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March 2008
Article

Radically Simple IT

Many managers think that developing and rolling out a major IT system is like putting up a warehouse: You build it and you're done. But that does not work for IT anymore. Taking that approach results in rigid, costly systems that are outdated from the day they are... View Details

Keywords: Design; Information Technology; Information Technology Industry

Citation

20 Oct 2019
News

U.S. Business Schools Realize ESG is no Fad but Part of Long-Term Trend

17 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 17, 2009

small biotechnology firms licensed to global pharmaceutical firms suggests that licensing transactions are more likely to occur between firms located in the same geographic area. The results point to the possibility that licensing markets... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Dec 2020
Blog Post

The Forward Fellowship Convinced Me That I Belong at HBS

Financial Aid office), I discovered different resources and opportunities that I could turn to in order to make this impossible dream a reality. The Forward Fellowship was designed for students like me with extenuating family... View Details

01 Jan 2012
News

Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993

credit cards, online shopping, banking, and the Rakuten Golden Eagles baseball team. With 10,000 employees worldwide, Rakuten currently has a market capitalization of approximately $14 billion. It is the number one e-commerce company in Japan and competes globally with... View Details

01 Mar 2024
News

Come Sail Away

When Michael Sard (MBA 2018) arrived at HBS, he owned about 50 Hawaiian shirts. “It was one of the few items in a man’s closet that could have a ritual to it around going out, like a tuxedo does,” he says. Purchase options, however, seemed limited to two extremes:... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; manufacturing; career path; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Oct 2014
What Do You Think?

Is Too Much Focus a Problem?

process, they provoked a new round of questions. David Physick teed up the discussion nicely by commenting, "The wonderful American motor racing driver, Mario Andretti, who was as focused an individual as any racer, remarked he'd stop driving when his peripheral... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

23 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Learning Curve: The Brother-and-Sister Team Behind a New Edtech Nonprofit

As the children of civil servants living in northern India, siblings Azeez Gupta (MBA 2019) and Namya Mahajan (MBA 2022) enjoyed educational advantages that millions of their lower-income peers did not—advantages such as high-quality preschools that focused on core... View Details

03 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

The Box Office Power of Stars

owned by Cantor Index Holdings, mimics a real supply-and-demand-based stock exchange like the NYSE. HSX acts as the market maker—its technology is set up so that when there is high demand for a certain stock, prices will automatically go... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Entertainment & Recreation; Motion Pictures & Video

07 May 2007
Research & Ideas

Rediscovering Schumpeter: The Power of Capitalism

it to evolution. The creative destruction can occur within a large innovative company (Toyota, GE, Microsoft), but it's much more likely to happen with start-ups, particularly since they now have so much access to venture capital.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education

Portrait Project

Carlton Burrell

pride in my hometown – move from “the border” to Compton. Instead, “talking proper” and “dressing like a white boy” created doubt. Poetic justice. You see, Compton is more than the mainstream media portrayal of graffiti-laden walls... View Details

01 Oct 1996
News

Trading Up — Kenneth D. Brody (MBA 1971)

On a summer evening in 1991, after a small, invitation-only dinner in New York City, Ken Brody took aside the guest of honor for a private conversation. The longer the two men talked, the more Brody sensed he had found a kindred spirit. View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

16 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making

Success at the movie box office can be difficult to predict. For every surprise hit film like Crazy Rich Asians, there’s a massive flame-out like Justice League. Unlike television, where a station can test a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Motion Pictures & Video

01 May 2017
Research & Ideas

Bad At Your Job? Maybe It's the Job’s Fault

Simons says. “They control this narrow slice, but their jobs are tied to things like revenue growth and profitability. The missing piece is the support they are given to accomplish their goals.” When using the tool, a job can be evaluated... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

28 Aug 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

change in its employee incentive contract design towards low-powered incentives, we examine whether the design of incentive contracts for the standard tasks influences employee-initiated innovation activities. We find that employees under fixed-pay contracts are more... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

16 Apr 2019
Blog Post

How Being an Introvert Influenced My Business School Experience

Workout classes at the Shad fitness center: A group activity that requires no small talk Attending talks across the river at Harvard Kennedy School and then studying in the Smith Center: Both places where I am less likely to run into HBS... View Details

13 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Career Journey: Karan Khimji, Co-Founder of 44.01

or from the smokestacks of industrial processes and eliminate it by mineralizing it in peridotite. To do that, we combine CO2 with water and then inject it into seams of peridotite deep underground. There, we can control variables like... View Details

04 Feb 2014
What Do You Think?

Has Listening Become a Lost Art?

Summing Up When Is Listening Not a Good Strategy? Like a good case debate, the discussion of the question of whether listening is a lost art was not one-sided. What was clear was how important people felt listening is to effective... View Details