Filter Results:
(212)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,400)
- People (1)
- News (212)
- Research (984)
- Multimedia (10)
- Faculty Publications (711)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,400)
- People (1)
- News (212)
- Research (984)
- Multimedia (10)
- Faculty Publications (711)
Sort by
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Editor's Letter
Illustration by Antonio Giovanni Pinna Illustration by Antonio Giovanni Pinna Change is hard. I am reminded of this every time I get a new laptop and there are new, generational expectations that require me to hunt down videos of overly caffeinated youths walking me... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring
specific financial data, flow charts, and statistics to illuminate each case. A portable version of Gilson's course, Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring gives readers the chance to learn the intricacies of this increasingly... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 07 Jun 2011
- News
Back to the Future
on an automated mail-flow system for the postal service when he started thinking about a people-moving system based on cars that could drive over roads but also attach to computer-controlled track networks. A version of his idea was... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
FIELD Updates Greet Class of 2014
has been built into the schedule to allow teams to work through different versions of their business idea while tapping the experience of an alumni board of advisers. View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Chandler Donates Papers to Baker Library
Alfred Sloan for the GM president’s autobiography; and manuscript versions of his numerous articles and of influential books such as Strategy and Structure, The Visible Hand (winner of the Pulitzer in 1978), and Scale and Scope. The Baker... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Field Course Helps Nascent Entrepreneurs Connect with Customers
simply have the best products. Today’s young entrepreneurs realize that success requires customer connection right at the outset.” In the course’s beta version rollout, Cespedes, Roberge, and Eisenmann carefully tracked students’ learning... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Nimble, Quick, and Adaptable
uncomfortable feeling,” says McPherron. With that in mind, the center is also launching Rock 100 Councils to serve as an ongoing forum for entrepreneurs to connect with other local alumni experiencing some of the same challenges. Finally, McPherron notes that a new... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Latin Flair
told the Financial Times (March 21, 2011) that they had to scrap their first few concepts for the Brazil-based Vostu, including hopes of creating a Latin American version of Facebook, before settling on social gaming in 2009. “It was... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Five Degrees of Doriot
is one of the highest-ranking business schools in the world. (Baker Library) “Duck” boots In another wartime effort, Doriot sought to help solve the “trench foot” problem—which was becoming an epidemic due to cold, wet winter conditions—with an early View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Understanding Business Firsthand in South Korea
launched an upscale version of the cake and enlisted a team of first-year MBA students to help refine the product’s marketing strategy. The six-person team was among a group of 180 students, led by two HBS faculty members, who worked in... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
José Royo
MBA Program. "The Academic Committee has had broad impact in areas such as course development, where we have advocated more international cases and more cases with women protagonists," he says. Royo has also worked with Professor Ed Zschau to integrate student feedback... View Details
- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
phones, and focused the company on the critical launch of its next iteration of handsets, BlackBerry 10. The phones came in two versions: first launched was a touch-screen phone designed to attract mass-market consumers, followed by View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
I Gave at the Office
with the proceeds going to charity, you’re comparing that to other times you’ve made a purchase—and the fact that money is going to charity makes it seem like a better version of an economic transaction. Whereas, when you receive an item... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
She’s Got Your Back
Bill Corbin (MBA 1968). After relocating to Columbus, Ohio, Oesterle bought another old house and ran into the same problem. In 1995 he convinced Hicks (who had worked for him as a college intern) to move to Columbus to start their own View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Christopher Cox: Capitol Hill Intellectual
U.S. Court of Appeals; made partner at Latham & Watkins, where he specialized in corporate finance; founded (with his father) a company that published an English version of the Russian newspaper Pravda; was appointed senior associate... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
34,000 Pages and Counting
is Class Notes. Divided into three chronological versions whose total quarterly page count is equal to an issue of Vogue, Class Notes require not only editing skill but a sense of humor, diplomacy, and grace under deadline pressure.... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
New Releases
government, wrote books of philosophy, founded a school of leadership, and created Japan's version of the Nobel Prize. Matsushita's ability and willingness to learn, adapt, and grow throughout his lifetime, concludes Kotter, are... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Tulsa Massacre Case Fosters Timely Conversations
issues forward.” Desai hopes the conversation about reparations will ripple out from HBS. To help make that happen, the School is offering free to the public a downloadable pdf of the case, plus a free teaching note for educators. In addition, a free multimedia View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Flexibility Is Key to Product Development in Internet Time
process. "For one of the products in our sample, the designers had only coded about 30 percent of the new functionality before putting it into customers' hands," notes MacCormack. "From that point on, this early version of the product... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Negotiating with Wal-Mart
enjoyed their own versions of success with the mega-retailer. Getting a ground-level view of how two companies achieved those positive outcomes illustrates the story-within-a-story of implementing corporate change. “Achieving that is... View Details