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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Zone Defense
design a high-tech armored suit for a person when artificial intelligence could do the job with significantly less risk. “Why wouldn’t they just put in a computer to control the suit?” he wondered. “‘Good mission, but it sounds like a horrible business idea,’” Tseng... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Marquis Jet Takes Off
existence hinged on a highly unlikely partnership with NetJets Inc., the nation’s leading purveyor of fractional private-jet ownership. “Without them we didn’t have a business,” recalls Bill Allard (MBA ’89), Marquis’ president and CEO.... View Details
- Portrait Project
Sara Mattei Gentili
I don’t recall a moment in my life when I had that comforting feeling of belonging. What I do remember perfectly, is the first time I thought I was odd. My kindergarten classmates played in the school’s courtyard, and I sat in a corner... View Details
- 07 Jun 2021
- Book
9 Tips from an Expert Fundraiser: Help Donors 'Invest in Their Passion'
regardless of the size of the organization and the asks. The author recalls interviewing the CEO of an organization that had just completed a successful $1.4 billion capital campaign. The CEO confessed he had gotten his fundraising skills... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Leveraging Generative AI
“Learn with Baker Library: Generative AI for MBAs,” guides them through the effective and responsible use of GenAI tools to support their learning. In addition, the MBA Program is exploring the viability of AI-assisted tutoring. Weiss has seen firsthand the effects of... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Competing in the Age of AI
Above: Karim Lakhani discussed GenAI with alumni during his presentation at When Professor Karim Lakhani leads discussions about generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), he often begins by asking audience members to stand if they’ve used an AI tool like ChatGPT or... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 27 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Managers, Your Employees Don’t Want to Be Facebook ‘Friends’
factors—gender, rank, and openness—played into people’s decisions about which colleagues they preferred to see online. In a final study, participants were asked to recall whether they connected with former and current colleagues in real... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka
- Portrait Project
Amy Long
I was supposed to be a writer. As a child, I treasured no sisterhood of dolls. I yearned for no film stars. Team sports, I simply ignored. Instead, I recall only my fingers working feverishly over my grandfather's typewriter, a roar in my... View Details
- 03 Dec 2014
- What Do You Think?
Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?
"make sure he is upsetting things for the wrong reason rather than for the right reason." Joseph Seiler recalled that in growing companies where he worked, "I came across a few of these Type 4 people. What seemed to help... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
The Idea of Instant Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
introduced in the photographic field, which he considered ripe for invention." 42 The inspiration for instant photography planted itself in Land's imagination during a family vacation in 1943: “I recall a sunny vacation day in Santa Fe,... View Details
- 14 Apr 2022
- Op-Ed
Let’s Move Forward from COVID—Without Forgetting What We’ve Learned
decline, and even the spike created by the delta and omicron variants could not stop corporations from recalling workers to the office. Many companies want to go back to the way things were, but that would be a mistake. “Organizational... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Giving All Stakeholders a Voice
For John Wu (MBA 2000), “Web3” means more than technological innovation. “It’s a mindset,” he says of the movement toward a decentralized internet that accelerates innovation and gives end users greater collaboration with businesses. “It’s a transformative shift in... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Trading Up — Kenneth D. Brody (MBA 1971)
dealmaker but something of a kingmaker as well. "When I graduated from college with an engineering degree, I knew nothing about politics and less about investment banking," the tall, trim Brody recalls with a chuckle. "My best friend, an... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Brice Cutrer Jones
New York attorney. "We shook hands on the corner of 57th and Lex on September 17, 1972," recalls Jones. "He said, 'You go do it and I'll get the equity,' and that's been our only contract to this day." At his 15th HBS Reunion, Jones was... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 30 Jun 2022
- News
Scaling Hope
trained as a parent peer coach for families, is using his years of business experience to build the tools he wished had been available when his family was confronting addiction and is sharing his own experience of the recovery path. He View Details
- Portrait Project
Jennifer Wu
whom I have taken for granted all along. A sense of shame washed over me, as I recalled the many times I yelled at Mom and Dad in arguments and prioritized my needs over theirs. That was the moment I decided to return home after HBS. I... View Details
- 07 Aug 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is There Still a Role for Judgment in Decision-Making?
perspective (for example, by asking "What information am I missing?"). I didn't Google the texts of these books, but there is no mention of the word "judgment" in their tables of contents or indexes, and I don't recall... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 27 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution
rather reveal a pattern of incremental investments approved individually. Although Firestone encountered some production glitches in refining the new process, overall the transition from bias to belted bias tires proceeded smoothly.10 Former Firestone President Lee... View Details
- 22 Sep 2022
- News
The Beauty Guide
acknowledges, “There are still some expectations as to how people should look, act, talk, and show up. I had experiences, earlier in my career, in which I was told that I spoke with my hands too much,” recalls Freyre. “And I would think... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Alejandro Ramirez: A Very Good Time for Mexico
Vicente Fox, who was then governor of the state of Guanajuato. “I didn’t want to abandon the business or my research, because both were important to me,” recalls Ramirez. After Fox’s historic victory last summer, Ramirez joined a team of... View Details