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- 01 Feb 1999
- News
All in the Family
children into the company. Eventually, in-laws and cousins may find themselves working together and trying to manage an intricate set of relationships as the organization expands and formalizes processes that were hit-or-miss during the company's early days as a... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Leading the way in times of crisis
the city’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority, got the city’s transit system back on track using the same take-charge skills he displayed on September 11, 2001, when, as Rudy Giuliani’s deputy mayor, he helped coordinate emergency... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Monaco's Digital Transformation
launch 5G, and it recently introduced Monaco Cloud, the software, services, and security systems that power the country’s computers and facilitate data storage. While it was created in partnership with Amazon and Dell, Monaco Cloud is... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
different could things be?” It’s only been thirteen years since I graduated from HBS, and we in the Class of 1988 were remarkably forward-thinking about technology. Ours was the first class to have a subject called Management Information View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Myth of Laissez-Faire
exemplars and promotes the research of economist Peter Lindert of the University of California, Davis. Madrick advocates big government not because it’s big but because it’s powerful enough to manage change in an increasingly complex... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Robots to the Rescue
Mountz Photo courtesy Kiva Systems Kiva's robots in action Main article: Where Innovation Rules In the News: Boston Globe: Amazon Buys Kiva for $775M Those who know Mick Mountz (MBA 1996) well were not overly surprised when he started a... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Multiple generations of computing
computer-memory system modeled after the human neocortex. The first product, Grok, detects anomalies in IT systems by automatically finding complex patterns in streams of data.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Eight Join HBS Faculty
teaches the first-year course Technology and Operations Management. His research focuses on techniques to evaluate and improve the performance of complex systems in the airline and sports industries. Fearing... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
she had a different type of leukemia. They ran more tests but saw no sign of one. The hospital was affiliated with the University of Tokyo’s Institute of Medical Science, which had partnered with IBM Watson, a cloud-based cognitive-computing View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Alumni Books
An easy-to-use glossary and over sixty charts and diagrams define and illustrate complex financial terms and concepts. The Guru Investor: How to Beat the Market Using History’s Best Investment Strategies by John P. Reese (MBA ’79) with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Alumni Books
Catch Up and Win by Steven J. Spear (DBA ’99) (McGraw-Hill) Spear finds that the internal operations of such market leaders as Toyota, Alcoa, and top-tier teaching hospitals have one thing in common: the skillful management of complex... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
Antonio Falato of the Federal Reserve Board, Scharfstein says many traditional banks responded by taking outsized credit risk in an effort to boost short-run performance. “The complex interplay of different types of intermediaries made it... View Details
- 08 Apr 2011
- News
Management Matters In Health Care, Too
Harvard Medical School. He has shown that detailed checklists can improve surgical patient outcomes. Gawande told the audience that traditional practices with individual doctors can’t meet the complex challenges of modern medicine.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
New MBA Leadership Course
into three interrelated parts. First, students learn about the legal, ethical, and economic responsibilities of companies and their leaders. Next, they look at organizational systems and governance structures that can foster responsible... View Details
- 14 Jan 2021
- News
Better Than Cash
Goals. Whether it’s improvements in sanitation or health or education, it starts with a payment system everyone can use.” The Better Than Cash Alliance advocates for this type of digital financial inclusion, provides guidance to... View Details
- 01 Apr 2008
- News
“Let Us Now Praise Famous Women”
computer storing the data was not on campus. Doris at the dot-matrix printer, with a Decmate at the right Doris came to Alumni Records in 1979 after two years with the HBS Fund. That was the year HBS records were computerized using the VAX View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Case Study: Let’s Dance
and New York. Cummings asked readers for their thoughts on how to design a fulfillment system that would suit their complex process. Their path: The company switched to an assembly line from a... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story
infrastructure for the Industrial Century did not compete, conquer, or die in the manner of the national industries that created the infrastructure for the Electronic Century. I wanted to find out why. Amid these complex shifts of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
Ebrahim is delineating a framework that takes into account the inherent uncertainty and complexity of measuring results in the social sector. EBRAHIM: The hard work of measuring impact becomes easier "Performance measurement in nonprofits... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Faculty Books
Corporate Information Strategy and Management by Lynda M. Applegate, Robert D. Austin, and F. Warren McFarlan (Irwin/McGraw-Hill) This extensive collection of HBS cases devoted to IT gives an overview of contemporary information systems... View Details