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Marco Crespo

building an online booking platform for pet hotels; and a social enterprise, in collaboration with three of his RC colleagues, that evaluates and ranks the quality of Brazilian nonprofits for potential charitable donors. View Details

01 Jun 2012
News

From Fellowship Recipient to ‘The Most Influential Business Thinker On Earth’

1992 and hasn’t looked back since. Named last year by Thinkers50, the biennial global ranking of management thinkers, as “the most influential business thinker on earth,” Christensen has profoundly altered the field of business management... View Details

Keywords: awards

October 1971 (Revised September 1983)
Case

Sturdivant Electric Corp.

By: Richard L. Nolan

A unit manager on a field computer installation job is faced with recurring conflict between a programmer and his immediate supervisor. View Details

Keywords: Planning; Rank and Position; Problems and Challenges; Conflict and Resolution; Attitudes; Jobs and Positions; Management Teams; Managerial Roles; Public Relations Industry; Computer Industry

Citation

Educators

Purchase

01 Dec 2000
News

Core Values Keep Airline Flying High

attendants. Founded in 1971, Southwest has "literally transformed the U.S. airline industry, particularly since reaching critical mass in the early 1990s," assert the authors. Known for its low fares and high reliability in short-distance travel, Southwest View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Air Transportation; Transportation

02 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Managing the Open Source vs. Proprietary Decision

same choices in terms of open source and proprietary software. There is no simple ranking of open source and proprietary software, either in terms of the full costs of adoption or the quality of the software. The basic reason is that open... View Details

Keywords: by Josh Lerner & Mark Schankerman; Technology

29 Jan 2019
Blog Post

Being a Mom and a Founder at HBS

take a lot of support. I think the support I’ve received in both areas ranks among the most amazing parts of my experience at HBS. As a student mom, I chair the moMBA group which is a student club sponsored by Student Academic Services... View Details

01 May 2008
Research & Ideas

The Marketing Challenges of the China Olympics

torch relay. Lenovo's sponsorship will doubtless reinforce its brand preference rankings in China. However, around the world, Lenovo hardly wishes to be known as the Chinese PC company that consumers find convenient to boycott. Here are... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Sports

Fast Answer

Resources for Harvard Economics Students

annuities), stocks and 529 plans. LSEG Workspace Features market quotes, earnings estimates, financial fundamentals, press releases, transaction data, corporate filings, ownership profiles and research. Note that analyst reports from several highly View Details

Platform for Dialogue

with specialists of China, Southeast Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and the United States, I learned that a truly comparative approach to understanding social change requires the coming together of faculty expertise in planned and sustained ways. HBS has shown me that... View Details

08 May 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018

New Jersey, and the New York metropolitan area, providing a wide range of services from primary care to complex specialty care. In 2016, U.S. News and World Report had ranked CHOP as the number 2 pediatric hospital in the nation and among... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Jun 2017
Blog Post

MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences – A Q&A with Professor Robert Howe

its desirability to customers, and its economic viability.” Is Harvard an incubator of entrepreneurship? “Harvard ranks among the world’s top university incubators of entrepreneurship. SEAS trained Bill Gates; Mark Zuckerberg; Dennis... View Details

June 1986 (Revised July 1990)
Case

OTISLINE (A)

By: F. Warren McFarlan and Donna B. Stoddard

Describes the company's use of information technology to strengthen its position in the elevator sales and service market. Also demonstrates how information technology can be used to better manage and control a large geographically dispersed service organization. View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Sales; Marketing; Rank and Position; Salesforce Management; Service Operations; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Global Range; Accounting; Business Ventures; Industry Growth

Citation

Educators

Purchase

15 May 2012
First Look

First Look: May 15

which emphasized a focus on customers. He also instituted a new, simplified performance management system, which rated managers' performance and advancement potential on a four-point scale. The system also included a forced ranking... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

13 Jun 2017
Blog Post

What is the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program? A Q&A with Professor Tom Eisenmann

experience—ideally, designing and/or developing technology-intensive products.” Is there a competitive advantage to pursuing a degree program like this in Boston? “Boston ranked first among 25 U.S. cities in a study conducted by global... View Details

03 Dec 2024
News

Magic Numbers

educational organization Zearn, which Sharma cofounded in 2012 and has served as CEO since 2016. Improving math education is a daunting enterprise, especially in the United States. According to the most recent results of the Program for International Student... View Details

Keywords: Amy Crawford

01 Jan 2008
News

Anand G. Mahindra, MBA 1981

Mahindra in 1991. Anand Mahindra has been leading M&M’s charge into the ranks of the world’s global corporations ever since. Established in 1945, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (M&M), named after one of India’s best-known business families, got... View Details

Profile

Jason Flood

about the future of tech. Google was my dream job—and I got it. I had a fantastic experience there, and my life plan was to scale the ranks at Google.” But his cancer experience, Jason says, “inspired a passion to get involved in health... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare/Biotech; Tech

01 Jun 2024
News

Outside Voices

In just 15 years, Greece managed to seesaw from one economic extreme to the other, from almost breaking the eurozone at the depth of its debt crisis to becoming one of the fastest growing economies in Europe in 2023, according to the IMF. Now wages are rebounding,... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Pete Ryan; immigration; repatriation; innovation; public policy; Greece

06 Dec 2021
News

Monaco's Digital Transformation

spearheading digital innovation at her company in the 3-Minute Briefing: Bonnie Kintzer (MBA 1987). The Prince wanted Genta to position Monaco as the world’s most digital state—a tall order given that, at the time, a United Nations View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Oct 2000
News

Raymond A. Baxter: Sweet Smell of Success

the strong belief that I could succeed in any business environment." Baxter's latest challenge has been managing the successful acquisition and integration of Norse Dairy Systems, a leading manufacturer of ice-cream cones and other novelty supplies that will swell... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

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