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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Silent Killers: Overcoming Barriers to Organizational Learning
top-down or laissez-faire management by the general manager; poor coordination across functions, businesses, or borders; lack of effective and honest vertical communication; and inadequate leadership skills and development throughout the... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
says. “There’s always going to be a pure technology component, but that will often be overwhelmed by a managerial component.” This morning’s case, “Rich-Con Steel,” proves his point: A steel distributor attempts a company-wide conversion... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Learning to Speak the Language of Business
including travel, banking, telecommunications, and credit card services. Not satisfied with dominating Japan’s e-commerce landscape, Mikitani believes the company’s future lies in taking its online expertise global. Since 2008, Rakuten... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
likelihood of success was 15 percent at best. But by December 2020, the first NHS patient received a vaccine. Now, nearly every adult in Britain has had the jab, lockdowns have ended, and we can finally live with COVID. What View Details
- 04 Mar 2008
- News
HBS Blogs
Blogs have long since come into their own. After all, they’ve been around since 1994, and just recently a blogger received the George Polk Award for excellence in journalism. So it seems a good time to recognize blogs by HBS alums and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Pricing Paradise
The Daniel Patrick Moynihan Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School, Bilmes began her career at the Boston Consulting Group, focusing on cost structures in large-scale industries where fractional commodity fluctuations result in... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Ink: Alumni Book Recommendations
combination of passion and perseverance that made high achievers special. In a word, they had grit.” Recommended by Health care executive Daniel Bowles (MBA/MPP 2015) Never Split the Difference View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
QUEZON CITY, THE PHILIPPINES: On the edge of this municipality of Manila lies the Payatas dumpsite, the home and sole provider to thousands of scavengers. Payatas and places like it are symbols of a glaring inefficiency: Amid the global... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Shaping the Way Business Does Business: HBR at 75
The Internet is becoming as familiar a presence in households and offices as the telephone, but, like many big ideas, it was once no more than a twinkle in someone's magazine story. Writing in the days before computers had even become commonplace in American life,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
MBA Class of 2004 Celebrates Class Day and Commencement
the proceedings. Photos by Stuart Cahill For the hundreds of MBA students and their families assembled on a hot and steamy Baker Lawn last June, Class Day 2004 was an occasion for mixed emotions. Several of the event’s speakers juxtaposed... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
East to West
(“Shiggi”) Yawata moves Sumida toward a U.S.-inspired “committee system” for its board of directors — the first Japanese company to do so. The case was a collaborative project undertaken by Professor Lynn Paine and Japan Research Office... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Case Study: Inside Story
Illustration by Lu Zhang Amelia Lin (MBA 2016) grew up feasting on the stories her parents told about how they met and what it was like for them to leave China to start a new life in the United States. These narratives were central to... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
In Dot-Calm Era, Conference Examines Options for Entrepreneurs
to Lead" and sponsored by the student-run Entrepreneurship Club, offered a fresh look at today's changing entrepreneurial environment. Guy Kawasaki, founder and CEO of the venture-capital investment bank Garage.com, kicked off the October... View Details
Keywords: Information
- 15 Nov 2021
- News
Charles P. Waite (MBA 1959)
giving annually to the HBS Fund, in honor of his 50th Reunion, Waite decided to leave a lasting legacy at the School by including it in his will. HBS recognized his commitment by welcoming him into the John... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Alumni Books
’85) and Daniel Stelter (McGraw-Hill) Examining the decisive actions taken by companies such as General Electric, IBM, and Procter & Gamble to accelerate out of past downturns, the authors show today’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers
sector has been dominated by big players. A few buyers like Cargill and Archer Daniels Midland dominate global commodity trades, while a cluster of conglomerates like Monsanto and DuPont control vital farm... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
Issue Focus: Ideas & Impact Illustration by Timothy Cook An Intellectual Capital: Some Influential HBS Ideas, at a Glance Pleasure in Progress Teresa Amabile It sounds so obvious: Employees who make meaningful progress in their work enjoy... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Eric Schiffer
Schiffer Illustration by Daniel Vasconcellos Founded in 1982, 99¢ Only Stores is the oldest single-price retail chain in the country, with 273 locations in California, Texas, Arizona, and Nevada offering a... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
The Past Informs the Future of Work
“Number, please” was the oft-repeated request made by the more than 100,000 mostly female switchboard operators in the early 20th century. Anyone who had a telephone grew to know the familiar voices that connected them to the outside... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Meg Whitman, MBA 1979
courageous, strategic, fast, and right.” CURRENT READING Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush, by Robert Draper “Today, eBay does more than double the trading volume of the New York Stock Exchange. And eBay does it 24/7.” Meg... View Details