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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
somebody provides data. I need to get out there and create data.” Collectively, these five discovery skills constitute what we call the innovator’s DNA, the code for creating innovative business ideas. By mastering these discovery skills,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
incorrect paperwork, the IT team programmed an electronic “poka-yoke” (a term from lean manufacturing in which an engineering solution prevents a mistake) that keeps a mailing label from being printed unless the bar codes on the SmartPak... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Unleashed
crisis. What is cause for celebration or pride or shame. Culture even determines something as fundamental as what is funny. Humor is not a universal truth; it’s a cultural one. For example, a culture challenge at Riot Games was that behaviors that were View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
portfolios in the blink of an eye. They will crack even the strongest digital encryption codes in seconds rather than centuries. (The day quantum computing becomes a reality is the day conventional digital security ends.) They should even... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
need to change your password every six months. You need to have dual factor authentication on your email when you’re away”—for instance, entering a password as well as a code texted to a cell phone. And it starts earlier than your first... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
analyzing why his drive and commitment are so strong. When pressed, however, Langford will point to his family tree. “I inherited from my father and grandfather a quiet but deep sense of the old codes around honesty, integrity, service to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
The flight had been arranged by secret military cable. An elaborate code of flares and signal fires was agreed upon, and the US Army Air Force’s 52d Fighter Group staged a midair diversion over the Adriatic Sea. But these attempts at... View Details
- 04 Oct 2018
- News
“A Shout Through Time”
by the metal detectors as a piece of potentially silver. So after they started to clean it, little by little the name appeared, and then the code appeared and the emotion was very strong, because suddenly they started to realize this was... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
intrinsic economics of the situation led to a major collapse,” explains Sandwen. Almost immediately after the crash, a chastened industry began to emerge. Congress rewrote the tax code and put tax-loss syndicators out of business. The S&L... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
And she succeeded. A veteran of the peer group industry, who has trained and mentored hundreds, Corner-Stolz cracked the code for MX as well as for how to skillfully moderate PaCs. She’s been teaching her formula for success through her... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
a code of ethics and contribute to the betterment of society. The authors demonstrate that this is much harder to achieve than unicorn status. The authors show how these stories are less about building a get-rich-quick organization and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
Management and HBS. They stood on the Weeks Footbridge and, on the spot, decided on Harvard. Despite his obvious talents, life at HBS wasn’t necessarily easy for the young Canadian student. He arrived in class the first day wearing a bright pink shirt, only to discover... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Paul Grana (MBA 2009) has always been a numbers guy. He was cracking video codes at 13, he was really into math in high school. And that attraction to numbers,... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
IBM team pitched their superiors on the company building a computer that could compete on Jeopardy!. It was bold, even risky; Jeopardy! was the ur–game show of idioms and double meanings. Building software for natural-language processing meant View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
expedition’s leader, Gene Lamb, so much so that he had devised a code to secretly communicate his concerns to Hincks by telegram. Moore believed that Lamb was a crook who had committed fraud during his previous visits to China and had... View Details