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- 02 Jul 2008
- News
No Pulp Fiction Allowed
a lot, it turns out in this centennial year of the MBA. Keeping the degree fresh and relevant — and worth the large price tag — actually makes for interesting reading. My favorite is HBS professor Rakesh Khurana's sweeping critique of... View Details
- 08 Aug 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
Panic Management: Keep Your Eyes on the Road
expression of glee on her face; or he thinks of a crucial Red Sox game and a slide into base that turned around a 0-3 deficit for the team.) Finally, ask yourself what you could do. Drawing on research he’s... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Apr 2008
- News
“Let Us Now Praise Famous Women”
at a time could use it), and one time it managed to spill all its cards on the floor. Val remembers that it took most of a week to put them back in order. How were changes in alumni data recorded back in those days? The staff filled in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Social Enterprise Conference Draws 800 Participants
FUNDRAISER FOR HOMELESS VETS: HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association members, including Jon Redmond and Kate Kohler (both MBA '06), took turns spending three days and two nights in late March camped out on Spangler Lawn to help raise... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
doctors treating the woman. Watson had already ingested millions of oncology papers and volumes of leukemia data from research institutes around the world. Now, the doctors in Tokyo fed Watson the woman’s genetic information, hoping it... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
Of course it does. But it also depends on creative thinking as a skill that involves qualities such as the propensity to take risks and to turn a problem on its head to get a new perspective. That can be learned.” For example, in her... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
confronted with setbacks. Yet in a survey of 669 managers around the world, “progress” ranked dead last as a perceived source of employee motivation, falling behind more expected (but less effective) carrots... View Details
- Profile
Anddria Clack
nature of the opportunities available to us. Through learning directly from over 900 classmates - including farmers, entrepreneurs and brand managers - I was exposed to careers in business that I didn't even know existed. In participating... View Details
- 27 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work
work, Tucker and Singer assigned each suggestion a priority score based on importance, likelihood, severity, and difficulty of correction. Identifying the hospitals with the most improved safety scores turned up some surprising findings.... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
- 03 Mar 2016
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Pamela Meyer (MBA 1986)
(photo by Cade Martin) At my 20th HBS reunion I heard faculty member Michael Wheeler describe behavior people engage in when they’re being deceptive. The room was transfixed. No one was on their phone! It turned out there is a robust,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
cost something on the order of $5 billion, not the $5 million one might expect for a typical start-up,” Esty explains. And all too often, he adds, they can turn out to be losing propositions. The managerial challenge is to make sure that... View Details
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- Portrait Project
Jamie Wilkie
connections, and replaced the transmission. Over a year later, we felt a rush of adrenaline as the engine finally turned over and we drove down the street. I reveled in the satisfaction of revitalizing something that was left for dead.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
A View from the Top
company in 1979, Mixon had only $10,000 of the $7.8 million asking price. But he managed to raise the rest and led the company to annual revenues of $1.5 billion (those early investors have seen Invacare’s stock grow from 2¢ to $25 a... View Details
- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
older man led them to the back of one of the homes. Inside, he showed them a group of people huddled around the glow of two laptops, powered by a generator. “More than any other course, it teaches humility” "He said, 'All of my... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards: Honorees and Victories
play for, and which coach would you hire to turn around your basketball program if you were a college president? The contrast between the two coaches sparked a broad discussion of leadership. “I’d play for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
LBS Picks New Dean
BUCHANAN: LBS an asset to business around the globe. Photo COURTESY LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL When it came time for the London Business School to appoint a new dean, a ten-month global search turned up the... View Details
- 17 Apr 2017
- HBS Case
This Turkish Debt Collector Is Customer-friendly
says Harvard Business School Professor Dennis Campbell. “In fact, to even think about a debtor as a customer is unusual.” Thus, Campbell was intrigued when he heard about a debt collection company in Turkey that not only treats debtors as customers, but actively tries... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Real Estate: A Local Business Goes Global
trend is not going away. This trend is being driven by two things. The first is the wealth buildup in Asia. The domestic real estate markets in Asia are still small, so Asian real estate investors have turned to Europe and the United... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Home Sweet (Modular) Home
cracks began to appear in its carefully crafted production plan. The first order of modular homes languished on the assembly line for months as Greentech struggled to resolve a number of serious production-control issues. Stuntz now has hired a new production-control... View Details
- 05 Jun 2013
- What Do You Think?
Do We Need to Extend ‘No Surprises Management?’
symptom of competent managers than (a) cause of good performance " Another may have been provoked by Kapil Kumar Sopory when he offered the opinion that "NSM is an ideal concept. However, it will work upwards only if it is first... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett