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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
delivery truck outside with its hood up and the engine in flames. "He was such an entrepreneur that he ran out with a blanket, extinguished the fire, grabbed the racks of bread, and hightailed it back to the store. It's funny, but... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
Microsoft—and some of his colleagues were on a flight to Austin, Texas, where they had an appointment with Michael Dell, CEO of Dell Computer. The purpose of the visit was to convince Dell to manufacture Xbox videogame consoles running... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
the early 1990s, but to reposition the company to lead the industry. The powerful lesson from the IBM story is that innovation is not a side business to running the real business. Innovation is the business. Breakthrough innovations that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
advantages and disadvantages. "Younger generations might have a different set of values [from their elders]," which can lead to conflicts when running a business. On the other hand, said Nursalim, blood ties can mean instant trust. Hong... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 04 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City
has an obligation—and opportunity—to intervene. I'm interested in the opportunity. I'm interested in sustainability as defined by economic competitiveness and the resource-stretching aspects of environmentalist thinking. I think back to a... View Details
- 06 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Women MBAs at Harvard Business School
School: 1962-2012," the case delves into the experiences of alumnae and alumni over the past 50 years, both inside and outside the classroom, as Dean Nitin Nohria considers what HBS might be like 10 years from now, when his young daughters are grown. "It... View Details
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Turning High Potential into Real Reward
compelled to buy." They have a keen idea at the very beginning of the venture who their ideal customer is and what the ideal product is that they need to deliver. Then, they work back from that point in the future to the present,... View Details
- 11 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Four Ways to Create Lasting Change
was a firm undergoing a very interesting transformation. The company had been run by its founders for many years and had a very distinct entrepreneurial culture. Then, the founders retired, and the firm hired an outsider as its CEO. He... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Jul 2021
- News
Mentoring Fashion Startups in Singapore; Rising Star Accolades for Mid-Career Women
competition or another investing network. We took inspiration from our club’s mentorship program and came up with a shorter version, where we could advise startup founders.” Pundrik, Mansukhani, and Ventura lead the club’s New Ventures & SME Committee (NVSC), which... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
technologies to come) is needed to develop that knowledge. "Education is a $3 trillion industry globally, and no player in the world controls even 1 percent of it," he says. "I think there will be a Facebook or Google in learning. I'd like it to be us." Bright Idea #2... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
my own doubts.” But she comes back to a question pulled from the Mary Oliver poem, “The Summer Day”—famously posed to MBA graduates as part of Tony Deifell’s (MBA 2002) Portrait Project: “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
Image by John Ritter Professors Geoff Jones and Tarun Khanna had been toiling away from their respective HBS offices for many years, each of them interested in emerging markets but expressed through different disciplines: Jones, a historian, was studying how the world... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019
must, if we want to be free. How to Get Back Up: A Memoir of Failure & Resilience by Neil Pasricha (MBA 2007) Audible Studios Pasricha combines his personal story of failure and resilience with the latest scientific research on happiness,... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
got a high-tech upgrade. On a warm July day at a little past 11 a.m., as the early lunch crowd shuffles in, Karavites runs through the changes: digital menu boards, a mobile ordering system, a new delivery collaboration with UberEATS, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
He recalls when the specter of “Japan, Inc.,” was one of manufacturing’s looming concerns. “We’ve been through a cycle of lost competitiveness followed by renewal,” observes Jasinowski, who once worked on the Studebaker assembly line in South Bend, Indiana. “Now I... View Details
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
substantially more global. The typical US-based multinational corporation has a much higher percentage of its total activity outside the US today. Early in our work, we'd talk to business executives and they would say, "I can't just worry about America, I View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
professional network for physicians.) Each year, Rock Health selects about 20 companies from thousands of applications to receive backing in the form of funding (grants up to $20,000 or convertible notes of $100,000) and services (office... View Details
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
hope of change; examples include Coca-Cola in Venezuela, Intel in Costa Rica, and Land O'Lakes International, Cisco, BP, and IBM in many countries. These are the kinds of initiatives that the WDC would undertake and encourage. With View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
whatever reason, when God created the world, he made data only available about the past. As teachers at HBS, we’re trained to nail students to the wall if they ever make an assertion in class discussion that is not backed up with data and... View Details
- 13 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?
destruction is an old idea, going back at least to Schumpeter. We typically associate it with entrepreneurship. Someone has a brilliant new idea, everyone is excited and the entrepreneur and his customers are much better off. But, in the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne