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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Inspiration Is Not Enough
about building the better mousetrap,” he tells us. “Commercializing the better mousetrap is the key to success.” Take Hugh Hefner. The father of Playboy meets the transformative entrepreneur test by ushering in an era of social freedom... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
any student support for the employees, and the employees themselves were thrilled.” Twenty-five years later, he frequently testifies before Congress on behalf of labor’s agenda. Between staff phone calls, an unflappable Silvers weighed in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Remembering “Mr. Harvard”
later that the collapse occurred because “young men thought they could do anything.” Inside his own firm, Gordon maintained “an air of positive gentility, giving employees a free hand to pursue deals,” the New York Times reported. Beyond... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Faculty Books
enterprise level. It includes key applications of analytics, human and organizational issues in building analytical capabilities, and case studies of the application of analytics in several industries. Sidetracked: Why Our Decisions Get... View Details
- 26 Nov 2018
- News
New York Alumni Explore Risks and Opportunities in Climate Change
family matter, the group can be totally candid in ways other people in your life may not be. They can define the issue for you and help you move through it.” Confidentiality is the key to a successful forum and many groups include some... View Details
- 12 Apr 2016
- News
How Disney’s Alan Horn Manages the Movies
think that’s genuinely who Alan is.” The piece also offers insight into Horn’s day-to-day management style, with fellow employees recalling the usefulness of his notes on casting (Robert Redford as a villain in “Captain America: The... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Replicating Toyota's Success
the company has welcomed countless observers, even competitors, through its factory doors, but no one has yet approached Toyota's success. "The research we've done since 1999 is not so much about decoding the DNA as it is about replicating it," says Spear. In looking... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
One Degree of Difference
Courtesy Paris Wallace Courtesy Paris Wallace At 70 employees strong, the Boston-based digital company Ovia Health is on the smallish-but-mighty size compared to the rest of the local tech hub. Competing for talent is tough. While those... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
announced plans to roll out the program commercially in 2016 and signed an agreement with Sri Lanka to put all of that country online. The NextGen Angels are all under 45, and most are entrepreneurs themselves. That’s the angel group’s... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
innovations may have been -- whether it was Ray Kroc's refinement of franchise economics or Henry Ford's perfection of assembly line production -- every organization faced the key business problem of determining where to place the... View Details
- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
experiences also sent him on a quest to find academics who were studying sabbaticals so he could better understand how the implementation of sabbatical policies impact employee behavior. Informally called the Sabbatical Project, DiDonna’s... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Silent Killers: Overcoming Barriers to Organizational Learning
effectively. That kind of open communication and self-examination is key to overcoming the silent killers. Concludes Beer, "The current competitive environment requires high levels of teamwork at the lowest possible level in the... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Get Well Soon
Art by James Yang/Getty Images Health-care reform is more than a political football. For twenty years it’s been a ground-level topic of increasing importance for the administrators, physicians, nurses, and frontline employees who interact... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Christensen and Vernon Remembered
F. Kennedy School of Government, died on August 26 due to complications from cancer. He was 85. Vernon, who served on the HBS faculty for nineteen years, was a key member of the Marshall Plan team and a central player in the development... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Short Takes
cross-sector alliances, he interviewed key executives on both sides of each partnership to document the process of their unfolding relationships. Austin's initial research corroborated his hypothesis that these alliances were creating... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Check In
gathering in large groups. If we get to 40 or 50 percent occupancy rates by the end of the year, we’ll be doing pretty well. What will hotels need to do to make guests feel safe? MD: Hotels need to ensure their guests and their employees... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
Diego–based chain of more than ninety buffet-style restaurants serving fresh salads, soups, pastas, and breads, CEO Michael Mack has implemented a flexible system that allows hourly employees to change their schedule with as little as one... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
New Releases
of confidence that demonstrates the risks of neglecting customer and employee relationships in the face of large-scale change. Once the world's most admired corporation, IBM stumbled badly in the early 1990s. The company, now making a... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Theory & Practice
practices that will allow people to flourish - the key to organizational success. Do Lunch or Be Lunch by Howard H. Stevenson (Harvard Business School Press) According to HBS professor Howard Stevenson, most of human history and much of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Charlie Rose Interviews Goldman CEO Paulson
encouraged than discouraged.” As one of the key business leaders who has spoken out about corporate responsibility, Paulson praised the free-market system and cautioned that the United States must be careful not to go too far in the... View Details