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10 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

space, and asks how the voice assistant should fit in with Alphabet's larger portfolio of products and services. While the mobile phone was the major platform for Google Assistant, Alphabet had recently introduced a range of smart home speakers to challenge first-mover... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

22 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms

issued a dissenting minority report. The partisan clash of views foreshadowed the political debate now echoing in the corridors on Capitol Hill. The Case For More Regulation Looking at the historical record, Moss makes a strong case that... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services

24 Nov 2008
Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA

argues that they are "institutionalizing their own irrelevance" by becoming too focused on scientific research that has little connection to business reality. Ten scholars echo Bennis's criticism in the December/ January 2008... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson & HBS Bulletin; Education

01 Sep 2010
News

RX for Change

Humana health-care system, a view echoed by others. Moving the needle on safer, more efficient health-care delivery is as difficult as implementing organizational change in any business, with the important difference that doing so is a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

01 Apr 1999
News

Spirit at Work

"I wouldn't want a Fortune 500 company bringing me religion." Echoes Vaill: "Talking about spirituality in the business context feels risky and awkward, and people tend to question the motivation behind it." Still, companies around the... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Mar 2019
News

The Fight Beyond

echoed in the distance. The German troops were advancing more quickly than the OSS mission planners expected, and the Soviet forces were stalled. On September 22, just five days after his arrival, Green cabled Bari: “Believe situation... View Details

Keywords: April White; illustration by Wesley Allsbrook

01 Dec 1998
News

Africa's Way

Africa produces 20 percent of Africa's GNP, an astounding figure considering its population of 41 million represents less than 6 percent of the continent. "South Africa is a regional superpower," echoes HBS associate professor Robert J.... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons

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Past Issues - Alumni

Ceiling How the HBS community is taking on the tech industry’s “brogrammer” CEO stereotype. A Boomtown's Echo The effects of the American energy boom, in North Dakota and beyond Complete Table of Contents December 2014 Good Investments... View Details

01 Jun 1996
News

1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"

to take the information revolution very seriously. Echoing Rudenstine's re-marks on the aptness of the word "revolution," McFarlan declared, "The changes are that fundamental and dramatic. Products, services, and industry structures are... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

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Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

inevitable part of forming and expanding a nation. The text on the verso echoes this idea: “The last tribe left the state in 1802.” Vermont . Arbuckle Bros. Trade Card. Advertising Ephemera Collection. Baker Library Special Collections,... View Details

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