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- 04 Dec 2020
- News
Hour by Hour
pitch what we’re doing, it makes sense to them,” observes Morris. Not only with companies, he says, but also with former employees who may have lost jobs or been placed on furlough and, through Syrg, are able now to make use of their... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Plunging Into the Net
create satisfied, loyal customers." In such new territory, it is not surprising that there was initial skepticism about observing the world of cyberspace from a management perspective. "During the first few years we were studying the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Batten Gift to Support Residential Campus
Batten’s generosity will enable us to continue the tradition of creating a seamless experience from learning to living.” Presently, Harvard University owns 240 acres of land in Allston, compared with the 215 in Cambridge. “As Allston develops,” View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
uncertainty over time. HBS professor Gary P. Pisano, a longtime observer of the industry, points to two key elements common to successful biotech firms: development capabilities and strong senior management. "Once you attract bright,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Bringing Out the Best
relatively young leaders. It’s a huge priority to understand what motivates and concerns them,” she notes. Curry says she values great leadership and agrees with Dean Nitin Nohria’s observations about the global crisis of leadership. “If... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Helping Hands for HBS
having more time —but not as much as I'd like! —to read, think, and write." While teaching may be the core activity at HBS, other basic needs must be met as well. As Napoléon once observed about armies, HBS students move on their... View Details
- 02 Sep 2014
- News
Visionary leadership won’t get you to innovation
observing great innovation leaders around the globe, Hill and her colleagues distilled lessons to help build organizations that can innovate time and again. “Visionary leadership won’t get you to innovation,” Hill says, “because, when you... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Forward Thinking
You can ask the internet anything, but getting an answer via generative artificial intelligence consumes about 10 times more electricity than a traditional Google search. Consequently, the data centers where AI tools are trained and run are guzzling more and more... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Short Takes
half of the entire bonus. Thus, it appears that subjects cloak their self-interest under the guise of the high principle of equality. In this experiment they behaved fairly with their partner but more generously than those observing felt... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Professorship Brings Brierley's HBS Connection Full Circle
relationship management or ‘customer loyalty' execution," observes Brierley. A board member of numerous organizations, including the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, The Dallas Center for the Performing Arts, KERA-TV, The Dallas Opera, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Ads Improve Consumer Decisions
in 1995. Linking this with Nielsen viewer panel data on over fifteen hundred individuals, Anand and Shachar developed a model to determine how well TV viewers' choices of programming “matched” their likely viewing preferences (based upon their demographic profile and... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)
- 20 May 2008
- News
Endowment Tax Debate Puts Harvard on the Spot
billion mark), they would think twice before writing that check,” editorialized the Harvard Crimson on May 9. The study is expected to take months, and most observers figure the idea will quietly die. But that leaves plenty of time for... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
(MBA '92), Paul Knutson (HBS '98), William H. roedy, Jr. (MBA '79), and Strauss Zelnick (MBA/JD '83), industry insiders with perspectives from key vantage points in the music world. They, along with HBS associate professor John J. Sviokla, a close View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
codirector and mainstay of the GHD (and, with Farmer, a PIH cofounder). Building on Kim’s case presentation, Porter next outlined an emerging framework, growing out of the GHD’s work, for health-care delivery in resource-poor settings. He View Details
- 23 Feb 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Hometown Reboot
board service about a decade ago, he observed that there was a severe lack of representation in boardrooms in Pittsburgh. “So, what are you going to do about it?” he remembers someone asking him. With that catalyst and funding from... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 08 Apr 2021
- News
Real Talk
approach, and asks participants, especially executives, to get vulnerable in order to dig into the complexities that can’t be conveyed by a PowerPoint slide. “People tend not to share stories of a personal nature for fear of being attacked in an emotionally destructive... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
"Unheard Voices" Brings to Light Three Centuries of American Women at Work
States,” she observed in a recent Business History Review article. An 1890 photograph of women workers in the looping room at Ipswich Mills in Ipswich, Massachusetts. Now up and running, the “Unheard Voices” Web site offers access to a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Alumnae Chart Career Choices and Transitions
School's commitment to provide lifelong learning opportunities that address the needs of all HBS graduates. In recent years, both Hart and Dean Kim B. Clark have said that they often meet HBS alumnae who have left the workforce to focus on caring for their families and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
intellectual agility one develops at HBS is very helpful in this part of the world." Observes HBS associate professor Robert E. Kennedy, who is conducting research on high-tech clusters in emerging markets, "Some of the institutions... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Dean Clark Addresses Journalists
HBS experience. As for the “barrel,” Clark observed that HBS and other business schools can also make important contributions by studying ways to design markets more effectively, reduce conflicts of interest, and build stronger governance... View Details