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- 15 Nov 2013
- News
Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again
company, Zetta Research, is dedicated to rescuing those patents and reselling them to companies that wish to unlock their potential. Of course, the CEO's goal also is to make money, but he also sees his company's efforts as serving a... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The Potential of Business to Improve Lives
says, people throughout the business community are interested in diversity in the workplace and looking to scholars to guide their decision making. Studying the complex and multifaceted topic requires a group of investigators from a wide... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982
managing 7,000 people, and it was a crisis all the time. There were many hard decisions to make every day, but boy, I learned a ton.” GE has seen significant change since Immelt’s tenure began, with... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. (MBA 1978) (Harvard Business Review Press) Part of a manager’s job is making tough calls, and the hardest challenge can be resolving “gray area” problems, situations where analysis of the facts and data fails to... View Details
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
A Definitive Guide to the Brexit Negotiations
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
staffers’ work? Could these supposedly self-contained businesses be cut loose and thrive on their own? The top editor of the New York Times was surely mulling all this when he characterized his online strategic conundrum as “fake it till... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
started her career at Bain and then spent a decade building Dalberg, a strategic advisory firm, from a team of seven people to more than 30 offices globally. From 2012 to 2017 she served as senior development advisor to the Secretary of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Tried and Tested
lab and fieldwork. How do you settle on a particular research question to investigate? Katherine Coffman: I’m looking for two things. The most important one is whether it has the potential to really make a difference for outcomes. It has... View Details
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
international markets, they’re developing ambitious plans for their producers.” Lack of infrastructure makes follow-through on those plans challenging in Haiti, the third-poorest country in the world and the site of a catastrophic... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
in your book or that you've been thinking about since, what do you struggle with most? Pasricha: I mean, I have a huge thing about time management and decision making. Right now, the average person around the world View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Books: Judo Strategy
develop the metaphor into a systematic way of thinking about strategy. The approach they describe minimizes the importance of brute size and strength by teaching companies how to make the most of their advantages — and transform their... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Christopher S. Yeh
in both engineering and creative writing, Yeh helped launch Juno Online Services, one of the pioneers of free e-mail. He then moved on to D.E. Shaw, where he developed strategic alliances for the firm's online brokerage division. But the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 21 Mar 2024
- News
OC Alumni Get Clarity on AI; Inequality and Climate Change Explored in DC
crowd for the club’s reboot of the Leadership Breakfast, and noted that they saw many younger and recent HBS alumni who were likely attracted by the topic of AI. “Marshall truly demystified it for so many of us. AI is really a way to make... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
technologies seldom make sense to managers, given their corporate perspective. There are two reasons for this. First, customers exert tremendous influence over managers' decisions and the directions they... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Lessons from Everest
reasons, to reach the summit — undermined the better judgment of professionals and amateurs alike. A lesson for leaders, Roberto noted, is that even the most qualified and experienced people can make mistakes. Yet experts are often... View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
leadership role and I was never going to run a bank,” Brooks says of her decision to join the Schott Foundation. “Long-term, intangible work was new to me,” Brooks says, adding the work of the foundation—partnering with teachers’ unions... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Ban the Butterfly Rule for Corporate Directors
And mechanisms exist to handle such contingencies both efficiently and effectively. Depending on the facts and circumstances, for instance, a job change could lead to a decision not to renominate an incumbent director. In a case of... View Details
Keywords: Joseph Hinsey IV
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Debbie Cohen Scales Her Mountain
diagnosis -- a "road map" or "operating guide" for breast cancer patients. While Just Get Me Through This! includes medical information from her coauthor, Dr. Robert M. Gelfand, its primary intent is to help women manage the day-to-day View Details
Keywords: Morgan Baker
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
stage in the early 1990s, the computer industry's balance of power -- economic and strategic -- was changed forever. As Baldwin and Clark explain, "The architecture of modularity partitions designers' efforts and efficiently coordinates... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Forestalling Terror
to take hold. Do you think these changes are a step in the right direction? It depends on how the DNI role plays out. I see three possible outcomes — two bad and one good. One possibility is that we give in to the temptation to centralize — give all the View Details