Direction Of Innovation - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Jan 2023
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Forged in Fire

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When he was just three years old, Chad Foster (PLDA 21, 2016) was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative condition that... View Details

01 Mar 2004
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New Horizons for Iraq

This month marks the first anniversary of the American-led invasion of Iraq. Within weeks of their initial military assault, U.S. and coalition troops triumphed over the Iraqi... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; James E. Aisner; Julia Hanna; National Security and International Affairs; Government

01 Jun 1996
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Four Professors to Retire

Charles J. Christenson Chuck Christenson, the Royal Little Professor of Business Administration and a specialist in management control, has been a member of the HBS faculty for 39 years. Throughout his... View Details

Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage

01 Jun 2010
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Booth Gardner’s Night at the Oscars

leaving office. Although his own condition is not considered life-threatening, in 2006 he took on what has become known as the Death with Dignity campaign, believing that terminally ill people should have the right to make the choice of... View Details

01 Dec 2018
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018

individuals face stubborn resistance to new ideas. Managers and executives often reject innovation and unconventional approaches due to misplaced allegiance to the status quo. In this climate of stifled... View Details

01 Jun 2016
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Case Study: On the Table

infrastructure may be an unexpected burden, but it represents a strong opportunity to build entry barriers for future competitors. This is the story of Sabritas (Frito-Lay Mexico), Bimbo, and other power brands and billion-dollar firms in... View Details

01 Mar 2013
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Cyberposium

Hosted and organized by the student-run TechMedia Club, Cyberposium is the world's largest MBA technology conference. Some 700 people attended the 18th annual event, "The Battle for Access," held at HBS on November 4, to learn more about the competitive, disruptive,... View Details

01 Apr 2000
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Tune In for a Management Tune-Up

"If you've ever sat staring at a blank computer screen while the clock ticks away on your report deadline, you know what writer's block can feel like." So begins a typical daily segment of "Ideas @ Work," an View Details

12 Dec 2022
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HBS Alumni Named to 2022 Worthy 100

2014), who you can read more about here; Morgan Stanley Multicultural Innovation Lab co-head Alice Vilma (MBA 2007); Kleiner Perkins Partner John Doerr (MBA 1976); and Lara Hodgson (MBA 1998), President and CEO View Details

17 Sep 2020
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HBS Goes Back To School

incoming students to meet fellow classmates and learn about social enterprise related opportunities and resources.” SEPTEMBER 4 Doug Scatterday, senior director of Facilities, and Rich Stewart, director of... View Details

04 Sep 2019
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Advanced Statistics Are the New Foam Fingers

Executive Vice President for Strategy, Technology, and Innovation at Major League Baseball (photo by Alex Trautwig/MLB Photos) If you haven’t picked up a pack of baseball cards lately, you might be surprised... View Details

19 May 2022
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Leading to Salvation

deep appreciation for education, one that took Ryan through his studies at Wayne State University and into the PhD program in engineering at Cornell. It was a path that ensured a secure future, but Ryan didn’t love the work. Rather than face a life View Details

01 Oct 2000
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Linda B. Kanner: All in the Family

"counterphobic move." Punch cards and mainframes were the technological order of the day when she enrolled at HBS, and a successful career in marketing -- including top-level positions at J. Baker Inc. and Bank View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jan 2004
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A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977

strong results." Lafley has been credited with turning P&G around since taking the helm of the consumer-products giant in 2000. In addition to superlative earnings, P&G has seen its stock price double. The ingredients for Lafley's success... View Details

01 Dec 1996
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An Entrepreneurial Journey

$300 million. Much of that success was due to the innovative strategy of the gentlemanly Cotsen to focus on a single brand name with an image for safe, mild, quality skin care... View Details

06 Dec 2021
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Elevator Pitch: Power Sourced

Illustration by Drue Wagner Illustration by Drue Wagner Chaku Foods Nikki Okrah (MBA 2021), CEO and Founder Concept: A snack-food company in Okrah’s native Ghana that is building farming supply chain infrastructure for other consumer packaged goods companies to tap... View Details

Keywords: agriculture; Africa; food manufacturing; entrepreneurship; startup; Agriculture; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2018
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HBS Campaign Impact

opportunities in a rapidly changing world means constantly innovating in our curriculum; today’s graduates must master the knowing, doing, and being of leadership. Alumni are an integral part View Details

02 Aug 2018
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Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?

every day. Now what you need to recognize is those ads are directed at that second age group of 18 to 24-year-olds. So they're going after the young adults instead of the... View Details

01 Dec 2002
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Raw, Done Well

“It's never been about, ‘We're going to make the world raw.' ” The magazine Gourmet (October 2002), calling dinner at Roxanne's “an astonishing adventure in pure, sensual flavors,” declared it “simply the most innovative restaurant View Details

01 May 2013
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Joella Lykouretzos, MBA 2001

for her 10th Reunion, says that giving back to the School “is a way to contribute to a tradition of education that transforms people’s lives.” Her decision to designate her support for entrepreneurship and View Details

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