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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Clay Christensen on Competing Against Luck
Innovator’s Dilemma and make “disruption” a universal buzzword. Christensen’s latest book, Competing Against Luck, drops this month and is an outgrowth of the second puzzle he’s faced: Why is innovation such a gamble? It doesn’t have to... View Details
- 08 Mar 2017
- Blog Post
Education Sector Opportunities at HBS
skills and experiences: Courses and Independent Projects The required curriculum truly does prepare you with the foundation to enter any field, but there is some metacognitive work to be done to apply what we learn in accounting to school district budgets or in View Details
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Bank of America Turned Branches into Service-Development Laboratories
America's Innovation & Development Team quickly realized that it would be very difficult to conduct a diverse array of experiments within the confines of a traditionally designed bank branch. Experiments require frequent changes in... View Details
- 17 Mar 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in New York
remarks, Dean Datar talked about several innovative initiatives that he anticipates will have lasting value for the School and that place the School at the cutting edge of addressing the challenges facing business and society today.... View Details
- 12 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Leapfrogging Traditional Agricultural Development in Africa
the following video clips from Mostafa Terrab’s interview with Prof. Geoffrey Jones: Innovation – The Development of Customized Fertilizer: Mostafa Terrab, Chairman and CEO of Morocco-based OCP Group, details the company’s View Details
- April 2004 (Revised October 2005)
- Teaching Note
Marketing of Innovations, The: Course Overview Note for Instructors
- January 2018
- Case
Flying into the Future: HondaJet
By: Gary P. Pisano and Jesse Shulman
This cases examine Honda’s diversification into the light jet market. In 1985, Honda initiated a secret program to develop a small jet. Over the years, the program had many ups and downs (it was almost canceled several times). Then, a breakthrough in the configuration... View Details
Keywords: Diversification; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Innovation and Management; Air Transportation Industry
Pisano, Gary P., and Jesse Shulman. "Flying into the Future: HondaJet." Harvard Business School Case 618-012, January 2018.
- 02 Dec 2015
- Blog Post
Alumni: Where Are They Now? Featuring: Laura Mackay...
Current Position: VP of Operations, Fibroblast; formerly, VP of Strategy & Operations, NeoCare Solutions, a Healthagen Business (part of Aetna) Current Location: Chicago; formerly, NYC Tell us what you're up to these days. Right after... View Details
- 21 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Music Downloads: Pirates—or Customers?
conditions and competing forms of entertainment that is displacing legitimate sales." The industry is rethinking its position, although change occurs slowly. Q: Let's talk strategy. What have been the recording companies' strategies... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Money and Markets Dominate New Course Offerings
business or investing in emerging markets. New half-courses The Art of Marketing Science is intended for students interested in gaining a deeper understanding of consumer behavior and, most importantly, gaining expertise in changing consumer behavior. Assembling Global... View Details
Keywords: curriculum
- 26 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 26, 2008
corporate managers use information provision to encourage subsidiaries' adoption of advanced management practices. Focusing on the distribution of expertise across subsidiaries, we propose that corporate managers elect an information... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Nov 2024
- Blog Post
Meet the Aerospace & Defense Club
Innovation Unit and Revolution VC. Treasurer Daniel Ackeret: dackeret@mba2025.hbs.edu Daniel is an MBA candidate interested in advanced manufacturing, space and defense tech. Before HBS, Daniel worked in Corporate Development and View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
running M&A and strategy for a public company and did 17 acquisitions around the globe. I think of it as kind of one of those best laid plans stories. Sometimes it doesn't work out exactly the way you wanted it to and it takes a... View Details
- 01 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?
specifically for beneficiaries who have received advanced degrees in the United States.) "It's a lightning rod for a very heated debate," says William Kerr, a professor at Harvard Business School who studies how immigration affects View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
“an incredibly dedicated and brilliant group of physicians, as well as patients with such courage and grace that I knew I wanted to do something to get more involved in their battle.” This year she is on a “working sabbatical” at Dana-Farber and Harvard Medical School,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
Life by David M. Culver (MBA 1949) with Alan Freeman (McGill-Queen's University Press) Innovation Zeitgeist: Digital Business Transformation in a World of Too Many Competitors by Alistair Davidson (MBA 1976) (Eclicktick Consulting) Denial... View Details
- 08 Jan 2001
- What Do You Think?
Have We Extended the Boundaries of the Firm Too Far?
the words of my colleague Tom Eisenmann, the "get big fast" strategy by focusing on core activities while doing the rest by partnering with others, including competitors. A large, successful firm... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Magician Turns HBS Upside Down
QUITE SOME TRICK: Randal rendering an HBS classroom speechless, at least momentarily. Innovation and magic are kindred activities: Both can amaze and upend reality while introducing something new or totally unexpected, as if from nowhere,... View Details
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
A Bridge to the Future
Returning to the place where their HBS experience began, students in the MBA Class of 2015 convened with sectionmates in their first-year classrooms in late April to participate in an innovative new capstone course. Bridges, part of a... View Details
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth
this venture would encounter? Here are a few of the problems that we could know we would face: We know for sure that we aren't sure if our strategy is right—and yet we have to figure out the right strategy, develop consensus, and build a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Raynor