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- 28 Sep 2018
- News
Pushing Progress at Panasonic
includes everything from welding machines to surveillance systems. “This know-how of making complicated mechanical things operate smoothly is still alive in Japan and it’s in Panasonic’s DNA,” Higuchi told Bloomberg. READ MORE View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Adapting to Meet Changing Needs
it across in a very limited amount of time—typically threeto five-minute learning segments that build on each other. That turned out to be a complicated challenge,” says Mayo, the Thomas S. Murphy Senior Lecturer of Business... View Details
- 30 Sep 2016
- News
Competing Against Luck
they have to do is, they need to feel confident in themselves that they can take complicated problems and solve them. And they don't know what job they're going to have yet in their lives, but they know that whatever it is, they need to... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Christensen and Vernon Remembered
leading authority on case-method teaching, C. Roland ("Chris") Christensen (MBA 3/'43, DCS '53) was the Robert Walmsley University Professor, Emeritus. He died on August 28 in Nashville, Tennessee, from complications following open-heart... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
performance rather than individual or unit performance. Beer and Katz thus suggest that instead of putting energy into designing complicated incentive plans intended to motivate executives, top managers should focus on developing an... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Designing Change
know.” The goal of presenting Muzak as a hip, unified entity is complicated by the firm’s structure as an organization composed of company-owned and independent affiliates, many of which use different, uncoordinated marketing materials.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 31 Jan 2019
- News
A Global Mission
board. But he never gave up his ambition to have an international impact. For the last half century, DeFehr has circled the globe—141 countries by his count—looking for places where his business expertise could reshape response to View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
mainstream. In spite of a host of complicating factors, from a basic lack of defined terms to the difficulty of measuring returns, demand is only going up. In response, HBS finance professor Shawn Cole and senior lecturer Vikram Gandhi, a... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 15 Nov 2013
- News
Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again
founders, inventors, investors or lenders—to stabilize, hold, develop, and sell IP assets. In a typical transaction, a special-purpose holding entity is created to remove all liens and other complications that may be attached to the... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 02 Nov 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
regulatory dynamics were complicated and, after three years of trying to make it happen, it never got off the ground,” he says. Undeterred, Royster, who has three daughters, remained passionate about higher ed, especially for those... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Joy of Work
creativity was supposed to take place, but our questions were not overtly focused on creativity. In fact, respondents were told just that we were interested in looking at the kinds of things that can help make complicated projects go... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All
still do - the financial resources to write new code. Will the worldwide economic downturn complicate matters? Good question. For companies at the top of their game and well into the process, the Y2K problem may actually prove a... View Details
- 22 Jul 2021
- News
Mentoring Fashion Startups in Singapore; Rising Star Accolades for Mid-Career Women
quarter ever. She sits on several boards, including at MOUSE, a nonprofit bringing STEM programs to underserved youth, and she sponsors an annual scholarship for high school seniors. Ghiya co-founded FemHealth after experiencing life-threatening View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Well Matched
separation. This company has created a medically and scientifically proven approach to help repair the condition, which can cause issues with internal organs and other complications for years. Does the Black Lives Matter movement have the... View Details
- 13 Feb 2019
- News
We’re All Going to Get Hacked
cyber capabilities in that network. It’s very hard to understand a network these days. This was hard to understand 10 years ago, when the company was founded. But it’s eminently more complicated today because we have wires, we have WiFi,... View Details
- 31 May 2018
- News
Finding Freedom from Eating Disorders
fancy therapy tools you may have heard of. Recovery always felt overly complicated and complex. So that was the first piece I really struggled with is I was always staying busy in recovery and showing up for appointments, but making very... View Details
- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Nietzsche said it first: What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger. There’s a reason that saying has legs, nearly 140 years later. We all, at some point... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2
range from not developing a deep enough bench of rising leaders to not saying “I don't know enough”. . But why did you feel the need to own those mistakes publicly? JI: This is a complicated story. The GE story. I wasn't comfortable with... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
practices is to comply with the law," says Rowe. "The second is to get out in front of the law, which is only going to get more complicated as attention is turned increasingly to environmental issues." NEES was first turned on to the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Undercover Alum Faces the Music in HBS Show
trial. Enter Whit Sellblower, a Baker Scholar graduate of HBS, who goes undercover and returns to the School to pass as a student once again. Predictable — and unpredictable — complications ensue. Such were the Terms of Endowment, this... View Details