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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Magician Turns HBS Upside Down
QUITE SOME TRICK: Randal rendering an HBS classroom speechless, at least momentarily. Innovation and magic are kindred activities: Both can amaze and upend reality while introducing something new or totally unexpected, as if from nowhere, as if from thin air. So when... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
strive to compete globally, their relationships with local communities have changed, says HBS Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter. "Now that many businesses have focused beyond our borders," she says, "the ties... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
Business Changing workforce demographics and business conditions, as well as evolving social attitudes, have led many companies to a greater awareness of how diversity and community issues are intertwined with successful business operations. HBS associate View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Surviving Success
In the frenzied, early months of a new venture’s launch, few entrepreneurs anticipate a future beyond their role as company leader. In “Founder–CEO Succession at Wily Technology,” HBS assistant professor Noam Wasserman and former HBS... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Innovative Course Brings Students and Alumni Together
In the fall of 1996, HBS professor David A. Garvin was searching for teaching materials for his elective course General Management: Processes and Action. He wanted to help his students understand the... View Details
Keywords: Meg Gardner; photo by Joshua Lavine
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
Professor of Business Administration, gave the second case presentation on First Direct, a "virtual" bank in England that has built tremendous market share by providing services via telephone. MBA Class of 1960 View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
From Fellowship Recipient to ‘The Most Influential Business Thinker On Earth’
had I not received assistance from HBS.” Currently the Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration at HBS, Christensen earned his MBA in 1979 with the assistance of two fellowships: the Sidney J. Weinberg–Goldman, Sachs & Co.... View Details
Keywords: awards
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
gradually reduced his role at Local Motors as the Factory Five partnership blossomed and rejoined Ford. This went against the advice of Professor Warren McFarlan, an early investor in Local Motors. “Jay is special,” McFarlan told Jones.... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Conversing in Cyberspace: Students and Alumni Talk Management
find that the boss isn't interested in their suggestions? These are very real questions for anyone making the transition from functional to general manager. Last October, in Professor David A. Garvin's... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Juicy Story
In the context of the computer industry at large, Professor David Yoffie explores the ups and downs of a company that’s always been a bit different in “Apple Computer, 2006.” The case poses this question:... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Faculty Books
Buy-In: Saving Your Good Idea from Being Shot Down by John P. Kotter and Lorne A. Whitehead (Harvard Business Review Press) Professor Emeritus Kotter and his coauthor reveal how to win the support ideas need to deliver results. The key is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
a Professor of Management Practice at HBS who serves on the boards of ExxonMobil and Goldman Sachs, told a forum of directors in 2008, “Serving on a board is about one thing: It’s about responsibility for the preservation and growth of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Faculty Books
Invisible Engines by David S. Evans, Andrei Hagiu, and Richard Schmalensee (MIT Press) Assistant Professor Hagiu and his coauthors offer detailed studies of the personal computer, video-game console, PDA,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Faculty Responds to Financial Crisis
Financial System, Professor David Moss’s course on the history of financial panics. It draws parallels to the current crisis. Consumer Finance, jointly taught by HBS professor... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office
Camille Tang Yeh (MBA 1980) is the executive director of the School's new Asia-Pacific Research Office in Hong Kong. A native of Hong Kong, Yeh has almost twenty years of experience in investment banking, primarily in Asia. What are some research topics of interest to... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
In Dot-Calm Era, Conference Examines Options for Entrepreneurs
have first-mover advantage ("If you have a great idea, assume that ten companies are doing it"); and Oracle/Microsoft/IBM is too slow to be a threat ("They're not so stupid; they're not so slow"). On a more serious note, in his opening remarks, HBS View Details
Keywords: Information
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Winter Break Just Got Educational
Professor David Collis, and Harvard China scholar Professor William Kirby accompanied the group. The New Orleans Service Immersion, January 3–13, involved forty-five HBS... View Details
- 17 Jan 2020
- News
A Wider Frame
When Stephen Coit (MBA 1977) attended Harvard College, the portraits he saw on the University’s walls could best be described by three adjectives: “Male, pale, and episcopal[e],” in the words of Harvard University Senior Admissions Officer View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015
satisfaction. The Raw Milk Answer Book: What You Really Need to Know about Our Most Controversial Food by David E. Gumpert (OPM 5, 1981) (Lauson Publishing Inc.) This book raises more than 200 of the most common questions that come up... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
HBS Faculty Approves Curriculum Innovations
MBA Program. Moon, the Donald K. David Professor of Business Administration, characterized the FIELD course as a “step change” that builds on experiences first-year students already get on a smaller scale... View Details