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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
individuals face stubborn resistance to new ideas. Managers and executives often reject innovation and unconventional approaches due to misplaced allegiance to the status quo. In this climate of stifled creativity and inflexible adherence... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
volunteers “have helped the city capitalize on the innovation sprouting from Silicon Valley, through specific initiatives such as designing the structure of the city’s startup incubator, developing View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
The School of Life
important roles for a parent. Is It Really the Right Stuff? In 1979, writer Tom Wolfe captured the public imagination with his depiction of one of the most competitive professional environments in the world: the screening of American... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
Company; and HBS professor Michael Porter (MBA ’71). In addition to the pioneering roles played by this innovative quartet, there is another leitmotif — a fifth key player — that runs throughout the book: The industry would not exist as... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
Detroit to Los Angeles in 1972, adds that the current stagnation can also be attributed to "a lack of hits" on the part of the major labels and increased competition for the consumer entertainment dollar. In 1996, efforts by big stars... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
now there's a tremendous interest in intrapreneurship, because companies have made their cutbacks and realize that they can't 'shrink' to greatness," says Kanter. "If businesses don't innovate they will fall behind in a world of change."... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
meaningful relationships with their people, they also create loyalty and an environment where employees feel secure enough to take chances and suggest innovative and sometimes disruptive ideas . When I speak of leadership, I’m referring... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
It is difficult to conceive of any policy that would be more destructive to American business innovation. Given global competition, it is not in anyone’s interest to force a union bureaucracy into businesses that must be innovative and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Breaking Free from Fear of Change
by the time you speak with your supervisor, you have a clear idea of what you will say. But to do that, wouldn’t you have to admit to others that you don’t have all the answers? That’s exactly right. It takes a lot of courage to be vulnerable, especially in the View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Case Study: Paper Chase
Choi Greenthal (MBA 1991) The key to creating a category here is getting the cards into people’s hands and letting them see the value. Relying on purchases at retail value to drive word of mouth will be slow, and will open up the category for a lot of View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
Connections While an analyst for a small-business investment company in Boston in 1962, Amos B. Hostetter, Jr. (MBA '61), was sent to New Hampshire to checkout a novel communications innovation - a nascent cable TV operation looking for... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
an economic analyst," states George B. Kaiser (MBA '66), president and CEO of Kaiser-Francis Oil Company, a private concern based in Tulsa. "Analytical skills are indispensable when it comes to understanding and projecting pricing cycles and creating intelligent and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
Kola Masha's innovative franchise model. It's a revolution that can't come soon enough for Nigeria. The country was once the breadbasket of West Africa until Royal Dutch Shell discovered vast oil reserves in 1958, and the agriculture... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
visibility and visitorship. This light, open, and completely handicapped-accessible facility attracts tourists from around the world, and its signature fish-eye spiral staircase is a work of art itself. The Outcome of Income As leisure time dwindles in today's... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
products. In the world of railroads, business is open to competition from other railroads, trucking companies, and barges. "There can be a significant strategic component, where we try to understand the inputs of a customer's business and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
the test as he methodically refashioned the two old-line chemical companies with disparate corporate cultures into a single entity focused on health care and powered by an innovative approach to R&D. Today, Novartis is one of the world’s... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
continue to examine the planet, and send back information that will be useful in helping NASA understand how astronauts—and possible future colonists—will be able to survive the intense radiation that bombards its surface. By choosing to look farther out into space,... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
that new levels of interconnectivity via the Internet could help foster IT entrepreneurship in other regions, Prabhakar also observed that global competition is infusing the "cowboy culture" of Silicon Valley with a greater awareness of... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
combined with a rich empirical illustration, of the C-suite’s transformation to enhance our understanding of these elites’ new command posts, sources of expertise and identity, competition and collaboration, and ways of getting things... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
myself. I'm cautious when investing because we need to build sustainable businesses and create a competitive track record for the country, if we're going to improve opportunities for the next generation." [music] Targeted efforts like... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance