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Jennifer Hurford
worldview through conversation." After completing her joint degree, Jennifer will join a startup that, like IDEO, "focuses on human-centered design thinking and innovative technology to solve big... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
- 11 May 2011
- News
In a Good Place
of Milwaukee (her father worked at the Miller brewery), Gehrke attended Northwestern University, where she was introduced to poster design while working in a print shop. From there she went to the Pratt Institute for a master’s degree in... View Details
- 02 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
Peek Weekend: The Family Business Cohort
sporadically since then, starting with small tasks when I was younger and growing into larger roles like 2D and 3D design now that I’m a senior design student at the University of Cincinnati. With graduation... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Class of 2004 Gives Fellowship
designated that the fellowship be used to support a student “with a particular focus on professional or volunteer work that has benefited underprivileged or deserving children.” Aliya Shariff (HBS ’06) was a fitting choice for the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
HBS Moves Ahead with Curriculum Innovations
first-year Required Curriculum. It aims to bridge the gap between learning and doing through team-based leadership development, global experiences, and integrated thinking activities. FIELD coursework will take place inside classrooms... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Stiletto Science
feet.” Or, as Hughes described it, “A shoe you can think in.” Hughes is chairman of HBN Shoe, which owns Insolia, a biomechanically correct design that’s built into a heeled shoe and can’t be seen when the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Fast Casual
electrical engineering, who designs the procedures and logistics that ensure smooth, efficient operations. Of PRG and its husband-wife leadership team, Peggy said, “We had to standardize everything from recipes to kitchens.... I View Details
- 06 Jan 2021
- News
A Message from Dean Srikant Datar
intellectual interests evolved in what many would say are pretty surprising ways, from a focus on governance and control, to design thinking and innovative problem solving, to data science and machine... View Details
- 18 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Innovating in the Hot Market of Cold Brew
valuable. Like everyone, we’ve spent more time online - for us that meant building our community of followers earlier, which we’ve leveraged to get feedback on our device earlier than expected. Because we’re further apart, we’ve had to View Details
- 27 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
Why I Would Have Applied to the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program
and companies better. Someone with a background and orientation towards building things can incorporate that knowledge into their work and get tremendously more effective as a founder or leader. In particular design View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Short Takes
Bulletin. In her working paper, "Psychological Safety and Learning Behavior in Work Teams," Edmondson presents field research she conducted at Office Design Incorporated (ODI), a midwestern manufacturer of office systems and furniture... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
No Time Like the Present
give its leaders what they need to lead,” says Delle, who had the opportunity to work with his former Design Thinking professor, Dean Srikant Datar, when Datar led a group of faculty members on an immersion... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- What Do You Think?
When Business Performance Falters, is Culture Change the Fix?
articulating the desired ‘way we intend to operate,’ but even this is best done to explain ‘why’ we are making process, design and/or strategic changes.” Others refused to think in terms of one primary... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
- 06 Oct 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?
course, referred to a type of analytic data that might suggest nontraditional indicators designed to provide a competitive edge in everything from investments to selection of talent. One such example is the use of puzzles to select... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System
greater contact across the value chain and especially with end users builds the company brand and triggers opportunities for innovation. Rationale for thinking long-term. Sustainability is more than a buzzword for vanguard companies, and... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
improve the level of critical and divergent thinking before decisions are made while simultaneously building consensus to help implement those decisions. Actual situations examined include tragedy atop Mt. Everest and the space shuttle... View Details
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Social Entrepreneurship and Systems Change (SESC) - Course Catalog
and the importance of systems thinking as an intuitive lens to achieving long-lasting impact. Designing for Systems Change : The process of developing and testing effective solutions to enduring problems... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Stanford Lets Students Customize
leads off with a quarter of required “Management Perspectives” courses designed to provide students with an integrative overview of management challenges and to develop soft leadership and communication skills, including courses in... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Stacey Lawson (MBA '96)
Stacey A. Lawson (MBA '96) came to HBS with an idea brewing. The former IBM engineer wondered why there were no digital libraries for users of computer-aided design (CAD). Despite the pervasiveness of technology throughout industry, she... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Against All Odds
(February 27, 2003) explained, “Mr. Bertarelli runs his America’s Cup team like a small global company, with over one hundred team members, drawn from fifteen countries, and eight specialist units covering everything from boat design and... View Details