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- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Reinventing Marketing
own activities many functions that were formerly the province of marketing," says Professor Alvin J. Silk, unit cochair. "Marketing is indeed experiencing a watershed," adds Silk's colleague and the unit's other cochair, Professor John A. Quelch. He View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
Ford, for the auto itself and his influence on the work force," while another noted Ford's "perfection of the use of interchangeable parts and the assembly line, concepts employed by essentially all of business today." Alfred P. Sloan of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
A New Approach to Contact Tracing
Bluetooth in Android and Apple smartphones to determine proximity between people, and thus assess their potential exposure to the coronavirus. A random ID attached to a user’s phone number generates temporary, encrypted IDs. When users’ phones are within 30 feet of one... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Pursuing the Ultimate Deal
lessening of hostilities is achievable. One proposal that was raising hopes in mid-March was the Saudi initiative that offered Israel normalization of relations with Arab countries in exchange for Israel's withdrawal to its pre-1967... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Books
The Heart of Change by John P. Kotter and Dan S. Cohen Searching for a Corporate Savior by Rakesh Khurana Making Markets: How Firms Can Design and Profit from Online Auctions and Exchanges by Ajit Kambil and Eric Van Heck Leading Terms:... View Details
- 08 Aug 2018
- News
Getting Life Back in Balance
and prepared to return home with a new perspective. The bonds forged during this experience remain, as the group stays in contact. Gower notes that the one-on-one coaching that he and the other participants received with an experienced... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
in Michigan, Williams witnessed the satisfaction that his father and grandfather, both primary care physicians, got from helping others heal. This was his chance to feel that, too. "It was really an exposure to the kind of impact you could have in this business," View Details
- 18 Oct 2024
- News
My Worst Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell host of Skydeck. When I was in high school, I worked as a dishwasher at a steakhouse chain in upstate New York. It was not glamorous work. I would clock out covered in a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
farmer-turned-salesman termed a “mean caling” [sic] in 1810 today is a respectable profession that employs roughly 12 percent of the U.S. workforce. Relying heavily on material from salesmen’s diaries and journal entries, sales ledgers, View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
the first Sarofim-Rock incumbent. (Later, the Classes of 1954, 1960, and 1961 would also fund chairs in entrepreneurship.) Stevenson has completely reworked the Starting New Ventures course into today's elective course Entrepreneurial Management, writing well over one... View Details
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
Advanced Management Program for senior executives (AMP), the International Senior Managers Program (now part of AMP), and the General Manager Program. Uyterhoeven’s late friend and colleague Professor Norman Berg once noted that “Hugo had... View Details
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
sending notes to folks begging them to speak. 1999I. Bingo was still going on in our section. We still had some of the cards at the reunion last year, and of course you won when you said the phrase that pays, usually based on something... View Details
- 11 May 2016
- News
World Bank Vice President and Treasurer: Negative Rates Not the Answer
Bank in September 2015, previously serving a five-year term as director-general of Nigeria’s Security and Exchange Commission from 2011 to 2015. An alumni profile of her during that stint details her transformative efforts at the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Steel Tax
When President George W. Bush (MBA '75) imposed a tariff of up to 30 percent on most types of steel imported into the United States, the Boston Globe (March 10, 2002) turned to HBS professor Debora Spar to explain the implications. Noting... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
note that this is not the first time that Americans have gone through intense questioning about the system and the conduct of its actors. For example, in the latter part of the 19th century, the railroad, the telegraph, and a host of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 09 Apr 2024
- News
To Serve and Protect the Markets
Every day, in her role as the director of the Atlanta Regional Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Nekia Hackworth Jones (MBA 2004) stands in the breach between the $100 trillion in securities traded on U.S. equity markets and the bad actors who... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Braving an Insecure New World
Are limits or balance possible? Clemens Aichholzer (MBA 2003), London, England Additional Reading Scott Howe (MBA 1994) is making Big Data–driven marketing more transparent We've been trading privacy for convenience for a long time—from... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
institutions, the authors note how business needs to use data and analytics to their advantage, to deal with such issues as reconciling different data sets and how to leverage economies of scale while remaining agile with data. To address... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
lack of market linkages are only a few of the problems. The story of women is an economic story. Investing in women creates a safer, prosperous, and more stable world, which is in everyone’s best interest.” Notes Lemmon, who has cowritten... View Details
- 06 Jan 2017
- News
Mental Illness and the Workplace
managing very well. You did-- I believe-- have another psychotic break, is that correct? Switz: Yes, I went from HBS to McKinsey for three years and then, to GE Capital in a strategy role. And a couple of weeks after my wedding, had my second psychotic break. And I... View Details