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- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
electronic-mail communication. Building on the knowledge gained from that project and from the use of personal computers in a few carefully selected MBA courses, the School moved in the mid-1980s to recommend strongly that students use... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 10 Nov 2020
- News
Learning to Fight
to make informed decisions about treatment. To date, the Brain Tumor Network’s nurse navigators and social workers have helped more than 1,200 people around the United States. Sontag’s people-first ethos also guides the View Details
Keywords: April White
- 13 Mar 2018
- News
Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
to have any influence at all in the events, then that's where the leader needs to be. And selecting that place, knowing where that place is, is really a critical skill that a leader needs to develop. And he saw that as the View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
U.S. consumers more power over decisions related to health care. Those who advocate consumer-driven health care - including conference chair Professor Regina E. Herzlinger - believe that shifting control of health-care purchasing View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
A Safer—and Speedier—Way to Name Your Startup
image by Edmon de Haro So you have an idea for a new business, product, or service. What are you going to call it? As any cash-strapped entrepreneur, product manager, or “creative” will tell you, that decision can be critical when it... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Merton Named University Professor
announced his decision to step down. The professorship was created with the help of the McArthurs' many friends, principally the Dean's classmates in the MBA Class of 1959, who wanted to recognize the McArthurs' contributions to Harvard... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Facing Ambiguity
history of the shuttle program. When students come to class they have a general understanding of NASA but only specific knowledge — from the point of view of their assigned “character” — of what has occurred during the first half of Columbia’s mission. After some... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
be a great place to work. Last year, we were selected as one of Fortune magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work For.” We try to create an environment where our people are empowered to make creative decisions... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
application process is open, and qualified buyers are selected on the basis of lotteries and other methods. Our projects attract and retain people in the neighborhood, which contributes to stability, further investment, and a broader tax... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Ron Shaich’s Café Society
not reach its full potential unless it had all the financial and human capital our company could muster. I suggested to our board that we sell all our other businesses and “double down” on Panera Bread. It wasn’t a popular decision but... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
one-story former garage on Grand Street in Soho that would be the main home of Deitch Projects for fifteen years. A Photographic Odyssey: Around the World with Alexander W. Dreyfoos by Alexander W. Dreyfoos (MBA 1958) (Cultural Council of Palm Beach County) These... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
For Alumni Only: Breakthrough Insights Program Debuts
for Executive Education, sought to achieve broad-based appeal by selecting five faculty presenters with recently published research in several different areas. The approach evidently succeeded, as the program sold out, attracting eighty... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
HBSAAA Conference Addresses Pathways to Power
no national reputation — was appointed,” Ferguson recalled. “But he listens to everyone, judges ideas on their quality rather than on their source, and makes better decisions because of that.” Financial consultant Andrew Brimmer, the... View Details
- 20 Dec 2019
- News
The 19 Musts of 2019
of Mom Hacks (2019) MUST LISTEN Stay Free: The Story of the Clash “The decision to have Public Enemy’s Chuck D narrate was absolutely inspired. This series is a great lesson in what it means to innovate, and the mash-up of the birth of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
employees. By 2012, sales had increased by nearly 50 percent, and VW’s brand ranking had climbed from No. 55 to No. 39. Based on consumer surveys, brand monitor Interbrand selected VW as the top environmental brand in 2012. While creating... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
a business landscape replete with possibilities, they select a single modern-day example -- the electronic computer -- as the focus of their study. Baldwin and Clark argue that the computer industry could not have experienced its... View Details
- 11 Jul 2012
- News
A Man, and a Plan, in Africa
MCC’s explicit selection criteria,” notes Bloom. “We’ve also seen African countries who have not yet qualified seeking advice from those who have. Most valuably, countries have made important legal, economic policy, and institutional... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Consumers Make Decisions (and Why Clinicians and Managers Should Care) by Gordon Moore (AMP 79, 1978), John A. Quelch, and Emily Boudreau Oxford University Press The direct-to-consumer business model has transformed how people seek out... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Q&A: Wrestling with the Unthinkable
officer at U.S. embassies before becoming deputy ambassador to Norway from 1976 to 1979. He was selected in 1983 by President Reagan to be ambassador to the Netherlands, where he served until 1986 when Reagan appointed him... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
managers tend to make spending decisions based on political incentives rather than economic logic. “They get this mentality that if the other side’s spending money on TV, we’ve got to match that,” Jameson says. “What they don’t understand... View Details