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- 17 Apr 2017
- News
Jeff Immelt Wants a Radical Transformation of GE
Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) wants to change just about everything at GE, from its image as a slow-moving corporate behemoth, to the focus of its core businesses, to the location of its corporate offices. In May, the company that made the first... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Exchange: Chance Encounters
preference for being together, but I increasingly feel like our base core tendency, actually, is to isolate ourselves. It’s funny because Maria is literally on the other side of this wall, and I could have gone to her office to take this... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
HBS Moves Ahead with Curriculum Innovations
the case method? How can we make sure that the quality of teaching remains as high as it has ever been?” I have met with each first-year course head and asked, “How can you strengthen your core course?” Several have taken on that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Vital Signs
there are companies that have done well because of the pandemic. The former are stronger because instead of building a business based on a pandemic that will hopefully end sooner rather than later, you have really built an essential product that improves a View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
What You Know Depends on Where You Go
inefficiencies, as units within them typically performed below stand-alone peers. Divesting assets to focus on core competencies became the accepted wisdom. Applying this logic, multi-industry conglomerates in other nations, such as the... View Details
- 08 Mar 2017
- News
Helping vets become resident landlords
four-unit, or a five-unit, and one of those units can be a commercial unit. “So the original thought is surging military vets into the decayed urban core of post-industrial cities, where land is vacant and available and potentially... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Navigating Uncertainty: Dean Datar on HBS’s Path Forward
want to protect our core activities of teaching and research and pursue innovation in arenas like the MBA curriculum and artificial intelligence (AI). But we also are focused on how we can do more with less. JK: Last week, the government... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future
restricted, in binding terms laid down by the donors. Fortunately, those gifts go right to the core of what we do; half of the endowment is devoted to professorships, for example, and close to a quarter to financial aid. The second point... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
The core issue, we believe, is gender. In many of our studies we’ve looked at women and men who don’t have children, and the women are still at a disadvantage, whether it’s in promotions, compensation, or being selected for leadership... View Details
- 26 Mar 2018
- News
Funding Climate Change Solutions
are interlinked. And I think that this is really one of the core things that I got from HBS: the ability to not think about one issue in isolation of the bigger picture. Number two, the belief that there's not only one solution to a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Students Forecast Climate Change’s Impact
profitability, and to illustrate the impact, Vail recorded a $2 million loss in the second quarter of 2008 compared to 2007.” Fix: Become an All-Weather Destination. “Vail should... become a recreational center that also offers skiing. By making outdoor activities its... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 26 Jan 2017
- News
Turning Millennials into Leaders
then, you want to equip them with the tools and techniques necessary to become great leaders. “I think some of the core lessons of leadership are vision and values, or communication and teamwork, or innovation and pushing yourself to... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
was that McDonald’s had lost its monopoly on convenience—something the company pioneered with its drive-thrus and a core element of its brand. “We used to be one of the few folks that had drive-thrus at every restaurant. Well, lo and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
New Venture Winner Mines E-Waste
consumers to access core components. Take circuit boards, for example. The process would begin with grinding up the circuit boards and would end with a yield of refined commodity-grade metals.” Modeled after the School’s student Business... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Let’s Celebrate! HBS is 100 Years Young
the case method in action. Calling her visit an “eye-opener,” she added that “active learning doesn’t begin to describe it.” And so President Faust joined a long line of believers who, over the decades, have participated in the dynamic exercise that is at the View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
HBS Online Certificate Programs Offer Unique Insight Into Business
Inspired by HBS’s distinctive pedagogy, it would be unlike anything else offered online. In addition to launching its first program, CORe (Credential of Readiness)—which teaches the fundamentals of business—HBS Online has created... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Breakthrough International Negotiation
Recently awarded the Center for Public Resources' 2001 prize for outstanding book in the field of negotiation and dispute resolution, Breakthrough International Negotiation is organized around four core concepts of negotiation: diagnosing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Faculty Books
politically more influential, and industry less influential, than is commonly assumed. The prevailing view—that diffuse interests like those of consumers are too difficult to organize and too weak to influence public policy—represents, he thinks, a misreading of both... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
entrepreneurship as an intellectual onion -- you peel back layer after layer, never finding a core idea, and all you do is cry. Another colleague told me that the likelihood of getting promoted would be inversely correlated with the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Books
provides a hands-on blueprint for adopting the core principles of e-culture: treat strategy as improvisational theater; nurture networks of partners; reconstruct organizations as online and offline "communities"; and attract and retain... View Details