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- 10 Jan 2017
- News
A Side of Data with Your Dinner
company that helps restaurants collect and analysis data to better understand their businesses, and, this month, a new book, The Underground Culinary Tour: How the New Metrics of Today’s Top Restaurants Are Transforming How America Eats.... View Details
- 08 May 2015
- News
Ubiquitous digital connectivity is now essential to competitiveness
Marco Iansiti, the David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration, believes all businesses—both established and startup—must embrace digital transformation. Iansiti’s analysis of innovation in digital technology at General Electric,... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
From observers to active participants in the global economy
efforts in Africa in part to the HBS course Written Analysis of Cases. “It combined the need for crisp, cogent analysis, based on the limited evidence available, and coming to a decision within a strictly limited time—just like real... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
A Quiet Force: Remembering Jay Light
Jay O. Light, Dean of Harvard Business School from 2005 to 2010, died on October 15, 2022, at his home in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts, of cancer. He was 81 years old. Light served on the HBS faculty for more than four decades. He loved being in the classroom and was... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Medicine made personal
Australia-born Arjun Goyal (MBA 2014) credits HBS with helping him focus his career on life sciences, specifically “personalized medicine”—a tailored approach to treatment based on analysis of patient populations. With his classmate Louis... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Books
The Strategy-Focused Organization by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton (Harvard Business School Press) Following the success of their 1996 bestseller, The Balanced Scorecard, Robert Kaplan and David Norton have published a new book based on their View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President’s Report
Education reunion attendees and found that while only subtle changes were needed to improve the MBA reunion experience, the Executive Education model should be addressed more closely. The committee’s recommendation was to undertake a full View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Faculty Books
this second book from the HBS Leadership Initiative’s Great American Business Leaders project, Professor Nohria and his coauthors, with a combination of statistical analysis of their large leadership database and in-depth biographical... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Faculty Books
Questions of Character by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. (HBS Press) Professor Badaracco argues that serious fiction provides us with memorable characters facing challenges similar to those that confront business leaders. Through analysis of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Andrews, Raymond Remembered
increasingly interested in the study of ethics and personal values in the workplace and encouraged practicing managers to write about this subject for the magazine. Raymond was a member of the HBS faculty from 1950 to 1987. As faculty chair of the legendary course... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham
to satisfy a greater overall demand for coverage focusing on the intersection of political and economic issues. That shift is reflected in Capital Report and other new programming launched in February, which also includes more live, in-depth View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Student Teams Take on Real-World Innovation
Space Station for commercial research. Nike sought help with an innovative plan to involve more people in active lifestyles. “MBA students are really good at analysis,” says Lakhani. “By the time they get to my class in the second year, they’ve read over 400 cases.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Lessons from Private Equity
specific and focused version of the following question: ‘If I put a dollar into this capital project, am I going to get three dollars back out?’ Public company managers who apply the same analysis with working capital and cash... View Details
- 14 Feb 2018
- News
A ‘Hopeaholic’ Promotes Diversity, Inclusion, and Equality in the Workplace
motivated to search for novel information and anticipate alternative perspectives, leading to better decision making, problem solving and innovation. Time and again, analysis confirms this improves the bottom line of companies. “Working... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Down the Memory Chute
approaching onset of the brain-bruising written assignments that were, for several decades, a requirement for first-year MBAs. These exercises came in several different incarnations, best known by their course acronyms: EA General (Elements of Administration –... View Details
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
against rivals? The third level of analysis is the political economy. All the businesses that we study at HBS work in the context of a larger political economy. Consumer finance businesses, in particular, more so than many others, operate... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Service with a Smile
data from 111 workers — college students who labored in service jobs — the pair measured job satisfaction and its relationship to whether workers were being asked to hide or exaggerate emotions. Their study, “A Longitudinal Analysis of... View Details
- 11 Oct 2012
- News
Answering the Doctor's Call
Downing: From business analysis to bedside diagnosis. Photo courtesy Bill Downing When Bill Downing (MBA 1995) started his first semester as a medical student in August, he finally closed the loop on a dream he’s had since childhood. “If... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
million shares raising $5.47 billion. “In addition to the financial analysis there’s a lot of judgment involved in deciding where to price an offering. You may have an oversubscribed deal, but how far should you push it? It’s not a simple... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
3-Minute Briefing: David Perpich (MBA 2007)
personalized sports page, with the best reporting and analysis from 450 journalists about the teams and players you care about and the biggest and most compelling stories in sports. I’m a Washington Commanders fan, but I also love Duke... View Details