Open Office - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Sep 2018
News

Moving Pictures

LA and a quick visit to check out the Globe’s new offices in downtown Boston, Singer (MBA 2000/JD 2001) dives into a Starbucks; the unanswered question evaporates in the effort to acquire a restorative latte with one pump of mocha. It’s... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Christina Gandolfo; Arts, Entertainment

08 Sep 2016
News

How We Make It Work

process, I found an employment agency that represented professionals seeking part-time positions. When I realized that my region of New England wasn’t covered, I offered to open up an office as a third... View Details

16 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?

and they basically are good people, but they are open to suggestion. They are temptable. And the challenge I have as a CEO," he said, "is to create an organization, that in its culture, its systems, and its processes, helps... View Details

Keywords: by Kim B. Clark

05 Mar 2020
News

Green Light

forwarded the business plan. “By the end of 2013, we reached the point where I confronted either writing it off and writing off my friend and benefactor’s money—or I was going to pull the nose up.” Lo stepped in as CEO in July 2014. She built out the team, including... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Scott Nobles

25 Aug 2010
News

Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations

and I ended up Looping the course. 1985F put brown paper bags over our heads during a Friday-afternoon class. The idea was to mess with the professor, who styled himself a partier and lady’s man. Namecards were removed and bags put over our heads so he wouldn’t be able... View Details

Keywords: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

02 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Where Does Apple Go From Here?

and written about Apple for the last decade, generating several case studies. His latest case, Apple Computer 2004, co-written with research associate Debbie Freier, was recently published by Harvard Business School Publishing. Yoffie sat down with HBS Working... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

02 Oct 2015
News

The ‘F’ Word

was hauled into the VP’s office and given a stern lecture regarding the evanescence of superstardom in product management if one didn’t sweat the details of each project. From that point on, I always insisted on getting my hands filthy... View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

09 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale

previous books: the Watsons of IBM, Sam Walton, for example. What led you to focus this time on Andy Grove? Tedlow: Having looked at CEO's, as you mentioned, in other books, and really having studied the phenomenon of the chief executive View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

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

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