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- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
worked fresh out of college as a management trainee. "The first thing they told us was, ‘The good news is that despite the big reengineering effort, you guys are safe. The bad news is that you're going to help us do it, and get to our number.'" Keen wanted to prove... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
themes? Eric: The first theme is mechanization. If you were a young person in the early Republic in America and you could build a machine that did what had been traditionally done by hand, you were in the sweet spot of entrepreneurship. And so Eli Whitney View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
In the beginning there was the microprocessor. The mass market availability in the early 1980s of this revolutionary piece of technology — which shrank the computer from an unwieldy Goliath of a machine to a compact unit that could fit on... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
the April concert was Tulane University’s Dixon Hall, with a stage that could barely fit all 67 orchestra members. Location was perhaps the least of the LPO’s challenges that night. Many of the musicians were still living in hotels or... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
For the school that so boldly launched the MBA 100 years ago and went on to become the bluest of blue-chip brands in business education, it seemed only fitting that Harvard Business School should mark its centennial year by examining the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
regard to work—it’s mostly us coming together as a team and really understanding one other. Even our Slack channels have things like break rooms to replicate water cooler chat. We’ve got fitness channels—and I’m in that, challenging my... View Details
- 14 May 2014
- News
(Re)moving the Needle
proboscis, the needle-like nose it jabs at you, to draw out your blood, is so thin that it fits between the pain sensors in your skin. The mosquito was the inspiration for a needleless delivery device, painless and silent, now under... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Richard J. Stillman (MBA 1940)
fitness center, and introduced an annual speaking competition award. I have also donated a General Patton section at the National D-Day Museum here in New Orleans. I first began writing books at Ohio University, beginning with Guide to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
company. He convinced his advisor that because of Carpé’s work studying high-altitude cosmic rays for Bell Labs, the expedition fit the School’s requirements. Following the successful expedition to the top of Mount Bona, Moore requested a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Road to Recovery
providing more effective treatment. The bigger obstacle was fitting into the American health care system. An app-based digital health program isn’t something that health plans understand, he says. “When we would pitch a health plan, the... View Details
- 15 Dec 2011
- News
An HBS gift guide
support the community that gives us our daily inspiration. Not just by providing quality, high-performance fitness wear, but also by giving opportunities to those within our community who might not otherwise have access to the necessary... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
which focuses on financial innovation and the use of financial engineering techniques by corporations, may fit this general description, for some time now Tufano has also been involved in a very different project aimed at "trying to teach... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Disrupting India’s Dental Market
Singh’s team reduced a clinic to a set of eight distinct modules, such as the operating rooms and waiting areas, that could fit together “like a jigsaw puzzle” in any new space. “It was a business where a brand could be built without... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Short Takes
While Austin's research underscores the importance of ensuring a good fit between partners' missions, strategies, and values, this fit may not always be readily apparent. Consider, for instance, the alliance... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Pedal Mettle
would never again do competitive sports. But inspired by Lance Armstrong (who took part in various stages of the Tour of Hope) and by a growing body of research that says fitness may reduce cancer recurrence rates, Berté challenged... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
vision from a different angle. He’s frank about the financial aspect of the decision—with three children, a government salary wasn’t sustainable over the long term—but he doesn’t rule out a return to government, and is equally upfront when discussing how his new job... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
techniques to analyze that data and build an algorithm that successfully predicted job fit while minimizing bias—matching candidates to the right jobs based on their traits and aptitudes, for example, without discriminating on the basis... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Competition and Strategy Unit at HBS Sets Pace In Its Field
the theoretical foundations of competitive positioning and sustained competitive advantage fits into this area. He explores these topics in his seminar on Competition and Competitiveness as well as in a recent Harvard Business Review... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal
business. “I knew it was a great fit for me,” he says. During the fifteen years he has worked at Merrill, O’Neal has proved himself again and again, moving from various positions in different divisions of the firm — financial services,... View Details