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- 22 Aug 2016
- News
The Future of GE
advances in data collection and analysis to, for example, improve jet engine performance and fuel efficiency. “Everybody who joins G.E. is going to learn to code,” Immelt said. “We hire 4,000 to 5,000... View Details
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
US Competitiveness Report Sees ‘A Nation Divided’
Harvard Business School today released "Problems Unsolved and a Nation Divided," a comprehensive analysis of the state of US competitiveness in 2016, based on five years of the US Competitiveness Project's multi-faculty research. The US... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Short Takes
Ownership Matters: Bringing Owners on Board In his working paper, "The Impact of Ownership Type on Performance in Public Corporations: A Study of the U.S. Textile Industry 1983-1992," HBS assistant professor David L. Kang demonstrates... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
AI Enhances Diagnostic Care
performing pattern recognition, and planning and executing a course of action. At Misr Radiology Center (MRC) in Cairo, Egypt, where Doha Tantawy (MBA 2019) serves as chief operating officer (COO), AI has been fully integrated into all of... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
you can’t pronounce . Part of the strategy revolution was the coming of what I’ll call Greater Taylorism, the corporation’s application of sharp-penciled analytics, this time not to the performance of an individual worker — how fast a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Books
The Strategy-Focused Organization by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton (Harvard Business School Press) Following the success of their 1996 bestseller, The Balanced Scorecard, Robert Kaplan and David Norton have published a new book based on their View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
1992) Adams Street Partners Paralysis by Analysis The opportunity I most remember passing on was a seed round in Ola, the leading taxi/ride-sharing company in India. The mistake I made was that I sized the market statically and failed to... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
New Course for General Managers Broadens Managerial Scope and Builds Confidence
participants to understand how their role encompasses all organizational disciplines; to learn to manage up, down, across, and outside the organization; to perform a working assessment of their organizations; and to formulate solutions to... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
Resources for the Future, a Washington, D.C., think tank dedicated to providing research and policy analysis for environmental decision makers. "And even if returns on environmental investments were always positive, that does not mean... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Duo Offers Personalized Career Assessment
the authors have identified eight core functions of business work, such as quantitative analysis and enterprise control. A reader armed with an individual BCII profile can learn from the text how to assess work opportunities in terms of... View Details
Keywords: Bob Binstock
- 30 Oct 2017
- News
Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success
Boston Consulting Group, Matt Halprin and Bruce Holley, helped him figure out how to put it together (Halprin is still on MLT’s board). BCG’s analysis showed that, while medical schools and law schools had enrollments consistent with the... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
that bridges neurology care for Midtown, Emory University Hospital, and Wesley Woods.” Questions raised by the assembled group make it clear that getting from the point of analysis to execution will take some serious work. “This can’t... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
analysis but by values. Chainsaw Al Dunlap, a real person with a Hollywood moniker, told us that a dollar earned by killing a job was just as valuable as one earned by producing a valuable product, and Wall Street was seduced, even though... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 29 Jun 2019
- News
Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Africa
a different Africa, and a transformed Africa, and an Africa that performs better, and that surely rises in every sense of the term. One of the reasons I decided to come to HBS was the strong emphasis on the case method. And for me, the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
My Real Career
I often just throw out the option of performing a regression analysis on complex PTA decisions just to shut up the opposition. But for the most part, HBS taught me to think for myself, a very handy skill... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
proven approach to analyzing and solving challenges and provides a common language anyone can understand. Teams That Work: The Six Characteristics of High Performing Teams by Cliff Chirls (MBA 1979), George Myers, and Tom Champoux... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Books
www.mindedge.com. Performance Measurement & Control Systems for Implementing Strategy by Robert L. Simons (Prentice Hall) "This book is built around a number of tensions inherent in all business," declares HBS professor Robert Simons of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
or shortcomings in growing their companies and new ventures. This book blends exclusive research findings, personal interviews, and experienced analysis to illustrate how each type handles the five dynamic challenges of building... View Details
- 11 Jul 2012
- News
A Man, and a Plan, in Africa
built his family’s New Jersey–based industrial distribution business over 15 years (to sell to a Fortune 50 company), and then as a consultant to family businesses and international investors. “We’ve witnessed countries mount concerted initiatives from the highest... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
also be — and, given the large size of some companies, sometimes had to be — performed by teams of people. Meanwhile, the continual infusion of energy by the kinds of startup companies Schumpeter himself preferred remained vital sources... View Details