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- 01 Mar 2005
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In the Blood
them know where you want to go, they’ll get you there. “This business is just like any other business,” he continues. “Treat your customers and employees right, put out a good product, and you’ll make it. The fundamentals that I learned... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964
me to bring about fundamental change." The agency Rossotti took over had 102,000 employees who annually collected $1.5 trillion in taxes, processed a billion documents, and churned out 80 million refunds. Amid so many transactions,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
fundamental changes that are happening to business as a result of the Internet, digital communications, and ubiquitous connectivity. From building online business models, to formulating digital strategies, to competing in the uncertain... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
New Releases
to these changes with structural adaptations, few have achieved the much more fundamental organizational and managerial transformation required to succeed in this new environment. In their latest book, The Individualized Corporation: A... View Details
Keywords: Robert Binstock
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
revenues compared to third-party traders who orchestrated sales between the two. “It felt fundamentally unfair to us,” Eykher says. “We figured there had to be a better way to do things.” In September 2017, they launched Open Mineral, a... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course
consideration: the first (1760-1840), second (1840-1950), or third (1950-present). The mix presented fundamental business problems involving marketing, finance, operations, and human resource management. Koehn's case on Josiah Wedgwood's... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
dating back to the 18th century, is not up to 21st-century demands, for investors or for directors themselves. Ideas for Fundamental Reforms Boards are not going to disappear. Nor, despite their many flaws, should they. They remain the... View Details
- 21 Feb 2020
- News
Style for Everyone
space, and just fundamentally believe that there must be something wrong on the supply side. It cannot possibly be that such an incredible community of women is any less interested in looking and feeling her best, and so we set out to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
about Marketus, a young man who leaves home for the first time and travels to an island on a quest to answer some of life’s basic questions. The book, a conversation with the hero's inner voice, is divided into four fundamental sections:... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
A Call to Innovation
“wicked problems” will throw off an enormous amount of social and economic value, such as the start of new businesses and advances in fundamental research. The bottom line, says Kao, is that innovation pays. He points to the work of Nobel... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
experienced," says Smith. "It's important to establish the fundamentals of general management early in one's career, but sometimes there aren't any precedents to follow. You're simply trying to meet challenges on a day-to-day basis."... View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
to do it. The fundamental goal of all this politeness business is about caring personally and being a good person. I found that by hooking into my desire to be kind and realizing that often my silences were profoundly unkind, that really... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Cure All
management training to the people who are actually going to implement that change. It requires a fundamentally different approach in the day-to-day work, which is something the sector needs badly. View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Predictable Surprises
here. The most obvious answer is that we must fundamentally change the system. The predictable surprise that helps create all the other predictable surprises is the destructive force of special-interest groups in this country. I am a... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
Cooking Up Connections
It’s a fundamental truth Alexander Blanc (GMP 8) learned at an early age: food brings people together. As a child growing up in Russia, Blanc remembers helping his mother cook so much food on his birthday that they used their apartment... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Faculty Research Online
fundamental ways. In his blog on marketing issues, Professor John Quelch discusses why marketers must start planning today to reach consumers after the recession. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6139.html. Professional Networks in China and... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
New Releases
for opportunities to explore as well as reacting to problems to be solved. Says Raiffa, "Smart Choices is based on the premise that quality decision-making is a fundamental and valuable life skill that can shape and influence in a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2013
- News
Banking on Africa's Future
development." "I want to demonstrate that in Africa we're no different from anybody else in any fundamental way," Lawani elaborates. "We're just at a different point in our development. There's no reason that we can't apply to Africa the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Porter Course Goes Abroad
reviews at INCAE and SSE-Riga have been overwhelmingly favorable. “There is intense student interest in taking a course that covers the fundamentals of competitiveness,” says Arturo Condo (DBA '00), a professor and associate dean at... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
being financed by venture capital firms, which ultimately became important factors in our economy,” says F. Warren Hellman (MBA ’59), a former president of Lehman Brothers, which took many ARD start-ups public, including Digital. “Doriot was very much at the forefront... View Details