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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf: A Manager's Responsibility in the 21st Century
It's easy to think that the 2010 disaster at the BP drilling platform Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico was the result of a chain of cascading events beyond the control of anyone to stop. But as the authors of Avoiding Corporate Breakdowns: The Nature and Extent...
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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Cyberposium: Pros and Cons of Outsourcing
Sheeroy Desai, EVP and COO for Sapient, noted that his company saves 30 to 40 percent by offshoring IT — but the move has involved a significant investment in training. “Most IT organizations tend to underestimate the costs of management overhead, costs related to...
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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Steady as She Goes
bushfire season that burned 46 million acres and then by the coronavirus pandemic. As Weckert spoke from her home in Melbourne in October 2020, the city remained under strict lockdown. “Both of these things have had an enormous impact for our businesses, but also for...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Get Well Soon
million Pursuing Perfection grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. In addition to funding an improvement-science training program, the grant requires that the hospital undertake improvement projects. Hence, Kotagal develops hospital-wide View Details
- 29 Aug 2014
- News
The Untold Story of How a Culture of Shame Perpetuates Abuse
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Disaster Master
unexpected? What kind of internal communication exists for perfect coordination? —Karan Gupta (GMP 18, 2015) BEER: Companies can be prepared by having a crisis management team and established communication...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Big Bailouts, Little Debate
Duhigg Photo Courtesy Charles Duhigg As a business writer for the New York Times, I often bump into HBS classmates and alumni who ask me, in a whisper, “What’s the real story behind the economic crisis? There’s some hidden tale that explains everything, right?” The...
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- 01 Jul 2013
- News
The Nature of Business
Mark Tercek Mark Tercek likes a challenge. As CEO of The Nature Conservancy (TNC), he has led the global nonprofit to fearlessly take on conservation projects that no one else would. "We are trying to tackle those global challenges that are vital, and that no one else...
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- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Embracing Activism for Social Change
“We spoke to folks in California and Texas, asking questions about coalition building, data collection, evaluation, stakeholder management, and community engagement,” she says. “This was at a time when COVID-19 was exposing a big range of...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
South Africa's Lucille Meyer: Shaping a Practical Presidency
personal support, public liaison and registry, protocol and ceremonial, communications, and corporate services. Her team is responsible for all aspects of assisting the president, whether it be keeping his calendar, providing legal...
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Morgan Baker
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
digital world," elaborates Upton, a Technology and Operations Management professor with a Ph.D. in industrial engineering. The current initiative began with the refitting of the School with an open architecture using Internet-based View Details
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by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
Colorado-based Charter School Growth Fund (CSGF), comes in. Since 2005, the nonprofit Growth Fund has provided necessary capital to 34 charter management organizations (CMOs) that run networks of charters serving 125,000 students in 330 schools in underserved View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges
them in early February to devise a continuity of learning plan. After the summer break and discussions with medical and health care professionals, teachers, and parents, as well as other educators—including those in his CSML network—Schwartz put View Details
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
Baker: With a strong belief in change within the system, working to reduce corruption so that free markets will function better, to the benefit of rich and poor nations alike. Photos by Katherine Lambert Corruption. Said slowly, even the word seems to subvert and...
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- 21 Mar 2019
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Helping Veterans Build Careers
employers. The value is almost always there; they just need to communicate it more effectively,” he notes. Goldenberg offers as an example D. J. Watson, an infantryman from Georgia. A tough, confident Army sergeant who successfully led...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
Praise for March Cover Congratulations on cracking the mold of a one-subject cover for the March issue. I found the four of your financial crisis articles extremely interesting, especially Niall Ferguson’s book excerpt on “Chimerica”! Peter Tufano’s proposal to invest...
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- 26 Oct 2020
- News
A Social Impact Roadmap; Arts Leadership in a Pandemic; Amplifying Hispanic Contributions
with social distancing and other safety protocols in place. Hung says that will mean having smaller gatherings, spaced seating, and symphonic programs that allow musicians proper spacing, and the elimination of choral performances in the...
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Margie Kelley