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Every Large Point Set Contains Many Collinear Points or an Empty Pentagon
By: Zachary Abel, Brad Ballinger, Prosenjit Bose, Sébastien Collette, Vida Dujmović, Ferran Hurtado, Scott Duke Kominers, Stefan Langerman, Attila Pór and David Wood
We prove the following generalised empty pentagon theorem for every integer ℓ ≥ 2, every sufficiently large set of points in the plane contains ℓ collinear points or an empty pentagon. As an application, we settle the next open case of the “big line or big clique”...
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Keywords:
Erdős-Szekeres Theorem;
Happy End Problem;
Big Line Or Big Clique Conjecture;
Empty Quadrilateral;
Empty Pentagon;
Empty Hexagon
Abel, Zachary, Brad Ballinger, Prosenjit Bose, Sébastien Collette, Vida Dujmović, Ferran Hurtado, Scott Duke Kominers, Stefan Langerman, Attila Pór, and David Wood. "Every Large Point Set Contains Many Collinear Points or an Empty Pentagon." Graphs and Combinatorics 27, no. 1 (January 2011): 47–60.
- July 31, 1988
- Article
Private Industry's Lessons for the Pentagon
By: J. Ronald Fox
Fox, J. Ronald. "Private Industry's Lessons for the Pentagon." Los Angeles Times (July 31, 1988).
- 05 Aug 2015
- News
Pentagon Sends an Engineer and a Navy SEAL to Woo Silicon Valley
Keywords:
Government
- May 2004 (Revised April 2005)
- Case
United States Army
By: Rajiv Lal and Laura Coleman
After three months of close collaboration, the Leo Burnett USA/Worldwide agency and partner Cartel and Images advertising/creative team were poised to unveil to senior Army officials at the Pentagon their replacement to the "Be All You Can Be" campaign to help increase...
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Keywords:
Advertising Campaigns;
Decisions;
Globalization;
Recruitment;
Management Teams;
Marketing Strategy;
United States
Lal, Rajiv, and Laura Coleman. "United States Army." Harvard Business School Case 504-038, May 2004. (Revised April 2005.)
- March 2023 (Revised March 2023)
- Case
Accelerating AI Adoption in the U.S. Air Force
By: Maria P. Roche and Alexander Farrow
In August 2022, the Pentagon tasked U.S. Air Force Captain Victor Lopez to launch a new office for AFWERX, an Air Force innovation unit that leveraged commercial developers and military talent to acquire advanced technologies. This task was particularly arduous because...
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Keywords:
Technological Innovation;
Organizational Design;
AI and Machine Learning;
Adoption;
Technology Adoption;
United States
Roche, Maria P., and Alexander Farrow. "Accelerating AI Adoption in the U.S. Air Force." Harvard Business School Case 723-429, March 2023. (Revised March 2023.)
- 24 Oct 2023
- Cold Call Podcast
How the United States Air Force Accelerated AI Adoption
Keywords:
Re: Maria P. Roche
- April 2006
- Case
Medical Innovation Beyond MedStar: Mobilizing for National Impact
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Ryan Raffaelli and Michelle Heskett
Dr. Craig Feied, director of MedStar Health's Medical Informatics programs, wanted his innovations to influence national health care. Since joining Washington Hospital Center's Emergency Department in 1995 with Dr. Mark Smith, their information system had become the...
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- December 2010
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Organising Response to Extreme Emergencies: The Victorian Bushfires of 2009
By: Dutch Leonard and Arnold M. Howitt
How can people and organisations best respond to emergency events that are significantly beyond the boundaries of what they had generally anticipated, expected, prepared for-or even imagined? What forms of organisations are likely to be best able to cope with such...
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Keywords:
Organizations;
Management Practices and Processes;
Natural Disasters;
Crisis Management;
Boundaries;
United States
Leonard, Dutch, and Arnold M. Howitt. "Organising Response to Extreme Emergencies: The Victorian Bushfires of 2009." Australian Journal of Public Administration 69, no. 4 (December 2010).
- 2016
- Case
Advanced Leadership Pathways: Alberto Mora and the Costs and Consequences of Torture
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Benjamin Summers
Alberto Mora's time as General Counsel of the Navy from 2001–2006 greatly influenced his mission to illuminate the policy consequences of torture. Mora's drive to restore the nation's awareness and conscience against torture was gaining traction. Prominent...
