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Jonathan Arena

design “shapes how users interact with things, not just how things look.” At HBS, he was impressed by how “the i-lab and the FIELD program integrate design thinking into... View Details

04 Sep 2019
News

increasingly transform into places for experiences, not just for taking inventory home. What probably will not survive are the retailers that are more like a warehouse, or just physical repositories of goods. Real estate is too expensive for that purpose. The... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

01 Jun 2004
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New MBA Leadership Course

“The discussions forced us to think about complicated issues,” he adds, noting that there was never a right or wrong answer. “It gave us a systematic approach to thinking about difficult situations.” That’s... View Details

Keywords: HBS; LCA; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2013
News

Passion & Purpose

offices and 14,000 associates. In the St. Petersburg area, the James name can be found on the Tampa football stadium in addition to numerous educational, health-care, and arts institutions. Thai Lee, MBA 1985 President and CEO, SHI International, Somerset, New Jersey... View Details

Keywords: awards; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Computer Systems Design and Related Services

25 Aug 2022
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A New Platform for Alumni Engagement

the design thinking process they used. “HBS is applying the innovation model to teaching, which will make it possible to creatively inspire engaged learning, share more information, and impact more people.”... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 2013
News

Collective Wisdom

leveraging the knowledge of people from around the world to solve big data challenges; for example, algorithms that optimize power generation on the International Space Station or that detect the location of craters on the moon. At Harvard Catalyst we are pushing the... View Details

Keywords: crowdsourcing; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Mar 2009
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Honoring HBS’s Organization Men

Integration. The conversation took place in Spang-ler’s Williams Room in conjunction with a conference on organization design that used their 1967 classic as a jumping-off point for assessing research in the field today. The gathering... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

17 Nov 2008
Research & Ideas

Decoding the Artful Sidestep

lot about (I believe it was something about a specific education policy). I was especially interested in the answer, so when it never came I began to wonder: Has he been dodging questions all along? I think he had been. I told Mike about... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

10 Aug 2022
News

Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age

mix . What are the good questions that students are bringing to this? SWG: The students bring amazing questions about affordability. DM: Yeah. SWG: They're thinking all the time well, yes, a certain segment of the population is going to... View Details

01 Dec 2020
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Tried and Tested

first-order importance. The second part is whether I have a clever way of studying it. Can I design an experiment to isolate exactly what I think the causal mechanism is? It’s not just that A happens and... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Scientific Research and Development Services

13 Jun 2017
Blog Post

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

Professor Rob Howe has been thinking about the intersection between business and technology for a number of years now. Before joining the SEAS faculty at Harvard (where he focuses on robot and human manipulation and the sense of touch) he... View Details

24 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System

greater contact across the value chain and especially with end users builds the company brand and triggers opportunities for innovation. Rationale for thinking long-term. Sustainability is more than a buzzword for vanguard companies, and... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

01 Jun 2010
News

Alumni Books

major key to healthy, conflict-free work environments. The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking Is the Next Competitive Advantage by Roger Martin (MBA ’81) (Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: mathematics; statistics; Finance

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South Asia - Global Activities 2021

offering designed to help senior executives in India, one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, elevate their leadership skills and drive success in this competitive market. Since then, some 300 business leaders have participated... View Details

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Eligibility | New Venture Competition

(HSPH) Innovative Problem Solving & Design Thinking in Healthcare (HSPH) Launching Tech Ventures (HBS) Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Learning (HGSE) Managing the Future of Work (HBS) Power and Influence... View Details

02 Oct 2016
Blog Post

Peek Weekend: The Family Business Cohort

sporadically since then, starting with small tasks when I was younger and growing into larger roles like 2D and 3D design now that I’m a senior design student at the University of Cincinnati. With graduation... View Details

01 Jun 2017
News

Boosting Boardroom Diversity

accelerate that trend. In addition to helping senior women executives develop the knowledge and skills sought by boards, the weeklong program (next offered in November) demystifies board selection and offers the opportunity to explore topics of boardroom diversity and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 May 2013
News

Ratan Tata, AMP 71, 1975

“HBS is the preeminent place to learn about the world’s most innovative companies and to be exposed to the world’s best thinking on management and leadership,” declared Ratan Tata (AMP 71, 1975), chairman of Tata Sons Ltd., when Dean... View Details

18 Aug 2020
Blog Post

Innovating in the Hot Market of Cold Brew

valuable. Like everyone, we’ve spent more time online - for us that meant building our community of followers earlier, which we’ve leveraged to get feedback on our device earlier than expected. Because we’re further apart, we’ve had to View Details

06 May 2002
Research & Ideas

A Toolkit for Customer Innovation

customers to learn an entirely new design language. (Flavorists, for example, think in terms of formulations and chemical compounds, whereas customers think of tastes such as... View Details

Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel

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