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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
and that anyone can use to turn a problem into a solution with impact. In See, Solve, Scale, Danny Warshay, the creator of the Entrepreneurial Process course and founding executive director of Brown’s Center View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Case Study: Inside Story
them,” Lin acknowledges. What do you think: Should Saga start small and scale up—or aim bigger from the beginning? Leave your thoughts in the comments below. We asked a few Entrepreneurs-in-Residence from the HBS Rock Center View Details
- 30 Apr 2021
- News
Revealing the Rules
Consulting Group, Ng wrote The Unspoken Rules: Secrets to Starting Your Career off Right as a guide for early career professionals—and particularly to help level the playing field View Details
- Profile
Dana Hoffmann
She thrived at Apple, working on new product introduction finances for such smash hit offerings as the new iPad, and from the outside Hoffmann seemingly had it made. But after three years, a twinge of dissatisfaction turned into an... View Details
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?
professional life or even your private life, where you felt some deep awareness of that faith operating, a punctuated moment of transcendence where you felt, 'I feel the need for God in the workplace,' or 'God is working.'" I think... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
Business History at HBS traces its roots back to 1927 when it was part of a course in business policy. But the golden age for this area of study at the School began with the arrival of Professor Alfred Chandler in 1970. Universally... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO
representatives from all the functions and areas on which the business unit depended. The view across the organization revealed business opportunities that would have been hard for any one unit to see by itself. View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
causes and impact of the country’s mortgage meltdown. Serving since 1998 as director of Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, Retsinas also teaches at the Graduate School of Design and the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
design rules. Thus, the computer industry was transformed from a quasi monopoly (dominated by IBM) into a large modular "cluster" of related subindustries, a development made possible by the decentralization and multiplication of design options. When the forces of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Bringing It Back Home
that might otherwise have been overlooked. They also make it a little less daunting for organizations' leaders to apply to the program, sometimes by finding exactly the right person View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
couldn't become a millionaire today," challenged the student. "Bet I could," the scrappy coach replied. Within a few months, Hindman drove right into his opportunity. A local garage bungled routine maintenance on his Cadillac, reminding... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The First Scrum
all over your leg from the glass. John Incledon (MBA 1965): Our much-missed Australian friend, the late John Nilsen (MBA 1965), landed on me when we both jumped for a ball. My hand went numb until the end of the game. By then, it was the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
the company would wait for the test results. “We’ve always followed a ‘Do what’s right and take your lumps’ approach to business. We had to execute the recall.” READY TO GO: A stringent quality-process at... View Details
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
serves as chairman of the consultancy TruePoint Partners and of its educational and research institute, the TruePoint Center for Higher Ambition Leadership. In the e-mail interview that follows, Beer talks... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Aug 2010
- News
Catchphrases, Mottos, and Cheers
we used whenever we had guests in the classroom. Our designated spirit boy and cheerleader would stand up and yell to left field, “Give me an H!” to which they'd yell back “H!” Then to center field, “Give me another H!” The reply, “H!”... View Details
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
managed and that senior managers' key responsibilities should center around its acquisition, allocation, and effective use. For the vast majority of companies, that assumption simply is no longer true.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
the mafia. Every criminal trope imaginable is trying to get a piece of this. All told, online crime inflicted $445 billion in damage to the global economy in 2014, according to a study by the Center for... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
MaterialsAncora: A Private University in the Health Care of the Poor 306-088 Project Ancora signals the entry of the private sector into primary healthcare for Chile's poor. On a commercial basis, it seeks to deliver a more effective,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
its leavings. Every night on the outskirts of Manila, thousands of people lie down to sleep amid acres of rotting food and industrial detritus in a vast urban dumping ground called Payatas. At dawn, they rise and swarm across a featureless landscape of trash and filth,... View Details