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  • 04 Dec 2009
  • News

Last Look - December 2009

Our thanks to Phil Stern (MBA ’90): “This is Heard on the Street, an a cappella singing group with members of the MBA classes of 1990 and ’91. Dolf Berle (’91) is the soloist. We’re singing in the Talent Show held in Burden Auditorium on October 20, 1989. The young... View Details
Keywords: Keith Larson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training
  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

Trade Off

where is it from? By trying to manage trade flows in any specific product through tariffs or barriers, you will affect many other elements with effects that are difficult to predict. SR: For millennia, most trade was either in raw... View Details
  • 2011
  • Chapter

Between Global and Local: The Invention of Data Privacy in the United States and France

By: J. Gunnar Trumbull
Keywords: Social Issues; Knowledge Management; Information Management; Rights; United States; France
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  • 1994
  • Chapter

Customer Transaction Databases: Present Status and Prospects

By: J. A. Deighton, Don Peppers and Martha Rogers
Keywords: Customers; Market Transactions; Information Management; Data and Data Sets
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  • October 1996 (Revised April 1997)
  • Case

Vandelay Industries, Inc.

An ICS consultant considers issues at the start of a full-scale implementation of SAP software for a large client. The enterprise resource planning (ERP) software will integrate previously fragmented business processes and so must be supported by the entire client... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Software; Business Processes; Information Technology Industry
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  • 19 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?

its traditional slow-paced and bureaucratic system of R&D to emulate the relatively fast pace and entrepreneurial system of biotech companies." The firm created several specialized research teams to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 28 Jun 2011
  • News

Beyond Case Writing

behavioral-change experiments in health, agriculture, and microfinance in Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. She brings that globetrotting experience to bear when teaching a second-year course called Managing Global Health. At a... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • 09 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 9

differences appear to be associated with different models of development—open, distributed organizations developing systems with smaller cores. We find that core components are often dispersed throughout a system, making their detection... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 2007
  • Book

Multinationals and Global Capitalism: From the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century

By: G. Jones
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Economic Systems
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  • 18 May 2015
  • News

The First Five Years: Anjali Vaidya (MBA 2010)

enjoy team management for the teaching aspect. It’s personally very rewarding to see someone take my advice or general direction and produce useful results. I enjoy turnarounds because they are very difficult and no one expects the... View Details
Keywords: Google; Yahoo; Information; Information
  • 01 Jun 1996
  • News

GMAT Added to Admissions Criteria

In April, Dean Kim B. Clark announced that Harvard Business School will add the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT) to the portfolio of criteria used to evaluate a candidate's application to the MBA Program, effective for... View Details
  • 31 Mar 2002
  • Research & Ideas

You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It

leaders were trained, sophisticated strategic-planning systems were supposed to help senior managers decide which businesses to grow and which to harvest. 1 Unfortunately, all the planning and investment... View Details
Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal
  • September 2013
  • Case

PadFone vs. FonePad

By: Willy Shih and Sen Chai
To Jonney Shih, Chairman of ASUSTek Computer, the introduction of Apple's iPad made clear the need to transition his company to a new cloud-computing era. But the company's roots in the manufacture of Windows-powered desktop and notebook PCs bounded the creativity of... View Details
Keywords: Mobile Phones; Smartphone; Tablet Computer; Android; Recombination; Design Thinking; Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Commercialization; Competitive Strategy; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Asia; Taiwan; Europe; United States
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  • February 1991 (Revised November 2010)
  • Case

Tennessee Controls: The Strategic Ranking Problem

By: Robert L. Simons and Dale Geiger
Tennessee Controls has instituted a new formal asset acquisition process to rank competing proposals. Judy Starnes, the new division manager, is asked to rank three proposals by using techniques to quantify economic returns, risk, as well as the credibility of the... View Details
Keywords: Capital Budgeting; Governance Controls; Management Systems; Strategic Planning; Mathematical Methods; Electronics Industry
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  • 15 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 15, 2008

Guide to Changes 10 Years after the 1995 Bank Crisis Authors:Gustavo A. Del Angel, Stephen Haber, and Aldo Musacchio Abstract After the 1995 crisis, the Mexican banking system experienced significant changes in bank accounting standards.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Feb 2018
  • News

Athenahealth Taps Former GE CEO Jeff Immelt as Chairman

August. The search for a new chairman was prompted in mid-2017 after activist investing firm Elliott Management bought a 9 percent share of the company. That move also triggered about $100 million in cost-cutting changes, including 400... View Details
Keywords: Information; Information
  • 01 Jun 2008
  • News

Team MBA

structured things. COURTNEY HUGHES, 26 Needham, Massachusetts BS, Information Systems; BS Biochemistry/Biophysics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Started a nonprofit initiative, Balanced Attack, to promote the development of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 12 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Competition the Cure for Healthcare

Last month HBS Working Knowledge offered an excerpt from Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results, by Harvard Business School professor Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg. The U.S. healthcare View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health
  • May 1992 (Revised January 2000)
  • Supplement

ABB: Accountability Times Two (B)

By: Robert L. Simons
Describes internal allocation conflicts in a complex global company structured as a matrix organization. ABB Switzerland has secured and will build an important power station project; however, internal market allocation policies dictate that this work be handled by ABB... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Conflict Management; Complexity; Sweden; Switzerland
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  • 01 Jun 2004
  • News

Teaching and Learning Center Established, Honors Christensen’s Legacy

will help strengthen the School’s long tradition of world-class teaching. The C. Roland Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning, scheduled to open this fall, will augment the already established HBS system of faculty-to-faculty... View Details
Keywords: C. Roland Christensen; Chris Christensen; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services