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- 25 Apr 2014
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Fostering a synergy at work that benefits associates as well as customers
Ganesh Natarajan (AMP 169, 2005), CEO of Zensar Technologies, is cultivating a collaborative management philosophy and innovative HR policies to ensure its 7,000 associates help customers achieve their business needs. At the core of the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
Recently featured on the cover of Forbes with Intel chairman Andrew Grove, Associate Professor Clayton M. Christensen is the author of The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail. His research on "disruptive... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Q&A - Mark Fields
Japan’s fifth-largest automaker and employer of more than 38,000 people, Fields was named 2001 Asian Business Innovator of the Year (by CNBC Asia Pacific and TNT, a business logistics company).. A New York and New Jersey native, Fields... View Details
- 04 Feb 2016
- News
From Super Bowl to STEM Bowl
and give middle school students a window into the tech future. Members of the HBS Association of Northern California's Community Partners Program worked with the Santa Clara Office of Civic Innovation (OCI) to launch the Technology and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
according to Karim R. Lakhani, is that thanks to the Internet, crowdsourcing has moved into new and unexpected industries and organizations, establishing itself as a mainstream strategy for innovating and gaining a competitive edge.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Mario A. Corti: Global Reconnaissance
improvement in the areas of communication with consumers, operational efficiency, and product availability, as well as renovation and innovation throughout the company. In addition to his financial duties, he helps to implement... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf
Assembly-Line Innovation The title of the 2012 e-book Building a Growth Factory (Harvard Business Review Press) conjures an image of raw materials being dumped into a black box and emerging on conveyor belts as fully formed iPhones,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
do business the same way — with identical processes, functions, and operations — while approaching this elevated stage; but by the time they attain it, successful companies do share certain qualities and practices not observed in firms... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Research Brief: As the Wind Blows
While bold, innovative public policy played an important role in fostering success, the level of policy consistency was just as important, Jones discovers. “There’s a Janus face of public policy, particularly in the United States, where... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Forward Thinking
You can ask the internet anything, but getting an answer via generative artificial intelligence consumes about 10 times more electricity than a traditional Google search. Consequently, the data centers where AI tools are trained and run are guzzling more and more... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Taking Care of Business
an early advisor. “We are still made in America,” Newnam says. “That’s more important to me than any cash-out situation.” Launched with the goal of catalyzing change in Sri Lanka’s capital markets, York Street Partners, an NVC winner in 2014 (Most View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 03 Jan 2017
- News
Using Technology to Tailor Learning to Each Child
Heather Staker (MBA 2001) is president of Ready to Blend, a firm that works with K-12 teachers to combine educational technology solutions with classroom instruction to accelerate children’s ability to learn and achieve. In this... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
HBSi Combines HBS Content with State-of-the-Art Technology
Building on its commitment to delivering innovative custom education programs to corporations around the world, last November the School launched HBS Interactive (HBSi). The wholly owned nonprofit organization will pursue an expanded... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?
they need. “It’s all about who gives the other person access to what is essentially their ‘page,’ ” says O’Grady. These days, though, O’Grady rarely needs to shorthand blockchain. Its most famous application, bitcoin, has become an increasingly mainstream investment,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
How Green Is the Valley: HBS Students Explore Booming California Industries
meetings with representatives of firms such as Kleiner Perkins, Summit Partners, and Pacific Venture Group. "At Pacific Venture," says Weil, "Managing Partner John S. Lewis (MBA '74) had just raised a new $100-million fund focused on... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
If You're #1, Watch Out
and disks, and then to producers of chip-manufacturing technology, as each area in turn became the focus for innovation to improve performance. Old-school wisdom suggested that market leaders should "stick to their knitting" and outsource... View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
markets and the pricing of carbon becomes enormously important. DM: Matheson has seen this play out before. From 2006 to 2011, VC firms invested more than $25 billion in clean energy companies and ultimately lost more than half of it. The... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Taking the Plunge
swanky department stores, restaurants, and offices. (Visitors to HBS can try out a Washlet in Aldrich Hall, courtesy of TOTO.) “TOTO” is the final case in Leading Innovative Ventures; Tripsas notes that it brings together the two halves... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Learning to Speak the Language of Business
Mikitani Main article: Where Innovation Rules Case study: Englishnization at Rakuten From Pinterest to Kobo, how Japan's Rakuten is building a global internet giant (Wired.co.uk) You might call Hiroshi Mikitani (MBA 1993) the Jeff Bezos... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Washington. With Gratitude: Barker Steel and the People Who Made It Work by Robert B. Brack (OPM 2, 1977) ArchwayPublishing When Robert Brack returned to Barker Steel Co. (the business started by his grandfather in 1920) several years after college, the View Details