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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
spirit of “founders first” says Enan, a mantra that maps well with her own priorities. “I don’t think I have any secret sauce when it comes to investing,” she says frankly. “I’ve made bad investments. I’ve made good investments. But first... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Keeping Up with the Dean
to outline his five areas for change: curriculum innovation, intellectual ambition, international engagement, inclusion, and closer ties with the University. Click map for larger view. Illustration by Baker Vail/www.smallworldmaps.com View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Faculty Books
more adventurous approach and have struck a chord with even the most jaded consumers. In fact, almost every success story of the past two decades has been an exception to the rule. Winning in Emerging Markets: A Road Map for Strategy and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
School’s agenda for the 21st century. Back to the Future In 1979, a team of HBS researchers produced Energy Future, a national bestseller with a road map for U.S. energy independence. A look at this still timely book and at current energy... View Details
- 07 Apr 2017
- News
Transforming the “Misery Towns” of Buenos Aires
is sliced in two by a dual carriageway that is the main route into the city centre from the north. “It’s madness, you cannot have a neighbourhood with a motorway running right through,” he says. He whips out his smartphone to use Google View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Accelerating a Gas-on-demand Startup
customers to drop a pin on a map to request fuel. And Frist was the driver; he filled gas tanks. In that role, Frist also talked to a number of customers and curious onlookers. He’s heard the dismissive comments: “Oh, that’s lazy. What’s... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Running faster to compete
in 1978 and put the now $26 million company on the international map with Aquamesh. As the company expanded, Knott implemented innovative, money-saving measures, such as generating electricity via hydropower, recirculating heat from... View Details
- 14 Nov 2015
- News
A Message to HBS Alumni in France
our alumni and their families in France. We are thinking of you and hope that you and your loved ones are safe. We encourage you to connect with your fellow alumni using the messaging service on the alumni website (look for the envelope icon on any alumni profile... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Cure All
my studies mapping the adoption of basic management practices across hospitals is a wide dispersion: There are some points of excellence where organizations really know what they are doing, and there is so much mediocrity. Considering how... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Books
mobilizing change through strong leadership. The Strategy-Focused Organization also introduces a new framework called the strategy map. By analyzing hundreds of scorecards over the last decade, Kaplan and Norton have mapped the patterns... View Details
- 25 Mar 2018
- News
Modernizing Infrastructure Management
make it better. “So when I left HBS, I set out on the path to find a business to acquire. I was very fortunate that I found the company I did. gWorks got its start helping counties digitize all their county records into an interactive map... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Evergreen Business
Above: photo by John Loomis About 80 percent of Frans Kok’s (MBA 1972) cut-your-own customers make the trek to the Middleburg Christmas Tree Farm in Philomont, Virginia, during the two weeks after Thanksgiving. After bumping down the mile-long driveway, visitors... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Faculty Books
evolving, mutually beneficial channel strategies. To navigate the complex distribution environment successfully, companies must map the industry channel, build and continually edit their own channel to best serve customers, and align and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
account by two of Teddy Roosevelt’s sons, Kermit and Theodore Jr., of their experiences in western China and eastern Tibet. The onion-skin map of their journey tucked behind the last page caught Moore’s attention. He traced their path for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Research Brief: What Makes a Mobile Money Service Thrive in an Emerging Market?
worth supporting.” Lal hopes that mobile money services use this information as a road map as they plot future rollouts. “It’s not just that these services—which could connect up to 2 billion unbanked people into a national system—can... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 17 Apr 2014
- News
A Family Investment
so when his father showed him the HBS campus at the age of 13, the younger Özyeg in began to map out his future. “HBS got into my blood,” he says with a laugh. After studying management and economics at Carnegie Mellon University and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Research Brief: Profit with Purpose—and Middle Management
directive from executives and a road map for achieving it, employees feel confident that their specific actions will be recognized and rewarded. It’s this bridge that middle managers create—translating a top-level mandate into everyday... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
New Senior Executive Programme Strengthens African Managerial Leadership
McFarlan, Thomas Piper, Richard Vietor, and Michael Watkins. They are joined by several members of the Wits faculty. "I was deeply impressed and moved by the participants' commitment both to understand each other's perspectives and to map... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
From Das’s Desk
and colleagues across HBS to develop a conceptual framework that identifies the professional and personal needs, challenges, and goals of alumni and then maps these to the School’s resources and competencies. In the first phase of our... View Details
Keywords: Das Narayandas
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Ken Baumgartner - Sticking with It
life in hockey, Baumgartner found a sense of security at HBS. “You know what your next day is going to be like,” he says. “It's well mapped out for you over a two-year period.” His studies have paved the way for his next challenge: an... View Details