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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Three Profs Win McKinsey Award
Hal Gregersen of INSEAD, for “The Innovator’s DNA” in the December 2009 issue. In their article, Pisano and Shih argue against U.S. companies’ decision to outsource manufacturing in the mistaken belief that American manufacturing holds no... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Books
search consultants engaged in CEO selection. He found what he argues is a “market” in name only, operating more on social than economic principles. For example, when a company is perceived to be underperforming and its corporate... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Path to Economic Revival
create high-tech products essential for future prosperity is on the decline, argue Gary Pisano, the Harry E. Figgie Jr. Professor of Business Administration, and Professor of Management Practice Willy Shih. They won the prestigious... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
(MBA 1996) (Plon) Cavaretta argues that France is a paradise for entrepreneurs. It has one of the best ecosystems for opportunity in the world. Entrepreneurs in France have a wide choice of areas of excellence to work in (fashion,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Leadership: Getting Down to Fundamentals
which is why our first goal was to get some sense of what each field means when it uses the word. Won’t some people argue that leadership is too nebulous a quality to define, that you’ll know it when you see it? The benefits of stem cell... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
increase? —Rob Kautz (MBA 1987) Many argue that anonymity is one of the key disruptions Bitcoin introduces. I think anonymity is valuable only in the early days and for a specific group of people. If we want Bitcoin to become more... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
New Releases
may still lose market dominance. Drawing on observations from a variety of industries, HBS associate professor Clayton Christensen argues that otherwise sound business practices - such as concentrating investments and technology on the... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
down on the outskirts of Moscow, and the Eastern Front proved to be the decisive theater in the defeat of the Third Reich. Ever since, historians have agreed that this was Hitler’s gravest mistake. In Hitler’s Great Gamble, James Ellman View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Ink: Home Cooking, Secure Retirements, and Restoring Humanity to Finance
Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return, seeks to redeem the oft-maligned finance industry. Desai argues that “viewing finance through the prism of the humanities will help us restore humanity to finance,”... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Entertainment Moguls Ponder the Future at HBS Conference
our society," he said. Arnold Rifkin argued that offsetting this blockbuster mania are numerous examples of high-quality television programming and filmmaking. He cited recent independent films such as Sling Blade and The English Patient,... View Details
Keywords: Paula Maute
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Rationale for Non-Rationality: Why We Make Bad Choices
nonrational part is when somebody offers us evidence of a mistake and we don't say, 'Oh my goodness! Thank you so much!'" Jensen argued that "what learning is about, at its very core, is finding out when we're making an error." Thus, an... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA '88)
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dare to be Different
about aggressively promoting a book that tries to argue for more marketing restraint, don’t you think? Laughs Honestly, if people find the book interesting, that’s wonderful. And if they find the book helpful to them in any way, that’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Straight to the Heart
growing numbers of people who live alone? There’s a big difference between living alone and choosing to live alone. The statistics are misleading because they imply that all of those people who live alone are actively choosing to do so. Much of what is being written... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Alumni Books
M.R. Covey (MBA ’89) with Rebecca R. Merrill (Free Press) Covey argues that trust is a hard-edged economic driver, a learnable, measurable skill that makes organizations more profitable, people more promotable, and relationships more... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Helping Leaders Chart an Ethical Path
that students may not be familiar with.” That was true for Margo Tercek (MBA 2022), an American who came to HBS with a background in education policy. The case introduced her to a business environment very different from the one she knew. In the class discussion,... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
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New Releases
for to compete in such an environment, HBS professor John P. Kotter argues that substance, not style, is the key to effectiveness. In John P. Kotter on What Leaders Really Do, a collection of his most acclaimed Harvard Business Review... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Alumni News | Book Briefs
control and involvement and argue that its impact on business performance will be positive. They offer a road map to help CEOs and directors better balance board oversight with the firm's daily operations and to give directors a better... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
The Next Big Thing
operate in the Commonwealth,” Porter told some eighty CEOs and leaders of biotech, health-care, government, and academic entities gathered at HBS. He argued that Massachusetts needs a coherent strategy based on a common understanding of... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
is now a hot issue in South Korea, said Chang Sea Jin of Korea University's School of Business Administration, little research has been done on them. Hideki Yoshihara of Japan's Kobe University argued that too much academic attention had... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
economist Milton Friedman as both a sign of growing academic skepticism about managerialism and an important cultural event in its own right. In his article, Friedman argued that the sole concern of American business should be the... View Details