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- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
is the fish." Look at it, decided, done. Moved on with my day, I spend no time on it. And I basically just outsourced that to the universe. I outsource a lot of decisions to... View Details
- 30 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?
growth. It’s achieved by, among other things, concentrating on nonfinancial as well as financial outcomes, outsourcing and “renting” everything from assets to talent, using information View Details
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
An Organization Your Customers Understand
and users can choose to outsource or select an alternative service provider.7 Let's look at each of these conditions in turn. The first condition states that a constituent finds value in the firm's outputs.... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
class with Professor George Lodge. Someone asked at the end of the class if "that was it are we finished?" Professor Lodge smiled and said, "No, it's just the beginning. We don't teach answers in this room; if you're lucky View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Straight to the Heart
GREENWALD: A savvy, successful approach that combines marketing tactics and psychological insight. Can Rachel win NBC's "Match Off"? Her story: how Rachel met Brad The veteran of several high-level marketing positions, Rachel Greenwald... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
financial guts of the business world when I was a teenager.” Big fail: Missing the cut for the high school volleyball team. “I asked the coach what I needed to do to make the team the next year. She told me, View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
capitalization. “The Valley of Death” The many faces of Andy Grove, from left: hobnobbing in black tie with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates at a celebration of Time magazine’s 75th anniversary (1998); on the... View Details
- Web
Innovation & the War Effort - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
toward the war effort included the production of quinine. Natural quinine was derived from the bark of tropical tree in Java, but this source was cut off by the Japanese occupation. Polaroid sponsored the work of MIT graduate Dr. Robert... View Details
- 09 Jun 2017
- News
Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China
so convinced that we have to build a high end, more sensitive, sustainable kind of tourism practice to the region. I was very convinced by the proposal. And I quit my job and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
industries for decades. And even though Mustapha and his sons had earned a reputation as hard workers, there was only so much they could produce within a system that left farmers either chronically... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
as a Baker Scholar, in his spare time Rogers honed a system for trading over-the-counter stocks and left HBS with his bills paid and $50,000 in the bank. Eager to return to the Bay Area where he grew up,... View Details
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Ray A. Goldberg
leaders on the cutting edge of research. The driving force behind this gathering since its inception has been Ray Goldberg, the veritable father of agribusiness. Along with his then HBS colleague John H. Davis, Goldberg coined the word in... View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
University that provided 650 Boston teens with summer jobs and programs. Brooks then moved on to Citizens Bank as the senior vice president and director of charitable giving.... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
stages of realizing the full potential of e-books and e-readers. “Imagine a book with a video introduction by the author,” he says. “Or, if you were reading a novel set in contemporary Mumbai, maybe you could View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
"considerable difficulty" in getting the magazine out on time, had cut the publication schedule to six times a year and set a subscription price of 75¢ a year, which was included in the $2 annual Alumni... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
consequences of homer making seem cut and dried. But not so fast, says Harvard Business School assistant professor Michel Anteby. In interviews with retirees of the French Pierreville aeronautics plant,... View Details
- 18 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Career Advice: Transforming the Energy Industry
is relevant and BEI does a great job of bringing together the right set of content and community to keep the momentum going, and that has been a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
project variables that can be changed are therefore the cost of the mission and its scope (or complexity). These two variables, in turn, influence the level of risk in the mission (i.e., the likelihood of errors). View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has the Post-Capitalist Economy Finally Arrived?
leaders that 'buck' the now orthodox definition of the balanced, emotionally intelligent, people-focused leader the likes of Gates and Jobs may have highly effective leaders below them View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
leader. I traveled a lot with my father as he was starting manufacturing plants all over the country. Some years later we would go back and visit, and I saw the extraordinary impact that business could have... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson