Time management - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2007
News

A View from the Top

really great cultures,” said Donna Dubinsky (MBA ’81), cofounder and CEO of Numenta and former CEO of Palm Computing and Handspring. “That’s what pulled us through the hard times and made us more resilient and flexible for change.” HATS... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

01 Jun 2001
News

Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century

distractions, the time groups spend in discussion is enhanced. Overall, technology seems to have delivered a vastly streamlined approach to class preparation. It’s time to head back to Aldrich for Assistant... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

01 Apr 2002
News

Q&A - Mark Fields

After HBS, he signed on with the Ford Motor Company, where he served in various capacities, including two years as managing director of Ford Argentina S.A. In 1998, he moved to Mazda (33.4 percent of which is owned by Ford) as senior... View Details

Keywords: auto; Mazda; Ford; Mark Fields; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Apr 2001
News

Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues

Each year hundreds of hardworking HBS students volunteer their time to arrange on-campus conferences that attract a wide variety of top-notch speakers, expert panelists, and enthusiastic audience participants. Working through student... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

25 Feb 2020
News

@Soldiers Field

IT’S A WRAP Above: In December, Professor of Management Practice Willy Shih (with Harvard Business Publishing’s Dave Di Iulio) filmed a video on the topic of digital transformation at the Klarman Studio soundstage—one of three studios... View Details

03 Feb 2014
News

Eyes on Medical Breakthroughs

says. "It was only because I was trained as an ophthalmologist that I saw the potential there." Eye surgeons had been correcting vision by reshaping the cornea for some time when Summit came along, but the accuracy of the computer-aided... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Management; Management; Management

01 Mar 2015
News

Feedback

lot of time exploring the universe on my computer, and am familiar with the best software and its applications. The story retrieval application in Stories (alumni.hbs.edu/stories) is automation at its best! I know that—in View Details

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01 Dec 2018
News

From Das’s Desk

results of their time together were, in the words of more than one participant, “transformative.” Many spoke of the thrill of reimmersing themselves in the experience they remembered as students, living and working among trusted friends... View Details

Keywords: Das Narayandas

April 1986 (Revised May 1988)
Case

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (B)

By: Kim B. Clark

Dissects the manufacturing process and procedures of a high-end computer manufacturer. The main issue is how to introduce new products and ramp them up quickly in a competitive environment where time-to-market is crucial. Focuses on engineering change orders--how they... View Details

Keywords: Factories, Labs, and Plants; Time Management; Product Launch; Production; Business Processes; Competitive Strategy; Computer Industry

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30 Jan 2009
News

What’s It Worth to You?

lead. That’s why De Pree capped his compensation at twenty times what his company’s lowest-paid employee received. Kenneth Feinberg, the 9/11 special master, eventually came to understand that “all lives should be treated the same.”... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

Profile

Debora Lehrer

leave. Four plus years later I had been admitted to HBS and was on my way to earning an MBA. After just a few short years at MLB, it became clear to me that I was missing the foundation of a business education - my history major had not allowed for much View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media

01 Mar 2007
News

Winter Break Just Got Educational

IMMERSION EXPERIENCES: Students who traveled to New Orleans spent time working on Habitat for Humanity redevelopment projects. Winter break this year gave some 200 MBA students an opportunity to participate in one of three pilot,... View Details

Keywords: immersion; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices

01 Jun 2013
News

Brick by Brick

founder. Under his management, product demand was so high at times that executives actually found themselves discussing ways to slow sales. That all changed in the early 1990s as seismic shifts pounded the toy market. Big-box toy... View Details

Keywords: toys; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

04 Feb 2021
Research & Ideas

Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids

How will my children learn via Zoom? We interviewed 10 CEOs in July about how they are managing the unprecedented stressors of the COVID-19 pandemic, and then checked in with them again at the end of 2020. The interviewees hail from... View Details

Keywords: by Gamze D. Yucaoglu, Robin Abrahams, and Boris Groysberg

December 1999 (Revised August 2001)
Case

Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (A)

By: Stefan H. Thomke and Ashok Nimgade

Focuses on Millennium's strategy to grow and revolutionize drug development through the use of new technologies such as genomics. Describes how Millennium Pharmaceuticals--a fast-growing biotechnology firm in Cambridge, MA--has used strategic alliances to finance the... View Details

Keywords: Cost Management; Financing and Loans; Medical Specialties; Retention; Growth and Development Strategy; Time Management; Product Development; Problems and Challenges; Alliances; Technology; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Cambridge

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04 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business

“Predictions are risky, especially about the future,” according to a popular expression. Still, business is inescapably about the future—that’s what managers’ decisions are about. In the current crisis, we have daily grand predictions about “new normals,” and View Details

Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes

04 Jan 2021
What Do You Think?

How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?

support the contributions of people from different backgrounds a large part of the answer? If so, should organizations initiate efforts to improve diversity and inclusion simultaneously? How do we manage the complexity and View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

04 Apr 2005
What Do You Think?

Can an Organization’s “Deep Smarts” Be Preserved?

according to the authors, is a candidate for knowledge coaching, can an organization afford to allocate sufficient time to the practice, including training? Conversely, are these questions merely symptomatic of a basic problem in View Details