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- 01 Jun 2011
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The House that Howard Built
Not so long ago, its practitioners were considered a risk-taking breed apart and teaching it was viewed as an academic career-killer. But then entrepreneurship came in from the cold, thanks in large part to a maverick true believer named Howard Stevenson. Issue Focus:... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
Image by John Ritter About a month before schools began to close in the United States in response to the pandemic, Sal Khan (MBA 2003) (pictured above, right), founder and CEO of the online learning platform Khan Academy, began to see traffic pick up in Asia. “Then the... View Details
- 25 Oct 2011
- News
Who Will Replace Knowledge Workers?
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
New Releases
professor Sumantra Ghoshal. In The Differentiated Network: Organizing Multinational Corporations for Value Creation, Nohria and Ghoshal assert that the traditional, hierarchical "spoke-and-hub" forms of organization do not provide the flexibility required to View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
companies with such plans do not perform better financially. Further analysis prompted Beer and Katz to conclude that the real role of bonuses is simply to attract highly qualified executives to a corporation. "Companies are forced into incentive systems to View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
After the Revolution: Putting the Internet in Perspective
industrial model to the new information economy, said CEOs of incumbent (pre-Internet) companies are trying to compete with dot-coms, "but they get dot-com vertigo. They trust their senses, even after realizing they're wrong, and they get... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Case Study: Declawing the Competition
excellent customer service. However, we know this is a race that others can compete in, too, and that—with enough investment—our differentiators are replicable. What fundamental changes can we make to this market dynamic and/or our... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Porter Appointed to University Professorship
is particularly important to me since the scope of my work has broadened considerably over the years." Porter's first area of interest examines how firms compete in industries and gain competitive advantage. The next focuses on locations... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Jeremiah P. Murphy, Jr.
Harvard Square retail community, the Coop's number was almost up when Murphy arrived on the scene. As an old-style department store that carried everything from refrigerators to intimate apparel, the store was struggling to compete in the... View Details
- 03 Jul 2024
- News
Surviving the Iditarod
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Sunny Stroeer: Many folks have heard of the Iditarod Sled Dog race, which is the last great race on earth where mushers compete to cover the distance from Anchorage to Nome as... 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
- 24 Feb 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Palm Beach
model that will draw faculty, students, and alumni from across the University to reinvent how companies compete and thrive in the 21st century. "How will we do this?" he said. "By focusing on big problems, on an open platform, with... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Reinvigorating Democracy: A Vote for Change
delve into the root causes of why the political system is failing and propose solving the problem by changing the election system. America’s political system is designed as a duopoly, where only two parties can compete and where third... View Details
Keywords: Young, Susan
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Group Therapy: The Role of Business Groups in Emerging Economies
developing nations will provide a greater service in the long run, Khanna argues, by focusing instead on building the infrastructure required to compete in a global economy. Adapted from Working Knowledge: A Report on Research at Harvard... View Details
- 08 Jun 2021
- News
How to Give Feedback — Especially When You’re Dreading it
- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
that many people. But the demand ... I mean, every time we launch an application cycle for people to apply to Andela, we get thousands of applications. And we can't hire that many people yet. One day we will. And so, we thought, "Why don't we do this? Rather than View Details
- 31 Jan 2019
- News
A Global Mission
Art DeFehr (MBA 1967) didn’t plan to become a businessman. The Canadian-born DeFehr always imagined life as a diplomat—until he ran afoul of the FBI. As a college student in Indiana, DeFehr had become involved in anti-Vietnam protests and the civil rights movement. He... View Details
- 19 Jun 2013
- News
Your Guide to Social Enterprise
Georgia Levenson Keohane Photo courtesy of Georgia Levenson Keohane What is social entrepreneurship? Is it simply an approach to business in which profit comes hand in hand with some positive social change? Or is it the application of business methods to a nonprofit so... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
compete for fishing quotas. The value of the fishing quota is not only determined by the volume, but also by the price for fish. BW: I’d worked on auctions. I had some of the early papers on the subject and then I had this brilliant... View Details
- 20 Oct 2022
- News
Lebanon Alumni Host US Ambassador for Dinner and Discussion
entrepreneurial skills and the Lebanese business community is competent and well known around the world,” says Ingea. “Despite the current hardships, she remains hopeful and optimistic about the future of Lebanon.” Ingea says a lively Q&A... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley