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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
HBS Moves Ahead with Curriculum Innovations
have talked about the importance of balancing innovation with preservation of what has made the School great. How tricky is that balancing act? Given how rich our traditions are, we never want to lose sight of them. They are embedded in the View Details
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
we wanted to make the program sustainable, with the hope in the future that the program itself would not be needed, as an organization’s culture and fabric would be able to support this neuro-diversity from recruitment to on-boarding,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 20 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster
industry moved from steel tubes to carbon fiber ones, the cluster took hold in Taiwan because that's where the expertise is in fabricating and molding carbon fiber. "If the prices go up there, it's not like you can just reestablish that... View Details
- 04 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #16: Tim Murdoch, HBS MBA 1990 – Learning about Climate Change and Water
cheeseburger. That’s enough water for a small village in India.” Tim is now asking, “Why does chip fabrication take so much high-quality water? Why are we building plants in the desert in Arizona? We need to begin asking how we balance... View Details
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
in capabilities of their ecosystem. Such firms are woven into the fabric of the business ecosystem just as surely as the textile craftsmen and merchants and traders were woven into the textile business ecosystem in Datini's time. View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
grew up in a poorer environment? Morino: My family was blue collar, but we were never poor. There's a distinction between being in deep poverty and living in a low-income world. We had food and clothing. And the world was different in the 1950s. Even a tough... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 10 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures
catalyst technology. RAB LABXin Ma, MBA 2023RAB LAB facilitates robotics fabrication of 3D printed housing units with the autonomous design system and adaptive components made of sustainable structural materials. Our mission is to... View Details
- 15 Nov 2024
- News
Driving Change
organizations rather than treating them as separate initiatives. This approach, she argued, creates more sustainable and effective change by embedding inclusive practices into the fabric of organizational culture. As the summit drew to a... View Details
- 15 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise
leaders have acknowledged that corporations exist within the larger fabric of society. The School's second dean, Wallace Donham, said that the focus of a business is to make a decent profit decently. Q: Venture philanthropy, which applies... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
perspective. While the fashion business was not an unknown concept, it was new to India, and early Indian high-end designers sought legitimacy and acceptance by avoiding avant-garde styles, instead creating luxurious, opulent fabrics that... View Details
- 11 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy
provides, but also opened my way of thinking to see all the different types of career paths that there might be.” HBS also added to the rich fabric of relationships Leahy has built over the years that have helped her continue to learn and... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
need? A stronger social fabric and a way to start lifting themselves out of poverty. Using this lens, I began to see how these projects were using business to achieve such outcomes. Second, because projects in areas with profound social... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
services. In many emerging ecosystems, the numbers are flipped. In sub-Saharan Africa, it's over 60%. It's also how they think about offering the product and service, [and] to who, and that impact is really built into the fabric and the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Cultural Revolution at GE
Jeffrey Immelt (MBA ’82) had a tough act to follow when he took over as GE chairman and CEO in September 2001 from the legendary Jack Welch. Ever since, Immelt has been on a mission to transform the $152 billion industrial and finance behemoth from one famously... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
business is often considered just a branch of the entertainment industry, clearly it is much more than that. Sports are part of the fabric of society, with components of deep emotional attachment, civic pride, and familial and community... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
lead the program. Today, it’s part of the fabric of the School. “We have developed a very rich portfolio of courses, cases, projects, and field studies to engage students,” says Rangan, the Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing. Last... View Details
- 03 Apr 2019
- Book
Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business
mobility, and the fabric of our communities. The Bright Future of Small Business in America View Video Karen Mills provides an example of the bright future of small businesses from her new book, “Fintech, Small Business, and The American... View Details
- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
otherwise difficult to get an interview. I also had a cubicle at Intel in Santa Clara for fourteen months, and I also visited some of their sites including their fabrication facilities, which are incredible manufacturing operations. Q: So... View Details
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
in social structure, in economic strategy, and in government" A: You could see the social fabric wearing thin in a number of places over the past several years. The fact that so many factory workers had to leave their families for... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
titanium fabricator that recently has been plagued by poor deliveries and a lack of capacity. At the time of the case, Ti-Tech must decide which of four orders to accept, with capacity making it impossible to accept all four. Each order... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace