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- 06 Sep 2016
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The Solution That Doesn’t Get Discussed About How to Get More Women On Corporate Boards
re-nominating one male director and the second by expanding the board by one in anticipation of further retirements—that would solve the supply problem by creating 1,000 new board seats. The 19.9 percent...
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- 01 Jun 2011
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Mr. Start-Up
me solve a problem within a day, or an hour, that might otherwise take a month. There are studies that look for consistent traits in entrepreneurs: Are they a firstborn child? Were their parents...
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- 17 Nov 2015
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Carbon Neutral
Walt Minnick (MBA 1966), a successful businessman and former Democratic congressman from Idaho. “It’s the most serious problem facing humanity in the 21st century. If we want a future for our kids and grandkids, it’s imperative that our...
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Michael Blanding
- 01 Sep 2014
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Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
the most influential education is going to happen when Bitcoin finds a killer use case. So far, that case hasn’t emerged, but once those use cases start solving real problems for large groups of people,...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Too Big To Fail
the need to identify and regulate financial institutions that pose systemic risks at the top of its list of critical problems in need of legislative repair, along with limiting leverage and reforming the credit rating system (see Setting...
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- 01 Mar 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
retirement security. Many of today’s US workers will lack the resources to retire at traditional ages and maintain their standard of living in retirement. Solving the problem is a major challenge in today's...
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- 01 Jun 2022
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Making It Count
by 2025, which would amount to a third of all assets under management around the world. But sandwiched somewhere between the high hopes and higher stakes of sustainable investing looms the big question: Will it ever be enough to solve the...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 27 Oct 2020
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HBS Votes
observes Malik. “Confidence in our government is at a 60-year low, and many people are looking to business to solve the problems facing our society.” Malik believes making election day a holiday is a way for...
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- 26 Jul 2018
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Running the Numbers
conversation around how analytics are used in the sports and entertainment business.” The job draws on her experience as an athlete, her MBA degree and undergraduate psychology major, and a fascination with technology-based problem View Details
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2013
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Alumni News | Bookshelf
resource to solve a problem. Highly accessible in a scant 100 pages, the ideas in Building a Growth Factory may not result in an assembly line of hit products, but they will make innovation "repeatable and reliable," allowing companies to...
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- 01 Dec 2013
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Curing Health Care
EHR system. The scan might as well be stuck in a manila folder. “The biggest problem with health care today is not how expensive it is. It's that we're held down by force, our money is taken, and then we're shoved into a medical system...
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- 01 Sep 2014
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All For One
don’t know what the answer is. They have to act, not plan their way forward. Hill began to despair of finding an answer to her problem until a chance meeting with Pixar executive Greg Brandeau in the lobby of a biotech firm—Hill was there...
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- 01 Jun 2001
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Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
overheads? I recall that in my day a particularly endearing, if mobility-challenged, professor would repeatedly collide with the overhead projector while executing the complex tango steps inherent to case-method facilitation. No such View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
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Not Throwing Away My Shot
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes “I think it's okay to want to dent the universe, but I think it's best if you're an entrepreneur to think about something that's in the present that needs to be solved right...
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- 01 Mar 2014
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The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
these things, people look on it as the most difficult country to change." And yet, a shift appears under way. A new reformist government has started treating agriculture as a problem to be solved by industry...
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- 01 Oct 2002
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View from the Top
honest, humble, and setting realistic expectations may be good ingredients. Gadiesh: The public has lost confidence, and the underlying problem does not seem to be the absence of checks and balances, but that not everybody is making them...
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- 01 Dec 1997
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Growing Together
to brainstorm solutions to problems that still plague the community. One of the Cleveland visitors this January was Richard Shatten (MBA '80), a faculty member at Cleveland's Weatherhead School of Management. Just after graduating from...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 06 Dec 2018
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Source Code
the nature of what Numenta is doing.” Most people assume that the human brain was solved long ago. That some scientist figured out how humans learn, published the findings in a white paper, and put it on a shelf, and it was settled. But...
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- 01 Mar 2008
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Innovation, Inc.
Of course it does. But it also depends on creative thinking as a skill that involves qualities such as the propensity to take risks and to turn a problem on its head to get a new perspective. That can be learned.” For example, in her...
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- 01 Sep 2015
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The Business of Love
relationships; OkCupid, founded in 2004, which popularized the idea that data could solve the dating dilemma; and niche sites from JDate and ChristianMingle to FarmersOnly. The number and diversity of the sites helped reduce the stigma...
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April White