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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
risk-takers, and that wasn’t me.” Location, location: “There was an advantage to being a startup in the Midwest. Everybody was moving to the coast, and we were able to stay outside the fray. Sometimes one of... View Details
- 30 Jul 2019
- News
Turning Around Tesco
The British-based grocery chain Tesco—the third-largest retailer in the world—recently marked its 100th anniversary with a record-setting, 30-hour dance relay in Wembley Stadium. There were other reasons to celebrate, too: The chain is back in the black after surviving... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
school in that capacity was rejuvenating for me as well. Suddenly I was in a situation where I could really think about different kinds of business problems and potential opportunities because I wasn’t... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
One-on-One with Grover Norquist
politics? The work I did at the business school was extremely helpful, especially the problem solving you learn with case studies. They provide experience that would take years and years to accumulate... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Baker’s back
lounge and food-service area. “Business problems don’t arise just within functions,” notes HBS professor Steven Wheelwright, the senior associate dean charged with overseeing the renovation project. “Having... View Details
- 10 May 2023
- News
Alumna Snags an Emmy
career path to yours? Product Management often relies on leadership via influence, and to be influential you need to be credible. So get your hands dirty. Talk directly to customers to understand their needs. Build a prototype. Ensure... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
and expense involved in data collection. Deans complained that focusing on rank diverted prospective students from the truly important question: Which school is the best fit? Academics who studied the rankings View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Turning Point: Change, Stat
And I hope I can approach future problems with the objectivity of Dr. Fauci: “I don’t have any horse in the game one way or the other. I just look at the data.” Second, I’ve been reminded of the importance... View Details
- 06 Dec 2012
- News
New Thinking on Healthcare Reform
Tim Brown, president and CEO of the design firm IDEO. Christensen then drew a parallel between the evolution of the computer industry and what is slowly taking place in healthcare. Initially, people had to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Dynamic Group
first trip to Africa, and we came with a partner, friend, or family member(s). Our reasons for taking the trip were variations on the same theme — everyone shared an interest in the mystique of African culture, wildlife, View Details
Keywords: Hospitality
- 26 Mar 2018
- News
Funding Climate Change Solutions
need to go to the very local level to understand what are the challenges of this community and find the right instruments. I would say that the thing I applied at the local level is the understanding of the... View Details
- 25 Feb 2021
- News
Building Hope
double the general population and has “increased substantially” for veterans, ages 18 to 34, since 2005. For Mike Zapolin (OPM 33, 2004), this was a seemingly intractable problem that deserved a radical... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Morrell
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue
Associate Professor Joshua Lerner spoke about opportunities and challenges in the venture capital and community development fields; Professor James L. Heskett discussed... View Details
- 27 Apr 2023
- News
Life Preserver
three-month program, held at NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, was designed to move entrepreneurs out of their silos and encourage them to work together to identify a worldwide problem View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Hawes Hall Groundbreaking
chairman and CEO of the Connecticut-based Life Re Corporation (purchased in 1998 by Swiss Re of Zurich, Switzerland), also emphasized the importance of service. "Most of the world's problems are talked about... View Details
- 20 Sep 2011
- News
A Taxing Question
said that, any move to territorial needs to be ... thought through quite carefully," he advised. Opponents of territorial taxation, including organized labor and some liberal Democrats, argue that the solution to the View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
credit cards to the cost of a cheeseburger. Net Profit: How to Succeed in Digital Business by David Soskin (MBA ’79) (Wiley) Soskin, the former CEO of Cheapflights Media and current chairman of mySupermarket.co.uk, has solved the View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
New Releases
for opportunities to explore as well as reacting to problems to be solved. Says Raiffa, "Smart Choices is based on the premise that quality decision-making is a fundamental and valuable life skill that can... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
In My Humble Opinion: In the Deal
to invest outside the core market, because there is less noise, great founders are sometimes overlooked when not in the Valley, and they often solve problems more applicable to a broader population base.”... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Last Look
House Raft Race. Harvard professor Robert Kiely says this race of jerry-rigged craft was already in place when he became master of Adams House in 1973. Lore has it that athletically challenged Adams House decided to create a “sport” in... View Details