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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
positions. Through its research and services, the organization is widely considered the gold standard for information and insight into women, leadership, and business. “I like to say that my avocation has become my job,” says Lang, an... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Books
Advantage outlines a framework that goes beyond maximizing internal competencies to leveraging the collective competencies of one’s entire network for competitive advantage. Confidence by Rosabeth Moss Kanter (Crown Business) Taking on the elusive View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Research Brief: Cultivating Creativity through Competition
given to their competitors. Using analytical software that evaluates visual similarities between designs, Gross compared each submission with prior entries by the same designer, and related the similarity to the number and quality of... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
"Service-Profit Chain" Links Members of Service Management Unit
Heskett as "a chain of relationships involving customer loyalty; customer satisfaction; the value of goods and services delivered; the quality of the process; and employee loyalty, satisfaction, productivity, and support." The results of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why Evolutionary Software Development Works
newer models. The most widely quoted references report lessons from only a few successful projects. Now a two-year empirical study, which the author and colleagues Marco Iansiti and Roberto Verganti completed last year, reveals thought-provoking View Details
- 07 Oct 2024
Applying to HBS: Who Are We Looking For?
Join this informative webinar for insights into the qualities Harvard Business School values in its candidates. An Admissions Board member will outline our evaluation criteria, offer tips for presenting your... View Details
- 11 Jul 2017
- News
The Right Thing to Do
direct boss get fired for trying to inform the senior management. In 2011, Hunt was told to change the quality control reports so they looked better than they were. That’s when she took a stand. Episode two,... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Improving the lives of underprivileged children in rural India
Through the Bharti Foundation, which was launched in 2000, Sunil Bharti Mittal (OPM 27, 1999), founder and chairman of Bharti Enterprises, advances his belief that quality education is the most important tool for social and economic... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Ink: Alumni Book Recommendations
much thought to where ‘there’ is. Whatever comes, just don’t stop. Half a century later, I believe it’s the best advice—maybe the only advice—any of us should ever give.” Recommended by Entrepreneur Eileen Rudden (MBA 1976) Grit by Angela Duckworth Duckworth on the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program
technology, as well. Among many examples, entering students can now prepare for HBS online, as well as find their schedules, courses, and assignments online once they arrive. Prospective students can access admissions information and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Touting Green Energy’s Potential
MARKEY: Just as the telecom sector was revolutionized in the 1990s by legislation that unleashed competition, so too will a green energy sector be launched, generating enormous wealth creation. In March, at a two-day HBS conference on energy, Congressman Ed Markey... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Tales Out of School
kids after school. Children need quality after-school activities." After completing her White House service in 1995, Hoit became managing director of Sylvan Learning Systems, a national supplemental education company. With that experience... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
A Legacy of Investment
5d44e16e230f4261c6f0a40446934d91 A new exhibit at Hawes Hall pays tribute to alumni and friends whose generous financial support has made a lasting difference in the character and quality of HBS. The exhibit aims to illuminate the past... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Get Well Soon
story as well, because the senior team is tackling important problems and engaging people throughout the organization in solving them.” One of the key players is Dr. Uma Kotagal, a neonatologist with a deep-seated passion for improving the View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
as misguided. “Imagining what will happen to your career in all its dimensions — from job quality to earnings power to wealth creation potential — is more important,” says Senior Associate Dean for External Relations William Sahlman, the... View Details
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
with a team on a new idea in the health IT space—one she believes has the potential to increase the quality of patient care, while lowering costs by giving control of health care information back to the... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 03 Sep 2020
- Op-Ed
Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC
accessibility and robust data on EDGAR’s website with what information exists on health care quality and cost. President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the SEC as a “truth” agency to disclose all material... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Leadership Project Codifies Elusive Traits
database is an excellent resource for those interested in the history of leadership, Mayo stresses that it also conveys important information about qualities needed by future leaders. “We can ask, Does this... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Faculty Q&A: Price Check
Many products are sold for just one selling season. It’s extremely difficult to predict demand—sometimes demand actually increases as the price goes up due to perceived quality and popularity. These factors make selling fashion products... View Details
- 13 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 13
investigate a puzzling phenomenon in which firms make investment decisions that purposefully do not maximize expected profits. Using an extension to the newsvendor model, we focus on a relatively common scenario in which the firm's investor has imperfect View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne