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- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
transform resources into products or services of greater value. Sustaining technologies are those processes that foster improved product performance, while disruptive technologies are those that initially tend to degrade product... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Research Brief: Developing High-Tech Talent
through specialized training, such as carpenters, electricians, and pharmacy technicians. In today’s tech-heavy work environments, however, apprenticeships should not be limited to these trade occupations, Fuller argues, noting that apprenticeships are View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Noted & Quoted
January 4, 2010) “In transforming a home into just another investment, we have created a class of homeowners who treat their commitment to their homes much as they would treat any bad investment.” — HBS lecturer Nicolas Retsinas writing about the View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
The Businesslike Gourmet: Karen Page on America's Foodservice Industry
responded, as have entrepreneurs. Thus you see the emergence of craft-brewed beers, gourmet coffees, breads, and so forth, in addition to fine restaurants. Increasingly, chefs and restaurants are starting joint ventures with small, local... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
George C. Lodge
In June, the School conferred its highest honors, the Distinguished Service Award and the Alumni Achievement Award, on four professors emeriti and five alumni, respectively. This is a profile of a Distinguished View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Faculty Books
looks at the emergence of capitalism and democracy as systems of economic and political governance and considers how they may be both mutually supportive and antagonistic. Chapters on the theory and history of these systems challenge the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
IXP 2009
Boston: Healthcare: Value-Based Healthcare Delivery (Michael Porter with Elizabeth Teisberg, Darden School of Business) Silicon Valley: Entrepreneurial Ventures: Consumer Internet and Clean Tech (Mike Roberts, Tom Eisenmann) New Orleans: View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Leadership Project Codifies Elusive Traits
legacy (past), global, and emerging (future) — the initiative aims to provide cutting-edge research on the often-elusive topic of leadership. Led by Anthony J. (“Tony”) Mayo (MBA ’88), its seven affiliated faculty members are part of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
Illustration by Dave Cutler At the peak of his career as CEO of Bain & Company, Tom Tierney (MBA ’80) quit his job to form a nonprofit professional services organization. Frustrated by the plodding pace of Alzheimer’s research,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
What You Know Depends on Where You Go
were largely gained in the trenches of a multiyear research project with Professor Tarun Khanna that explores the implications of conglomerate business structures in emerging markets. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, research showed... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
New Economy Theme of HBS African-American Alumni Conference
growth," said conference cochair William H. Swift (MBA 1974). The Atlanta Chamber of Commerce sponsored the opening reception at the Ritz-Carlton. The conference kicked off with an examination of trends and opportunities in emerging... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Beantown as a Beacon
COMMUNITY-SPECIFIC EDUCATION Online learning tailored to the skills gap of the unemployed Boston is an education mecca, but with the emergence of online education and MOOCs (massive open online courses), every city can boost its education... View Details
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Power of Entrepreneurship
everything. When you go to the slums of Mexico, they don't have that privilege. And it's a complete market failure. So it is two parts: It's access to better products and services in the emerging middle... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
In addition, committees are formed to develop programs that respond to specific issues of concern to alumni. This year, the committees will be structured around the following topics. Online Services for Alumni In an effort to refine the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Nohria Named Tenth Dean
emerging global business and social challenges.” For more about Dean Nohria, visit http://www.hbs.edu/dean/. Complete coverage will appear in the September issue. View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
impact in the country dramatically. She was instrumental in the NYSE listing of Wipro; in facilitating nationwide cellular phone service through a deal involving the Tata and Birla families and AT&T; and in a number of privatizations.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Opinion: Making It Better
a key driver of innovation is necessity—truly the mother of invention. For example, in Brazil, Russia, and China, which have universal coverage, and in India, which does not, demand for health care far outstrips the state's ability to pay for and supply it, which has... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Looking back; looking forward
working with our HBS clubs to develop and deliver an unprecedented Global Outreach Program that will send faculty to some fifty clubs around the world. Alumni clubs play a vital role in sustaining the HBS community while also enriching their own; many sponsor important... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
HBS Business Plan Contest Keeps Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive
track, defined as any organization whose core activities address social issues. Each winning team received $10,000 in cash as well as $10,000 in in-kind accounting and legal services to get its venture up and running. For the fourth year,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Fall Reunions
the classroom, with topics ranging from business opportunities in emerging markets to biotech to management challenges in public education. And once the cold-call jitters were over, there was ample time for catching up with old... View Details