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- 11 Oct 2022
- News
On Balance
gender pay gap for 25 years,” notes Wooldridge. “We need to speed things up.” Likewise, the proportion of women in CEO roles has increased steadily; but, at the current pace, it will take 80 years to achieve parity. “Everyone has a part... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Flexibility Is Key to Product Development in Internet Time
encompassed a wide range of applications, including products, services, and development tools for both commercial and individual users. Because the undertakings were so diverse, the researchers couldn't measure each project against the same performance criteria -- such... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Quantum Leap
process of drug development: With quantum’s ability to analyze multiple molecules, proteins, and chemicals at the same time, researchers could significantly speed the time to market with ultrafast and high-volume testing—and discover new... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Reinventing Radio Days
listeners via computers and other web-linked devices. Notes Kennedy, “Pandora has all the advantages of traditional radio in its speed and ease of use, as well as offering surprise, serendipity, and customization.” About 80 percent of all... View Details
- 10 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Long-Tail Economics? Give Me Blockbusters!
Blockbusters break sales records and exceed expectations. Around 100 pharmaceutical brands exceed $1 billion in annual sales. Procter & Gamble has 23 such brands. Speed. It's not just the sales volume; it's the speed of the sales... View Details
- 18 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
Climate Symposium 2023: Adopting Climate Solutions at Scale
Symposium, held on HBS campus on November 19th, 2023, facilitated conversation and reflection between leaders in the spheres of technology, business, and government with a focus on how to tackle the issues of climate change at speed and... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Short Takes
hospitals build cross-functional and cross-organizational teams that coordinate patient care more effectively. "Given the diversity of skills and backgrounds of doctors, nurses, therapists, social workers, and technicians, and the speed... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
programs that speed innovation by providing exactly what the early-stage neuroscience entrepreneurs indicate they are lacking. There are more than 200 accelerators operating worldwide, and many of them have been working with technology... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf
For the most part, this requires management to look closely at the roles of various parts of the business and alter the way employees interact. Increasing the pace of business innovation almost always requires reallocating decision rights and, more critically, power.... View Details
- 11 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ’Entrepreneurship and Multinationals’
As the pace of globalization speeded up from the 1960s, the term "multinational enterprise" (hereafter MNE) was coined, and there was an outpouring of discussion, much of it critical, about the political, social, and economic... View Details
Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones
- 29 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
My Concerns About Learning Accounting at HBS
coming to school with finance, accounting, and economic backgrounds. However, I was still hesitant about whether an online platform could actually prepare me for HBS. Luckily, I was very happily surprised. View Video HBS Online helped ease my worries by bringing me up... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Turning Point: Life Cycle
been five days of massive rain. The dirt and gravel path was soggy and spongy. That reduced my average speed from around 14 to 8 miles per hour. By the end of the day, I was still about 25 miles away from Rochester, in a little town... View Details
- 11 Dec 2017
- News
Growing from Within
guest counts on a daily basis across the restaurant portfolio as well as operating metrics such as speed and accuracy of service and food quality. Also very important are customer and people metrics. The success of our business largely... View Details
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking E-Leadership
gets you through such times. 4. Design your culture primarily around the needs of Gen X and Gen Y employees. "E-leadership demands heroic behavior," writes Nextera consultant Susan Annunzio in eLeadership: Proven Techniques for Creating an Environment of... View Details
Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni
- 12 Dec 2016
- HBS Case
Business Lessons from Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson
“Dwayne’s career speaks for itself. And Dany is running a billion-dollar business, all while competing as a professional bodybuilder. They’re both grabbing every opportunity available to them and are running with it, full speed ahead.... View Details
- 07 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
Can You Learn Finance through the Case Method?
of micro and macroeconomics was one of the things I was most looking forward to about business school. I had heard that HBS did a great job of supporting people like me in getting up to speed quickly in these subjects through... View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
- News
Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized
While his friends have retired, 79-year-old Merle Bushkin (AB 1956, MBA 1960), a laid-back guy with the energy of a man half his age, is rocketing full speed into the challenges of entrepreneurship—launching a startup company offering a... View Details
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
boards have improved in recent years, the speed at which they were improving lagged behind the speed at which solutions should have been implemented." -Rakesh Khurana That culture, critics maintain,... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 23 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 23, 2007
balance between the efficiency of a global entity and the speed of local businesses. What would be the best strategy for Bunge to respond to the external changes imposed by high energy prices and increasing demand from emerging economies?... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
time. I had worked closely on day-to-day operations with the firm’s founder since 2005, so I was up to speed on most things, including the public offering. But being up to speed on something and owning... View Details