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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Executive Action
A rendering of the new Chao Center (Illustration by Goody Clancy) Harvard Business School broke ground for the construction of a new Executive Education facility—the Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center—on April 24. The Chao Center, a... View Details
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Introduction - The Medium - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
and by Frank and Lillian Gilbreth in the early 1900s. For Harvard students, Ayres was particularly interested in documentary records that illustrated action and labor-saving devices. For all their faithful rendering of detail, however,... View Details
- 16 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Has Apple Reinvented the Watch?
strategy would be a very risky move Ryan Raffaelli: We often define radical innovations as "competency-destroying," meaning that they render all related products and services in the same market category obsolete. While the Apple Watch is... View Details
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Introduction - The Message - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
of Frank Seely’s rendering of the Continental Bakery’s wrapping and slicing machine, the photographer fused together elements of abstraction and industry to form a metaphor for corporate success. The sharp streaming lines of the conveyor... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
34,000 Pages and Counting
to the printer in South Carolina, who would keyboard all the pages twice and then compare the two copies of the page as a crude way of proofing!” Fortunately, computers have rendered that tedious process obsolete. But it still takes three... View Details
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MBA > Academic-experience > Joint Degree Programs > Engineering Sciences | MBA
students’ backgrounds? What are typical students’ career objectives? Featured Alumni Pelkins Ajanoh , MS/MBA Engineering Sciences 2022 CEO, CassVita Stan Chang , MS/MBA Engineering Sciences 2020 Head of Product, Gumshoe.AI Kate Grosch , MS/MBA Engineering Sciences 2020... View Details
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Understanding Africa: Business, Entrepreneurship, Political Economy and the Complexities of a Continent - Course Catalog
others with expertise in the field, "Understanding Africa" will offer big picture understandings of the continent and the ways in which its past informs the present. At the same time, the course will take deep, vertical looks at both the differences and nuances that... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Negotiating in 3-D: An Overarching Way to Get to Yes?
two-dimensional approach cannot render an outcome acceptable to participants. Its most familiar element involves what each party will do if no deal can be reached - in other words, the "best alternative to negotiated agreement" or... View Details
Keywords: Anita M. Harris
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Crisis and Creativity
talent pool. Many Web 2.0 developments, including blogs and social networking, grew out of the large number of talented Web-literate workers who lost their jobs after the collapse of the Internet bubble. In addition, technologies and materials View Details
Keywords: Bhaskar Chakravorti
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
How to Close the Health Gap
questions are finally focusing on the health-care needs of the poor. Some teams, for example, are working on genetic modifications that would render the mosquito unable to transfer malaria. Those developments make Daar and Singer... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Magician Turns HBS Upside Down
QUITE SOME TRICK: Randal rendering an HBS classroom speechless, at least momentarily. Innovation and magic are kindred activities: Both can amaze and upend reality while introducing something new or totally unexpected, as if from nowhere,... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Ban the Butterfly Rule for Corporate Directors
associated with the loss of position renders the director no longer qualified to serve, the message to the outside world is that board membership is geared to the position, not the person. Stated another way, the apparent objective is to... View Details
Keywords: Joseph Hinsey IV
- 16 Nov 2011
- News
Are Humans Cost-Effective?
what used to be called “automation,” the concept and term made famous by the visionary John Diebold (MBA ’51) when computers were virtually unknown. Today, in an increasingly knowledge-driven economy, the ability of the Watsons of the world to View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Capital Architect
economic troubles correlating with ethical and spiritual lapses, including Zimbabwe, where prolonged violations of human rights and citizen participation have rendered the masses economically impotent. Several national economies in the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Speakers Share Triumphs and Challenges
Then, reciting the Hebrew from memory and rendering his own translation of the words that Rabbi Hillel wrote two thousand years ago, Feurstein said: "Not all those who make a fortune in business are wise in God's eyes. To be wise in God's... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News
he told the Boston Business Journal (January 114, 1999). Added Krasnow, "The [medical] system today doesn't really provide the resources people need. Patients are discharged from hospitals very quickly." CardioResponse customers rent or buy portable EKG devices that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
New Art
match the usual expectations of ivy-covered brick buildings connected by orderly pathways, a look inside any one of those buildings reveals a less traditional scene. Wander up to the second floor of Shad Hall, for example. Gracing one stairwell is Strive, a life-sized... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Forward Thinking
The tallest animal to roam the land, giraffes cast long shadows on the dry savannas and woodlands of sub-Saharan Africa where they live. But their lands are vanishing, with estimates suggesting that 90 percent of their habitat has already been lost; giraffe populations... View Details
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Talia Gillis
to employees without legal representation, highlighted how difficulties in calculating social benefits, severance packages or assessing settlement offers created significant barriers for employees, rendering many legal protections futile.... View Details
- 04 Oct 2004
- What Do You Think?
Does Speed Trump Intellectual Property?
create more interesting program choices for audiences." Azeem suggests a more appropriate response, saying, "Speed can trump IP, especially in technology industries. In the time it takes to secure a patent, you ought to have View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett