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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Customizing Couture Online
East—can drop the hemline on a Barbara Tfank pencil skirt, for example, add sleeves to a Martin Grant swing dress, or design their own Tinker Tailor–branded wares. The customers have embraced choice: “In a lot View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Honoring HBS’s Organization Men
lecturer Robert Eccles moderated the discussion. Nohria, noting that the book turns on just a few key concepts (see sidebar), asked how some of the book’s core ideas had come about. “It’s hard to figure out... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Knowledge Integration Rules at Yale
boundaries. Driving the change was the growing feeling that the traditional MBA program was not fulfilling its mission of preparing students for leadership positions in modern organizations. To accomplish its transformation, Yale View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: You Can't Enlarge the Pie
taught to analyze the likelihood of various consequences, these students learn that the best decisions are those that minimize expected costs and maximize expected benefits," the authors write. The best decisions typically are those that... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Professorship Brings Brierley's HBS Connection Full Circle
members, Epsilon engineered many of the ‘customer relationship' techniques that make today's customer loyalty programs so successful," says Brierley, who served as Epsilon's president and CEO for its first ten years. In 1980, serving... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
If you’ve ever tried to call an airline or almost any service business of a certain size, you’re probably familiar with the problem: After navigating a seemingly endless set of options, you’re asked by an automated message to share information, but it fails to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
The American Dream
LAWSON: Campaigning for Congress, a probusiness entrepreneur who advocates for the middle class. An IBM engineer, Stacey Lawson (MBA 1996) noticed that a number of her colleagues, though surrounded by technology, still used pencil and... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
For Alumni Only: Breakthrough Insights Program Debuts
Howard Stevenson, senior associate dean for External Relations, emphasized the unique learning environment that exists in a classroom of “experienced” alumni students. Building on this knowledge, Breakthrough Insights is content-rich,... View Details
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Repurposing Leaders to Attack Social Problems
hoped that one day people might say to his children, “ ‘Your dad helped change my life.’ I’m searching for that.” An interdisciplinary Harvard initiative, the ALI began to take shape in 2007, thanks to Kanter and HBS professors Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana who View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
New Venture Winner Mines E-Waste
consumers to access core components. Take circuit boards, for example. The process would begin with grinding up the circuit boards and would end with a yield of refined commodity-grade metals.” Modeled after... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
The idea of attacking core memory in mainframe computers with the 1103 DRAM proved a winner because, despite this product’s problems, it was far more economical to use than the existing alternative. When... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Microsoft’s Ballmer Makes His Pitch
narrowly about the product as just a music device, he quickly added. Thinking more broadly about portable digital media, “it’s a category that will continue to change,” explained Ballmer. “Unless you think the category is static, you get in.” Playing off one View Details
- 02 Oct 2012
- News
Green Pioneer
Harvard Graduate School of Design (HGSD). HGSD professor Spiro Pollalis serves as the program’s director and HGSD lecturer Andreas Georgoulias as its lead researcher, with faculty from across several other... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Alumni Books
major key to healthy, conflict-free work environments. The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking Is the Next Competitive Advantage by Roger Martin (MBA ’81) (Harvard Business... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Preparing Future Leaders for Tomorrow’s Challenges
puts students in the shoes of case protagonists, helping them develop the skills and judgment required to be an effective general manager. While case discussions remain core to the School’s learning model,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Faculty Books
forecasts and activity-based costing); and test and update the strategy (using carefully designed management meetings to review operational and strategic data). Marketing Metaphoria: What Deep Metaphors Reveal about the Minds View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Entrepreneur's Notebook with Kevin Przybocki (MBA '91)
Name: Kevin Przybocki (MBA ’91), VP, Sales & Marketing Company: Anué Systems (founded 2002) Location: Austin, Texas Web: www.anuesystems.com Przybocki Elevator pitch: Anué Systems is a technology leader in next-generation data communications testing. We make network... View Details
- 23 Jul 2013
- News
Building Great Schools around Great Teachers
setting with others of like talent. Employing the case method, it is predicated upon the same expectations as HBS, that the candidates have real-world experience and exceptional ability. In the core program,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Making Finance Personal
inspire, formulate, and drive new and improved product design and development, even without specialized knowledge. With its consumer base, for example, Intuit went from conducting a single experiment with customers View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
HBS Clubs and Associations
offered by HBS Executive Education every summer. The program with the broadest content and largest number of scholarship recipients is Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management (SPNM). It helps nonprofit executives sharpen leadership... View Details