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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
transparency to the pricing and cut out the middleman. So I say yes absolutely you can and should have some off-the-rack options (still tailored to fit). This may even be preferred for the woman who is time-strapped or low on creativity... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
An Authentic Leader
When you do that, over time the revenue gains peter out. And without revenue gains, people go to divesture and restructuring, and in-appropriate acquisitions. As a result, companies can’t make the numbers, and people start to get into View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
HBS Moves Ahead with Curriculum Innovations
been so much at the heart of the School throughout our existence, is alive and well. And I’m encouraging that as much as anything else. What value does FIELD add to the first-year students’ experience? We all agreed that there were three areas in particular in which we... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Righting the Ship
than it was before COVID. Second, be as creative and serious about thoughtful experimentation as you possibly can, because the organizations that improve in crisis are those that are willing to navigate... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
estate costs, to improve hiring, to get people with more diverse skills—those are the companies that will emerge as winners from this. I feel that’s the big lesson. Instead of just focusing on whether or not productivity will dip in the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
United States and five other countries. "We definitely think of ourselves as an entrepreneurial company, even though we've been around for a while," says Thompson. "It's been a productive and exciting time." Many observers believe that the analytical and View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Big Ambition Behind Educational Innovation
(highlighted in this issue of IMPACT), is yet another example of educational innovation. Going forward, the School is exploring ways to creatively integrate its three pedagogical strands—case, field, and digital — so that faculty members... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
Issue Focus: Ideas & Impact Illustration by Timothy Cook An Intellectual Capital: Some Influential HBS Ideas, at a Glance Pleasure in Progress Teresa Amabile It sounds so obvious: Employees who make meaningful progress in their work enjoy greater engagement,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Rediscovering America
from depression to optimism,” explains Kanter, who says she grew up “thinking that Americans have a special responsibility to improve the state of the world.” While her agenda is ambitious, Kanter notes, “The country can accomplish a... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
The Influence of Geography on Work and Innovation
considerations,” Choudhury says. If workers have difficulty obtaining visas or face significant hurdles to earning a license to work in their fields of expertise in another country, companies can’t benefit from knowledge transfer and recombination—unless they get View Details
Keywords: April White
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
communication technology that works with the same cellular spectrums that telecommunications companies use. Since that first experiment four years ago, Project Loon has improved balloon steerability, connectivity, and stamina—the balloons... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
products that make people’s lives easier, safer, and more enjoyable. In many capitalist economies in 2018, and especially in our own, innovation is unending, and its pace may even be accelerating. The creative destruction of capitalism... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
student—had been awarded the 2020 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said “Their discoveries have benefited sellers, buyers,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
happier for the rest of your day—and that results in greater creativity, sales, productivity, and sleep quality. Surveys show that people are increasingly experiencing symptoms of burnout at work. How can we improve our mindset? I’ll... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
eight years below the national average.) But with its manifold offerings and programs, all of which feed one another in ways both obvious and subtle, the school is a model for a radically diverse approach to economic development that combines View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
don’t read the script or look at the director’s work when they’re deciding whether or not to fund a film,” says Mankoff. “We’ll do those things. If a project makes sense from a creative point of view, we can ostensibly take on a bit more... View Details
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
creative years—Westmoreland was assigned 31 patents. At one time, an estimated 150,000 glassworkers were employed in Czechoslovakia, earning one-fifth of what their American counterparts did. Nevertheless, for many years, the American... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
resilience and leap forward from failure, and ultimately to understand the deepest human needs. The author suggests thinking like an entrepreneur as a way to improve one’s business, life, and relationships. L’Apport Économique des... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Embracing Creative Tensions to Solve Your Toughest Problems By Wendy K. Smith (PHDOB 2006) and Marianne W. Lewis Harvard Business Review Press Life is full of paradoxes. How can we each express our individuality while also being a team... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
Karavites’s store underwent—the reshaping of the experience, the modernizing—that’s the fun part of the turnaround, Kempczinski says. The less-fun stuff had to come first, though: foundational things, like paring back some of the organizational layers, View Details