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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Jeff Cruikshank
his colleagues. Even when something looked to me like a genuine impending disaster - a true train wreck looming just around the next bend - there was a very good chance that I was failing to see the Big Picture. So no disasters, but there were some highly positive... View Details
Keywords: Jeff Cruikshank
- 06 May 2008
- News
Small World? Read Nil about It
well-known, newspapers are dying in the age of the Internet. As newspapers cut back on staff, one of the first things to go is the foreign bureau, which is expensive to maintain and whose reporting is deemed not as interesting to readers, nor as profitable, as coverage... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Faculty Research Online
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6156.html. The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation The notion of levying higher taxes on tall people — an idea offered largely tongue in cheek — presents an ideal way to highlight the shortcomings of current tax policy and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
The Mind Speaks, Marketers Listen
unconscious and often visual, for the last decade Zaltman has solicited visual images from subjects to chart thoughts about a wide array of products. While skeptics may see the ZMET as a passing fad, others consider it evidence of a growing View Details
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
someone else might not have come up with before. Flint: And what about looking to the future: What are the challenges ahead that most interest you in thinking about where Cloudflare will be years from now. Prince: The trend that we... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Alumni News | Book Briefs
to provide the resources needed to change the world. Boards That Lead: When to Take Charge, When to Partner, and When to Stay Out of the Way by Ram Charan (MBA 1965, DBA 1967), Dennis Carey, and Michael Useem (Harvard Business Review Press) The authors see an emerging... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program
Businesses. The advantage of these courses is that they allow students to take what they learn in the classroom, apply it in the field, and then discuss it with their classmates. I think this trend in field-based learning is a reflection... View Details
- 15 May 2020
- News
New Menu
trend as people are becoming more aware of the impact of dietary choices on climate change as well as personal health and animal welfare. Twelve startups joined the accelerator's first cohort, including a company producing lab-grown foie... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
The Past Informs the Future of Work
related to growth and efficiency. In a variety of case studies, students in the MBA elective Managing the Future of Work consider technological trends reshaping today’s workplace and actions business leaders can take. In particular, cases... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar
people have the right training or support to make these decisions." Merton maintained, however, that this trend will soon shift, leading to the creation of more user-friendly products for households. Using tuition as an example, he... View Details
Keywords: Elizabeth McNair
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
religion. It’s important to them to do something really meaningful and to contribute to society right out of HBS. Our alumni are already leaders in this field, and I think that trend will accelerate. View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
multiservice supply chains. That trend is likely to grow and will facilitate delivery in oneand two-day services, at least in high concentration areas like Latin America. How can the USPS reinvent itself to deliver a superior customer... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Case Study: Bionic Banking
contemplates moving forward with an actively managed robo-advisor. First, Alpha Architect has an overarching concern about pricing: Current passive robo-advising fees run about 0.25 percent, and have already begun to trend downward. And... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Everything Old Is a New Opportunity
infancy. That, in turn, led to an experience working with a wealthy family in medical philanthropy searching for a cure for a rare dementia, and the idea for Aging2.0. "This combined my interest in trends with a desire to do something... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959
decisions managers must make.” ADVICE TO STUDENTS “Spend at least as much time focusing on people as you do on numbers.” ON LEADERSHIP “Too many of our leaders fail to translate macroeconomic trends into human experience. Increasing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Living Social
at the forefront of testing new models of high-impact philanthropy. The new trend is midcareer and late-career professionals who have had great success in business and are now looking for a more impact-driven career. People will take a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
accelerates the decision-making process.” The education and insights flow both ways. Every quarter, Camino releases a research report based on survey data from its loan applicants and documents emerging macroeconomic trends in the Latinx... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
to Skullcandy’s survival.” Would you say you mostly follow trends or create them? A little bit of both. We certainly are aware of trends that exist, but great brands and great product companies are always... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
some new sign of the apparent retreat of government in the face of the relentless power of free market forces. Yet, in reality, contends HBS associate professor Willis Emmons, international trends in deregulation and privatization do not... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
it far because there’s a lot of air you’re moving around,” he explains. “This is very much a local business.” Consumer preference for plastic and the marketing trend toward rejuvenating a brand with new packaging designs have been pushing... View Details