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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
stayed there, drove tens of thousands of beta signups. I remember sort of pacing around my apartment as this was happening, thinking, like, we’ve got a live one.Kerr: So tell us a little bit about the kind of product vision that you began...
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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
(MBA 1969)—to careers in business. “He taught by the case method, and made sure we had real-life experiences,” Lambert says, recalling a field trip to General Motors in Detroit. “Professor Fitzhugh saw business as a way for the black...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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Model Patient
uninsured was a low 10 percent (compared with 15 percent nationally), and it already had in place a free-care pool for financing the uninsured, which most states do not. “Nevertheless,” Slavin concludes, “the Massachusetts health-reform framework of individual mandates...
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- 04 Sep 2019
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Deep Dive
SpaceX vessels.) Of course, the Limiting Factor and the Pressure Drop would need to be maintained, and the ship needed a crew. Vescovo tapped EYOS Expeditions to organize the trips and handle permits and logistics. A film crew from Atlantic View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
that we’re smart in the things we’re attacking, and to try to solve real-world problems that make an impact.” Watson General Manager David Kenny (MBA 1986) adds: “The tech sector tends to reward short-term thinking.” But Watson is different, he says: A View Details
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Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
Zimbabwe, he had been in the job so long that few recall how he got there. Fewer still remember that it was Henry Kissinger, whose complex, if unlikely, negotiations to achieve black majority rule in Rhodesia, later Zimbabwe, helped to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2021
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Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
network,” says Lewis. “Our eldest scholars are already out working. Doctors, lawyers, teachers, and young professors. Educating people is the most potent and productive way to bring change.” His advice on how to change intrenched culture:...
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- 19 Mar 2015
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Walter Salmon Remembered
recall two instances when he went out of his way to help me in my career. Toward the end of my first year at the school, I had a summer job offer which was cancelled about a month before the summer break would occur because of some...
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- 07 Sep 2021
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Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
on, I got a job fixing rotary compressors in refrigerators. DM: Mm-hmm [affirmative]. JI: I was leading, kind of, 7,000 people. I was 32 years old. It was the biggest product recall in the history of GE. So...
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- 01 Jun 2018
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Up by the Roots
California, Boston, sometimes London,” recalls Gotsch. “Nobody was looking locally.” Gotsch is president and CEO of the Partnership Fund for New York City, which invests in local ventures to create jobs and grow the Big Apple’s economy....
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- 10 Dec 2014
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Front-Row Seat
Twain, Henry James, and Ernest Hemingway, to name just a few, and was well known for fostering a productive national debate around the pressing issues of the time—the modest goal being nothing less than advancing the sum of human...
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- 01 Dec 1998
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Managing the Business of Life
European consumer products business. In her first Bulletin interview in 1983, Dodi envisioned the future ideal of "a pregnant CEO of a corporation walking into a board meeting" while her other child was down the hall in daycare. But she...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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Business at the Summit
these tasks are going to require leadership.” Light declared that the School and its alumni “need to be part of the solution to these problems.” Addressing alumni on Tuesday, Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust recalled the words of HBS...
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- 01 Sep 2018
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September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
rebels engaged in guerilla movements against a pro-Western government. He knew the United States must preserve deniability, so he would be abandoned in any life-threatening situation; he did not know that Che Guevara was trying to export his revolution a few miles...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
conversation by giving us a little bit more of what does that model entail? What’s your product area responsibility look like?Lindner: Yeah, so I look at business functions. So really making sure that all of your finance operations,...
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- 01 Dec 2013
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Curing Health Care
"MD Anderson was an exciting discovery, because it was a real-world example of the IPU concept at work in a top-rated, cancer-focused hospital," recalls Porter, who cowrote an HBS case on MD Anderson with Sachin Jain (MBA 2007/MD 2008)....
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
decided to extend an offer to me, they did invite me to attend a commencement. Talking with a lot of the graduates, their families, what I recall very distinctly from that experience is that just leaving with the impression that the...
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America on the Move - U.S. Competitiveness
benefit, but not a vision. The Transcontinental Railroad, the Interstate Highway System, and the post-Sputnik space race were not about jobs. (Indeed, students of history will recall that the railroads had to import foreign labor from...
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