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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Case Study: On the Record
Above: photo by Sarah Frankie Linder Vinyl is back. The once-anachronistic segment of the music industry was on target for its seventh straight year of double-digit growth in 2017, according to a Deloitte Global forecast, selling an estimated 40 million new records and... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Turning Troubled Schools into High-Achievers
Through UP Education Network, founder Scott Given (MBA 2010) is helping to turn around chronically underperforming Massachusetts schools by making and managing significant changes in all areas, from... View Details
- 19 Jan 2016
- News
Electric Avenues
Costa Rica showing interest, and diverse, with corporations considering Agora to help manage shareholder and employee communications. “People want to be heard, but they have no channel,” says Sze. “We’re trying to fix democracy, one town... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Oct 2001
- What Do You Think?
Will Information Technology Really Turn Organizations Upside Down This Time?
do you think? Original Article Periodically, somebody comes up with the idea of turning the organization upside down, with the customer on top. Those serving customers in the frontline come next, and top View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Doctoral Students | Information Technology
learn, and work more effectively every day. Getting Started Information for community members who are setting up new accounts at HBS. Setting Up Password Manager (1Password)... View Details
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track
substantial sums on a few, while relegating others to learning traditional management skills. With the shift to collaborative organizations with flat structures, companies are recognizing the need to develop a much broader array of... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- Web
IT Strategy: The Future of the Web at HBS | Information Technology
IT Strategy: The Future of the Web at HBS Strategic Initiative: 3.09 Web Content Management System (CMS) Program By Annie Harrison on April 9, 2024 Share via Facebook Share via LinkedIn Print Share via email The Opportunity The project... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Flex Time
Lauri Union (MBA 1992) manages Union Corrugating Company (UCC) from Boston, where she lives with her husband and two young children. While her early years at the company required more time on-site in North Carolina, she’s View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Mission in Motion
then-Dean John McArthur, and Professors Jim Austin and Kash Rangan. That commitment confirms a strong strand that has run through the School's DNA since the 1970's—in fact, every year more and more MBA applicants are drawn to HBS for its courses focused on nonprofit... View Details
Keywords: summary
- 05 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Should Not Do in the Next Banking Crisis
percent on those investments. RECOVERY DELAYED While that response to the crisis may make rational sense, it also may explain why Spain took so long to recover from the recession. “If you make [shorter-term] investments that will turn up... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Helping Leaders Chart an Ethical Path
the waste management industry in Lebanon was rife with corruption. Securing municipal contracts required the payment of bribes, something Abi Chaker refused to do. “We took a firm decision that under no circumstances would we engage in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
The Digital Deck
As a professor in the Strategy Unit, Bharat Anand has studied how media companies move a traditional product into the online space. Some have managed that transition well, he says, and others have not. In the early days, Anand observes,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 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
- 17 Nov 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Activist Investors Became Respectable
buyout raiders of the 1980s eventually morphed into the legitimate private equity business, greenmailers of a generation ago are now taken seriously as hard-nosed change agents who may be doing the right thing when they take on management... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
company’s name. Clearly, all signs point to your firm’s continued success. Right? Not necessarily, says HBS assistant professor Donald Sull in Revival of the Fittest: Why Good Companies Go Bad and How Great Managers Remake Them. Based on... View Details
- Career Coach
Jim Warner
Television Network. He joined Avenue A, a pioneering digital media start-up, in 2000 and led the company’s East coast operations through the ups and downs and ups of the decade. Avenue A acquired Razorfish... View Details
- 30 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning
pricing and the merits of billing over time. Also, see an excerpt from a recent Harvard Business Review article by Gourville and collaborator Dilip Soman. Mahoney: What are some first steps managers can take once they have decided to... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Mahoney
- 20 May 2016
- News
The Most Creative People in Business 2016
speed” Chris Young (MBA 2003) Senior Vice President and General Manager of Intel Security Group “For expanding Intel's arsenal” Jill Szuchmacher (MBA 2006) Director of expansion for Google Fiber “For shaking View Details
- 12 Feb 2019
- News
A View of the Valley
Photo via Wired, courtesy of Kathy Wang Photo via Wired, courtesy of Kathy Wang When Kathy Wang (MBA 2011) sat down to write her first work of fiction, after years of working as a product manager at big tech companies, the California... View Details
- 18 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.
manufacturing company, managers can stress the importance of speaking up in order to create the best product possible for customers. Model vulnerability. It’s powerful for employees to see bosses admit when... View Details