Direction Of Innovation - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2020
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The Fine Print: Alumni Recommend Their Best Reads

Even if 2020 wasn’t a profitable year for booksellers, it seems to have been a banner year for reading. When we asked alumni to tell us about the best titles they’ve read this year, we received a flood of recommendations. Here we offer a... View Details

01 Oct 1999
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New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program

solutions. In order to help students prepare, we have developed an innovative prematriculation program, most of which is online. Our Prematriculation and Academic Services teams have developed a first-rate... View Details

01 Dec 1997
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"Economists are puzzle solvers..."

and guesswork. This theory enabled options transactors to take much bigger positions because they were hedged; they could be much more efficient, and they could control their risk much better. If you look at the last 25 years of... View Details

01 Oct 2000
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The Entrepreneurial Venture

line. Not surprisingly, therefore, the class has no shortage of members involved in the sort of entrepreneurial ventures that demand innovative thinking. RELATED LINK Class... View Details

03 Feb 2014
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Eyes on Medical Breakthroughs

harder than her male classmates to succeed. From her father, a Hungarian immigrant with no business training who bought New York City's Chelsea Hotel and turned it into one of the Big Apple's most famous addresses, she learned to take... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Management; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2011
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Alumni Books

entrepreneurs, he explores how to evaluate innovative ideas and the entrepreneurs behind them (drawing lessons from Yahoo!, Baidu, Tesla Motors, Measurex, and more). He also discusses the value of political... View Details

01 Feb 1997
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New Releases

in the world of digital communications will lie not in knowing how to engineer big technological breakthroughs but in how to develop products and services by creatively combining new and existing technologies with View Details

01 Oct 1999
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Historic Gift from HBS to New Radcliffe Institute

venerable history, I recognize the significance of support at the early stages of a new venture." In response, Wilson noted, "Dean Clark's gift is deeply valued for the colleagueship it represents as well as... View Details

27 Apr 2017
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Enabling a Transformational Educational Experience

Saurav Patyal (MBA 2018) (photo by Susan Young) Saurav Patyal (MBA 2018) (photo by Susan Young) FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENT: HBS Fund The HBS mission—to educate leaders who make a difference in the world—resonates deeply with Saurav Patyal (MBA 2018). “My goal is to utilize... View Details

25 May 2016
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Supporting Critical Initiatives

Elizabeth Raun Schlesinger (MBA 2005) The School’s commitment to educating women leaders was a key reason Liz Raun Schlesinger (MBA 2005) made a 10th Reunion gift to the HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation. The fund supports View Details

28 Feb 2022
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Equal Partner

Fund. It focuses on innovative tech startups founded by women of color and inclusive teams. For Aditya, such startups are both a smart financial opportunity and an essential investment in the future.... View Details

01 Sep 2007
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Ali Allawi

Allawi Illustration by Jack Unruh After spending much of his adult life in opposition to Saddam Hussein’s brutal regime, London-based businessman Ali Allawi (MBA ’71) couldn’t say no to an old friend who called to offer him a... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; National Security and International Affairs; Government

01 Mar 2017
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Encouraging Young Entrepreneurs

across all industries. He says his recent role as reunion gift cochair helped him stay in touch with classmates who share his enthusiasm for the School. “I think a lot of us are committed to making sure that Harvard stays at the tip View Details

01 Jun 2005
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Ideas: Books

Leviathans Multinational Corporations and the New Global History edited by Alfred D. Chandler Jr. and Bruce Mazlish (Cambridge University Press) In this collection of articles gathered by HBS professor emeritus (and Pulitzer Prize-winner)... View Details

Keywords: Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Chandler

22 Nov 2024
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Healthcare Club Hosts its 25th Annual Conference; Alumni Step Out for Global Networking Night; Meet the Club Leader: Andrea Fantacone

Healthcare Alumni Conference Marks 25 Years The HBS Healthcare Alumni Association (HBSHAA) hosted its 25th Annual Conference at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge on November 7, and once again offered an exclusive agenda that was jam-packed with industry thought leaders... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Oct 1996
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Uhlmann Award Winners Focus on French Retailer

The winners of the 1996 R. Hugh Uhlmann Award for outstanding research in the field of agribusiness have a truly global perspective -- all three recipients are international students. For their prize-winning... View Details

01 Feb 1998
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Running Up the Score

this seemed timeless and unchanging - until recently. A Whole New Ball Game At first glance, the scene suggests classic Americana, straight out of a Norman Rockwell painting: a football star, larger than life, visiting a classroom View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Apr 1997
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Manager's Notebook

Christensen asks. In "Patterns in the Evolution of Product Competition," his 1996 study of four industries - hydraulic excavators, disk drives, diabetes care, and executive education - Christensen found that... View Details

Keywords: Judith Ross

16 Nov 2021
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Getting Back Together for Global Networking Night; Healthcare Conference Draws New Interest

lucky to have him!” Healthcare Alumni Hold Annual Conference On November 4 and 5, the HBS Healthcare Alumni Association (HBSHAA) held its 2021 Virtual Annual Conference, featuring innovative panels, keynote speakers, and networking... View Details