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- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Wendell P. Weeks, MBA 1987
moment launched Weeks’s career, and it also had a deep impact on Corning’s future as a successful innovator in materials science. The first in his family to go to college, Weeks thrived at HBS. The case method—“pretend doing,” as he calls it—gave him a way to View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 23 Sep 2010
- News
How Did You Spend Your Summer Vacation?
hoping to test out a special area of interest or potential career path. Others looked abroad, pursuing their interests in solving business and social problems in the developing world. Canadians Alyza Keshavjee and Ameel Somani spent their... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Vision: Sound Science
genes to the inner ear with unprecedented efficiency.” The five-year-old company will likely apply for clinical testing permission for its lead therapy in the first half of 2022—a key hurdle in the notoriously lengthy process of advancing... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Human Intelligence
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies to better understand the issues. + ONLINE web-only content Do you see AI replacing the need for humans completely as it’s applied in certain value chain roles in the future? —Ian Grant Smith... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 19 Apr 2018
- News
One Last Pitch
2015) appeared nervous yet confident as he took the stage and began his pitch to the energized audience of more than 500. Gastfriend spoke of a friend, Anna, who was addicted to opioids. He watched her struggle with the indignity of recovery as she was forced to take... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Steven C. Watson
things.” Until he adjusted to the daily grind of preparing lesson plans and correcting tests and homework, Watson regularly found himself logging ninety-hour workweeks — after taking a 90 percent pay cut from the consulting job he held... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
heavily in quality control and state-of-the-art equipment, a strategy that has helped him fend off competitors. A case in point is a Chinese company that launched a product similar to Aquamesh in 2000. “They tried to invade my market with... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
The Drive for Excellence: An Interview with Jim Henderson
short-term results with adherence to a long-term strategy and direction. At Cummins, we are driven by the concept of maximizing shareholder value -- but the question is, value over the next quarter or two, or over a longer period? Either... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
The Digital Deck
As a professor in the Strategy Unit, Bharat Anand has studied how media companies move a traditional product into the online space. Some have managed that transition well, he says, and others have not. In the early days, Anand observes,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Swimming with the Stream
customers. Gandhi, who released her first EP, Voices, in October and heads off on tour this month, has done stints at both Spotify and Interscope Records, which provided her with unique insight as she planned promotion and distribution for the EP. Here, she offers an... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Case Study: Sweat the Technique
version first. Launch it to test real demand and to better understand usage patterns and segments. If it is successful, raising more capital for developing the digital shouldn’t be a problem. You can then position a more sophisticated... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Broken Link
federal, state, and school district levels to address these issues. The team’s first task was to determine the scope of the problem. They built a test to measure a school’s broadband speed, then partnered with state departments of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
to refine the concept, inviting friends over to test and retest the game. The two colaunched the game, Cranium, in 1998 and found an unlikely initial partner — Starbucks — to help market and distribute it. Two more unconventional game... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Kid at Heart — John H. Eyler (MBA 1971)
free that makes the job so appealing to Eyler -- it's also the chance to put to the sternest test yet his 25 years of management experience with retailers such as Federated Department Stores, Hartmarx, and the May Company. When Eyler took... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. (MBA 1978) (Harvard Business Review Press) Part of a manager’s job is making tough calls, and the hardest challenge can be resolving “gray area” problems, situations where analysis of the facts and data fails to provide a clear answer. Gray... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Short Takes
needed. In his working paper, "Sustainability and the Firm," HBS associate professor Forest L. Reinhardt draws on the economics and accounting literature in developing a two-part test for sustainability that makes sense from an economic... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf
black box that transforms ideas into actual products and services. "Little bets labs," for example, allow companies large and small to rapidly build and test prototypes in the market using inexpensive web resources. "Find someone with a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Speak English, Please!
achieve.” Mikitani expected that the initial global English-only conversion would be difficult. “This is going to be a long-term effort for us,” he states in the case. “Starting this month, my own speech will simply be in English.” All Rakuten workers were required to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
best way to intelligently and successfully test and launch innovative corporate growth strategies. Through vivid stories from all walks of life, Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive through the Dangers of Leading, by Ronald A. Heifetz... View Details