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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
Noting that nearly 40 percent of the alumni present had graduated from HBS since 1980, Piccus predicted a lively exchange of ideas between dynamic business professionals and some of the School's leading academicians. "This is an historic... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
the method prepared future business leaders, however, Harvard faculty and administrators have long been aware of a nagging truth: learning how business operates and actually doing business are very different things. No matter how well... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
they do only two Elvis Presley tunes. The rest are mainly their versions of songs made famous by well-known bands like the Ramones, the Black Crowes, and the Spin Doctors. "The key to the success of our concerts," says Kapoor, "is that we... View Details
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
such as ground grasshopper miso and live shrimp dipped in brown butter. In doing so, he has resuscitated Nordic cuisine, spawning new restaurants all over the world and expanded his own repertoire of super-local cuisine with a pop-up... 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)
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
make for a lively discussion. Bohmer describes how TPS can force a clear understanding of each element of the production process — in this case, the treatment of a patient from intake to discharge. “Every activity is actually an... View Details
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
matters are too long. The response of investors who say they care about sustainability-and their numbers are large and growing-is that companies do a poor job in providing them with the information they need to take sustainability into... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
(third-person theory of) or 2) as being and action are actually experienced "on the court," specifically as these are actually lived (real-time first-person experience of). As a formal discipline, the "on the court"... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
the work doesn't need to involve curing cancer in order to be meaningful. It simply must matter to the person doing it. The actions that set in motion the positive feedback loop between progress and inner work life may sound like... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
agencies focused on development projects and private-sector growth in emerging economies often seen as too risky for most investors. But this new assignment was something else entirely. “I have a phenomenal job and I’m living in a safe... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
there so that we could replenish our water supply. As we got to the watering hole-- looking forward to the cold, fresh water-- we found a dry hole. And somehow, the inside struck me-- how dependent we are, as humans, on this planet we 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... View Details
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
remembered the Emperor. People's lives have been shattered by these huge upheavals in German history, yet they also have moved on. Businesses too have been destroyed and have come back. A good many of the top German firms today have their... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
importance of reinvesting at this point. Q: In this context, you advance an unusual definition of competitiveness. Is that really the fulcrum for your whole project? JR: We define US competitiveness as the ability of firms in the US to succeed in the global marketplace... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
Storrs Prescription: Build a Killer App Silicon Valley is known for being open to innovation, risk, and failure. At the opposite end of the table sits health care, with its strong emphasis on hierarchy, training, and experience—no surprise, given that human View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
noticeably undefined, or is off the beaten path, take the opportunity and run with the confidence that you will always land on your feet and that you will be wiser for the experience, no matter the outcome. Ilene H. Lang (MBA 1973),... View Details
- 30 Sep 2016
- News
Competing Against Luck
statistics. Does that mean, though, as a manager that things like ethnographies would be more important? Or is it just the filter that we're using to look at some of the statistics? Christensen: Boy, that's a great question. Absolutely it means that stories View Details
- 04 Jun 2025
- News
Slice of Life
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In 2018, Bill Crawford (MBA 2006) founded Righteous Slice, a pizza restaurant in Rexburg, Idaho that has been steadily earning critical acclaim. It has... View Details
- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
in our professional lives encounter situations involving what we believe to be wrongful or injurious activities that may cause harm to innocent parties, our company, or the public. It may be necessary to bring the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
energy future — it has too sensitive an address and too much oil to continue in chaos. horgan, at right, with driver, examines bullet hole in his car. Currently serving as Iraq’s Interim Minister of Trade, MIT graduate Ali Abdul-Amir Allawi (MBA ’71) has spent much of... View Details