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- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
cofounded by Regina Herzlinger, the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration, and her husband, Dr. George Herzlinger, recently announced that it has donated 100 portable blood and fluid warmers and 20 rapid infusers to... View Details
- 14 Jul 2021
- News
The First Five Years: Nicolas Manes (MBA 2020)
one-third of all the food in the world is wasted.” How does the company’s food distribution process work? “We focus on resolving the nutritional needs of community kitchens by distributing high-quality nutritious food and providing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf
Assembly-Line Innovation The title of the 2012 e-book Building a Growth Factory (Harvard Business Review Press) conjures an image of raw materials being dumped into a black box and emerging on conveyor belts as fully formed iPhones,... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Message from Dean Clark
requires continuing innovation in all of our educational programs. What we see ahead is a need for leaders with strong general management skills - people who know how to get things done and are able to inspire others. These qualities have defined View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
that researched natural-language processing, “35 percent was nothing to be ashamed of,” Dave Ferrucci, the leader of the IBM team, later said. Still, IBM’s advancements were small. The company had a sense of Watson’s potential to dramatically change how View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
information technology companies, as well as in complementary areas such as marketing, branding, and design—all of which can help nascent businesses gain a foothold in the marketplace. Plus, the way fintech straddles the broader... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
options. The methodology we developed to solve that original problem, however, gave us an insight into solving a wide range of other problems. I think of the process of discerning other applications as a little bit like peeling an onion:... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
has revamped more than just the design, says Yong, a former Bain consultant and Acumen Global Fellow who joined the automaker in 2016. “We have also rethought the conventional automotive business model itself,” with specific decisions in... View Details
Keywords: Amy Yee
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Faculty Books
A Sense of Urgency by John P. Kotter (Harvard Business Press) Most organizational change initiatives fail spectacularly (at worst) or deliver lukewarm results (at best). In his 1996 book, Leading Change, Professor Emeritus Kotter revealed... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
as much of a factor for smaller companies as it is for the supermajors of today's headlines. "Over the past five years many established, long-term corporations have gone out of business or merged with other companies," says Fischer. "The... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Faculty Opinion: No Magic Bullet
getting in shape, it is a process. There's no magic bullet, but in the long run, this process will help you experience a greater level of satisfaction in your life and career. —Robert Steven Kaplan is the Martin Marshall Professor of... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
which can be broken down, processed into rocket fuel, and used to refuel these satellites—all without ever returning to Earth. The technology exists, Landon says; companies are just waiting for the first galactic oil well to be dug, so to... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
Sigma aficionado, Agarwala puts it this way: “Our business is about setting up systems and processes that result in good customer service.” On the technology front, a first-rate in-house IT team built the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
encourage investment in the energy sector would also boost competitiveness. What are attractive investment opportunities in India? Sectors that require technical and labor-intensive input, such as software services, business View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Pearson Hunt Remembered
teaching and learning processes in business schools worldwide, Hunt was 93. Hunt was one of the first to bring to the attention of the academic community the problems related to the management of working... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Ink: The Habit of Innovation
academics—most notably Rita Gunther McGrath of Columbia University (a certified zombie killer if ever one existed)—suggests six keys to success: Predetermine criteria. Shutting a project down can be very emotional. Setting and sharing a shortlist of criteria before the... View Details
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
tools, models, frameworks, whatever. The suite of things we can use in our bat belts to think about how we want to improve our mindset. So, no, I'm not happy all the time, but I do think it's a process and a practice, and something we can... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
John (“Bo”) Kemp
Kemp took a leadership role in helping to communicate the needs and concerns of international students to the HBS community, make the student elections process more efficient, and increase the availability of on-campus housing for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Feedback
virtually all digital maps, an integral part of everyone’s mobile devices and car navigation—think Google Earth. It started with the Landsat program at NASA in the early 1970s, but small startups appeared, including one that I started after graduating from HBS in 1976... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
Tushman and senior lecturer Mike Roberts, opens with Jamie Houghton (MBA 1962), the great-great-grandson of the company’s founder, taking over the corner office of his family’s firm. After a grooming process begun at a Corning lightbulb... View Details
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