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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
philanthropies New Profit and NewSchools Venture Fund. Harvard Business Review also served as a springboard for new ideas. In the March–April 1997 issue, MBA Class of 1957 Professor of Management Practice Allen Grossman cowrote an article that introduced the View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
Lever Brothers’ Lifebuoy Soap, launched in 1926, warned of the grave personal and business consequences caused by “body odor,” a concept which Lever invented and its products prevented. Hygiene was increasingly associated with beauty. The... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
FIELD 2: Global Intelligence
a new concept for a product or service for global partner organizations around the world. In January, they spent a week in the region conducting market research and meeting with the organization to refine their ideas before making a final... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
An Intellectual Capital: Some Influential HBS Ideas, at a Glance
up business schools. 1957 With his book A Concept of Agribusiness, Ray Goldberg (with John Davis) coins a term and defines an industry. 1958 Ken Andrews begins writing cases on the Swiss watch industry that lay the groundwork for the... View Details
Keywords: Professor Elton Mayo: Professor Fritz Roethlisberger; George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business, Professor Emeritus Ray A. Goldberg; Professor Abraham Zaleznik; Professor Alfred Chandler; Professor Michael Porter; Professor Robert S. Kaplan; Professor Michael C. Jensen; Professor C. Roland Christensen; Professor Robert Menton; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Books
how to “fix the broken sales process” while applying the concepts and actions to a case study of a fictitious software company. The Breakthrough Imperative: How the Best Managers Get Outstanding Results by Mark Gottfredson (MBA ’83) and... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Tedlow on Tires and the Meaning of Life
concept of "knowing-and-not-knowing" in business histories all the time. People, both in business and in life, often find themselves in states of "rational apprehension" that do not result in "appropriate action." It's one thing to know... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Culture Clash: Exploring Cross Cultural Conflicts in Business
one of the first firms in Thailand to develop its own written code of ethics. The company's philosophy is rooted in the Buddhist concept of fairness and also stresses product quality, the value of the individual, and concern for social... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Alumni Books
capture a few moments of enjoyment will be key to recovering from the current economic downturn. Building Competitiveness in Africa’s Agriculture: A Guide to Value Chain Concepts and Applications by C. Martin Webber (MBA ’80) and Patrick... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Growing Home
use his or her network, assets, capability, and time to focus on one city to revitalize and come up with a rebirth project. DM: Yoshi, you have written in the past about the concept of “kokorozashi” and its importance in your life. Can... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
design; 27 proven “plays” from the UXReactor playbook to put concepts into practice, and game planning examples to execute at different levels of an organization. A comprehensive and practical book for business leaders, design leaders,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
conception of business as a contact sport. The target was Motorola. The 68000 might have been technically superior to the 8086, but Davidow figured out a way to make that undeniably important fact irrelevant. What mattered was not the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Meg Whitman, MBA 1979
revenues of $7.7 billion in 2007. She is particularly proud that 1.3 million people make some part of their living selling things through eBay. “Our concept has been to make a small number of rules and get the heck out of the way so that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
itself. Viana sensed that the workers, and brand, enjoyed broad-based public support. So he turned to crowdfunding, still a relatively unfamiliar concept in France, posting his cause on the site Bulb in Town and cross- promoting his... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
Rengaswamy (MBA ’06). The company hopes to capture the thriving India travel market, expected to reach $32 billion by 2008. It also has a stake in Shaadi.com, India’s largest matchmaking service, where revenues have grown by 100 percent every year for the last four... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Putting the Game Within Reach
every fan,” Rottenberg says. The more they interact with the league, the more Fan IQ points they rack up, thus unlocking greater voting privileges. It’s a video game come to life. After debuting a team in the Indoor Football League in 2017 to prove the View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
The Last Frontier
have...is that people like me. The other is that my logic is impeccable. My life, my death, my control.” The article noted, “Gardner does not live like a man waiting to die” as he works out regularly and prepares to climb Mt. Rainier. The awkward physical symptoms of... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
denominator for many of us," he continues. "That's a concept that we really didn't learn at HBS but one that has become important over the years. I think we all started out spending the lion's share of our time on business, but we're now... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 12 Feb 2016
- News
Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict
the concept for the Dreamfly allowed her to leave her homeland roots and return to HBS, where she was greeted with enthusiasm and support for the idea. “I somehow felt authentic being there. The HBS experience felt more real, that I could... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 14 May 2014
- News
(Re)moving the Needle
sure that the technology you develop will be used properly to help people." The concept of achieving personal success through helping others is the driving force that has cut across all of Anquetil's ventures. What really gets me excited... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Faculty Research Online From HBS Working Knowledge
Michael Norton and colleagues. Career Advancement without Experience Lacking experience, contract workers find it difficult to advance to a job with expanded responsibilities. But it can be done. Assistant Professor Siobhán O’Mahony discusses her research on the... View Details