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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Hollywood Squared
In an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal (September 4, 2007), Sony Pictures Entertainment chairman and CEO Michael Lynton (MBA ’87) declared that from his perspective “the global economy in general — and the entertainment business in particular — is absolutely... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 25 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Powerful Strategic Tool Companies Should Not Try to Control
mind that communities are governed very differently than companies. User communities operate outside the boundaries of the firm even in cases where the community organizes around a firm’s core products––and firms can therefore not control... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
Lawrence A. Bossidy
Through a number of sweeping initiatives including the introduction of a total quality management program, Six Sigma, and the reduction of the workforce by 20%, Bossidy turned AlliedSignal around. When... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
of the benefits associated with a diverse workforce. While it is critical for managers and researchers to understand the processes and outcomes associated with diversity, much work remains to be done in this important area of scholarship.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls
wanted to avoid turning Tweezerman into one more failure in what had been a previous career of multiple entrepreneurial misfires. What if this last and greatest airplane, which had finally begun to fly—and fly high—now crashed and burned... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Come Clean
restore the garment. We have a cabinet full of dye pads and specialty tools to aid us in our cleaning and restoration processes.” Check in: Some 25 employees work at Parkway’s newly restored 10,000-square-foot operation. “The first thing I do when I come in is practice... View Details
- 11 Mar 2020
- News
Making It Rain
stations,” he says, adding that ClimaCell has partnered with telecom operators around the world to turn their networks into massive sensor arrays. Everything is a potential weather station to... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
can write whatever they want about growth in their strategy or annual report, but top management responds to the capital market's need for quarterly earnings, and it turns out that quarterly earnings drive... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Profile
Maliha Khan
participants, but among the workers who heard about the program. "Attrition rates plummeted from around twenty percent to just six or seven percent," Maliha says. After a couple of years with the company, Maliha believed she... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Learning from Global Immersion Experiences
in a global arena.” Although security concerns limited students’ ability to move freely at several points in their stay, some were able to work around restrictions by involving hotel workers in their market research and, despite a freak... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
children since 1999, the year the couple had launched SmartPak Equine, a horse supplement and vitamin business. SmartPak eventually branched out to include nutritional care for dogs and other supplies and became a $40 million company. But trouble arrived at View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Action Plan: A New ’Cue
bicycle shop, Get a Grip, in Chicago. On the weekends, he and his buddies traveled to barbecue festivals around the country, camping out and staying up all night smoking ribs, brisket, and pulled pork. “I’m pretty competitive,” Corsello... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match
turn around and help the next person.” MORE STORIES ABOUT IMPACT: The Digital Transformation of Health Care Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers A New Approach to Contact Tracing AI Enhances Diagnostic... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Yla Eason (MBA 1977)
stores. it was sheer perseverance. My first big breakthrough was a $50,000 purchase order from Kmart; after that, Toys “R” Us also carried our full line of action figures, dolls, and games. By 1995, Olmec Toys had $5 million in sales. Our problems began with trying to... View Details
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
nonprofit focused on improving urban economies, and ICV Partners, a Black-owned private equity firm focused on companies in the lower middle market. Willie Woods is cofounder, president, and managing director of ICV Partners, and in this... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
experience for Military.com after the tech bubble burst. He eventually had to lay off most of his staff, but he insists that the experience turned him into a much better leader. He and Dwane turned... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA
educational programs and from around the world. In any given year, about 5 percent of HBS MBA students are military—active duty, reservist, or veteran. The relationship between the military and Harvard University is often viewed by the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Heroines and Helping Hands
India, or China, where girls don’t really matter. We can make a big difference in their world and in the world around them. Through all my years of trekking and reporting in developing countries, the theme that kept surfacing was what... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Downhill Re-Boot
softer “walking” boot that fits into a carbon-fiber chassis that in turn fits into a ski binding. “Our whole design concept is first and foremost to have a boot that’s comfortable,” Hanson told the Associated Press (September 5, 2009).... View Details
- 06 Oct 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?
be managed effectively on a continuing basis. As Richard Eckel put it, "'Disruptive' is the clue for why the proposed method of sustained growth will fail in most organizations ... B-schools graduate and laud those who are risk... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett