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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Teaching and Learning Center Established, Honors Christensen’s Legacy
will help strengthen the School’s long tradition of world-class teaching. The C. Roland Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning, scheduled to open this fall, will augment the already established HBS system of faculty-to-faculty... View Details
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
prior industries: photography, consumer electronics, and computers. By 2004, several features had emerged as a dominant design; however, the timing and rate of adoption varied by prior industry. This study extends previous research on firm entry into new View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
updating the 10 disruptive forces identified in the first edition, showing how managers can address these challenges, and describing how public confidence in the market system could be rebuilt. The revised edition includes examples of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
As wide and fractured as the partisan divide feels right now, the challenges to America’s underlying democratic systems cut deeper still: The productivity of Congress has declined steeply in the past 20 years. The country’s voting rate in... View Details
- Profile
Angela R. Hicks Bowman
company’s name to Angie’s List. She and Oesterle decided to buy Unified Neighbors, which had 5000 members, and move the new merged company’s headquarters to Indianapolis. They steadily built what Hicks called a “homeowners... View Details
- 31 Oct 2014
- Op-Ed
Ebola’s Call To Arms About Disaster Preparedness
and biosecurity community has been banging the drum about for years: the US has massively underinvested in public health. As in so many other areas of the nation's infrastructure, the elements of our health care system have eroded, and we... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Culture Clash: Exploring Cross Cultural Conflicts in Business
has begun searching for answers in a broader, overseas setting. With a research agenda organized around eight major world cultures and belief systems - African, Confucian, Hindu/Buddhist, Islamic, Japanese, Latin American,... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 14 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Difficulties for Women Bridging Racial, Generational, and Global Divides
symposium, Ely talked about how intersectionality can complicate workplace and societal support systems among women. Would-be support systems often focus solely on the fact that women are women, ignoring the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
have died.” Chan, who hails from the People’s Republic of China, obtained her medical degree from the University of Western Ontario in Canada. In 1994, she was named Director of Health for Hong Kong, where she began her public-health... View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Privatization and the New European Economy
"some 12 to 15 percent of GDP in Europe was public sector enterprise," he said. But all that began to change in the early 1980s amid loud cries of inefficiency, as markets opened up and governments sought sources of revenue. While deregulation was the View Details
- 21 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the City of Boston
Fellowship, has led the charge, championing the end user in a system burdened with legacy IT, a complex government bureaucracy, and the financial constraints that (rightfully) come with using taxpayers’ dollars. The View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Ink
Reading “For those who love history and like thinking about why our American system (with all of its flaws) kind of works, these two books help to frame how lucky we are and why the way we do things in the United States does not work so... View Details
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
conflict—that could be revived with an influx of financial resources, and that would ensure fair distribution of the fruits of the resulting growth. Today the poorest regions of the world benefit from no such infrastructure. And what View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 15 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of New-Market Disruption
Teradyne: Testing Opportunity In 1994, Teradyne, a leading provider of machines that test the quality of microprocessors and other integrated circuits as they come off the assembly line, saw an opportunity to create a more compact and cost-efficient test View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Michael G. Mullen, AMP 109, 1991
Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1946 Born, Los Angeles, California 1968 Earns BS, Systems Engineering, US Naval Academy 1985 Earns MS, Operations Research, US Naval Postgraduate School 1987 Receives Stockdale Award... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 22 Jul 2021
- News
Mentoring Fashion Startups in Singapore; Rising Star Accolades for Mid-Career Women
bridging the gap between fashion, technology, and sustainability,” according to Ventura. Women's Association of New York Names Rising Stars for 2021 In an effort to give outstanding HBS alumnae a mid-career boost of recognition, HBS... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
kid” at Ford Motor Company, McNamara climbed the corporate ladder and, after fourteen years, was named president (the first from outside the Ford family) in November 1960. Bucking sacrosanct industry notions, he promoted vehicle safety... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 20 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Dragging Patent Trolls Into the Light
place for original work.) If it weren't for NPEs, the argument goes, resource-rich companies would be free to steal ideas of small inventors without fearing retaliatory lawsuits—and this would poison the business environment. But critics have another View Details
- 05 May 2022
- News
Like-Minded
the fact that their maiden names all begin with the letter M, which inspired the company’s name), the women had all been raised on entrepreneurship. Murakami’s mother had started a company in her 40s. Matsu’s parents, immigrants, founded... View Details
- 09 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer
"it's a bigger story," Mikes says over tea recently in her immaculate office. "We believe it's not just risk managers who fight these issues but also human resources managers, accountants, finance professionals, internal auditors, marketing, you View Details