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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf
common theme in the actions of successful people and organizations: When a "click moment" (a completely unexpected opportunity) occurs, they take advantage of the serendipity to change their fate. Johansson uses stories of successful... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
Robert Sullivan (MBA ’61). “Levitt made me a convert. He taught that marketing is the guts of any business, that it’s critical to understanding the connection between sales, manufacturing, finance, human resources, and interpersonal relationships.” “Ted Levitt View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
than being a small extension of the product line, offering an uncoated product could change the company’s entire market capability. And it would mean big changes for the sales force. One thing I like to do... View Details
- 26 Jun 2025
- News
The Vinyl Revival
next chapter. Jen Flint: You've built your career in music because you love music. Has that changed your relationship with music? What is it like to work in the industry that you love so much? Caren Kelleher: It is really hard to love... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
Cummings saw the potential of the city dwindling. The change was partially economic—the city’s credit rating, which had improved by the end of the 1990s, slipped again in the 2000s—and partially personal: Cumming’s children had graduated... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
Diego–based chain of more than ninety buffet-style restaurants serving fresh salads, soups, pastas, and breads, CEO Michael Mack has implemented a flexible system that allows hourly employees to change their schedule with as little as one... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
of far fewer resources in terms of staff, dollars, and especially time." The changing mix of employees and the fluid and up-tempo nature of decision-making for ACOG's project- and deadline-oriented mandate also differ greatly from the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
Baker: With a strong belief in change within the system, working to reduce corruption so that free markets will function better, to the benefit of rich and poor nations alike. Photos by Katherine Lambert Corruption. Said slowly, even the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
been blighted by changes in industry.” Finally, Marietta says the lack of resources and infrastructure means that anyone committed to growing local enterprises and organizational capacity beyond the big city must be prepared to tackle... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
returning four days later. He didn’t reach Katahdin—his diary offers no explanation for the change of plans—but he would forever view the trip as his “emancipation.” Moore thrived on the freedom. A few years later, while attending... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
reasons. As it turns out, those legal and regulatory constructs are changing dramatically in the current environment. So how did the course go? For a first offering, we felt the course went pretty well. We had students from both schools... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
is one of the key reasons why I wrote my book. Back in 2006, Chris Anderson [author of the The Long Tail] got people thinking that new technology would change what consumers would be choosing and, therefore, what content producers should... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Leading the Way
innovate. We have a remarkably strong foundation on which to build, but we also must keep pushing forward and finding new ways to stay ahead of a rapidly changing business world. In recent years, the School has begun advancing a number of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Leveraging Female Talent
granted, because they've had to navigate institutional barriers to be successful. When men change jobs, they almost expect the new firm to make them better. The only concern of star women is that they'll be able to do their jobs in a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
Stanford’s business school now aims to “develop innovative, principled, and insightful leaders who change the world,” and MIT’s Sloan School of Manage-ment, “to develop principled, innovative leaders who improve the world.” A crucial... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
a “thirteener” and the highest mountain in New Mexico. But they’re about to be retired. Rad Versus Trad Kim and Coup once lugged heavy gear on their outdoor adventures, too. “It was the old-fashioned view of backpacking,” Kim says. Then in 1998 Coup read a book that... View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
silence. It was the hardest thing I've ever done. It changed who I was. It literally changed who I was. Learning to operating and leading in two languages that you did not understand. I was operating from a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
basement of Gallatin Hall, in the dark and very messy Harbus office. It was in March of my second year, approaching the end of my tenure as editor of the B-School student newspaper. It had been a long year of filling pages with local news stories and features, and I... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
underscores a new reality in the United States. At the center of this change is the fact that U.S. oil reserves have diminished from an estimated 39 billion barrels in 1970 to 21 billion today. The gushers that made Texans in ten-gallon... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
cartridge system to allow users to change the musical content of the toy. “This was a very obvious design for us because we came from the computer software industry,” explains Abercrombie. “We wouldn’t re-create the computer monitor every... View Details