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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
“Speed Trap” Can Snare Companies
be “right,” but the context created by past decisions means it unwittingly perpetuates a harmful, speed-oriented pathology. “What happens is that we look at our decisions in isolation instead of recognizing how they've contributed to the... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton
- 11 Oct 2024
- News
Highlights from the Fall 2024 Alumni Board Meeting
Harvard Business School hosted its annual fall Alumni Board Meeting in late September, bringing together its members for a three-day event that included interactive sessions with faculty and HBS leadership on the School and its programs, a dinner and reception with MBA... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
On Eve of Transition, Alumni Conference Set for Hong Kong
discussions will include a number of HBS professors. The Hong Kong conference will also consider China in the larger context of the Asian business environment. HBS professor Michael E. Porter will offer his perspective on the competitive... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
The Kids Are Alright: Alumni Children Crack Case
pop-up ads on most sites. Instead, its “immersive” advertising was more like the product placements common to television and movies — sponsors’ products or messages appear in the context of the site’s games and activities.) As the class... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables
representatives of this group who reflect on the challenges they have faced and — often with humor — place their professional accomplishments in the context of other activities that give meaning to their lives. Scott Cook John Doerr... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Dream Job: Higher Ed’s New Hire
that will continue. You can’t fall off the floor, as they say. You have to think about historical data in the context of that information and how investing will be impacted. Another point is that the market used to be much more... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
A Club for the Cosmos
announcing the opening of an office within the context of a larger industry event will continue in March at the Satellite 2016 conference outside Washington, D.C., and at subsequent forums in Paris and Singapore. “This is the most... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 17 Feb 2011
- News
Field Report: Rwanda
Afghanistan. Information gathering for the field project began before the team left Boston. The group’s on-the-ground experience, however, provided much-needed cultural context — the heart of any IXP experience. “Most of the renewals for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Q&A: John Quelch
or elsewhere — bring an understanding of international contexts and cross-border issues to their teaching and research. We would like Baker Library to be a truly international resource, and we are looking at Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Averting Crisis
beliefs play a central role. I have worked on projects that study beliefs and important economic decisions, in the context of corporate investment in general, and banking and the financial crisis in particular.” —Yueran Ma (PhDBE 2018),... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Stanford Lets Students Customize
leads off with a quarter of required “Management Perspectives” courses designed to provide students with an integrative overview of management challenges and to develop soft leadership and communication skills, including courses in Strategic Leadership, the Global... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Short Takes
motivated and characterized successful firms for decades, in the environmental arena and elsewhere. Thus, he concludes, "The way to situate business in the context of the natural environment is to integrate the natural environment into... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Stephen Covey's Successful Habits
conducting business - according to certain principles: honesty, integrity, respect, kindness, meaningful work, fairness, and justice. These are the classic, self-evident principles we incorporate into our 7 Habits; we believe they are fundamental to creating a positive... View Details
- 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
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
China IFC: Global Access, Global Perspective
learned about the complexities of this private/public partnership six months before it opened. Course participant Matt Eisen (MBA 2016) notes that the IFC gave him a sense of the business context and the opportunities in the region.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Lessons in Leadership
to be able to discern both of these aspects of people and of organizations. One thing Shackleton did very well was to revise, and reset, his objectives as the context changed. As soon as his ship was trapped in ice, he figured out that... View Details
Keywords: Antarctica
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Digital ID network empowers individuals, disrupts the data brokers
While anonymity online has many benefits, there are certain contexts in which an individual would want to be known. Blake Hall (MBA 2010), an army veteran, noticed that many brands were unwilling to extend special offers online to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
New Idea: State of the Art
selected from 10 Smithsonian collections—that feels particularly relevant to Belsky these days as he and his Adobe team build virtual tools. “Sometimes,” Belsky says, “considering the history in a field helps set context for the future.” View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Taking Time to Make Time
POZEN: Getting people to think about how they are managing their careers in the evolving context of their own personal and professional lives. HBS senior lecturer Robert Pozen is living proof of the adage "If you want to get something... View Details
Keywords: Time management
- 12 Jul 2011
- News
Phone Fun
disciplines involved in the role, combined with the pace and focus on tangible deliverables is intellectually, creatively, and emotionally fulfilling,” he elaborates. At HBS, Braterman developed the skills to put marketing into context at... View Details