselling author... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
large food brands have earned accolades for recent decisions to eliminate GMOs from their supply chain. It was into this market that Haven Baker (MBA 2009), Simplot’s VP of plant sciences, launched the first direct-to-consumer produce... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
plus parks, a museum, even a beer garden. "We are tackling one of our nation's biggest challenges, fixing health care," said President and CEO Jonathan Bush (MBA 1997), and creating a dedicatedspace where workers can be "creative, industrious, and revolutionary."... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
really funny and-- well, funny's not the right word but a really eye-opening story. I was actually telling this today. So right out of HBS, we were non-funded, working out of a makeshift office. And one of... View Details
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
realization at the time that they shouldn't pass the idea along to a new team of executives. It wasn't an easy decision to make, given the financial implications, but as Fenton recalls, "It still felt like the View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
wasn’t an easy decision to make, given the financial implications, but as Fenton recalls, “It still felt like the right timing. It was the height of the dot-com boom, so lots of people in my class were... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
Bulgaria right after the Berlin Wall fell and was right when Bulgaria was beginning its transition to Democracy. Now, I've read that you and your wife, Searl, were actually a part of that process that helped... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
check, testing every system on the Limiting Factor before the retractable hangar is opened and the submersible is lowered alongside the ship. Vescovo dons his flight suit. Along the right sleeve of the blue coveralls are the flags of the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
exchange of letters in which the publisher defended Carson’s source material and its decision to issue the book, Velsicol backed away from its warnings. No lawsuits against Silent Spring were filed before or after its publication. Upon... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
Johnson, and McKinsey and Company—discussed key decisions they have made and how they have approached these decisions. Through concrete examples, we explored the philosophical, ethical, and practical aspects of dealing with this crisis.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
kind of generosity. Royalties from this book go to Christian ministries focused on spreading the Gospel and providing for those in need. Global Risk Agility and Decision Making: Organizational Resilience in the Era of Manmade Risk by... View Details
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part One]
stalled right now. As the book argues, macroeconomic reforms and stimulus packages are not going to be the answer. There's still little real change in Japan on the government side, other than some marginal improvements. The response on... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
preceded the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by more than a decade. Today, the company routinely garners plaudits for its worklife balance and workforce diversity programs. One extraordinary IBM initiative that is both worker- and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
uncommon service: You can't be good at everything. You must be bad in the service of good. Excellence requires underperforming on the dimensions your customers value least so that you can overperform on the dimensions your customers value most. Once you choose this... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
of African Americans enslaved by the Cherokee, as well as those born into unions of the two groups. The Freedmen had struggled for decades to establish their rights as Cherokee citizens, and briefly gained those View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
right out of business school," Sahlman says. "They don't yet know enough about hiring and firing or managing. They don't know enough about selling and marketing or production and operations." He advises freshly minted MBAs with... View Details
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
managing risk in early-stage ventures. The case also addresses issues such as diversification and options preservation as well as the importance of trust and long-term relationships in decision making in entrepreneurial arenas. Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?
the loss of reputation can be devastating, think of Volkswagen’s current crisis, for example. But you are right in the sense that the value of reputation increases in business environments with greater uncertainty. Looking at the large... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne