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Ann Chao
Ann sees the growth as a natural progression. "One of our engineers decided to join us because, in his own words: 'You're one of the rare companies that designs products the way musicians would want them.' We want to create apps that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Hollywood Squared
others. “In Hollywood shorthand, Pascal’s the creative and Lynton’s the suit, but that shorthand suggests more conflict, and rigid boundaries, than exist for this pair,” Variety (September 10, 2007) asserted. Said Pascal of Lynton, “What he does in his own enigmatic,... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Watching the Brain Think and the Surprises of Science
“ One unstated objective of science is to make a difference: to learn something, or make something, that changes the way people think or behave. Many of the biggest discoveries — the most important scientifically and the most... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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Digital ID network empowers individuals, disrupts the data brokers
a way to verify their eligibility. As a result, he cofounded ID.me, a secure, user-centric identity network. Hall launched ID.me in 2013 with fellow HBS classmate Matthew Thompson (MBA 2010), a former Army Ranger. The company is a pivot... View Details
- 20 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Predicting Other People's Preferences, You're Probably Wrong
been watching the show long enough to notice a pattern in the self-doubt: The women tend to fret when they see the supposed man of their dreams bonding with women who are dissimilar to themselves. “One thing that’s commonly said is, ‘Well, if he’s into her, there’s no... View Details
- 17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17
interviews of over 80 individuals from 6 service delivery units and 8 support departments that provide them with equipment and supplies, we find that a lack of interconnectedness among interdependent departments-rather than errors or... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing
standards. A second fire kills a suburban dad who filled his lawn mower with gas too close to a recently tossed cigarette; the fire raced up the flow of gas and into the can, which exploded. Who is to blame for these deaths? Let's shift our focus. If you live in the... View Details
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth
We suspect that the mistakes happen when firms choose managers at any level—from CEO to business unit head to project manager—based on what we call "right stuff" thinking, borrowing the term from Tom Wolfe's famous book and the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Raynor
- 14 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 14, 2006
Grossman Periodical:Harvard Business Review 84, no. 11 (November 2006) Abstract One of the biggest management challenges anywhere is how to improve student performance in urban public schools in the United States. There has been no... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
Athens and is featured in boutiques across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and the United States. More importantly, Mareva says, HBS is where she and Kyriakos met in 1994, at a reception for Greek students at the now-bygone... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007
and the architecture of the industry in ways that can benefit the innovator by blunting the actions of others who may endeavor to tap into the stream of profit generated by innovation. Even small firms can play important roles. Tools... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
@Soldiers Field
(HBS Archives Photograph Collection) Shad Hall, named in honor former SEC chairman John Shad (MBA 1949), celebrated its 25th anniversary in September. An early Boston Globe review cheered the entrance’s “powerful concrete column that holds up a heavy steel girder, in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
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The Evolving Case Method
about leaders who failed to rise to moral challenges, the professor would hand out an exercise worksheet. “We asked students to reflect on a time when they failed to rise to a moral challenge,” recounts Garvin. “What were the circumstances? What pressures did you feel?... View Details
Keywords: the case method
- 01 Mar 2010
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Rx for Too Big to Fail
(and hugely leveraged) firms played a pivotal role in causing the crisis, inflating the bubble on the way up and driving the panic on the way down. They were also the undeserving beneficiaries of hundreds of... View Details
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Stephanie Atiase
over time,” Stephanie says, “I came to see that business was about more than making money. I firmly believe that business is a way to have a huge impact socially. For-profits with a social mission can be stronger than traditional... View Details
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Hayling Price
change While Hayling could make "compelling ethical and normative arguments for social and economic justice," he felt driven to go further, to learn how to "make a business case for change." He sees the joint MBA/MPP degree as a View Details
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Anna King
together in any obvious way, but for Anna, that's perfectly acceptable. "I have a big passion for experiences and for the ways business interacts with government," Anna says. "What's important to me is that the work I do is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
stories. With the proliferation of books and newspapers in the late eighteenth-century, and then perhaps even more markedly in our own time with the explosion in bytes, stories, which were an essential mode of communication for many centuries, stopped being our primary... View Details
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Beau D'Arcy
boaters and non-boaters alike." How did your family and friends respond when they heard the idea? "When I first told my parents, I think they were a little skeptical. It's a big idea that's way outside the box, so most people's... View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 20
been systematically implemented and evaluated. This article describes early time-driven activity-based costing work at several leading healthcare organizations in the United States and Europe. It identifies the opportunities they found to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne