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- 01 Apr 2000
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Award-Winning Article Urges Companies to Loosen Ties that Bind
expenses associated with everyday activities such as management meetings, conferences, phone conversations, sales calls, reports, and memos. Hagel and Singer maintain that by dramatically reducing interaction costs, the Internet and other... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Sign of the Times: General Management Course Evolves
announcing the change, MBA Program Chair and Senior Associate Dean W. Carl Kester emphasized the need to address new management challenges, such as increased competition from abroad and from companies that are taking advantage of disruptive technologies. "The View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
“Speed Trap” Can Snare Companies
appeared in the October Academy of Management Journal. While some may see the story as a phenomenon of the Internet business environment, Perlow believes it sounds a cautionary note for any business. The pace of decision-making at... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
@Soldiers Field
entrepreneur Diane Hessan (MBA 1977) concerning her qualitative research on the American electorate. In late September, the HBS Association of Boston hosted a fireside chat with General Electric’s Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) and HBS professor emeritus Ben Shapiro. Immelt,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2014
in Cambridge “I believe that after achieving financial success, most people want to have an impact on society. That’s what brings meaning and purpose to my life.” Having built and sold an Internet company in the 1990s, Chertavian launched... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
audio broadcasting technology to bring satellite radio to all corners of Africa. Koos Bekker, managing director of Naspers, a leading media and communications group in South Africa, discussed his firm's Internet and pay television... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Strike Up the Broad(band)
could just as likely widen the divide between rich and poor, because information technology to date has generally increased the demand for skilled, higher-paid workers while reducing the need for unskilled workers." "Let us hope," the authors conclude, "that a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Art Collecting’s New Egalitarianism
interest to your means.” Online auction houses like 1stdibs and Paddle8—founded by Aditya Julka and Osman Khan (both MBA 2009)—offer access to collectors of all levels and have made tracking down rare pieces less of a chore. “One of the beauties of the age of the View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Khoo Teng Chye: Technology Turnaround in Singapore
Singapore. Each piece of equipment in PSA’s terminals is computerized and linked to a network. Singapore’s shipping companies, customs operation, and port authority are all connected to PSA’s Portnet data-processing system, which has been available on the View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Books: Judo Strategy
Netscape research was documented in Competing on Internet Time, an earlier book by Yoffie and MIT colleague Michael A. Cusumano, and inspired Yoffie to pursue the concept further. After tracking references to judo in the management... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Start-Ups Make Their Pitch
help consumers locate a business or person to handle local service needs, get price quotes, and book appointments. Southern California: Kiwilimón (Deborah Dana Beyda, MBA ’08, cofounder) is a food and recipe Internet portal for... View Details
- 27 Mar 2023
- News
A Sporting Chance
It would be a much sexier story, says Jorge Perez de Leza (MBA 1996), if he told people he was trampled by a raging bull, but the truth is that the fall that had such a profound effect on his life was a much more mundane event. "It was just a really stupid accident,"... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 18 May 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Anjali Vaidya (MBA 2010)
Yahoo, the challenge is to catalyze growth at an Internet company with tremendous assets. I’m learning every day how to inspire people to challenge conventional wisdom, use data to drive decisions, and tackle roadblocks proactively. I’ve... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
New Idea: State of the Art
previous iteration, the new Cooper Hewitt “finds that merely looking at things is a hopelessly passive way of experiencing the world.” The museum work was familiar territory: Belsky’s career has focused on developing better ways for the View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Customizing Couture Online
now ubiquitous invitation-only Internet flash sale. Up next for Wilkis Wilson: at-home beauty service startup Glamsquad. That’s what Tinker Tailor offers. “I heard from all these women who really wanted to buy beautiful high-end... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Renter’s Market
typically pays from $50,000 to $120,000 for a house, often buying in bulk from owners tired of repairs and rent collection. Redbrick then hires local managers to take over those and other chores. After HBS, Lee worked at Bain and started an View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
companies are springing to life up and down the virtual lanes of the Information Superhighway. As the use of color and moving pictures becomes routine, says Sahlman, Internet "stores" may well be able to give customers an experience that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Jonathan Mariner
baseball’s future is fan-friendly. Mariner is part of a Commissioner’s task force charged with studying “how the next generation wants to be entertained and informed about the game.” With fans already taking advantage of Internet feeds to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Sharon Patrick
a magazine and was looking to expand her reach. The two joined forces as partners to build MSO, the well-known “omnimedia” empire for the home that reported revenues of $296 million last year — on $1.5 billion in retail sales, including publishing, television,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Noted & Quoted
computing and mobility. That has the potential to change the economics of the Internet business and to redistribute profits yet again.” — HBS professor David Yoffie talking about the potential economic effects of people increasingly... View Details