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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Mario A. Corti: Global Reconnaissance
every country in the world. "One of the high points of that trip," recalls Corti, "was flying over and touching down on the endless plains of Russia. You realize how enormous the country is and the folly of trying to conquer it." Military... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Thomason (MBA 1970) Schiffer Military History At the end of World War II, high-performance jets with unfamiliar operating characteristics were replacing propeller-driven airplanes. As accident rates soared,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
Strategic Services in 1944 to train European resistors, this is the essential handbook to help stamp out unintentional sabotage in any working group, from major corporations to volunteer PTA committees. While the manual was written decades ago, these sabotage View Details
- 14 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout
months of the pandemic writing about marketplace design tactics that could provide support—for example, by leveraging delivery marketplaces to bring food to the elderly or by distributing hand sanitizer more equitably. Kominers joined... View Details
- 18 Oct 2024
- News
My Worst Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell host of Skydeck. When I was in high school, I worked as a dishwasher at a steakhouse chain in upstate New York. It was not glamorous work. I would clock out covered in a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Matter of Opinion
dabbled in military journalism (as much a misnomer, Navasky says, as military music), after which he enrolled at Yale Law School. At Yale, he cofounded and spent much of his time working on Monocle, a... View Details
- 05 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
Environmental Change and Ground-level Impact
operations research, helping military leaders and policymakers think about how to make government more effective and efficient. It was an advisory, analytical role, and I enjoyed it very much—but after a... View Details
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Searching for a Better Society
business from the École Supérieure de Commerce de Grenoble in 1992. Following military service, he took a consulting position with Bossard Consultants, a Zurich, Switzerland-based firm that had him working with technology clients... View Details
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
built international political and military coalitions, and negotiated a U.N. Security Council Resolution authorizing "all necessary means" to eject Iraq from Kuwait. Only after these steps were taken did the Bush administration... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Case Study: Sweat the Technique
including NFL and NHL teams. Use cases also include military and elder care markets. All told, Unger estimates peak revenues to reach about $375 million. Nix is still in the midst of product development, but it expects to set the market... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
way to success, the first step, the authors say, is to take action now and learn on the way. They show how to determine the best strategy and tactics when the future is uncertain, how to minimize financial risk in every decision, and why... View Details
- 25 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
10 Reasons Customers Might Resist Windows 8
Software giant Microsoft is launching the Windows 8 version of its operating system this week, and suffice it to say that it's radically different from Windows 7. The familiar Start button and menu are gone, for example, replaced by a... View Details
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Disruption: The Art of Framing
required by that framing. We don't pretend to have all the answers to this vexing problem, but examining what sets the winners apart does offer some provisional lessons. Separate for better performance. Across the newspaper industry, high performers had one thing in... View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
- 24 May 2022
- Blog Post
Get to Know 2022 Class Day Student Speaker Peter James Kiernan
to the response operation and saving people’s lives. I realized how crucial it was to learn the language of the private sector and business in general.” Jumping into an uncertain year at HBS, Kiernan was in the perfect position to assist... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Alumni Books
The People Factor: Strengthening America by Investing in Public Service by Linda J. Bilmes (MBA ’84) and W. Scott Gould (Brookings Institution Press) The authors argue that the federal government can achieve the same gains as the best private-sector and View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Straight to the Heart
GREENWALD: A savvy, successful approach that combines marketing tactics and psychological insight. Can Rachel win NBC's "Match Off"? Her story: how Rachel met Brad The veteran of several high-level marketing positions, Rachel Greenwald... View Details
- 08 Aug 2018
- News
Getting Life Back in Balance
Photos by Louise Agnew The day he returned home to Australia from three months in Harvard Business School’s General Management Program, Benjamin Gower (GMP 19, 2015) quit his job as senior vice president of operations for Australian... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
low-quality ad-sponsored competitor. In addition to competing through adjustments of tactical variables such as price or the number of ads a product carries, we allow the incumbent to consider changes in its business model. We consider... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
year, Taylor hasn’t succeeded in using his military service to outflank his opponent. Edwards is a hawk on military matters, voting for the first Gulf War and the invasion of Iraq. Local veterans praise his... View Details
- 03 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa
consistency in our guiding principles, such as supporting human rights, without sacrificing much-needed nuance and variation in strategy (e.g., backing military intervention in one case but not another). Third, diplomacy should be guided... View Details