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- 22 Nov 2017
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How to Build a Winning Culture on a Losing Team
are going lose this year?" I said, "I don't know. I have no idea." She's like, "Well, you gonna be good?" And I said, "No. We don't intend on competing on an either team." She said, "What about the Liberty?" I'm like, "Yeah. We should be... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
competition, which creates better markets for consumers. Which means that not only would IGNIA’s investments like Barared, for instance, start to see rivals competing with their booths, but that IGNIA would get competition, too. “Once we... View Details
- 12 Aug 2010
- News
You Can’t Take It with You
Last week, The Giving Pledge announced that forty of the wealthiest families and individuals in the United States have committed to give away at least half their fortunes to charitable organizations. Cofounded by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, the pledge includes the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
grateful just to get a job. I believe it is good to have experienced global fluctuations when you are running a business, because it makes you a smarter, more thoughtful executive. Sahlman: In general, I find that competent people can... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
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Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story
consumer electronics and computers (except for software) was nearly complete. A century before, the early architects of the consumer electronics path had been three competing industrial forces: the United States, Europe, and Japan. Today,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Thinking Green
As part of the cross-University program Harvard Thinks Big, in December six professors from different Harvard schools offered their thoughts on climate change. University Professor Rebecca Henderson and Professor of Management Practice Robert Kaplan joined colleagues... View Details
- 17 Feb 2022
- News
A Big Bet
certificate courses in IT support, data analytics, project management, and user experience design. In addition to hard skills, the training partners will provide support and guidance in soft skills such as collaboration and communication. “Skills and View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Porter's Paradox
associated institutions in particular fields that compete but also cooperate." In a recent interview in Working Knowledge, a quarterly report on research at HBS, Porter was asked whether clusters and other local economic circumstances... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
Tjan (MBA 1998) (Portfolio) Tjan is leading a movement to change the way we think about goodness so that we can become better judges of people and create more goodness in ourselves, in others, and in our organizations. He argues that while View Details
- 22 Nov 2021
- News
Manage Your Talent Pipeline Like a Supply Chain
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
LA Reid’s Song
Illustration by Brian Stauffer Illustration by Brian Stauffer Edited by April White Record producer LA Reid’s (AMP 154, 1998) first book, Sing to Me, is a memoir of his 25 years in the ever-changing music business. In the book, written with music journalist Joel... View Details
- 07 Jan 2016
- News
Real-World Learning for the Digital Generation
Marc Prensky (MBA 1980) is founder and executive director of the Global Future Education Foundation and Institute, which is promoting new educations goals for 21st-century learners. In this video, he explains the basis of his ideas for real-world, accomplishment-based... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
In a few years there will be no such thing as an e-business," says Vivek Y.Ranadivé (MBA 1983). As founder, chairman, and CEO of Palo Alto-based TIBCO Software, Inc., (www.tibco.com) it would seem that Ranadivé is predicting the demise of his own company. Among other... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Bill Dunaway (MBA 1964)
A self-described SOB — son of the boss — Bill Dunaway grew up working in his father’s pharmacy in Marietta, Georgia, a town of 61,000 outside Atlanta. After expanding the business to a chain of 18 drug stores, Dunaway sold the operation in 1989 and opened the 1848... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
involved in the recent Tsinghua program and teaches Competing in the Information Age in the MBA curriculum, is intrigued by how different countries react to new technologies. “In the United States, we embrace new technology with a huge... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
creating the best cost structure in the market. But the company wanted to compete primarily on quality not price. To that end, it struck exclusive deals with suppliers and marketing partners. Where they are today: The company continues to... View Details
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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
What You Know Depends on Where You Go
inefficiencies, as units within them typically performed below stand-alone peers. Divesting assets to focus on core competencies became the accepted wisdom. Applying this logic, multi-industry conglomerates in other nations, such as the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Thinking Outside the Centerfold
Hicks: showcasing cars, marketing "Truth." Photo courtesy Jeff Hicks With a slumping economy and an increasing number of communications outlets competing for diminishing advertising dollars, media companies have had to give ground to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Exhibit at Baker Library Marks HBS Centennial
Elton Mayo (ca. 1946): Supervision attuned to a worker’s psychological needs rather than based on fear or coercion would produce, Mayo believed, “a major revolution in industrial method” and “an almost incredible human advance.” Fritz J. Roethlisberger (ca. 1958):... View Details