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- 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 elective course General Management:... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
out of proportion with the real facts." Penning a 1957 cover story titled "These Machines Are Morons," an AMP graduate highlighted the difficulties of the ten-year process of converting from punch cards to the latest technology - the... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Case Study: Up in the Air
getting these organizations to pay for the service at full price or a discount and then provide it to the winning startups as an in-kind prize or investment? Assuming this activity will generate a significant amount of publicity, and as... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
decisions about which extracurricular activities to pursue, which schools to apply to, and which topics to choose for their essays. An Introduction to Real Estate Finance by Edward A. Glickman (MBA 1981)... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
Chinese imports kept down U.S. inflation. Chinese savings kept down U.S. interest rates. Chinese labor kept down U.S. wage costs. As a result, it was remarkably cheap to borrow money and remarkably profitable to run a corporation. Thanks to Chimerica, global View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Manager's Notebook
one time, consumers readily shared personal information. Recently, however, many customers have begun to bristle when asked personal questions. They wonder: Who else is privy to this information? What's in it for me? In their 1996 working paper, "The View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 23 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method
(MBA 1967), and Herb Kaplan (MBA 1965) hope that energized reaction from the business community will turn into active engagement in fixing a decidedly broken electoral system. “Our political dysfunction is harming American... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 25 Mar 2016
- News
New Head of MBA Admissions Is 2013 Grad
their interviews—an interest that had been piqued during his student days when he was an Admissions Ambassador for his HBS section, helping candidates during their visits to the campus. Losee has remained active as an HBS alumnus, serving... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Student Teams Take on Real-World Innovation
Space Station for commercial research. Nike sought help with an innovative plan to involve more people in active lifestyles. “MBA students are really good at analysis,” says Lakhani. “By the time they get to my class in the second year,... View Details
- 26 Oct 2020
- News
A Social Impact Roadmap; Arts Leadership in a Pandemic; Amplifying Hispanic Contributions
crisis. The program featured speakers Rebecca Henderson, the John and Natty McArthur University Professor at HBS, and Sir Ronald Cohen (MBA 1969), who talked about their latest books, Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire, and IMPACT: Reshaping Capitalism to Drive... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
economy, we’re living in a world where other spheres of economic activity are also becoming important. Emerging markets are certainly a key piece of it. But the unified European market has also become more important. And it would be a... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
hairdryer, and a fully stocked bar, to name a few amenities). Fine wines and gourmet cuisine featuring fresh, local in-gredients like lobster and passion fruit are standard fare, as are on-demand activities that run from deep-sea fishing... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Skydeck Voices: For My Next Act
always worse than you think they are and take longer to fix and cost more. But the goal of what I do is like building community. I've been a real estate developer since the early 1980s and it's always about what can we do more? And in... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
View from the Top
rather than on the political consequences. Lukas Mühlemann, CS: I believe it has become much more difficult to admire anybody today. Many people excel in a certain environment, but when it changes, many of the same people struggle. Orit Gadiesh, Bain: It is hard to get... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
behind one of pop culture's most successful icons. Over the past decade, Elberse, the Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration, has frequented star-studded galas thrown by LeBron James and Jay-Z, hung out with the CEO of Walt Disney Studios, and watched... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
computing has exploded. Amit Kumar (MBA 2008), a managing director and senior partner at Boston Consulting Group, estimates that more than 300 companies are currently active in the quantum space and that more than $3 billion in investment... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
partnerships, but the coordination was a real challenge—particularly when there was classified information involved.” It’s a broad point, but apply it to cybersecurity, says Lefkowitz, and you see why the National Security Agency might... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
activity pales in comparison to what's happening today on the Internet," says Sahlman. "Whereas in the early days of the microprocessor, for example, it was expensive and complicated to buy computers, develop software, and break into the... View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
almost any job and then that very rapidly declines and your career is subsequently path dependent, so I certainly didn't appreciate how much it impacts the overall trajectory of your life if you have a failure earlier on. I am one of the few VCs who View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
notions of poverty; emerging markets; and the roles of business, government, and the nonprofit sector. “The IXP program is all about active learning,” says HBS senior fellow Regina Abrami, who serves as faculty chair of the program.... View Details