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- 01 Apr 2002
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Q&A - Mark Fields
attention to what’s said, not just for the literal translation but to understand the real meaning of what people are communicating. Another thing I’ve realized is that we’re very good in the West at minimizing the process of molding... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
questioning go hand in glove. Innovators observe things, then question why. If you want to be an innovative person, when you see things, you have to pay attention and then wonder why. A good illustration of observing and questioning is... View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
operators. Well, you know, elevators used to all have operators. When we automated them we eliminated those elevator operator jobs. Does that mean we shouldn't have put in automated elevators? No. Of course not. But what it does mean is that we need to pay a lot more... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
enthusiastic about the November event. "The presentations by HBS professors were right on the mark," said Allen W. Reedy (MBA '87), director of business planning at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. "They identified the range of challenges facing health... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
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The Case for Studying Financial History
HISTORY LESSONS: Ferguson shares his views on the global financial crisis with an attentive crowd at the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge. Professor Niall Ferguson, born in Glasgow and educated at Oxford and Cambridge universities, argues... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
over-optimized to the point of maximum vulnerability,” he cautioned. Hence, a global economy is more likely to generate economic crises than a nonglobal economy, an inconvenient fact of economic life. Turning his attention to the nation’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
themes challenge how you think about and approach problems, and its case studies illustrate the challenges you face and how to overcome them. Attentive Leadership: Lead with a Healthy Self-Image by Flooris van der Walt (AMP 173, 2007)... View Details
- 31 Jan 2023
- News
Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
panelists said the ability to anticipate is critical, as is recognizing the need to adopt different management styles as you are scaling your company. Careful attention to hiring—and authentic empathy in letting early team members go—are... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
in driving further innovation. It found that those patents filed by gender-balanced teams were cited much more frequently than those filed by single-gender teams. The Paycheck Fairness Act has brought attention to the compensation gap... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
chocolate-chip cookies. Fox, who owns Community Bakery in Little Rock, Arkansas, says he never imagined he'd one day make his living absorbed in the business of food and its many challenges, including long hours, the unending demand for consistent quality, and View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 27 Oct 2017
- News
The Best Business Advice I’ve Ever Received
Before I got here, everyone told me to pay attention to lead and said, it's all about lead. And like everyone else, when you get here, you kind of think it's the soft class that isn't as important as some of the harder classes with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
coherent package.” Whether overcomplacency will once again undermine America’s commitment to a comprehensive, forward-looking energy policy remains an open question. 6c509834cd032a4d0c1477e8d054fbd6 Partying Like There’s No Tomorrow “If we’d paid more View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Keeping the Faith
It has been said that the note of a Tibetan singing bowl is the sound of inner peace. That’s not something you might expect to hear in the MBA classroom. But it rings through Hawes Hall at the beginning of each session of The Spiritual Lives of Leaders, a second-year... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
concentrate on developmental capital and buyouts. If that worked, we could turn our attention to brand-new ventures later on, which we did." "We started out as generalists," says Waite. "All through the '60s and '70s, there wasn't a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
operational fund.) Not someone who seeks public attention for his family’s philanthropic generosity, Spangler remembers his surprise at learning that the building would bear his name. “I didn’t quite know what to say,” he recounts. “I... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
made us recognize that perhaps we hadn’t thought enough about the American hinterland and similarly neglected regions in many other countries in our push to cover the globe. We have begun to pay more attention to these areas, even as we... View Details
- 04 May 2018
- News
How to Win the Kentucky Derby
impact and the number of people. I'll give you an example. In New York state, the horse racing business, they employ over 40,000 people. And the economic impact is above $5 billion every year. So it's an engine that really, I think, oftentimes is not brought to the... View Details
Keywords: horse racing
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
optimizing rather than balancing my time. When I am with my child, I give him 100 percent attention, and in a few short minutes he is off to another activity. Likewise, I arrive at a board meeting well prepared and make it known that the other members have my undivided... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
first Outstanding Educator Award. Christensen’s “Second Adventure” Christensen turned his attention to case-method teaching in the second half of his career at HBS. HBS ARCHIVES PHOTOGRAPHS COLLECTION, BAKER LIBRARY HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
percent of the organization is saying, "Hey, I know a way to make this better." But 90 percent is saying, [laughs] "I don't want to. Sorry." And I think what happened, unfortunately, with GE Digital, is we paid too much attention to... View Details