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- 05 Mar 2025
- News
Uncertain Terms
After Amar Bhidé (MBA 1979/DBA 1988) became an HBS assistant professor in 1988, then-dean John H. McArthur (MBA 1959/DBA 1963) gave him a copy of economist Frank Knight’s 1921 book Risk, Uncertainty and Profit. Knight’s idea that “uncertainty” must be distinguished... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
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and the MBA elective The Coming of Managerial Capitalism. Koehn's research and writing focus on branding, business strategy, and connecting with customers and on the broad range of economic, social, and organizational transitions that accompany View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Podcasts Engage New Audiences with HBS
technology for creating podcasts, videos, and webinars. During the pandemic, podcasts are being recorded remotely. Popular Episodes Walmart’s Strategy to Beat Amazon; and Millennial Socialism Three professors discuss how Walmart is trying... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Dean Clark on the New Academic Year
when it opens early next year. Plans are also on the drawing board for new facilities to house lifelong learning activities and academic activities related to faculty development and for an academic center and a major renovation of Baker Library. View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
1776, by David McCullough In any survey of great American corporations that have left their mark on business history, IBM would always hold a special place. Its origins date back to the late 1880s, when mechanical time recorders and tabulators were the leading View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
HBS Centennial Event Confronts Present and Future Challenges Rising to the challenge: Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust and Dean Jay Light shared a vision of closer collaboration between HBS and Harvard on 21st-century issues. Faust... View Details
- 02 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Announces 2021-22 Blavatnik Fellows
provides mentorship during their entrepreneurial journey. To date, Blavatnik Fellows have created 26 companies in biomedical industries including devices, diagnostics, digital health, and therapeutics, and have collectively raised more than $460M in funding. “Len... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
industrial sector. From 2003 until earlier this year, Doug Brown (MBA ’85) was CEO of Ionics, Inc., a company based, aptly, in Watertown, Massachusetts, that specializes in water treatment and desalination. Brown points out that many diverse industries (e.g., food,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Faculty Books
Corporate Information Strategy and Management by Lynda M. Applegate, Robert D. Austin, and F. Warren McFarlan (Irwin/McGraw-Hill) This extensive collection of HBS cases devoted to IT gives an overview of contemporary information systems and View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Gerald Chertavian, MBA 1992
outlined his vision for building an organization that would offer disadvantaged youth a year of training and then place them in meaningful jobs with partnering corporations. As a student at HBS, Chertavian continued to pursue his interest... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 24 Mar 2022
- News
Well Said
the vast majority of people can't afford them. So the vision was how can we use technology to create a service that is as good but is also scalable? And that's where we took inspiration from my personal... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
reach wealthy and technologically savvy consumers fed up with gridlock and delay. At the heart of each business: a vision to change how Jakartans navigate the city’s congestion and transform their... View Details
- 06 Dec 2012
- News
New Thinking on Healthcare Reform
Tim Brown, president and CEO of the design firm IDEO. Christensen then drew a parallel between the evolution of the computer industry and what is slowly taking place in healthcare. Initially, people had to take their problems to the sites... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Globalization Revisited
today, Levitt’s article caused a minor sensation when it first appeared. Apart from its insightful specifics, its language (“globalization” was a novel term) and expansive vision offered a hopeful alternative to the grim reality of a... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
How Green Is the Valley: HBS Students Explore Booming California Industries
Intel, Netscape, Oracle, Apple, and Hewlett-Packard, among other technology firms. Some 35 high tech, venture capital, and investment management companies opened their doors to the eighty students on the West Club's trip and sent... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Robots Are Coming to Save Your Job
in China, for example— and take advantage of it being closer to the customer.” It’s part of Eckert’s larger vision for the factory of the future that not only has a proximity advantage, but also is much nimbler—no longer a string of... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
have created? In Work Mate Marry Love, HBS professor and former Barnard College president Debora L. Spar offers an incisive and provocative account of how technology has transformed our intimate lives in the past, and how it will do so... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Donella Rapier to Head External Relations
School. Our growing technology capabilities will enable us to broaden our offerings to alumni in ways that have never been possible before. In addition, as we move ahead with initiatives to expand our impact worldwide, our alumni will... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Victory Lap: Frazier, Olympics COO, Reviews the Games
computer snafus, 98 percent of the technology worked well, a good record considering how huge an installation of software and hardware there was. What about complaints that the Games were too commercial? I... View Details