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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
At HBS Workshop, New CEOs Tune Up for the Top
effective relationships with boards of directors. In addition to Porter, other HBS faculty members teaching in those sessions included Professor Jay W. Lorsch, a leading expert on corporate governance and... View Details
Keywords: Jon Prestage
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
technologies seldom make sense to managers, given their corporate perspective. There are two reasons for this. First, customers exert tremendous influence over managers' decisions and the directions they... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Cure All
Raffaella Sadun: I would add that their lack of focus might be the reason why it’s so hard for them to actually excel in implementation. The hospital is a complex, multiproduct organization, and spreading... View Details
- 26 Sep 2018
- News
Getting Life Back in Balance
make mistakes. “My greatest focus is—and will always be—on people: motivating them, empowering them, and encouraging them to experiment and take calculated risks,” Gower says.... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
to think about that, is if you had looked at a group of Americans in 1870 and described them, you would've said “American citizens.” By 1920 that group has become “American consumers.” So there's a flip. And... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
HBS's vantage, it is clear Allston will enhance the University's mission and extend our impact. Global I would like to see more balance of studies on different continents. A lot of focus is on the United... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
demarcation. Now the workers are on the floor, delivering orders or helping customers with the new kiosks; Karavites has updated his employee training to include a focus on View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
opportunities? The most successful entrepreneurs I interviewed demonstrated that the key is to focus on finding customer problems first, and only then on searching for... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
New Releases
of confidence that demonstrates the risks of neglecting customer and employee relationships in the face of large-scale change. Once the world's most admired corporation, IBM... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Easy Rider
native knew an icon—and a challenge—when he saw one. In 2009 he stepped into the role of managing director, Harley-Davidson India. Entering the Indian market had plenty of challenges related to tariffs, accessibility, and brand... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
part of the problem, is increasingly being called on to be part of the solution. How business can do this most effectively is the focus of the GPP’s research and scholarly activity. While GPP faculty note... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Eric Schiffer
didn’t say by how much. There was a one-month period when our customers were “pantry loading” because they thought prices would go up significantly. Instead, we held a press conference in our store and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
that focus on the perceived cause of the most recent crash. These efforts have ignored the enduring cultural problems of CEO-board collusive relationships and the lack of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Staying the Course
a necessary first step in meeting the increasing demand for online educational tools. The newly remote DreamBox team decided to shift its focus to support, providing customer service not just for the 130,000... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
meeting for me, we need those tools to stay organized. The second thing is to allow yourself some grace, because it’s a hard thing you’re doing, and if you focus on the guilt, you’ll frustrate yourself. One... View Details
- 22 Oct 2018
- News
Capital Murder
the focus of intense media scrutiny after lying to investigators about his relationship with Chandra Levy, a 23-year-old whose remains were found one year after her disappearance in May 2001. Witnessing the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 12 Apr 2012
- News
HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups
northwestern us ClearCare serves the $60-billion private-pay homecare market in the US using a powerful SaaS technology that provides back-office efficiency and front-facing engagement of families and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Where the Jobs Are
approach to taking a more in-depth look at a single topic through the experiences of alumni and the insights of faculty experts. HBS alumni interviewed for this issue lead companies ranging in size from a global powerhouse to just twenty... View Details
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
today’s largest venture capital firms to focus “almost exclusively [on] chasing unicorns,” leaving companies that boast lower valuations and more modest risk/return profiles out in the cold. Indeed, data... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
other stakeholders in society. If academic critiques were not discouraging enough, Datar and Garvin distilled more bad news from their research. “There’s an escalating drumbeat of concerns from alums, from students, View Details