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- 26 May 2022
- News
Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories
product attempts that missed the mark on health outcomes—including a prototype of a smart bike and apps for fitness and calorie tracking. “In order to have a healthy outcome, our users need to adopt a healthy lifestyle—daily,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
and proactive than we admit. Dodd-Frank also provides for the creation of new organized markets to deal with and standardize the flurry of new derivatives products that have appeared in recent years. This is a smart move, since the last... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 29 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial
men. Grove's deceptively simple question stripped the blinders of denial from their eyes. It allowed them to see the situation afresh, face it squarely, and make what had instantly become the obvious choice. Grove's question did not make either man smarter. Both were,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
of smart people. Koehn: As these forces gather steam by the early 1960s, you're now attracting all kinds of interesting people, right? From the names we recognize like Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore and William Fairchild. And before that,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
decisions? Pick great people. Who among your potential co-venturers is skilled, flexible, and honorable? How can they help when smart VCs pay more attention to the team than to the initial value proposition. Build the team that will buy... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
Silicon Valley is the poster child for capitalism, the synergistic geography where smart private money supports cool ideas, creates jobs, boosts national productivity, and provides a handsome return for investors. Less well understood... View Details
- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
on the EPS of both sides—and determine whether it is in the best interests of Mellon, the city of Pittsburgh, and Mellon's shareholders. Purchase the case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208129 KIPP 2007: Implementing a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
“My concern right now is that although there’s an enormous amount of discussion about the $700 billion, the discussion may not be sufficiently sensitive to the need for reasonable oversight of the financial system. ... We have to be serious and View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Effective Communication in the Age of Zoom
within this virtual format. April: I imagine that like most of us, you have been on a lot of video calls since the beginning of this crisis. What are some of the smart and useful ways you've seen people adapt to this new work environment?... View Details
Keywords: Zoom
- 15 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
A New Model for Business: The Museum
pay a fair or even premium price for products and services that really suit them. If companies are smart about this, the increases in profits from new and more satisfied customers can more than offset losses from helping some customers... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Turning High Potential into Real Reward
it's understanding the path to the mainstream market and being smart enough to, A) pick a good mainstream market and, B) assemble the people and partners who give you a disproportionate likelihood of getting there. It's very important not... View Details
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
school gave it an enormous amount of credibility.” Getting Smart on Data The legitimizing power of academic research is something Karen Mills saw close up even before joining the Small Business Administration. As chair of Maine’s Council... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
Professor Zuboff, in your previous book, In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power, you wrote eloquently about the advent of computers in the workplace for individuals, organizations, and society. In 1988 you wrote,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
It’s a chance to exercise my creative side and, I always say, there’s no quarterly performance reviews in comedy: You are either funny or you’re not. I do what people call smart humor. I mean, I have a joke where the punch line is the... View Details
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
even "victory speech" about why saying "yes" to the deal you want is smart and in the other side's interests; f) constructive actions at the bargaining table informed by knowledge of the other side's internal conflicts... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
perspective. Many companies abroad have been very smart about importing the U.S. dot-com model — without all the hype — and are really looking at what works and what doesn’t. China knows it has a huge price advantage in terms of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
intelligence, and marketing. It doesn't take much investment, just a lot of creativity, smart data analysis, and agility. It has now emerged as the new word for growth used by start-ups and entrepreneurs in India and across the world.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
Traditions LLC) In this second book of a series, Beck has compiled over 500 college sports traditions (for every collegiate sport and both genders) from over 350 schools. No Boston Olympics: How and Why Smart Cities Are Passing on the... View Details