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- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
Bulgaria right after the Berlin Wall fell and was right when Bulgaria was beginning its transition to Democracy. Now, I've read that you and your wife, Searl, were actually a part of that process that helped create Bulgaria's democracy.... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
economic drivers" of business use of the Internet, explaining, "The change in the production process of information is altering the way it's distributed. Information is moving from paper into bits. That is a fundamental change in the... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
A Practical Playbook to Fuel Business Growth is also an ideal blueprint for current and prospective UX practitioners seeking to improve their skills and further their careers. Creativity Unlocked: An Inside-Out Approach to a Life of Joy... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
success and failure include lessons on funding, team development, strategy, performance, and allocation. Some large funds do not survive their founders, and large sums are reallocated to a broader selection of managers. Seides outlines the allocation View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
ourselves against other countries,” he says. “There’s the feeling that India will be left behind if it doesn’t improve its infrastructure — it has no choice.” In any discussion of India’s economy, China is an almost inevitable subtext.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
done, the problems will fester. Worse, it can easily become a hotbed of terrorism. The question is how are we to return to Iraq and help it back on its feet. The most important thing now is to improve the security situation. Esty in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
global value chains and global competitors. And recruiting itself became global,” notes Palepu. As the nascent globalization process picked up steam in the 1990s, HBS began to grapple with its implications for the MBA Program, says... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
firmly anchored it in the School's mainstream, a process due in large measure to the leadership of then Dean John H. McArthur and the efforts of Professors Howard Stevenson and William Sahlman. (The work of these two men and their... View Details
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
terms of time. But you know, the recruitment and selection process has changed quite a bit. Back in the early 90s, late 80s, it was generally just a question of the chairman and CEO and the other board members looking at their... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
international general manager. "After the earthquake, I was asked to serve on the government commission charged with improving Japan's IT and telecom emergency preparedness and responsiveness," he says. "Over 500 central and local... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
New Releases
a competitive factor. In a three-year study of pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms, Pisano shows that the development of distinctive and superior process technologies can lower costs, improve quality, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Get Well Soon
story as well, because the senior team is tackling important problems and engaging people throughout the organization in solving them.” One of the key players is Dr. Uma Kotagal, a neonatologist with a deep-seated passion for improving... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
An Excerpt from The Innovator’s Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care
“The current health-care system generally is modular. Specialized companies operate hospitals, process paperwork, negotiate blanket service contracts, and manage outpatient and retail clinics. Most doctors’ offices are set up as... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 09 Jan 2020
- News
Your Whole Self
why real improvement requires a holistic approach, not just a lifestyle hack. READ MORE April: Amy, thank you so much for joining us today to discuss your newest book, The Leader You Want to Be. Early in the book you introduce us to two... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
An Atypical Case — Robin G. Berglund (MBA 1971)
encourage them to forget about the technical nomenclature and focus on the essence of processes and systems, using common terms and visual analogies," he says. Berglund had wanted to become a doctor since he was ten years old but deferred... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Ink: Your Best Self
need to address so that I can get back on my A-game. But the process of writing the book made it challenging for you to be a good leader. It was such an irony. When I was writing about what I call the “pitfalls of doing,” which can... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Negotiating in 3-D: An Overarching Way to Get to Yes?
familiar - consists mainly of the process taking place at the bargaining table, elements such as setting a positive atmosphere, establishing trust, and being persuasive, creative, and sensitive. It also includes deciding who makes an... View Details
Keywords: Anita M. Harris
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Making Difficult Decisions: The General Manager’s Job
One of the most essential roles of the general manager is to be the person who can move an organization forward through the most tangled of circumstances, says Professor Amy Edmondson, “where there is uncertainty, different points of view, and high stakes, whether... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
Medical Center in Heerlen, the Netherlands. “There are two jobs at Toyota,” Bohmer agrees. “The job. And making the job better. Improvement is the real work.” At Virginia Mason Medical Center, TPS leads to a number of View Details
- 11 Oct 2022
- News
Righting the Ship
When Ross Stuckey (PLDA 21, 2016) joined the NAVSEA Warfare Centers—a part of the naval research labs responsible for developing science and tech for national defense—as their capital improvement program (CIP) manager in 2016, he was... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon