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- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Leading Innovation is the Art of Creating ‘Collective Genius’
conflict, and trial and error to advantage. At Pixar, for example, the company was caught up short in 2008 in a clash over production schedules for the movie Up and the short film Cars Toons. Blindsided by... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 04 Jan 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?
about why else this could happen. With little evidence to support a theory, it occurred to me that one additional issue that hasn’t shown up in the press might be that of sequencing; in a sense, putting the cart before the horse. When I... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
One Degree of Difference
two-thirds of American workers. It’s a particularly expensive practice for employers, who pay up to 30 percent more to hire graduates for middle-skills work even when individuals without degrees perform equally or nearly as well,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Immersion Program Digs Deep
NEW FRIENDS: Stephen Kraus (MBA ’08) meets students of Shanghai’s Weihang Migrant School, a privately funded school for the children of rural-to-urban migrant workers. HBS ramped up its commitment to the winter break Immersion Program... View Details
- Student-Profile
Yiwei Li
Yiwei Li (he/him) has come a long way. The globe-trotting HBS doctoral student grew up in China, went to the UK for his undergraduate degree, then to Canada for his master’s—both in economics. With his MS in hand, Yiwei next traveled back... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Notebook
sign up for services such as telephone, cable, etc. But there wasn’t one. A friend said that would be a fantastic business, so we started researching the opportunity and ultimately launched GetConnected to pursue it. Best decision: We... View Details
- 23 Apr 2014
- News
A corporate leader’s legacy in India
When Ratan Tata (AMP 71, 1975) joined his family’s business in 1962, it was on the Tata Steel shop floor in Jamshedpur, India. From the ground up, Tata learned how to be an effective manager and a corporate leader who understands the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Admit It: You’re in Denial
potentially ruinous obstacles that managers face. From Ford to General Motors, Sears to Lehman Brothers, it has torpedoed many good businesses. Why would any sane, smart executive deny a fact of critical importance to his or her business?... View Details
- 03 Mar 2010
- News
Last Look - March 2010
one wonders what the sign, carefully held up by Collins, was for. It reads, “Scholars under the Baker Foundation,” with the words “Non Hokum sed but Veritas” circling a shovel. If they’re not suffering a fit of existential ennui, this may... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Home Sweet (Modular) Home
officials regarded us as too risky to deal with,” says Stuntz. Greentech eventually set up shop in Worcester, forty miles west of Boston, in a former trolley-car factory. With a place to call home, the company finally graduated to the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Pharma Suits a Farm Gal
GRAHAM: From rodeo to CEO. Amylin Pharmaceuticals CEO Ginger Graham (MBA ’86) had a good year in 2006, with Amylin stock up as much as 45 percent, with Byetta and Symlin, its two innovative diabetes drugs, performing well, and with the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
Graduate School of Business, the University of South Africa, and the Iran Center for Management Studies. His books on teaching, Education for Judgment: The Artistry of Discussion Leadership and Teaching and the Case Method, are studied by... View Details
- 19 Feb 2008
- News
The Scoop Behind the Silver Screen
Clayton up this weekend for seven Academy Awards. (Any predictions out there on the winners?) Samuels drew an analogy between the real estate industry and filmmaking. “I look at a movie script the same way I look at an empty piece of... View Details
- 11 Sep 2009
- News
I Network, You Network, He, She, It Networks…
road would pick up his or her office mail (and any snail-mailed thank-you notes) in a timely fashion. Others wondered at her advice to mention personal interests that had come up in conversation (maybe the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HBS Releases 2003 Financial Report
Despite a sluggish economy that constrained revenue growth for a second year, HBS finished fiscal year 2003 last June with a balanced budget and double-digit growth in its endowment funds. “Through careful management of our expenses, we... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
different could things be?” It’s only been thirteen years since I graduated from HBS, and we in the Class of 1988 were remarkably forward-thinking about technology. Ours was the first class to have a subject called Management Information... View Details
- 11 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change
analyze data as it comes in so that you can confirm or reorient your strategy, if necessary. That way, you can align your tactical decisions with your larger objectives. The more efficiently you manage this process, the more View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards: Honorees and Victories
earlier, Dean Jay Light had presented five HBS graduates with the Alumni Achievement Award, the School’s highest honor. Now they were being asked, metaphorically speaking, to pull on their basketball jerseys, tie up their sneakers, and... View Details
- 13 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Shouldn't Delay Software Updates—Even After CrowdStrike's Flaw
software update to the Falcon security platform managed by CrowdStrike, the giant cybersecurity company. “What happened in CrowdStrike is an illustration of the risk of picking up an upgrade immediately.”... View Details
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Monica Dodi
As a cofounder and managing director of the Women’s Venture Capital Fund (WVCF), Monica Dodi (MBA 1984) backs female-led, early-stage ventures in digital media and sustainable products and services. Dodi says these emerging consumer... View Details