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- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth
businesses via the Internet, evolved into a completely automated end-to-end solution. Pandesic was a spectacular failure. It sold very few systems and shut its doors in February 2001 after having spent more...
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by Michael Raynor
- 05 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
In Praise of Marketing
much of our attention on material consumption. More recently, Benjamin Barber, in his 2007 book Consumed, claims that marketing is "sucking up the air from every other domain to sustain the sector devoted to consumption." He is...
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Proposals Influencing the HBS Curriculum 21 A. Leroy Willis, “Return to Harvard: To Build Upon a Legacy,” a speech commemorating 25 years of services to America by HBS Black graduates (1968-1993), September 1993. AASU Records, Baker View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Five Honored for Missions Accomplished
The 2010 Alumni Achievement Award recipients have made their mark in a wide range of fields, from banking and investing to retailing, entrepreneurship, and space exploration. United by their leadership...
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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
dramatically over the course of the decade she’d taught the course—with globalization, the Internet, and mobile technology all increasing the pace of business and making...
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- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
company, utilizing the extensive resources of the Baker Library, as well as other widely available databases. Exhibits provide detailed information on key resources and...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’
The "sharing economy" is a burgeoning business model in which people offer their personal belongings and personal services to others, usually through online marketplaces that facilitate the transactions. It...
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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Baker’s back
agenda was rethinking Baker Library, the School’s intellectual — and physical — center. Part of the original HBS campus, Baker was dedicated in 1927 and initially housed books,...
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- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
we’re selling them Coke Zero, Jettas, and GTIs. We’ve grown up with them, and that experience gave us a leg up on the learning curve about this cohort’s acceptance of the View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A New Day for Fellowships
Professor Andrew McAfee’s Managing in the Information Age class. Burns was among several dozen HBS graduates from the 1950s and 1960s who came to campus in April for a pilot program called “Fellowship Day.” After attending classes,...
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- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything
before. And anarchy has always yielded back to law and order. In this excerpt from her new book, Ruling the Waves: Cycles of Discovery, Chaos, and Wealth from the Compass to...
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by Debora L. Spar
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
Strategy, published by Oxford University Press. Contributors to the book include Harvard Business School's Clayton M. Christensen, Walter Kuemmerle, and Thomas R. Eisenmann, as well as nine other scholars....
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by Martha Lagace
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
Vineet Nayar became president of HCL Technologies, a global IT services business, in April 2005, he knew the company needed drastic change. Since its founding as a hardware company in the 1970s, HCL had grown into an enterprise with $3.7...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How an Order Views Your Company
Thanks to the Internet, customer management software, and the success of Dell, the concept of order management and customer focus has proven profitable for those companies that...
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by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New HBS Portal Offers Alumni Just-In-Time Business Information
Two years ago, Thomas J. Michalak, executive director of Baker Library, got a phone call from a Boston-area HBS alumnus. The graduate was researching a management project and wanted online access to the...
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- 10 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis
When Standard & Poor's Rating Services lowered its long-term sovereign credit rating on the United States from AAA to AA+ on August 5, it was a shot heard 'round the world. Stock markets plummeted, investors covered their eyes,...
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by Staff
- 04 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage
that you can adopt or adapt to deliver radical improvements in the way you and others do business? Will these improvements drive profitable growth by creating proprietary advantages in the way you do...
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by Lynda M. Applegate
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
Bulletin), perhaps it is time to proclaim the success of Dean Wallace B. Donham's "experiment" in keeping alumni in contact with each other and with HBS. Donham would have been pleased to know that the...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Making of a School
Library, among other nearby landmarks, won the architectural competition with its overall design of Georgian-style structures. Charles Killam, a professor of architecture at Harvard, noted that the “compact,...
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- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
technical and management team members. Now running desperately low on cash, Perlman had to contend with many potential deal partners, including VCs, angels, and industrial partners (as potential sources of...
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by James K. Sebenius