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- 19 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
through the business world is a great advantage. The IPO went well? Yes, we raised nearly $190 million, which enabled us to retire debt and go in some new directions. My main challenge now is managing growth and our increasing organizational complexity. Last year was...
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- 17 Nov 2015
- News
Carbon Neutral
implement a “cap-and-trade” framework—capping the total amount of emissions and allowing companies to trade permits to pollute on the open market—fell apart in the midst of partisan bickering. As Washington fiddles, the world suffers...
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Michael Blanding
- 21 Sep 2018
- News
HBS Association of Southern California Boosts Support for Startups
Point Media in Santa Monica. “It was a fantastic dynamic,” says Alexa McCulloch (MBA 1999), the workshop organizer and president of the club. “We assured each presenter that this was a confidential opportunity to open up and ask...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
HBS Online Certificate Programs Offer Unique Insight Into Business
says HBS Online Executive Director Patrick Mullane (MBA 1999). Approximately 88 percent of HBS Online participants successfully finish their courses, compared to percentages in the single digits for MOOCs (massive open online courses)....
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- 31 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies
differences here.' They just don't mention it because there's all this research about bias and negative speech and hostile work environments. A lot of the research focusing on negative dynamics wouldn't suggest that you create more open...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 14 May 2014
- News
(Re)moving the Needle
outcome for the child. "SynapDx is doing very well and completing a large clinical study thanks to a $15 million investment from Google Ventures," says Anquetil, who retains an ownership stake in the company but is no longer involved in its day-to-day operations....
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- 19 May 2016
- Blog Post
5 Lessons from Business School
will be forced out of your comfort zone daily Each day in class, you will take a position on a variety of choices presented in case studies. HBS requires you to defend that position while being open to critically listening to opposing...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Honoring HBS’s Organization Men
students and junior faculty working in the area of organization design, as well as more senior contributors to the field. Their goal was to define and discuss the open research questions that trace their beginnings back to Lawrence and...
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- 03 Feb 2020
- What Do You Think?
Can an Organization Have Too Much 'Rebel Talent'?
traditional and ubiquitous command and control hierarchies of modern society inhibit, frustrate, and deny our natural instincts.” He suggests stakeholder forums as one means of supporting the thinking of rebel talent. Zufi, at arts4refugees, supported the View Details
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by James Heskett
- Profile
Hiroshi Mikitani
the concept of online shopping—it was in the execution of the efforts made by those big companies. Internet malls just needed another chance.” It is fine to start slow and small. “When you step off the expected path of...
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- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
situation facing Gary Gottlieb, president of Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), prior to the opening of BWH's integrated cardiovascular center. This case allows students to develop an appreciation of the strategic, financial,...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat
management control and health care. Her latest book, Market-Driven Health Care, won the 1998 Book of the Year Award from the American College of Healthcare Executives. Herzlinger opened the conference by reporting on the forces driving...
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- 27 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 27, 2016
decoupling of the sources of value participants derive from any one experience—together open up the executive education industry to a radical restructuration. We argue that any consequential strategic action on the part of providers must...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
The first thing Linda Hill noticed when she walked into Pixar Animation Studios was the energy. Pixar’s cavernous office in Emeryville, California, is totally open and organized around a huge central atrium, allowing a diverse group of...
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- 24 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Upgrading School with a Startup Mentality
funding, which it will use to open four more schools in the fall of 2015—in Brooklyn and Palo Alto, along with two more in San Francisco. Harvard Business School Senior Lecturer John Kim (HBS MBA '93) became interested in AltSchool after...
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Winning with Digital Platforms Online Course | HBS Online
the age of digital platforms. 5 weeks 6-7 hours per week 5 modules Self-Paced with regular deadlines This course earns you a Certificate of Completion from HBS Online. What you earn . Overview Syllabus Enrollment Stories FAQs Enroll Now Key View Details
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
restaurateur in Japan, Aoki eventually opened his own four-table unit in Manhattan in 1964 and called it Benihana (after a Japanese flower), the name of his father's first establishment. Watching Americans dine out, Aoki had concluded...
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by Garry Emmons
- 29 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors
make my R&D lab more productive?' Fleming says a better question to ponder is, 'How can I commercialize from this web of connected engineers?' Sara Grant: Can you describe your latest research for our readers regarding small worlds and innovation. Lee Fleming: The...
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- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
writes, “is a car stuck in a rut: Managers put the pedal to the metal and dig the rut deeper.” In Revival of the Fittest, he offers managers the tools and frameworks they need to get their organizations rolling once again. — Deborah Blagg View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Raising the Barrio
vocational schools are scheduled to open in the barrio. They will be the first public schools in a community where only about 60 percent of adults have finished secondary school. A massive construction project is also under way to reroute...
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April White