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- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Benefits of “Not Invented Here”
standpoint, who should be responsible for an open innovation program? Does it call for the creation of a new executive-level position? A: Yes and no. It certainly calls for a changed orientation for the chief technology officer. It might... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Undergraduate Technology Innovation Fellows Program | MBA
Fellows. Who should apply? Applicants for the Undergraduate Technology Innovation Fellows program are Harvard College sophomores and juniors who have: A record of academic excellence at Harvard College. Demonstrated leadership and potential for innovation and/or... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Road Taken: One Family's Worldly Adventure
Simon cautions, "First, recognize that this is a family trip, not just a trip for you and your spouse. It has to be oriented toward everyone. If you plan to have a great time with your kids, then it will work." The family slept in tents,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 22 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Name Your Price. Really.
questionnaire to determine their SVO. Sure enough, those with a pro-social orientation forked over an average of $1.22 for the cookie, while those with a pro-self orientation paid an average of 62 cents.... View Details
- 23 Apr 2008
- Op-Ed
The Gap in the U.S. Treasury Recommendations
we could usefully draw on the experience of the United Kingdom with its Financial Services Authority (FSA), a body that replaced all of the previous institutionally oriented regulators. The FSA regulates all firms that perform a financial... View Details
- 27 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
Why I Would Have Applied to the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program
and companies better. Someone with a background and orientation towards building things can incorporate that knowledge into their work and get tremendously more effective as a founder or leader. In particular design thinking and... View Details
- Web
Blending Traditional Models of Philanthropy with Business | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Blending Traditional Models of Philanthropy with Business Background Making a difference in the world, as cliché as it sounds, is a fundamental value that drives my career. My father practiced traditional oriental medicine where there is... View Details
- 10 May 2015
- Blog Post
Brand Strategist Turns Entrepreneur
a career change? From Day 1, orient your time, energy and mental space to where you want to be. Note: In November of 2015 unshrinkit appeared on Shark Tank and received a $150,000 investment from Mark Cuban. View Details
- 01 May 2019
- Blog Post
Viewpoints: Synthetic Thinking with a Humble Mindset
whether by nation (us vs. them), by wealth (rich vs. poor), and by political orientation (Right vs. Left). This is a world where there is thesis and anti-thesis; and these two positions are seemingly incompatible. However, the following... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Books
knowledgeable ambassadors armed with cost-saving solutions customers will be happy to pay for. His method involves “value creation selling,” that is, reconfiguring a sales force’s orientation toward customers’ profitability before its own... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 14 Dec 2017
- News
Making Movies Is a Class Act
stayed connected with the Christie family. Though Christie is enjoying a resurgence of attention of late—the film Murder on the Orient Express premiered last month and the BBC is adapting several stories for TV—when Abrams and Wood were... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Short Takes
development. Tacit dimensions of human behavior can also point to new directions in product creation, say Leonard and Sensiper. In designing an automobile navigation system, for example, researchers at the product-design company IDEO noticed that some subjects... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 16 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘The Strategist’
as right, but "transformative" seemed closer to hype. Having seen it happen again and again, I now share the optimism. As our orientation session draws to a close, I join the executives and fellow faculty as we head en masse to Kresge... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia A. Montgomery
- 30 May 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship’s Wild Ride
attributes are most easily explained in terms of a spectrum, with entrepreneurial firms falling on one side and more bureaucratic firms on the other. The first attribute is pursuit of opportunity. Strategic orientation is driven either by... View Details
Keywords: by William Mahoney
- 26 Jan 2015
- News
The Ingredients for Success
week-long boot camps, or team-building activities for conventions,” she says. Markowitz notes that two HBS students—Meredith Uram (MBA 2014) and Andrew Dunckelman (MBA 2014)—helped to orient her and her board away from their original plan... View Details
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
organizations are certainly economic instruments, but they also have an immense impact on human development and the well-being of society. Sustaining research attention on both the ethical and economic responsibilities of business, and on the tensions between them,... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 07 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Intellectual History of Harvard Business School
to write a book based on the colloquium. The colloquium was video- and audio-taped, and there is already an interest by some people who were unable to attend in seeing some of the sessions. Some of the sessions may be edited and used, for example, to help new faculty... View Details
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Breaking Down the Barriers - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
design, composition, and lighting, and in the early 1920s a number of their works in Vanity Fair included modernist views of everyday objects. 19 “[White] provided a bridge between the older amateur of the photographic societies and a younger generation of... View Details
- 24 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
On Pride and Community
went on a PRIDE retreat with over 100 of my fellow students and their partners. I met most of my closest HBS friends – both students and partners – at these two events (partners of all genders and sexual orientations are a big part of... View Details
- 15 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
One Month into the New MS/MBA Biotech
going so far. Now that you have enrolled your first students, can you tell us how the program is going? The program is going remarkably well! We were excited to welcome our inaugural class of 11 students. We first met collectively as a group on August 3rd with an View Details