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- 01 Apr 1998
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Professor Ramchandran Jaikumar Remembered
pioneer in the study of flexible manufacturing systems. A major component of his work was a comprehensive study of more than half of these systems in use worldwide. The project had a significant impact on... View Details
- 14 May 2014
- News
(Re)moving the Needle
study method. You need to be street smart, not just book smart. The case study method gives you both." Anquetil also found unexpected value in the diversity of his classmates. "It didn't matter what View Details
- 13 May 2025
- News
If I Knew Then
relates in a previous episode of Skydeck, that experience laid the groundwork for her to cofound StarVest Partners, a venture capital firm with many successful investments, including an early partnership with NetSuite when the firm had just $100,000 in revenues. A... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
An Intellectual Capital: Some Influential HBS Ideas, at a Glance
1911 HBS establishes the Bureau of Business Research to write cases. 1922 Founding of Harvard Business Review (HBR). 1930s Elton Mayo and Fritz Roethlisberger conduct pioneering studies establishing the importance of field-based... View Details
Keywords: Professor Elton Mayo: Professor Fritz Roethlisberger; George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business, Professor Emeritus Ray A. Goldberg; Professor Abraham Zaleznik; Professor Alfred Chandler; Professor Michael Porter; Professor Robert S. Kaplan; Professor Michael C. Jensen; Professor C. Roland Christensen; Professor Robert Menton; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
- 01 Mar 2009
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Honoring HBS’s Organization Men
Integration. The conversation took place in Spang-ler’s Williams Room in conjunction with a conference on organization design that used their 1967 classic as a jumping-off point for assessing research in the field today. The gathering... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
Bulletproof Problem Solving: The One Skill That Changes Everything, authors Conn and McLean—both veterans of McKinsey & Co.—offer a seven-step, systematic approach to creative problem solving, developed in top consulting firms, that will work in any View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
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Running Up the Score
some $130 million each to join the major-league fraternity. Since these teams will largely consist of players existing clubs deemed expendable, backers can have few illusions that their investment will be rewarded - on the field or at the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 07 May 2025
- News
Scaling New Heights
expanding into the medically tailored meals space, they turned to a team of HBS students for guidance on go-to-market strategies. “The experience of working with the HBS team on this study was great, very strategic, and didn't take away... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Exploring Global Business Practices
today’s classrooms reflect our global society. In the MBA Program, all students in the first year get hands-on exposure to organizations in emerging markets through the January module of the FIELD (Field Immersion Experiences for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Lessons from a Megacity
The first step in researching the public transportation system in Buenos Aires: send the private driver home. “How could we be there studying public transportation and not use it?” asks Eryn Schultz (MBA 2015). She was one of 39 students... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
"Unheard Voices" Brings to Light Three Centuries of American Women at Work
“Over the last decade, the library has fielded an increasing number of inquiries from scholars interested in topics beyond traditional economic or business history,” notes Laura Linard, Baker’s director of Historical Collections. “We’ve... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Perception versus Reality
more than three decades. “The House That Howard Built,” written by senior associate editor Garry Emmons, celebrates Stevenson’s achievements as the driving force behind advancing a research agenda that legitimized entrepreneurship as a View Details
- 30 Apr 2021
- News
Revealing the Rules
Consulting Group, Ng wrote The Unspoken Rules: Secrets to Starting Your Career off Right as a guide for early career professionals—and particularly to help level the playing field for the outsiders. But it’s equally important, he says,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Books
how to “fix the broken sales process” while applying the concepts and actions to a case study of a fictitious software company. The Breakthrough Imperative: How the Best Managers Get Outstanding Results by Mark Gottfredson (MBA ’83) and... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Commitment to Leadership
At its core, HBS is committed to educating leaders who make a difference in the world. In the early 1990s, I had the privilege of leading the development of an MBA course on leadership which was introduced into the required curriculum after a multi-year View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Global Perspectives
adds Shih, and often lead to case studies and global insight that enhance their conversations with students both in and outside the classroom. “It’s striking how knowledgeable and proactive the firms we visited were about sustainability;... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
approaches to solve technological and organizational problems. This view of innovation counters the dominant paradigm, which casts firms’ profit-seeking incentives as the main driver of technical change. This volume provides a comprehensive, multidisciplinary view of... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Uhlmann Award Winners Focus on French Retailer
The winners of the 1996 R. Hugh Uhlmann Award for outstanding research in the field of agribusiness have a truly global perspective -- all three recipients are international students. For their prize-winning project, Peter Baeza... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Price Is Right
consumers to open their wallets a little more? Yes, we believe so. In an 11-day field experiment, we designed a PWYW promotion for a pack of gum at a student café under two different scenarios. In the first, we set up a sign with a pair... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 26 Jan 2017
- News
Finding a Path out of Poverty
led him to start his own business selling produce. The next break came after a chance encounter with a clerk at a local library who gave him advice on how to apply for college and get funding. In 1997, Magwegwe completed his undergraduate View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley