Publications

03 Mar 2010
News

Last Look - March 2010

Our thanks to Ron Demer (MBA ’64E), who identified his male classmates in the photo as (top) Jon Plexico (E, now deceased) and Joe Collins (B); (bottom) Bob McNitt (E) and Konrad Ulbrich (F, now deceased). Demer added that “nothing was going on; just a few students... View Details

Keywords: Keith Larson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

01 Feb 2001
News

In Dot-Calm Era, Conference Examines Options for Entrepreneurs

Is the bloom off the entrepreneurial rose? Do B2B and B2C mean "Back to Banking" and "Back to Consulting," as the current joke would have it? Where are the opportunities for those who still believe starting their own business is the way to go? The 2000 HBS... View Details

Keywords: Information

01 Dec 2012
News

The Key to Innovation: Flexible Funding

for the Dean's Fund provides a bridge between our remarkable past and what we hope will be our extraordinary future. Robert Steven Kaplan (MBA 1983) Professor of Management Practice Senior Associate Dean for External Relations See "Campus... View Details

Keywords: Robert Steven Kaplan

April 2013 (Revised October 2013)
Case

National Instruments

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Keri Pearlson and Natalie Kindred

This case explores the use of social media to support product design, customer support, marketing and HR activities at National Instruments (NI). Based in Austin, Texas, with over $1 billion in 2011 sales, NI designs, produces, and sells software and hardware platforms... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Structure; Applications and Software; Organizational Culture; Technological Innovation; Digital Platforms; Innovation and Management; Media; Management Systems; Social and Collaborative Networks; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Texas

01 Sep 2012
News

What’s the Big Idea?

confronted with setbacks. Yet in a survey of 669 managers around the world, “progress” ranked dead last as a perceived source of employee motivation, falling behind more expected (but less effective) carrots such as bonuses and... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Management; Management; Management; Management

01 Dec 2005
News

MBAs by the Numbers

particularly pleased that the Class of 2007 has the highest representation of women in the School’s history,” said Brit K. Dewey (MBA ’96), managing director of MBA Admissions and Financial Aid. As the new MBA candidates settled into life... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

23 Dec 2009
News

In the Zone

Program, which offers a select group of graduating MBAs the opportunity to experience high-impact management positions in nonprofit and public-sector organizations for one year at a competitive salary. Now entering her third year at HCZ,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2009
News

Faculty Research Online

Harreld describe how IBM managed to survive a crisis in the early 1990s and reposition itself to lead the industry. The lesson from IBM is that innovation is not a side business but the very foundation of a successful business. See... View Details

Keywords: Information; Information; Information; Information

June 2004 (Revised November 2004)
Case

Microsoft in 2004

By: Michael G. Rukstad, David B. Yoffie, Brian DeLacey and Deborah Freier

Surveys Microsoft's expansion into new businesses, such as mobile and embedded devices, home and entertainment, and business solutions, as it faces challenges due to size and maturity and outside threats from Linux and Google. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details

Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Applications and Software; Expansion; Growth and Development Strategy; Information Technology Industry; Washington (state, US)

09 Dec 2008
News

Last Look - December 2008

Our thanks to Tom Barry, Ed Jones, Ira Krauss, Henry Kuehn, Rodger Marting, Michael Owen, and John Williams (all MBA ’69E), who identified members of Section E welcoming home their MERC II (Managerial Economics, Reporting, and Control) professor, Ed Zschau (with the... View Details

Keywords: Keith Larson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

01 Jun 2003
News

Alumni Bookshelf

profits. Investment Banking: Addressing the Management Issues by Steven I. Davis (MBA '58) (Palgrave Macmillan) In his eighth book, international banking consultant Davis offers a timely analysis of the global issues facing the View Details

Keywords: Information; Information

June 2024 (Revised September 2024)
Case

Driving Scale with Otto

By: Rebecca Karp, David Allen and Annelena Lobb

This case asks how startup founders make scaling decisions in light of their priorities for their business and for themselves. Otto was a technology company that applied artificial intelligence technology to sales. It deployed natural language processing to find sales... View Details

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Natural Language Processing; B2B; B2B Innovation; Scaling; Scaling Tech Ventures; Business Startups; AI and Machine Learning; Finance; Sales; Business Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Information Technology Industry; United States; Cambridge; New York (city, NY); Spain

Keywords: Admissions; fellowship; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

01 Sep 2006
News

Winston to Lead the Global Initiative

As the new executive director of the HBS Global Initiative, Victoria Winston will be a central figure in the School’s efforts to chart the future for its global activities. Last winter, Dean Jay Light convened a faculty task force, led by Senior Associate Dean for... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

01 Feb 1997
News

OPM Celebrates 21st Anniversary at Gala Florida Reunion

Florida's Walt Disney World®, this year marking 25 years of extraordinary entrepreneurial success, was the venue for the celebration of the 21st anniversary of Harvard Business School's Owner/President Management Program (OPM). Under the... View Details

01 Dec 2012
News

Alumni Book Briefs

get competitive intelligence, how to determine if their brand or company is at risk, how to blunt competitors' efforts, and much more. Managing Global Innovation: Frameworks for Integrating Capabilities around the World by Yves L. Doz... View Details

Keywords: Information; Information

25 Feb 2020
News

Q&A: William Kerr and Joseph Fuller

those macro trends and present information in a way that can help business leaders make their best choices. The HBS faculty have always focused on managing technological change, demographics, and work skills... View Details

01 Jun 2008
News

HBS Creates Life Sciences Fellowship Fund

the MD/MBA joint degree program with Harvard Medical School in 2005. “We’re proud of this new fellowship program and its focus on students interested in science-related careers,” says Deirdre Leopold (MBA ’80), managing director of MBA... View Details

April 2010 (Revised March 2011)
Supplement

Google in China (B)

By: John A. Quelch

In a January 2010 public statement, Google threatened to stop censoring its search results on its Google.cn website, as required by Chinese authorities. Should Google exit China? Or attempt a compromise with the Chinese government? View Details

Keywords: Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Crisis Management; Market Entry and Exit; Business and Government Relations; Internet and the Web; Information Technology Industry; China