Systemic Innovation - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Jun 2021
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HBS Addresses Racial Equity

the Racial Equity Plan (REP), which was developed last summer by members of the Dean’s Anti-Racism Task Force and launched in September. “There always have been people dedicated to diversity, equity, and inclusion at HBS, and the new processes and View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

25 Aug 2022
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September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

putting users at the center of strategy leads to an almost unfair competitive advantage; ways to build an organizational system that delivers a superior user experience that is replicable, consistent, and scalable; common shortfalls that... View Details

01 Apr 2002
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Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction

back to basics," said Bruce Harreld (MBA '75), SVP of strategy at IBM. "Our goal is to increase the efficiency of organizational systems by creating software that remaps how processes work together." Steven Elterich, president of Fidelity... View Details

Keywords: H Naylor Fitzhugh; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 1996
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Starting Up and Starting Over

innovation within such a structure. In the 1930s and 1940s, Deans Wallace B. Donham and Donald K. David oversaw significant research on the importance of innovators to business. Much of this material was... View Details

01 Jun 1996
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Keepers of the Flame

replies, "When I see the film clip of gymnast Mary Lou Retton at the 1984 Games receiving her gold medal, I think: 'The flowers left the refrigerator 20 minutes before she got them; the medal left the vault 45 minutes ago and was carried by an armed guard.' In other... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Dec 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017

book based on their expertise. Les chantiers de ma vie by Claude Lefebvre (OPM 10, 1985) with Hélène-Andrée Bizier (Cyfbel) An autobiography of an engineer and entrepreneur from Québec. Design Thinking for the Greater Good: Innovation in... View Details

01 Jun 1999
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Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

demographics that have boosted it, will inevitably lose steam. What then? "We've seen a tremendous amount of creativity in the financial services industry, including the mutual fund sector, so I have no doubt that there will continue to be product and process View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

10 Mar 2021
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New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts

has ever seen. In the past, biographers of Lord Liverpool have not sufficiently acknowledged the importance of his foremost skill: economic policy (including fiscal, monetary, and banking system questions). Here, Hutchinson's decades of... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Sep 2020
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We Rise

those seven people. It’s clear that the engine of the country’s innovation sector is stuck in the past. Professional spaces such as hospitals, law offices, and boardrooms still have significant work to be done to achieve diversity in... View Details

Keywords: April White; Finance

01 Dec 1997
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Growing Together

adopting business practices. Helping students, alumni, outside business leaders, and nonprofit managers develop skills and innovations they can apply to the social sector is one of the main goals of the Initiative on Social Enterprise, an... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry

07 Sep 2021
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Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2

Let's take it in two buckets. One, the companies. I have even more profound respect for technology and innovation now. You know, I just think we live in such a golden age of innovation. And even though I was an advocate when I was at GE,... View Details

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