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- 01 Sep 2013
- News
C.D. Spangler's School of Thought
wisdom gathered over the years. The earlier you start making decisions, the better. There's a learning curve involved: Making your bad decisions when you're young gives you time to outlive them. When you're young, it's worth the effort to... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
relentlessly. The learning curves point to improvements of 20% every time the globally installed capacity doubles. And already, in many parts of the United States and beyond, wind energy and even, solar energy, is now more cost effective... View Details
- 28 Oct 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Nick Soman (MBA 2010)
if you are in control of the information you share.” What have been the best and most challenging parts of launching your company? “The most challenging and best parts are the same—building a company is hard, so the learning curve is... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
you to confront reality, grow capacity, fuel curiosity, and create change so you can bring fresh eyes and fresh thinking to your leadership approach; increase your confidence in your ability to make a difference; lead at levels you never thought possible, and... View Details
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
of the chapel. And if you’re webcasting, if somebody’s in Europe, they can be anywhere, they’re watching it on a TV screen, all they see is the chapel and the services being presented. JH: Ryan’s learning curve included an education in... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
footsteps." After five years of managing Uncle Dave's, Lyon left its day-to-day operations in the hands of his father and stepmother and entered HBS at the age of thirty. "I felt I had hit the top of the learning curve and was ready for a... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
New Virtual Classrooms Expand Digital Learning
classroom experience has everything to do with the level of interactivity between faculty and students, and these virtual classrooms provide a better online experience.” Students log in from their respective computers all over the world and, through a custom interface,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
If You're #1, Watch Out
firms in front of the profit curve despite a high level of integration, Christensen, Raynor, and Verlinden assert. "To the extent a company like IBM maintains the flexibility to couple and decouple operations rather than irrevocably sell... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Breaking Down Barriers: The Electronic Wallet
Dwight Crane. "There is a learning curve in conducting business over the Internet. After people break through a few initial barriers and see the power of the medium, there is no telling what will happen." One futuristic device that... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 25 Jul 2013
- News
An Engine of Education Innovation
Related Links 5 Bright Ideas Charter Revolution Redux Lesson Plans Minding the Gap Learning Curve Building Great Schools around Great Teachers So when Leschly returned to HBS to teach entrepreneurship, he also successfully pitched the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Disaster Master
three “musts” for any well-managed company. In terms of reactive activities, once a disaster has occurred you need the right people to support you from the legal, communication, and process recovery perspectives, because you don’t want to go through that learning View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Forward Thinking
You can ask the internet anything, but getting an answer via generative artificial intelligence consumes about 10 times more electricity than a traditional Google search. Consequently, the data centers where AI tools are trained and run are guzzling more and more... View Details
- 23 Jul 2013
- News
Building Great Schools around Great Teachers
on the rest of your life," said Klemmer. Related Links 5 Bright Ideas Charter Revolution Redux Lesson Plans Minding the Gap Learning Curve Yet the success he had observed at the charter school convinced him that top-quality education was... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Steven C. Watson
schools — were having limited success,” he explains. “My take is that with the huge bureaucracies in public education and the teachers' unions, reform needs to happen from the inside out. To make a difference, I knew I had to start my learning View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
Thomas J. Tierney, MBA 1980
remarkable success punctuated by steep learning curves and grounded in solid values. Tierney arrived at HBS—his first trip to Boston—wearing work boots and a flannel shirt and feeling out of place. “Everyone seemed more educated, more... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Groundwork
progression from the 1925 McKim, Mead & White footprint for the first residential business school in America to an array of HBS projects slated for completion by 2023, he emphasizes the importance of continuity and symmetry. “When the first buildings took shape along... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Prima Datarina
with a long history in the airline and hotel industries now gaining traction in the arts world. By analyzing existing data, Hodges and her team have the flexibility to adjust ticket prices on a weekly, or even daily, basis to smooth the demand View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Professorship Brings Brierley's HBS Connection Full Circle
declares Brierley. "Hal Brierley has been ahead of the curve on many great marketing ideas," says Professor John Deighton. "He pioneered database marketing when he founded Epsilon, and now he is making permission e-mail marketing work. My... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
After Ozempic
meanwhile, climbed from $16.2 billion to $33 billion in that same period, riding the GLP-1 wave. Novo Nordisk’s valuation has shot up to almost $600 billion, which is more than the entire Danish GDP. And the top of the curve is still out... View Details
- 11 Aug 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Melissa Fensterstock (MBA 2012)
our responsibility as business leaders to do our best to ensure our businesses evolve with the times or stay ahead of the curve entirely." Who was your favorite HBS professor, and how do you use what you learned from him or her today? "My... View Details