Information Systems - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 1999
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the current system functioning, while leadership should inspire change. "It is possible to have too much or too little of either," Kotter writes. "Strong leadership with no management risks chaos," while "strong management with no... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Dec 1999
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The Way You See It

Road Bill Gates may have been selected as the most influential business leader, but the internal combustion engine beats Windows as an operating system by a mile - the automobile rules as the most significant consumer product of the last... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons. Data collection by Ericka Webb.

01 Dec 2008
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Seth Klarman

capitalist system works the way it does is because there are cycles, and the cycles self-correct. With too much excess, eventually you get a downturn. So the explosion in securitized assets was a ticking time bomb? It’s not amazing that... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

01 Mar 2014
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perseverance, and teamwork. —Michael Brown (MBA 1970) via LinkedIn Curing Health Care Re: How can our health care system be fixed? This is all very well and good, but technical solutions will only work around the edges until two main... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

08 Aug 2013
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Cause Marketing Gets Personal

Amy Schiffman Langer "My life experiences inform my work, and vice versa," says Amy Schiffman Langer (MBA 1977). She has turned physical challenges—breast cancer, a disability, and chronic pain—into a focus on cause-marketing and... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Health, Social Assistance; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

24 Apr 2014
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Using an online platform to reinvent education

Students can take advantage of the extensive library of more than 6,000 educational videos, 100,000 interactive challenges, and assessments from any computer with web access. Every interaction with the system is logged so that parents and... View Details

01 Jun 2016
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Imagine an Economy Without Wall Street

and capital only serve to stifle economic growth and opportunity, Nohria wrote. He also took note of critics who point to instances of global financial misdeeds, mistakes, or crises over the past decade and attack Wall Street for its apparent “greed” and self-interest.... View Details

Keywords: Wall Street; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

01 Dec 1996
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Laurel without Hardy? A Lesson for Business

candidates for this focus on complements. A new system of creating and sharing information is evolving, and it has many complementary parts. It is not enough to invent one part of the new system; you have to... View Details

01 Oct 1997
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Shaping the Way Business Does Business: HBR at 75

professor of social sciences, now emeritus, wrote "Communications Technology - For Better or for Worse," in which he laid out concepts that paved the way for the Information Superhighway. The year was 1979. And the magazine was the... View Details

01 Sep 2024
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Ink: Framing the Full Picture

Filipinos have been in the United States for longer than the country is old. As far back as 1763, sailors from the Philippines started arriving in the Gulf of Mexico as indentured servants on Spanish galleons. Life on board was so brutal that, at the sight of land,... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

17 Dec 2015
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Acquiring Business Skills To Advance A Career Trajectory

freshman in high school when the 9/11 attacks happened. That event had a significant impact on me,” he explains. After the Academy, he earned a master of science degree at MIT and then worked for three years at the US Air Force Space and Missile View Details

Keywords: Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Oct 1999
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Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act

shared his idea. Especially supportive was a young, then untenured professor of information technology, James Cash. "Jim told me, 'Anything you do to improve the computer's human interface has got to be good,' " Bricklin recalls. By the... View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs

01 Dec 2003
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Studying Japan from the Inside

choose between two types of governance systems: the traditional Japanese system and one similar to the U.S. system. We are already seeing companies divided into two camps: Toyota, Canon, and Matsushita are saying that the Japanese View Details

Keywords: Cynthia Churchwell; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 1998
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HBS Forum: Business Leadership in the Social Sector

Jersey, where the school system was on the verge of collapse. In 1993, the company put PCs, complete with e-mail and Internet access, on the desks of all 135 seventh-grade students in the Christopher Columbus Middle School - as well as in... View Details

01 Dec 1996
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Faculty Symposium Honors McArthur

Management Professor Robert H. Hayes and Associate Professor Marco Iansiti Global Financial Systems Professor Robert C. Merton and Associate Professor Peter Tufano Organizations and Markets Professors George P. Baker III, Carliss Y.... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

01 Mar 2018
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Realizing The Potential Of One Harvard

curriculum covers topics ranging from programming and data science systems to digital strategy and innovation to data-driven marketing. The course content includes both asynchronous learning sessions and sessions taught by Harvard faculty... View Details

01 Jun 2015
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Lessons from a Megacity

The first step in researching the public transportation system in Buenos Aires: send the private driver home. “How could we be there studying public transportation and not use it?” asks Eryn Schultz (MBA 2015). She was one of 39 students... View Details

Keywords: April White; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation

01 Mar 2025
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On The Case: The Base Factor

In her research as a marketing modeler, Professor Eva Ascarza focuses on understanding customers—and predicting, in particular, who will be a good one and how best to retain them. Without customers, obviously, there is no business. That could also be the tagline for... View Details