Information And Transformation Function - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Apr 2000
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Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences

Always impressive, the annual conferences organized by HBS student clubs bring together industry leaders, alumni, and students for meetings marked by informative discussions of key business issues. Earlier... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner

01 Apr 1999
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Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong

customers will use the product. Is this a marketing issue more than one of technology? Absolutely. Most marketers are deeply skilled in listening to customers and then translating the information they obtain... View Details

19 Dec 2024
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The Musts of 2024

Pamela Woo (MBA 1994): Pamela Woo, MBA 1994. Mine is All There Is by Anderson Cooper. I just lost my mom in December, [after a] 10-year battle with Alzheimer's and it was just so transformative to hear about... View Details

12 Apr 2023
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Step Change

company Fawry's IPO was oversubscribed by 30 times, generating $100 million. Significantly, a cultural shift occurred after the 2011 revolution when, suddenly, anything seemed possible. [music] Amal Enan (MBA 2014) witnessed these View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

19 May 2022
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Leading to Salvation

beauty, dignity, and value to architectural design. I was really looking to have a design that was not only transformational in terms of innovation, creativity, design, but also something that resonates back... View Details

01 Sep 2014
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2014

on the next big thing, Dahod marries technological understanding with management expertise to solve high-tech problems and build cutting-edge companies. With five advanced degrees and five successful... View Details

01 Mar 2013
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Commitment to Leadership

experience and informed perspectives to the study and practice of leadership at HBS. Through ongoing financial support and engagement, alumni are... View Details

22 Nov 2024
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Healthcare Club Hosts its 25th Annual Conference; Alumni Step Out for Global Networking Night; Meet the Club Leader: Andrea Fantacone

Liaisons on the same day around the world. All HBS alumni are invited to this evening of informal networking and engagement. Some clubs held cocktail social hours, others met over dinner, View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2020
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Prognosis

Care Initiative. He teaches the second-year course Transforming Health Care Delivery, as well as executive education programs for a number of hospitals. He serves on the advisory board for RubiconMD, which provides telehealth services,... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; COVID-19; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

01 Sep 2016
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The Taxi Wars of Jakarta

reach wealthy and technologically savvy consumers fed up with gridlock and delay. At the heart of each business: a vision to change how Jakartans navigate the city’s congestion View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey Hutton; Illustrations by Josh Cochran

01 Dec 2005
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Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper

estate. Others call it a sea change. Whatever the choice of words, there’s broad agreement that the industry’s transformation has drained considerable risk out of a once notoriously unstable market. A new industry emerges Not so long ago,... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Real Estate

10 Aug 2022
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Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age

is so much better because you're understanding better what their needs are and not coming up with something that wouldn't be functional or useful to them. DM: How's that experience been for the students? Has... View Details

20 Dec 2024
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Clubs Open HBS Doors for Local Leaders; Meet the Club Leaders: HBS PRIDE; Favorite Reads of 2024

To Boost Communities, Alumni Clubs Send Nonprofit Leaders to HBS For one week every summer, nonprofit leaders from across the globe convene on the HBS campus to sharpen their leadership skills and expand their impact through the Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

28 Feb 2025
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Joy to the World

fitness. So mindfulness, again from some of the research, they say that the happiest person in the world is someone who meditates a lot. You do see real changes in the way that the brain functions with meditation over time. View Details

01 Jan 2004
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Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977

foundation for Mitsubishi's transformation into a 21st-century company." At the end of his term as president and CEO in 1998, Makihara became Mitsubishi Corporation's chairman for six years, a position that... View Details

01 Jan 2005
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Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965

Critics harped that an "elephant" like IBM couldn't dance the quick steps of the new technology. A search was under way for a new CEO, but few—including Lou Gerstner himself—were eager to take on the very public, very risky assignment of rescuing View Details

12 Jul 2019
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The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster

away from what has made the Internet so amazing for the economy in the world. Prince: For us, whenever we go to roll out a new function we’ll often reach out to our free customers and say hey we’re thinking... View Details

04 Dec 2019
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Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders

requiring hundreds of millions of dollars just to get to a certain point, whereas normally you would get it from the public markets. And why there are not more women involved in the later stages: I think it’s largely a View Details

04 Aug 2020
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How Business Can Advance Racial Equity

lives cut short by either race-based violence or fatal encounters with law enforcement. So if I'm being candid, my initial response was a tragically resigned, here we are again. You develop over the decades a certain veneer that allows you just to View Details

01 Apr 2000
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Getting the Message

The entire process -- from ad to purchase -- might take less than five minutes. In addition to streamlining the flow of information and transactions, Web technology can also help advertisers meet two of the... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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