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- 01 Feb 2002
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Replicating Toyota's Success
itself is also unique. Rather than adopting the first good idea, workers create iterative, structured experiments to test hypotheses and foster continuous learning. The result is a workforce that can explore problems independently, an... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Faculty Books
experiences in more than twenty countries. (See cover story) How Countries Compete by Richard H.K. Vietor (HBS Press) Professor Vietor examines the different social, economic, cultural, and historical forces shaping governmental... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
granted. But 100 years ago, they were fresh recruits in the inexorable march of industrial capitalism. In a grand experiment to turn management into a legitimate profession, universities invented the modern business school. Questions... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
under the bridge — ancient history, like the history of imperial China. Markets have short memories. Many young traders today did not even experience the Asian crisis of 1997–1998. Those who went into finance after 2000 lived through... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
Neurosmith. In many ways, Abercrombie was at the right place at the right time. The price of computer chips was plummeting, making it possible to deliver a lot of learning at an affordable price. After researching how children learn, View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
what excites me about being Dean of Harvard Business School, comes from these early experiences that demonstrated the incredibly powerful role that business plays as a contributor to the prosperity of society. Why did you make the switch... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 04 Sep 2019
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Giving Live Sports Another Dimension
Smart Venues “There’s long been this tension between the experience of live sports in a venue versus the comfort of watching on TV at home. And broadcasts have improved dramatically. So now stadium-goers are increasingly expecting their... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
volumes and the customer experience and net promoter score (NPS) that’s most contingent on happy outcomes for well-handled, urgent calls. For me, this is choice three, going wider into financial services, travel, and health care. Episodic... View Details
- 28 Jun 2024
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Honoring Leadership in New York; PRIDE Alumni Share HBS Stories
New York Leadership Dinner Honors Leaders Challenging the Status Quo At its 55th Annual Leadership Dinner in May, the HBS Club of New York (HBSCNY) honored four leaders whose careers and contributions to the world embody this year’s theme, “Challenging the Status Quo.”... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 07 Aug 2018
- News
DreamBox Learning Breaks New Ground
pre-Civil Rights era and her experience with brilliant-but-disengaged classmates in Harlem schools—to explain her personal and professional interest in education, which has also included stints at Kaplan and LeapFrog. Fast-forward to... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Lunch with Jack: Student Dines with GE's Welch
a long-term record of success in business," notes Sanders, who says Welch offered to set up meetings for him with managers in the investment management field. "This is why I came to HBS — to meet people and take advantage of experiences... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
was very different when you started your first business in 2000. And I wonder if you can talk about your career evolution—how your professional experience sort of offered you a perspective on the ideas that you elaborate on in the book?... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
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The Devil You Don’t Know
then wouldn’t be acceptable now. To be sure, there may be some important economic lessons there, but I would be rather cautious about this exercise. That said, there may be another type of lesson that we should draw from the experience in... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
experience provides many of the School's graduates with the opportunity to gain expertise before going off on their own - a postbusiness school program, as it were, for aspiring entrepreneurs. Some of the prominent HBS alumni among the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
could well be a case study about an American manufacturer’s adaptation to the forces of globalization. Back in the 1990s, when the U.S. economy was in a high-tech, dot-com frenzy and China’s experiment with export-driven market economics... View Details
- 13 Dec 2022
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The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith
graduates from working-class families. I helped my parents deliver packages and clean college dorms in Philadelphia. Christine helped her immigrant parents run a Chinese restaurant in Los Angeles. It was impossible for us to experience... View Details
- 02 Sep 2014
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Many of the best ideas for improving health care are quite simple
Managers know that individuals who have experience working together can influence team performance. Yet most managers underestimate the benefit of such familiarity, according to Robert S. Huckman, Professor and Chair of the MBA Required... View Details
- 13 Jun 2013
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Learning Curve
Marshall Tuck with kids Photo courtesy of Marshall Tuck Marshall Tuck's exciting new job had a rough start. Selected in late 2006 to head a turnaround of the Los Angeles Unified School District, Tuck (MBA 2000) saw his position evaporate a week before the start date,... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details