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- 04 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage
More importantly, when the CEOs were asked "What's your past level of success in managing significant change?" only 15 percent said they had been "very successful." Another 15 percent said they had had "little or... View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
- 08 Dec 2017
- News
Harvard Business Grads Are Putting Politics Above Profits
After a tumultuous year in US politics, more than a dozen recent alumni have thrown their hats into the ring to launch careers in public service. “More and more people are feeling they need to step up and that they can, because they have... View Details
Keywords: politics
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
million people on its payrolls, the restaurant industry is the nation's largest private-sector employer, attracting 46 percent of every dollar spent on food. Despite these statistics, the industry (with the exception of a few star chefs... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Collective Genius’
flash of creative insight, an Aha! moment in the mind of a genius. People apparently prefer to believe in the rugged individualism of discovery, perhaps because they rarely get to see the sausage-making process behind every breakthrough... View Details
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Commencement 2012 Address | About
in person, let us celebrate his life and remember how fortunate we are that he was a part of our lives and our community. Moments like this also measure who we are as people and as an institution. All I can say is that the goodness we... View Details
- 06 Dec 2013
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Remember Nelson Mandela
other people are willing and able to lead. This image of the shepherd behind his flock is an acknowledgment that leadership is a collective activity in which different people at different times—depending on... View Details
- 01 Mar 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?
(iStockphoto/Sanja Radin) Increasingly, I hear and read about questions such as: Why are my best tech people leaving our great company to work on something called crypto and Web3? What are the strategic implications for my organization of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
family — they all have the same last name, different first names. There’s a bit of an “insider” appeal when people understand the connection. It becomes a badge of honor to list the different properties where they’ve stayed. But how do... View Details
- 04 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From
While managers feared that all the top talent would leave, instead Recruit grew to become a $20 billion tech company (roughly the equivalent of Salesforce) that employs 50,000 people globally. They have... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Marking 10-Year Connection with Japanese Earthquake Region
With the help of HBS’s Japan Research Center, Professor Hirotaka Takeuchi hosted a virtual reunion to mark the 10-year anniversary of an annual Immersive Field Course in Japan. A decade ago, a group of 22 MBA students from Japan asked Professor of View Details
- 02 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Research and Prospects
question that people have talked about a lot, but nobody really examined it empirically. Richard Bohmer is looking at the whole set of issues around what kind of management tools are appropriate in health... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Ticktock
and function in order to avoid the danger of your product becoming a flash-in-the-pan fad? In the “Clocky” case, Nanda cites the Roomba, iRobot’s robotic vacuum cleaner, as an example of a product that manages to steer clear of that fate.... View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
New Paths to Success in Asia
Businesses in the Asia-Pacific region today are caught up in a dizzying swirl of economic, cultural, political, technological, and social change. Enormous opportunities await managers who can harness these power currents to drive their... View Details
Keywords: by Alejandro Reyes & Deborah Blagg
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Olivia Wenzel | MBA
at the intersection of technology and business: I'll never forget the nursing home residents' smiles as they played our games and bragged about their new high scores. This is technology at its best -- bringing people together, motivating... View Details
- Profile
Oliver Bladek
of its mission to educate leaders who make a difference in the world," Oliver says. "How do you organize people to do something amazing? HBS' general management emphasis is exactly right for the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
Art by Craig Frazier Related Links Alumni New Venture Contest Opens Webinar series (ongoing) Entrepreneurship at HBS (video) Harvard Launches Innovation Incubator Why is it that even when smart, educated, well-networked people launch new... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
problem because people fear they may lose their jobs for speaking their mind. Perlow, who chronicles the fall of an online education company throughout the book, recommends a constructive spiral of speaking up. She urges senior View Details
- Blog
Tech Power at HBS: Faculty Boost Technology Ecosystem
list, now in its second year, naturally includes tech CEOs, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurs, but goes beyond technologists to explore the broader ecosystem of tech industries in New England and the people who have "kept the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
edition, with a new preface by authors Michael L. Tushman and Charles A. O'Reilly III, reveals why short-term corporate success often increases the chance of long-term failure. Drawing on lessons from firms worldwide, this book provides systematic tools that View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Rapid Response: Inside the Retailing Revolution
Once upon a time, suppliers held all the cards. Henry Ford's dictum that consumers could have any color car they wanted as long as it was black proved wrong in the extreme, but for years manufacturers in this country kept their hands firmly on the spigot of supply and... View Details