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- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
300 area employers. Other efforts are focused on creating a more accurate picture of the realities of homelessness in order to help agencies better align their services with clients’ needs. For example, although many existing initiatives... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Game On
to 2016, when the club’s 50-year-old marina was crumbling into disrepair. It’s a common side effect of member-managed clubs, he notes. “It’s tough to get things done, because no one wants to be in charge when someone says the word... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The World’s Littlest Book on Climate: Ten Facts in Ten Minutes About CO2 By Mike Nelson, Pieter Tans, and Michael Banks (MBA 1983) Independently Published In this updated edition of the world’s smallest book on the world’s biggest... View Details
Keywords: podcasts
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
lifelong lessons about personal priorities and career ambitions, humility, and confidence—and the incomparable kinship (and long memories) of sectionmates. “Suzuki Samurai” Suzuki and advertising agency executives are debating the product... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
electrification—from the car manufacturers and utility companies to government agencies and the public, who often have a say in where and how charging locations are implemented. An ongoing partnership with GM, for example, is enabling... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
Infrastructure Is a Gateway to a ‘Resource Revolution’ BIO As business leaders, achieving stakeholder alignment is our license to operate and our best opportunity to halt the tragedy of the commons scenario playing out in climate change.... View Details
- 03 Nov 2020
- News
One Paramount Priority
In the four years since the last US presidential election, Diane Hessan (MBA 1977) has been interviewing more than 500 voters, talking about everything from gun control to COVID-19. This years-long project has made clear to Hessan that many Americans share View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Subprime Time
there. That’s OK, if they are tightened. A return to common sense is overdue. We need a dramatic retooling of risk management and portfolio selection. The regulatory techniques and the rating agency... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Take 2: From Ad Copy to Cuneiform
executive vice president and director of the Ted Bates Agency in New York City (then among the top five advertising agencies in the world), managing the firm and million-dollar accounts for big-name clients... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Capital Architect
needs to formulate (and commit to) engagement mechanisms for economic governance—which builds citizen confidence in their role as partners. To ingrain legitimacy in Zambia, for instance, a cabinet-level executive Privatization Agency was... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Revitalizing America
help address urgent priorities that the public cares about and bring communities together for the common good. An early slogan for AmeriCorps, the lead program of America's Corporation for National and Community Service, was "getting... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 20 Apr 2016
- News
Steps to Success
her for a small chain of upscale restaurants run by Kansas-based Gilbert-Robinson, Inc. After two years as vice president of marketing, she returned to Minneapolis to work at an ad agency and to do some independent consulting. In 1998,... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
creative guy. Since high school, he’s paid homage to both — becoming an engineer who also loves to act in community theater. Still, the question loomed: Could his seemingly opposite sides be united in a common career goal? As a youngster... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Turning Point: Dream Weaver
HBS research project, and he referred me to a job in distribution, before I was able to move into production. Unfortunately, Hollywood studios have much in common with politics, and after 13 films, I was swept away as part of a regime... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Winning Legally
a common language? Top management needs to place a higher value on legal literacy. Training and incentives are important. Potential problem areas can vary depending on industry and functional role, but they are easily recognizable if... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
New Releases
Technology Fountainheads by E. Raymond Corey (Harvard Business School Press) As corporate research and development costs rise, many firms choose to participate in R&D; consortia - collaborative ventures with academic institutions and government View Details
- 09 Jul 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
if—you could have a huge positive impact by just providing common-sense business techniques. Not Six Sigma, not One Sigma, just common sense,” Offensend observes. When he landed his first nonprofit position as chief operating officer at... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
alongside money from mainstream business malpractice. One common technique for moving large sums of illict money, Baker asserts, is falsified pricing in international trade. Invoices can be written to reflect one price, while still... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
stakeholders or among different groups of stakeholders. Agency theory dissolved the idea that executives should be held — on the basis of notions such as stewardship, stakeholder interests, or promotion of the View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
pharmaceutical companies focused their R&D on treatments for common illnesses — such as diabetes and high cholesterol — an approach that resulted in the development of blockbuster drugs. We now recognize that diseases are far more complex... View Details