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- 01 Apr 2002
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Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms
investment banking, law, and management consulting firms — are unique in that they have no products, manufacturing plants, or distribution systems. Their financial success depends entirely upon the capability and performance of their... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Forward Thinking
There was a time when human activity in outer space was a highly centralized, government-led endeavor, says Professor and Senior Associate Dean Matthew Weinzierl. But that era has passed: Over the past two decades, a calcified space bureaucracy has given way to a... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Tipping Point
purchase price—with about 3 percent of consumers choosing to tip. She believes consumer education and trust, as well as frictionless tipping options, will drive those numbers higher. When Kahawa launched tipping capability for customers... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Commitment to Leadership
community and a set of organizational capabilities so that talented individuals can collaborate and engage in discovery-driven learning and integrative decision-making. At HBS, we see our alumni as partners in all we do. Our graduates are... View Details
- 26 Feb 2021
- News
Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation
Management Leadership for Tomorrow, says the initiative touches on all aspects of the mission of the HBSLAA, by “empowering capable alumni to serve in this valuable capacity, connecting recent and more experienced alumni to each other and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
the stores more comfortable by increasing their size and adding soft chairs, even fireplaces. Approximately five hundred of our stores are set up to provide wireless access to the Internet; later this year, we'll expand this capability to... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Q&A - Mark Fields
loyalty, dedication to continuous improvement, high levels of education, technical capability — are evident. What has to happen is the government must implement economic reforms. I believe it will happen. But the question is when. — Garry... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New HBS Portal Offers Alumni Just-In-Time Business Information
Knowledge extends that capability beyond graduation, opening a new world of HBS resources to alumni throughout their careers. Visitors to the site can browse more than a dozen management topics such as "E-Commerce," "Innovation and... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
acquire a submersible capable of diving these unexplored depths. Vescovo considered purchasing Cameron’s submersible, the Deepsea Challenger, but determined that the experimental vehicle would require too many updates to reliably allow... View Details
- 03 Dec 2024
- News
Magic Numbers
numbers. In truth, she argues, there’s no such thing as a “math kid,” and everyone is capable of numeracy, with the right support. That’s the message of her first book, Math Mind: The Simple Path to Loving Math, published in August 2024... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Flexibility Is Key to Product Development in Internet Time
partnership helped them find errors in the initial version, as well as add new features to it." Such collaboration allows a search engine like Yahoo!, for example, to respond to customer requirements by adding new types of personalized search View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
HBS Alumni On Leading Their Alma Mater
decades? SG: Cost is absolutely a challenge. We’re very fortunate at HBS to have the capability to provide robust financial aid packages and to be able to support our students while also furthering our research and our goals. We’re always... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
that sells its products in 160 nations. "The biggest thing I worry about is that we'll make an acquisition or expand into a new market that stretches our capabilities beyond what we can really handle," he observes. So far, Lafley's... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
get competitive intelligence, how to determine if their brand or company is at risk, how to blunt competitors' efforts, and much more. Managing Global Innovation: Frameworks for Integrating Capabilities around the World by Yves L. Doz... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
Netflix-like model that can take advantage of the capabilities and deliver a spectacular amount of value.” Yoffie says he wishes he knew. “I wouldn’t be teaching anymore if I had all of the answers.” The dawn of 5G will create a haven of... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Reimagining China and India
transparently of value, so nobody’s going to oppose it. Are China and India capable of creating domestic firms that can compete successfully on an international scale? There already are at least 20 companies in the two countries that I... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act
Corporation, a company he founded in 1995. Asked to share his perspective on the Internet, Bricklin says, "Most people don't understand it. They fail to grasp the capabilities of its underpinnings." He likens the Net to a primitive road... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 25 Mar 2018
- News
Modernizing Infrastructure Management
assess taxes for all the properties within their county. “An interactive digital mapping brought that capability to them. And that really benefited the communities because everyone knew they were being treated fairly. And we have grown... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
The True Value of a Tweet
will actually say something, and the rest is the silent majority. So if you’re an executive, how do you pin a value to this tool? LJ: There has to be a more careful study of that. But all of these digital tools are amazing for marketers and have enhanced our View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
listen, realizing that the boy was releasing the small stones at consistent intervals. The young man had a terrific gift for precision and a keen focus, revealing capabilities that reached beyond his disabilities. The encounter... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers