Information Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

new book, Leading Change, Kotter, one of the world's foremost experts on leadership, examines the efforts of more than one hundred companies as they attempt to make themselves stronger competitors. He identifies the most common mistakes of leaders and View Details

03 Mar 2010
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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 Dec 2005
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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

02 Jan 2014
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The World's Teacher

Keywords: online education; education and technology; Information; Information

August 1998 (Revised June 2000)
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FairMarket, Inc.: Where Buyers and Sellers Connect

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Jack Wieland and Chad M. M Raube

On February 20, 1997, FairMarket, an Internet-based business-to-business auction site, was launched. CEO, founder Scott Randall, drew on his experience building Internet businesses at NECX Direct, Yahoo, and Internet Shopping Network to build his business. This case,... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Debates; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development; Growth Management; Management Style; Product Launch; Multi-Sided Platforms; Problems and Challenges; Information Technology; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry

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01 Jun 2013
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Faculty Research Online

Marissa Mayer Should Bridge Distance Gap with Remote Workers Mayer's decision to bring work-at-home Yahoo! employees back to the office has set off a firestorm. Assistant Professor Lakshmi Ramarajan writes on how to mitigate the problem. See... View Details

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

02 Apr 2014
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A Harvard Study Spices Bollywood Romance 'The Lunchbox'

06 Dec 2018
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brain-like?” And that, she says, is the key not only to better AI, but to a better understanding of what makes us human. When Dubinsky declares something to be the next big thing, it isn’t empty Valley bravado. She has worked at the forefront of personal computing at... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Daniel Hertzberg

27 Apr 2017
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Action Research to Put Health Care Ideas into Practice

01 Mar 2008
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Highly Energetic

The fourth annual Energy Symposium at HBS in October brought together industry executives, venture capitalists, and consultants to discuss the sector’s challenges and opportunities. Winds of change are turning hearts and minds as well as turbines: While demand for coal... View Details

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

24 Oct 2013
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Searching for a Better Society

evidence-based, data-driven, iterative product-development process.” Dumon wasn't disappointed. "The whole experience was life-changing," he says. "It was the passion, the drive, the business cases themselves." He cites former finance professor Donald Collat, now View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Oct 2000
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Hawes Hall Groundbreaking

Groundbreaking took place in early June for Hawes Hall, a new classroom building that will be constructed adjacent to the northeast corner of Aldrich Hall, facing Baker Library. Dean Kim B. Clark opened the ceremony by welcoming the Hawes family, including Beverly and... View Details

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

01 Jun 2004
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How Nonprofits Dilute Their Efforts

strategy can stretch an agency’s core capabilities and push it in unintended directions. If a nonprofit doesn’t develop (its) operating mission and strategy platform in a disciplined way, its management tends to think every program is... View Details

Keywords: Information; Information

May 1986 (Revised October 1986)
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Data Administration in Citibank Brazil (C): The Back-End Project

By: Shoshana Zuboff

Keywords: Information Management; Banking Industry; Brazil

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01 Jun 2022
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Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students

In 1947, Professor Myles Mace, a pioneer in the study of entrepreneurship and corporate governance, introduced a unique offering into the MBA curriculum called The Management of New Enterprises. Believed to be the first entrepreneurship... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Sep 2003
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Patrick Moreton

discrimination and product bundling. After graduating from HBS as a Baker Scholar, he worked as a Charles M. Williams Research Fellow at the School from 1991 to 1993, writing more than a dozen cases on finance, business ethics, and business-government regulation. He... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Information; Information