Filter Results:
(323)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(2,257)
- People (1)
- News (323)
- Research (1,550)
- Events (14)
- Multimedia (7)
- Faculty Publications (728)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(2,257)
- People (1)
- News (323)
- Research (1,550)
- Events (14)
- Multimedia (7)
- Faculty Publications (728)
Sort by
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Books
www.mindedge.com. Performance Measurement & Control Systems for Implementing Strategy by Robert L. Simons (Prentice Hall) "This book is built around a number of tensions inherent in all business," declares... View Details
- 18 Jul 2019
- News
Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins Reflects on the 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing
crackle over the radio, telling Mission Control he and Aldrin made it. Collins circled the moon, completely alone, for more than a day. He listened as his fellow astronauts walked around the jagged terrain in their puffy white suits,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Tried and Tested
have control over that. When employees don’t have control over something that matters to them, this usually points toward potential policy interventions and also naturally occurring interventions that we can... View Details
- 19 Feb 2021
- News
A Playbook for Progress
your book, examining the experiences of more than 4,000 women across four races and generations, what did the data conclude around the way forward? Jacqui: Our findings seem to anticipate many of the most positive developments in a year of great challenges and View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
manufacturing process for quality and compliance (including regularly uploading video of work in progress back to McHenry for review). Says Chirchirillo, “It doesn’t matter that it’s being built halfway around the world. Even remotely, we still have process View Details
- 11 Jun 2021
- News
The Power of Resilience
On her newborn’s one-week birthday, Somani learned she was in the early stages of a particularly invasive and aggressive form of cancer. Her maternity leave suddenly turned into a medical leave to accommodate 10-plus rounds of chemotherapy and View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
need a nice job. Like, we talked about how things to really worry are things that have replication capacity. Our algorithms don't self-replicate in any significant way beyond the control of the engineer creating them. A virus, by... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Collaborative Cures
Business Administration “When I looked at the health care system through a systems engineering lens, I could see it as a network of multiple parts that needed to be optimized... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
which was expanding its model there. At KIPP—another network singled out by the 2013 Stanford study for positive learning gains—that meant recruiting strong management talent, building evaluation protocols for teachers and administrators, and developing View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
SEEQC’s digital control chips should also make quantum computing more affordable: Levy and his team estimate that the infrastructure required to maintain a single qubit currently costs between $8,500 and $15,000, while their chip-based... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
New Virtual Classrooms Expand Digital Learning
of HBS Live programming. “We’ve combined video conferencing software with television production hardware and techniques to create a much more interactive, engaging experience,” explains Hilt. “We control the technology, including View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
You Are What You Eat
Writing in the magazine Pig Progress (September 23, 2010), Austria-based John Hodges (AMP 52, 1967),an expert on genetics and ethics in agriculture, food, and the environment, warned that the current system of agribusiness is untenable.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Incentives and Operational Excellence
Operational problems can be the cause of an organization’s demise. Often they can be traced to poor controls in interorganizational settings, according to HBS associate professor V.G. Narayanan, a specialist in measurement View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: In Security
YOUNG: Always start by focusing on areas where you have the most risk. Good protection starts with good IT hygiene. The basics—patching and updating systems and basic protections (and controls)—should be in place across the entire... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Diagnosing DC’s Dysfunction
Washington isn’t broken. It’s thriving. The real problem is that our political system benefits the major political parties and their industry allies—not the people it was designed to serve. That’s according to “Why Competition in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Entrepreneurial Unit Travels to China
While China’s Communist Party still controls the country’s political machinery, the nation’s booming economy is increasingly in the hands of savvy entrepreneurs, with an estimated 70 percent of the nation’s GDP now produced by the private... View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
power structures and the fact that our economic system doesn't account for the negative externalities of pollution, injustice, etc. And that's why I think it's even more important to emphasize the connections between the issues that we're... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
different message. As he writes: “Even when adaptation appears to be the only viable option, we should do more than blindly accept—and eagerly adapt to—change. We should seek to understand why the change has been forced on us, how we might exert greater View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
everywhere, and the coming of the Internet. In the third, capital markets freed themselves up, shedding inhibitions against hostile takeovers, establishing a genuine market for the control of companies. The fourth horseman usually goes by... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Doing Something Real
world that seems to have found a better way than price controls to tame inflation (free trade, competition, innovation, dour central bankers)... and a world with a Starbucks on almost every corner. (Now that's coffee.) In these 25 years... View Details
Keywords: Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)