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- 01 Apr 1998
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
organizations large and small; Professor Michael E. Porter will offer his latest thinking on strategy and the need to move beyond simple "best practice" improvement to actually establishing a unique competitive position; Professor William... View Details
- 11 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives
You may think that being an energy executive—especially a manager in a leading oil company—might be the easiest job around. Just flip the production switch, and watch gas prices head toward $4 a gallon. But students enrolled in Harvard Business School professor Forest... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Leading the Way
pushing forward to improve the world we live in. I'm honored to be working with Nitin and the School's great leadership team—including Ralph James (MBA 1982) and Professors Rob Kaplan (MBA 1983) and Bill Sahlman (MBA 1975, PhDBE 1982)—to... View Details
- 23 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation
demand shift for additional safety features, prompting CT scanner producers to quickly incorporate, commercialize, and continuously improve alternative technology. Moreover, it was the largest industry... View Details
- 28 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
While improving the fulfillment of any one drive enhances employee motivation somewhat, the key to a major employee-motivation advantage relative to other companies comes from improving all four drives in... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
While improving the fulfillment of any one drive enhances employee motivation somewhat, the key to a major employee-motivation advantage relative to other companies comes from improving all four drives in... View Details
- 25 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows
from diverse backgrounds and have helped underserved communities in a variety of ways,” said Alicia Thomas, director of diversity and inclusion, MBA and Doctoral Programs. “We are excited to see how they continue that work in their time... View Details
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Make clear where we stand and where we aim to go. - Advancing Racial Equity
HBS has listed first among its Community Values “respect for the rights, differences, and dignity of others.” Racism is a blatant violation of the respect we expect every member of our community to demonstrate for others. We acknowledge with great regret that racism... View Details
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
More Than the Sum of Its Parts: The Impact of Modularity on the Computer Industry
1960, electronic data processing as well as information storage and retrieval had made a lasting impression in both the private and the public sectors, and discoveries and improvements in areas such as circuit design and solid-state... View Details
- 16 May 2018
- Blog Post
Internship Success: Mutual Growth Brings Intern and Enterprise Together
asking questions about their products and process structure. It was a great way to really understand what I could expect if I got the job.” Tran will continue to develop more connections between Zillow and HBS MBA candidates. In the near... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- Profile
Micah Macfarlane
wind, and solar. "I want to work on business development and strategy to scale the best ideas as rapidly and effectively as possible." After graduation, Micah wants to continue on that path – targeting our major sources of... View Details
- 06 Dec 2012
- News
New Thinking on Healthcare Reform
shortage of primary care physicians," said Sussman. "We need to continue to broaden our thinking about the healthcare team to include nurse practitioners and pharmacists and allow them to practice at the top of their license." "In the... View Details
- 03 Nov 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency?
Legislation is therefore a problematic way to achieve the golden mean in normative behavior." Edward Hare agrees, pointing out that "Corporate governance is a system that continues to fail us ... and joins the ranks of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Profile
Luc Sirois
lifelong idealism and drive to improve world. Sirois recalls his time at HBS as providing the spark necessary to direct his energies in the early days of the emerging digital superhighway. “Technology was enabling a new world. It didn’t... View Details
- 05 Dec 2019
- Blog Post
Addressing Unmet Needs in Health Care Using an MBA
make connections with the right companies, and this was something that I continued throughout my career post-HBS. The HBS network has been helpful in getting guidance, advice and making the right connections. What is something in your... View Details
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
enable efficient response; and an infrastructure for daily management and continuous improvement of the chain's performance. Furthermore, we find that employees on the service delivery unit spent 12% of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf
Continued success in diagnostic systems relies heavily on product innovation and software engineering. But Ludwig found that the DIS division had lost its edge—a key competitor had improved its own products... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Eric Schiffer
sells something for $20 adds a penny cost, it’s meaningless. So we try to eliminate waste and increase productivity in every aspect, whether it’s compliance, shipping, handling, distribution, storage — we strive to find ways to deal with costs creatively. I recognize... View Details
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers
transferring rents to multinational corporate patent holders headquartered in the world's most advanced countries, especially the United States. IPR advocates countered that improved IPR would spur innovation, and that even if this... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs
service" designed for the average shopper. While retailers do not offer tiered loyalty programs, they do offer tailored coupons and other offers valued at par with the total spent in the store. The convexity in the reward structure comes from View Details