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- 04 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Female Stars Succeed in New Jobs
If a successful analyst is hired by another organization, chances are both his work performance and the market value of his new company will not reap the expected benefits; they might even lose altitude. So discovered HBS professor Boris... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
forth as a solution. But HBS assistant professor Daniel Snow, who studies the application of new technology, offers a caveat. Snow, who has worked with both Honda and Ford, points out that technological advances are a plus only if... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Case Study: Alumni Advice for a Health Care Startup
workers), who work as virtual health care assistants, handling everything from long-term care arrangements to transportation. Wellthy’s digital platform is designed as a consumer- friendly project management... View Details
- 04 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Think of it as Professors in Cars Having Coffee
have included divergent takes on such topics as: Ep 16: Is the Job of the Presidency Too Big for One Person to Lead effectively? Moon: “A corporation is designed to enable the company to be led, whereas when you look at the presidency,... View Details
- 11 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History
over the past few decades has generated more wealth than any previous period in human history. But if you look, percentage-wise, at how much of that has gone to the new middle class in Asia, India, and China, and not to the working middle... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto; Aerospace; Chemical; Consumer Products; Electronics; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation
- 07 Jan 2009
- What Do You Think?
Is the World Really Flat?
effects" (Alex Evans). "It really doesn't matter whether the world is flat or not. Most value is added by the exploiters, not the creators, and that works in both (flat and non-flat) environments" (Gerald Nanninga). These... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 23 May 2019
- News
Michael R. Bloomberg, MBA 1966
2002–2013 Born in Boston and raised in Medford, Massachusetts, just miles from HBS, Mike Bloomberg has pioneered innovations that have spread across the world. From Medford to Wall Street and beyond, the same core beliefs—in the importance of View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 06 Sep 2016
- News
The Solution That Doesn’t Get Discussed About How to Get More Women On Corporate Boards
people who are concerned about fairness, it is fair. Just like it has always been: Men are still part of the process, but now, the second part. One of the reasons this approach succeeds is that most of the work is done before the search... View Details
- 22 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution
an interview with HBS Working Knowledge. "Obtaining One Strategy in times of change means the organization will respond in a holistic fashion to new challenges, staying aligned for maximum competitive impact." The book follows... View Details
- Web
Engineering Meets Advocacy: Driving Innovation in Women’s Health - Blog: Health Supplement
becoming a doctor, but by designing the tools they rely on. Early in my career, I worked on advanced cardiovascular devices that were highly technical tools that allowed patients to avoid open-heart surgery... View Details
- 20 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Predicting Other People's Preferences, You're Probably Wrong
mountain vacation and a city vacation, based on the knowledge that the person had enjoyed a previous vacation at a lake. As the researchers expected, participants who designed the most homogeneous playlists were also most likely to assume... View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010)
Children) continues to be designed based on the best health research. “At the state level, our researchers and staff have worked to ensure states adopt policies that allow maximum food and other basic needs... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)
marketing of all games, applications, and experiences across the Oculus VR platform. Basically, if there’s an application you can launch on a Facebook VR headset, chances are someone on my team has supported it in some way. This can range from View Details
- 17 Mar 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in New York
offered insights into work that is underway on the role of business in society, digital innovation, and reimagining learning. "I don't think there is another institution other than business and free enterprise that has done more good for... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
The Businesslike Gourmet: Karen Page on America's Foodservice Industry
whose innovations and creativity greatly influence the direction of the industry. How big is the foodservice industry? Sales for restaurants alone are projected to top $320 billion in 1997. Restaurants are a hot entrepreneurial growth area, and the chef's profession... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Web Exclusive: Behind the Scenes with Karen Tumulty
only because he always has something important to say, but because he works so hard at it. He is still out there with his national reputation, knocking on people's doors and getting to know every county supervisor and freshman... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
In a predawn phone call on October 14, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences informed HBS professor Robert C. Merton that he had won the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics. Merton's work evaluating risk has changed the nature of financial... View Details
- 05 Nov 2024
- Research & Ideas
AI Can Help Leaders Communicate, But Can't Make Employees Listen
the machine wins. The three researchers worked with an unnamed, 800-employee technology company to construct a new game that imitated a specific human: the company’s CEO. They designed a field experiment to... View Details
- 14 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Making the MBA Degree More Accessible
will be reviewed this fall. “We didn't need a year to get a lot of this work underway, these are all things we were able to get started on immediately,” said Brook Dennard Rosser, assistant director of diversity outreach for the MBA... View Details
- 08 Apr 2021
- News
Real Talk
executive leadership diversity training, in her courses to discuss his work in South Africa. But tensions and emotions were especially high that day. “So, in addition to sharing our own personal narratives, we created a sense of social... View Details