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14 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

The Business Case for Becoming a Jack-of-All-Trades

codes each paper with one of 51 different research categories—including aerospace, imaging, and robotics. For each scientist, Nagle and Teodoridis were able to classify their degree of specialization by determining how many different fields they’d published in. Next,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

13 Jun 2011
HBS Case

Mobile Banking for the Unbanked

Per the South African government, only licensed banks were allowed to take deposits. The cost of a license was the equivalent of $34 million—a hefty fee for a startup—and the South African Reserve Bank was wary of issuing new permits. Hence, the WIZZIT execs began... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Communications; Telecommunications

24 May 2017
News

Ilene H. Lang, MBA 1973

international product development until she was promoted to lead its $500-million desktop business group. Two years later, when IBM acquired the firm, she was recruited by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) to build its software business. At DEC she launched... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Aug 1998
News

High Honors

funds to support them. As these students search for role models, they would do well to look to their benefactor, who worked his way up from the streets of Brooklyn to the top of the business world. Ann M. Fudge (MBA '77) Executive Vice... View Details

23 Feb 2010
First Look

First Look: Feb. 23

leading players in these clusters are multi-location firms that organize and integrate knowledge across sites worldwide. Strong internal links across locations allow these firms to leverage knowledge for competitive advantage without... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?

inventory management), production, and logistics. Many of these [academic] papers pursue an optimizing approach given the assumption of a completely rational decision maker. In a supply chain, however, these activities are usually spread over multiple functions or... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston

18 Feb 2019
Book

What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology

tried to prevent customers from showrooming. They considered changing the barcodes on products to make them hard to search for online. The company even tried to use signal jammers, like the ones they use to keep prison inmates from using... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Beauty & Cosmetics; Insurance; Service; Retail

22 Feb 2024
News

GCC Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit

Clubs News Clubs News Crossroads Forum Explores Future of Gulf Region More than 1,300 public and private leaders convened in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on January 30 and 31 for the Crossroads GCC Future Impact Forum, co-hosted by the HBS Club of the Gulf Cooperation Council... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

15 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

study business. But, starting in the early 1960s, he produced an extraordinary series of books—Strategy and Structure, The Visible Hand, and Scale and Scope—that established the workings of the business organization as a legitimate field... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

19 Mar 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Overcoming the Stress of ‘Englishnization’

education," she says. "If you have a second language already it is so much easier, and people in their 40s can make inroads." While it's challenging for workers to start from scratch it is "absolutely doable," she says. English In A French Firm... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

13 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: September 13

PublicationsHigher Ambition: How Great Leaders Create Economic and Social Value Authors:Michael Beer, Russel A. Eisenstat, Nathaniel Foote, Tobias Fredberg, and Flemming Norrgren Publication:Harvard Business Press, 2011 Abstract View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas

operations after a year of uncertainty due to COVID-19, Krieger points to the science labs that never stopped—and some that worked overtime, such as companies like Moderna that produced vaccines in record time. He sees lots more View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

12 Nov 2018
Blog Post

Student Portraits - Armed Forces Alumni Association

FOR SERVING: When I was a little kid, I loved the Museum of Science. I always spent hours searching for dinosaur bones in their sandbox, and I always went to the IMAX movies about jets and hurricanes. As a result, I really wanted to be a... View Details

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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Cohen : Winner of the 2018 Crowell Memorial Prize For the Best Paper on Quantitative Investing from PanAgora Asset Management for “IQ from IP: Simplifying Search in Portfolio Choice” (with Huaizhi Chen, Umit Gurun, Dong Lou, and... View Details

01 Feb 2002
News

It's academic. (Not!)

compensation dynamics, board evolution, entrepreneurial finance, and founder-CEO succession. He's also turning the spotlight on venture capital firms. "VC firms have an interesting organizational structure compared with other View Details

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

18 Nov 2014
First Look

First Look: November 18

However, traditional options for improving the algorithm, such as hiring and training new employees, were time intensive and costly. Hastings decided to improve Netflix's software by crowdsourcing and began planning the Netflix Prize, an open contest View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Involvement in Faculty & Student Ventures | About

student. These entities include all for-profit and nonprofit businesses and social enterprises, as well as venture capital funds, private equity funds, hedge funds, search funds, and other investment vehicles. A faculty venture is any... View Details

29 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

The History and Influence of Andy Grove

wonder Grove's search for the truth in the business world was so intense, so passionate. He has an uncanny ability to abstract himself from a decision in which he is deeply, emotionally involved and view the problem as an outsider would.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

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Harvard Business School

Archival Collections Bibliography Site Credits Visiting the Exhibit ALUMNI INTRODUCTION BACK TO THE EXHIBIT H. Naylor Fitzhugh MBA 1933 H. Naylor Fitzhugh joined the Howard University faculty in 1934 and stayed for 31 years, developing the university's marketing... View Details

07 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis

by a government’s response to the virus, blurring the line between the private and public sectors. Said Dr. David Nabarro, Special Envoy for COVID-19 for the World Health Organization (WHO), “Brands must strive to be authentic,... View Details

Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman

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