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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Three Profs Win McKinsey Award
automobiles. (The Kindle 2 graphic illustrates their point.) Christensen and his coauthors report the results of a six-year study to uncover the origins of creative business strategies in particularly innovative companies. Their research... View Details
- 02 Feb 2007
- What Do You Think?
Is There Too Little “Know Why” In Business?
become centered around maximizing profits rather than maximizing on the Purpose." Neil Olonoff argued that the concept of purpose put forth by Nikos Mourkogiannis in his book is too impersonal. He pointed out that "Michael... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
although some kind folks would just walk them over to our unit and put them on the porch. I tied them up in bundles, stored them in my folks’ bedroom, and every couple of weeks we took them to a place in Cambridge that paid $1 per 100... View Details
- 07 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Green-tech Entrepreneurship in India
journey to understand the intricate tapestry of India's burgeoning green tech landscape. A pivotal moment in our learning expedition was the site visit to Log 9 Materials, a company that epitomizes the fusion of innovation and... View Details
- 28 Mar 2018
- News
Fueling the Future
recruiter and marketing director to head of innovation. Today, she runs Fueled for Growth, an innovation consulting company, which assists financial firms with due diligence in the energy and industrials sector and helps companies solve... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
Cambridge shelter for abused women and children. In addition, while working at CSFB, Brown began mentoring and supporting a high-school girl, Mary Sessoms, and continues doing so now that Sessoms is in college. “I’ve received significant... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
will drive organizational success and provide innovative growth opportunities for both the business and the individual. Based on her more than thirty years at Chick-fil-A, most of which have been spent as vice president of corporate... View Details
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Case Method 100 Years | Baker Library
facilitate production of additional multi-media cases. 1997 California Research Center Established California Research Center established to support faculty research and writing on West Coast companies. 1997... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
bankruptcy court protection in November 2008 despite high advance demand for its planes. In January, a judge approved the sale of Eclipse’s assets to Eclipse Jet Aviation International, an affiliate of Luxembourg-based European Technology and Investment Research View Details
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking E-Leadership
by transforming" the existing business or creating a new one. An effective e-leader, Hargrove continues, must shift from "being a productivity and efficiency junkie to being an opportunity seeker and innovator who quests for... View Details
Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni
- 01 May 2015
- News
Celebrating and Supporting Leadership
articulating aspirations and pursuing priorities." The goal of the five-year Harvard Campaign is $6.5 billion; the financial goal for the HBS Campaign is $1 billion. At HBS, gifts are being directed to the HBS Fund for Leadership and View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Capitalism’s False Mantra
rather than managing the business itself, the world of reality. To “fix the game,” five steps are necessary: put customers at the center of everything that firms do, eliminate stock-based executive compensation, rethink the role of... View Details
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
When In-House Research Isn’t Enough
For many decades, corporate research and development has been pretty much an "inside job." The road to innovative new products and services began and ended with a company's internal R&D. But according to HBS assistant... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
of innovation in fields as diverse as real estate law and songwriting. But it is in the health sector where Watson’s impact is most tangible, where its benefits are literally the difference between life and death. “What I focus on,” says... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The HBS Fund
emergency personnel—potentially saving more than 10,000 lives annually. RapidSOS participated in the Harvard Innovation Labs’ Venture Incubation Program while co-founder Michael Martin (MBA 2015) was a student at HBS. The startup... View Details
- 15 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
The Social Enterprise Initiative at HBS
Mike Bloomberg (MBA 1966) and his team and spent two years at Bloomberg Philanthropies on the Government Innovation team, where he helped mayors and cities drive innovation. Matt returned to HBS in 2014 to take the helm of the HBS Social... View Details
- 26 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Syngenta Tomato Vision
In January 2024, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led 45 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in the second year of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Social Enterprise Visionary
School, and social enterprise organizations all over the world has far exceeded my fondest dreams.” Following an April 13 SEI Advisory Board luncheon in Spangler Center honoring Whitehead, Thomas Tierney (MBA ’80), chairman and cofounder... View Details
- 25 May 2015
- Blog Post
RapidSOS Wins the HBS New Venture Competition
Innovation Lab and Rock Center for Entrepreneurship taught us how to build and organize an agile development team. Meanwhile, we reached out to countless alumni in the technology and telecom space. Again... View Details
- 09 Jul 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
Library (NYPL) and the education initiative accelerator America Achieves, and he currently serves as president and CEO of Education Development Center (EDC), a nonprofit based in Waltham, Mass., that for more than 60 years has developed... View Details