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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
year. These efforts directly affect you as a graduate. The Communications Committee, chaired by Paul Stewart (MBA '87), has already made enormous progress this year. Over the last few months, committee members have been working with the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Short Takes
how to work with a diverse group of people in a situation where you are not the boss. You have to lead with your ability, passion, and conviction," says Austin. His findings also indicate that corporate involvement in the community not... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Just Keep Our Money
money. But refunds are many families’ best opportunity to put away a few dollars for their children and their futures. For the past three years, a team comprising researchers, the nonprofit Doorways to Dreams Fund (which I cofounded), View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Baker’s back
the key decisions about the renovation made early on centered on the crucial role of books. Electronic resources, of course, were also deemed important, but not at the expense of books. It was clear that HBS’s vast — and rare — holdings... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
are many communities that must be satisfied." Venture Capital and Private Equity The pool of U.S. private-equity funds has grown on the order of 2,500 percent in the past decade-and-a-half. Venture Capital and Private Equity (VCPE), a... View Details
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
INRIX analytics offer similar benefits to corporate customers, Mistele adds, providing greater efficiencies to company fleet operations, commuting time estimates to realtors and home buyers, hourly traffic patterns to retailers and restaurants, true traffic-volume... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
poverty was held; more conferences and seminars are set for the coming months. Baker Library is building an electronic library of BOP cases, articles, and other materials, the first such comprehensive compilation anywhere. Rangan and... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
George Harad has worked to erase former boundaries between the CEO's office and the company's front lines. He responds daily to dozens of electronic mail messages received from employees throughout the company. "The ease of View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
facilitate electronic communication among classmates while they are on campus and help them to stay in touch with each other and with the School after graduation. (Plans are also under way to provide current... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Ticktock
partner with an American product design firm and risk prohibitive expense, or to team up with a less-expensive overseas firm and risk the inherent quality control and communications issues? (Nanda, who was able to launch the product with... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
governance in Asia, and measuring performance in nonprofit organizations. As always, there was ample opportunity for networking and socializing with participants and speakers from across the Harvard University community and beyond. The... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
marketing-services firms, describes the $4 billion spent last year as "chicken feed." What he finds interesting about the Web is the impact it is having on the wider area of communication services. Sorrell, whose business leadership... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Not a Regular Joe
Wilson was a principled and driven executive who transformed a small company called Haloid in Rochester, New York, into one that became synonymous with photocopying. Ellis, former managing partner of Greenwich Associates, offers a portrait of a business mogul who... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
in companies like Check Point, one of the first big firewall companies. Rothrock listened to the speech and thought: “Finally.” As in, at last—the government is waking up to a reality that the tech community realized long ago. “The... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 20 Jan 2015
- News
Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized
Burlington, Vermont. “It is a simple, inexpensive, and straightforward solution to a complex problem.” Despite the fact that MedKaz is being used by patients, Bushkin’s biggest challenge is penetrating medical bureaucracy. Hospitals are busy struggling to meet View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Campaign Ends, Exceeds Expectations
tools that strengthen teaching and learning. Online courses, for example, allow students to learn at their own pace, while electronic case studies introduce rich, multidimensional material into classroom discussions. The HBS experience... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Banishing Balkan Ghosts
was spotted in 1986 by Alain Gomez (20th PMD), the charismatic chairman of the French electronics giant Thomson, who tapped him as his special assistant. In 1988, Djelic went to the United States to help with a new Thomson acquisition,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ink
is poorly understood—we’ve known that for a while—it’s how surprised they are. I think what’s going on is this: Most executives, when they think about strategy focus on communication, and they measure communication in terms of the numbers... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
an idea that is validated in the market. I understand the demand. I understand price points. I understand how to communicate and commercialize this with the consumer. And then, oh by the way, if we do things right, that innovation... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
creating an environment for innovation: first, employees have to be willing to innovate; and second, they have to be able to innovate. That first ingredient, willingness, came about as a result of creating a community with a common sense... View Details