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- 19 Feb 2010
- News
The MBA Oath Debate
recent opinion piece in the Financial Times, HBS student Andrew Sridhar (MBA 2010) cited what he calls “troubling” aspects of the oath. For example, he doesn’t buy the professionalization analogy with oaths in law, medicine, or the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Action Plan: Writing the Next Chapter
note, but for Hubscher, the romance of an analog writing implement remains: “For me, they are tools of freedom. You don’t have anything between you, your soul, and the paper and the mark that you leave.” How to: Pick your pen-and-paper... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Snapshot: Gary DiCamillo, Polaroid's CEO
photography is going to go away as everything in our industry becomes digitized. But I disagree," he says. "I think analog photography will endure, because it still satisfies many users, and digital imaging businesses will grow up around... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 19 Feb 2008
- News
The Scoop Behind the Silver Screen
Clayton up this weekend for seven Academy Awards. (Any predictions out there on the winners?) Samuels drew an analogy between the real estate industry and filmmaking. “I look at a movie script the same way I look at an empty piece of... View Details
- 16 Aug 2022
- News
HBS Club of Japan Event Highlights HBS Fellowship
my dream.” Since graduating in 2020, Sasago has launched a restaurant, Bosso Ramen Tavern, in Harvard Square, Cambridge. “I am trying to build a successful business in the US so my fellow Japanese will see this and follow,” he says. “And, to use the View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT
products - a construct they call "the virtual value chain" - which is analogous to the physical value chain. They discuss this concept in their forthcoming book Managing in the Marketspace. MIS professor Lynda M. Applegate is also... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Exchange: Chance Encounters
together. To use the analogy of a DJ concert: There are big concerts where DJs perform and—I used to be a DJ, so I’ll admit this fully—the DJ is mostly just clicking a bunch of buttons. The audience has no real way of knowing what the DJ... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 26 Jun 2025
- News
The Vinyl Revival
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Caren Kelleher (MBA 2010) was at HBS, she started managing bands, mainly as a way to stay involved in an industry that she loved. It was right... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Wake-Up Call: Farewell to the American Dream?
transition from the industrial era to the information/high-technology frontier presage a new era of prosperity, analogous to our transition from an agricultural to an industrial society? I don't think it will happen. The productivity... View Details
- 04 Jun 2008
- News
Whistle While You Work
roles with others.” Business borrows these metaphors and lingo from other group-oriented pursuits in order to better understand itself and improve its performance. The world of music provides business with a lot of the analogies and the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Alumni Books
tight coupling of the "real" market (business) with the "expectations" market (the stock market). Using the analogy of the NFL's strict separation of actual games from betting, he shows how to reverse this situation, including... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
additional applications for the technology that Fuji had developed for the analog film market. So instead of focusing only on digital imaging, the obvious substitute for analog photography, Fuji now has the... View Details
- 22 Oct 2018
- News
Capital Murder
plot are taking you in directions you wouldn’t have anticipated. And oftentimes it’s that allowance for improvisation that makes a sentence, chapter, or entire book better. The analogy to the business world is clear—you start with a plan... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
world will have recognized the urgency of the climate change problem. I think the best analogy for the state of the industry, once that realization has set in, is aerospace in the 1960s and the moon shot, where there’s a real problem and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Health-Care Forum's Rx for US System
Experience," HBS professor Clay Christensen analogized that just as the computer industry evolved from massive mainframes to customer-friendly personal devices, "We need to bring technology to outpatient clinics and patients' homes so... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
international League of Legends tournament (photo courtesy of Riot Games) Almost everyone relies on traditional sports analogies when discussing esports. “Esports,” like the term “sports,” refers to the entire universe of competitive... View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
impressed by the public health community's ability to communicate this virus to the population. As someone who spends my time thinking about how to communicate an invisible, deadly crisis that's creeping up on us, I have been so impressed by the flattening-the-curve... View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
we need to be profoundly mindful of that. There are some important similarities, of course, but focusing only on the similarities would be a catastrophic mistake. Could we look to the flu pandemic of 1918 to 1919 for a more analogous... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
analogy of cyberdefense as a castle—a favorite of his—he tends to the moats, the walls, and the gates. Get past those, and he deploys the dogs. And he’s watched many people scale walls, break gates, evade dogs, and leave with your AmEx... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai