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- 17 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’
his humor was carefully orchestrated to make a point." Levitt's sheer foresight also came into play in the classroom; Beverly Brandt (HBS MBA '72) recalls one case discussion in particular that foreshadowed the rise of women in the...
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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Medicine made personal
Entrepreneurship Club, Goyal has created the start-up Foresight Pharmaceuticals. Goyal and Levy secured a residency at the Harvard Innovation Lab and have pitched Foresight to HBS Business Angels, an alumni...
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Monroe J. Rathbone
As CEO of Standard Oil of New Jersey, Rathbone is credited for making Jersey Standard into an international company. Seeing problems with an ever increasing dependence on oil from the Middle East, Rathbone had the foresight to push his...
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Utilities & Energy
J. Chadbourn Bolles
created an impressive record of market value growth and appreciation. His foresight in targeting the international market enabled Chadbourn to continue to post sales increases despite the downturn in U.S. demand for hosiery products.
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Fabric & Apparel
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Arjun Goyal
global, and in entrepreneurship, it’s not just limited to software.” In business, in action, in the i-lab Arjun has already applied the HBS network and resources to his own enterprise, Foresight Pharmaceuticals, a startup dedicated to...
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Morse G. Dial
Dial was instrumental in the growth and diversification of Union Carbide. He strongly supported research and development, and it was with this foresight that Union Carbide was able to become a leading producer of chemicals and plastics.
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Chemicals & Industrial
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ink
This is one of her later ones in the Gamache series, but a good read whether or not one has read earlier ones.” —Don Licking (MBA 1962), on Beautiful Mystery, by Louise Penny Quoted “We live in a world where foresight is increasingly...
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Arjun Goyal
truly global, and in entrepreneurship, it’s not just limited to software.” In business, in action, in the i-lab Arjun has already applied the HBS network and resources to his own enterprise, Foresight Pharmaceuticals, a start-up dedicated...
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Christine A. Hefner
gain popularity. Though magazine sales have stalled, Hefner’s foresight to bet on cable and Internet outlets has given the company a new avenue for growth and profitability.
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Publishing & Print Media
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Emerging Information
fruitless attempts to access information during a stint with KPMG Peat Marwick in Poland and while working with an economic reform team in Russia. Mueller credits his brother George, his business partner and technology expert, with the View Details
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Paul Michelman
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Arthur Rock (MBA '51)
In 1957 a group of eight scientists, disenchanted with the management style of their Nobel Prize-winning boss, William Shockley, walked out of Shockley Semiconductor Laboratories in Palo Alto. Armed with the technical expertise to commercialize the semiconductor, the...
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Jamal Motlagh
You analyze data without much foresight into the outcome, and you arrive at a plan of action you're prepared to debate in class. We challenge each others' underlying beliefs and assumptions, and push back in a safe environment."...
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- 06 Jun 2017
- News
Many Rivers to Cross
Colombian octogenarian Mariano Ospina-Hernandez (MBA 1951) is the resolute visionary behind an ambitious proposal to improve and expand the country’s transportation infrastructure. His foresight could open new possibilities for...
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- 06 Dec 2004
- What Do You Think?
Why Do Managers Fail to Act on Their Predictions?
Summing Up Respondents to the December column produced such a lengthy list of reasons why managers fail to act on their predictions that it is a wonder that organizations are ever able to respond with the foresight needed to avert...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Peak Earth?
“If we maintain our desperate focus on growth, we will run out of everything and crash.” Yet Grantham also held out hope, noting, “With foresight and thoughtful planning, this suffering is completely avoidable.”
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Polaroid | Harvard Business School: Invention of the Polarizer
firm worked in parallel on inventions of insistent practicality as well as expansions of human perception," Victor McElheny explains. "Riding a storm of ever-altering customer specifications, Polaroid adapted its innovations again and again."97 Land had the View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Batten Gift to Support Residential Campus
for future generations of HBS students. “When our forefathers planned the original HBS campus, they had the foresight to realize that the residential component would be very important to the success of the School,” notes Angela Crispi...
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Jeffrey L. Cruikshank
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Long and Winding Road
deal with change, turmoil, the unexpected? All too often we have been surprised by our lack of foresight close to home. The traditional family structure has broadened to accommodate divorce, single parenthood, common-law partnerships, and...
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Wayne R. Vibert (MBA 1973)
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
believes the key to making better strategic choices in turbulent markets lies in understanding the level of uncertainty faced in a given situation. 20/20 Foresight provides a framework for learning to separate what can be known from what...
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- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
need to and can develop "adaptive foresight" to be positioned to predict the future by exploiting changes in the business environment and anticipating customer behavior. They address the need for adaptive foresight by...
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Sean Silverthorne