Dan Morrell
Through the static and distance.
Live in Boston. Work for Harvard Business School. Partner at Dog Ear Consultants (dogearconsultants.com).
PROJECTS
alumni.hbs.edu
Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
Former Army helicopter pilot Matthew Brady, founder and CEO of Pershing Barracks Capital, discusses his battlefield experience—and how it shaped his approach to business
alumni.hbs.edu
The Middle Way
How Wally Eamer helped broker a historic peace in the forests of British Columbia
The Boston Globe
You’ve never heard of the rapper Token? You will.
At just 18, Marblehead’s Ben Goldberg is touring Europe, hanging out with Mark Wahlberg, and cementing his status as hip-hop’s next big star.
alumni.hbs.edu
Higher Ground
How Carlos Miguel Prieto conducted a post-Katrina comeback for the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra
Harvard Magazine
Why Nations Fail
James Robinson says that in the modern period, greedy leaders and institutional corruption, rather than geography, explain why some nations fail.
The Boston Globe
Art & Craft
The science nerds behind Cambridge-based Lamplighter are betting it all on complex flavors.
denisonmagazine.com
The Deep Roots of American Racism
A little bit before 10 p.m. on July 13, 2013, Kelly Brown Douglas’s phone started buzzing with texts. The verdict in the case of the state of Florida vs. George Zimmerman—who was charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin—was in. Douglas ’79, a religion professor at Baltimore’s Goucher College and an Episcopalian priest, turned on the TV and watched in stunned silence as Zimmerman was exonerated.
alumni.hbs.edu
Your Own Medicine
Three years ago, Gene Williams (MBA 1987) helped two parents set up a drug company to save their son's life. Their new patient-driven drug development blueprint may just end up saving the pharmaceutical industry too.
The Atlantic
Brave Thinker: Jay Bradner
Two years ago, after Jay Bradner made a remarkable breakthrough—the discovery of a molecule that, in mice, appeared to trick certain cancer cells into becoming normal cells—he did something unusual.
alumni.hbs.edu
Competing Against Luck
Podcast with one of the world's foremost experts on innovation
The Boston Globe
Magic's Next Act
Waltham’s Shin Lim could be the biggest name in magic since David Blaine
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Built for Speed
Jay Rogers set out to start a car company. He may have launched an industrial revolution, too.
Boston magazine
Disconnected
They’re called “phreakers,” and they can do with a phone what hackers can do with computers. Few were more skilled—or more feared—than Matt Weigman, a blind teenager from East Boston. Using his heightened senses, he made himself untouchable. What he lacked, the FBI says, was the good sense to know when to hang up.
alumni.hbs.edu
How to Build a Winning Culture on a Losing Team
Scott O’Neil, CEO of the group that owns the NBA’s Philadelphia 76ers and several other sports properties, on why his office thrives even in the face of losing
ucf.edu
The Science of Scent
Professor Konstantin Vodopyanov’s revolutionary technology
could make diagnosing disease as easy as exhaling.