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Keywords:
Leadership Skills;
Torture;
Costs And Consequences;
Humane;
Restraint;
Human Dignity;
Treatment Of Prisoners;
Prison;
Repression;
Opposition;
Revolution;
Democracy;
Communism;
International Affairs;
Public Service;
September 11;
War On Terror;
Operation Enduring Freedom;
Guantanamo;
Cuba;
Coalition;
Working Group;
Cruelty;
Interrogation;
Memorandum;
American Law;
Authority;
Authoritative;
Quadrennial Defense Review;
National Defense Authorization Act;
Public Engagement;
Advocacy;
Law;
Accountability;
Center For The Victims Of Torture;
Human Rights;
Public Policy;
Legality;
Morality;
Legal System;
Tactical Military Operations;
West Point;
NGO;
Human Rights First;
American Civil Liberties Union;
Human Rights Watch;
Amnesty International;
Constitution Project;
Center For Constitutional Rights;
Strategic Military Effect;
National Security;
Weapon;
Terrorism;
Prisoners Of War;
Abu Ghraib;
Pentagon;
Ethics;
Moral Sensibility;
Leadership;
Rights;
Policy;
Public Opinion;
United States
Kanter, Rosabeth M., and Benjamin Summers. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: Alberto Mora and the Costs and Consequences of Torture." Harvard Business School Case 316-054, 2016. (Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative.)
- 30 May 2023
- News
Finding PRIDE
Pentagon decided they should collect my college tuition: $51,000. That was a transformative experience for me. It played out in the New York Times and USA Today. There were calls for kicking ROTC off campus at Harvard and MIT. I didn’t...
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- 28 Jan 2020
- Book
Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking
change. Look at how we personify buildings: “Headquarters wants . ” “The Pentagon says ....” In today’s fast-paced world, fixed structures can weigh you down, can make agility and resilience very difficult, and can stifle the...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2020
- Blog Post
Reflections on Service - Armed Forces Alumni Association Student Profiles
machine gun fire. The rest of the day was a wash as I was lost in thought, back in Afghanistan and Iraq. Zack Hoyt | Staff of the Chief of Naval Operations, The Pentagon US Navy ENTERED SERVICE FROM: Nashville, TN REASON FOR SERVING:...
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- 01 Mar 2016
- News
The Western Front
faster than Washington can keep up, which puts the Pentagon in the dangerous position of falling behind. “The way we have been doing business for the past several decades will not be sufficient going forward,” says Rear Admiral Brian...
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Jason Feifer
- 16 Oct 2018
- News
To Lead and Serve
as a human being, and if I got out, I'd have an opportunity in the economy to do well. So in reality, it really set me up well within the Navy. It gave you credibility when you came in a room in the Pentagon and you're talking finance...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Robert McNamara Dies at 93
Motor Company as a“whiz kid,” eventually becoming its president briefly before the Kennedy administration tapped him to be Secretary of Defense. He became known as the architect of the Vietnam War, a conflict that marked him forever. “After leaving the View Details
- 28 Sep 2017
- News
Alumni-Founded Aerospace Pioneer Orbital Acquired for $7.8 Billion
two years ago, and will make Northrop the fourth-largest Pentagon contractor. In a statement about the deal, Thompson said: “The unique alignment in culture and mission offered by this transaction will allow us to maintain strong...
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- 01 Aug 2001
- News
J. Ronald Fox (MBA '59)
missile and submarine. Fox went to the Pentagon in 1963 as deputy assistant secretary of the Air Force for management systems. After two years, he returned to Harvard to pursue a doctorate in psychology and to teach a course in project...
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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
No Nukes
Washington’s point man in all this is James Kelly (MBA ’68), assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs. Kelly, who previously served in the White House and the Pentagon during the Reagan administration, was tapped...
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- Portrait Project
Michael Worosz
stood in the Pentagon instilled in me a rage which has given way to patient, nuanced deliberation. Where I once believed that America should carve out her interests in the world, heedless of the repercussions on other nations, my world...
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- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Katharine Graham Offers Advice on Leadership
leadership, the paper provided readers with courageous and award-winning editorial coverage of controversial issues such as the Watergate scandal and the Pentagon Papers. To succeed, not only did Graham have to acquire managerial...
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