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- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Faculty Books
dynamics and strategies used by firms that recognize the transformative power of these “invisible engines.” Shorter discussions of Internet-based software platforms offer glimpses into a future in which the way we buy, pay, watch, listen,...
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- 01 Jun 2003
- News
HP's Fiorina Speaks at HBS
Fiorina Photo courtesy of Hewlett-Packard In the 1970s, after graduating from Stanford with a concentration in medieval history and philosophy, something happened to Carly Fiorina on her way to a successful legal career. “I hated law...
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- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
have been hitting best-seller lists lately, and conferences on spirituality and business have been springing up all over the United States and Canada. Web sites dedicated to such topics now pepper the Internet. Even the World Economic...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
Middlebrooks, Gwen Shuster-Haynes, and John Weber in June 1983, while they were still MBA students. Checking in with them five years later, in June 1988, we discovered many ways in which their lives - and their perspectives on work and...
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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Dog’s Best Friend: Jim Hawes’s Charles River Rescue
River. The people were watching a German shepherd dog out in the water, in a hole in the ice, struggling to get some traction to get up onto solid ice. Fred and I continued on our way to I cannot recall where, and when we returned it was...
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- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
MaterialsGoldwind USA: Chinese Wind in the Americas Regina M. Abrami, and Iacob Koch-WeserHarvard Business School Case 912-416 Many Chinese firms have struggled in the United States. Renewable energy is a fledgling, high-risk market. Can...
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Carmen Nobel
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Anddria Clack
interest and practice in a way that I had not experienced before. Through the case study method and experiential activities, I knew that I would be challenged to make important decisions in a managerial context, very similar to the CEOs...
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- 15 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult
and Operations Management Unit at HBS. "The longer we take to figure this out, the more likely we're going to have a few of the best firms pulling way ahead based on this competitive advantage." More Likely...
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by Maggie Starvish
- 12 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?
manager of CNBC Ventures, foresaw nothing radical, however. The technology we have now is already radical and reached its tipping point a long time ago, he stated. People treat broadband the way they treated narrowband, but it allows them...
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Georges F. Doriot
of HBS graduates—more than 7000 second-year students took his transformative Manufacturing course—and in 1946, Doriot created the first venture capital firm in the United States. American Research & Development (ARD), based in...
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- 26 May 2016
- News
2016 Alumni Achievement Awards
template for the way life really works.” “My biggest takeaway from HBS was the problem-solving approach engendered by the case method, which is more about optimizing a workable, sustainable solution than arriving at the ‘right’ answer.”...
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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
learned about the effects of one-to-one tutoring—that in a live environment with one great teacher and one student, you get amazing outcomes relative to group instruction. The challenge is that we can't afford one great teacher for each of the 55 million students in...
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- 30 Nov 2017
- News
SEAS Complex Reaches for a New Frontier
“John is the epitome of a visionary leader,” said Nohria. “He understands that this gift will be the cornerstone for a Harvard campus in Allston, where multiple disciplines can converge and combine their passion for knowledge, unleashing discovery in View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Virtual Plant Tours and Beer Game Dysfunction
more willing to admit what they don’t understand when they’ve had the opportunity to explore the material interactively online. Sometimes using technology is the best way to prove a point, as the Technology and Operations Management (TOM)...
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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Breakthrough International Negotiation
payoff is the ability to reconfigure any landscape in ways that make agreement possible that wasn't possible before." - Margie Kelley by Michael Watkins and Susan Rosegrant (Jossey-Bass)
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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
HBS Vets Support Homeless Comrades
hours by AFAA members seeking to call attention to the plight of homeless veterans and to raise funds for a local shelter that assists them. “We thought this would be an effective way to raise awareness about the New England Shelter for...
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Health, Social Assistance
- 28 Jun 2011
- News
Bold Ascent
flags with the SlingFin logo), Baka reflects on how his HBS experience plays into the nontraditional world of outdoor gear design. “It’s a framework of thought and analytics that is deeply ingrained as part of classroom discussion,” he says. “It’s a broad structure...
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- 01 Jun 2003
- News
John Read
background — is to simplify the way in which we deliver our mission by streamlining business processes. Why is diversity so important? If the transformative experience takes place in the company of a crew that is as diverse as the society...
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- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
rebuilt at the new team.” Is there a way to reduce the performance risk associated with changing teams? Yes; bring your teammates along with you. Tom Brady signed a two-year, $50 million deal with Tampa Bay on March 20th. One month later...
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- 02 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
WE RISE
private-capital database PitchBook, just 12 percent of check-writing decision-makers at the largest VC firms in the United States are women. A survey by The Information, a tech-sector media outlet, found that just 1 percent were Black;...
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