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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Leveraging Female Talent
The research of HBS professor Boris Groysberg centers on a question that troubles many managers: How do I hire and develop top performers who will contribute to my company's success? The author of Talk, Inc.: How Trusted Leaders Use... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Harnessing the Tools of the Digital Age
It wasn’t necessary to understand the technology that powered the company’s washing machines, turbines, or jet engines. “But executives now need to understand the technologies behind their products and think about their implications on... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
A Message from Dean Clark
in our classrooms. We are excited by the possibilities generated by our research offices in California and Hong Kong and our planned center in Latin America. The California Research Center (CRC) has far... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
400 and Counting: Surge in HBS Cases with Women Protagonists
executive Marjorie Alfus and The Committee of 200, a national organization of women business executives. The project provided funding, case connections, and research assistance to HBS faculty who wrote cases featuring women. “We’ve made... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
notion that all entrepreneurs were born geniuses genetically predisposed to be creative, even reckless, visionaries. He insisted that it was more perspiration than inspiration: find an existing need that demands a product or service... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
investment in math and physical sciences. Moving on to challenges Merck has faced, Gilmartin explained that new drug discovery tools have increased the speed at which its competitors can introduce new products to the marketplace, even as... View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
in the area. The product had been in development for years prior to the disaster, says Polatoğlu, developed to address a rise in natural disaster–related emergencies caused by climate change. “Moreover, we have designed a special... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Magician Turns HBS Upside Down
research and development that go into developing tricks. He personally creates technology and builds devices in his own machine shop to achieve illusions and make magic. As Alyssa Martin (MBA ’09) explained later, “He told us that he... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Working World
make the product a reality. That made an impression—that an immigrant living in the United States was turning back to his home country to help realize the products of his invention. So my first work in this... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
The Right Stuff: Getting the Word from MBA Admissions
people who are different from themselves. Examples might include a production supervisor who can rally everyone in an organization, from frontline employees to union leaders to CEOs; or a platoon leader who works with people from a range... View Details
- 19 Feb 2021
- News
A Playbook for Progress
global partnerships with US publishers. Together, they're coauthors of A Blessing: Women of Color Teaming Up to Lead, Empower and Thrive. The book uses existing data, as well as the authors' own original research to offer what they call... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
historically lagged behind that of California and Massachusetts despite the presence of numerous drug companies and medical research institutions.) And she is not alone: Endeavor Insight, a nonprofit View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Books
to new product and service failure rates of 80 percent or more, Zaltman urges market researchers to challenge the status quo. “The sinking of the Titanic resulted from a failure to question two-and-a-half... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The View from the Pit
Harvard's School of Public Health since 1976 and has spent much of her professional career applying corporate and industrial models to the health-care field. Her research activity at HBS focuses on the current trend of hospital mergers... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
predictable date for its demand. There is certainly a need for more research into vaccine-production technologies and for greater production capacity, and WHO encourages vaccine firms and national... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
Neeley, the Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration, leverages years of research to help companies, and their leaders, address the challenges of virtual work. With well over half of Americans indicating a preference for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
the alumni directory, with the goal of better serving alumni needs. The Lifelong Learning Committee, chaired by Richard Decker (98th AMP, 1986), identified three areas of focus: researching the level of alumni interest in specific... View Details
- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
age of innovation. There are people all over the country in universities and colleges who are actually doing research and conducting randomized control trials to determine what solutions work and what solutions don't work. And that's... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
eventful. The lessons of their experience speak volumes for all of American industry, as firms large and small grapple with a host of new challenges that those beginning their careers in 1971 never anticipated. Another MBA '71 graduate, HBS professor Christopher A.... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
those diseases. “These people have no voice in the marketplace,” Gates said. As a result, ten times as much funding is devoted to research on the prevention of male baldness as malaria, a disease that kills more than 1 million people each... View Details