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- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
an integral part of their administrative and educational experience. With advisors from Apple Computer and other software vendors, Crum and his colleagues developed a networked client-server computer environment that produced HBS's first... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
models foreclosed by Google's restrictions. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52178 January 2017 Nature Biomedical Engineering Review Times and Adverse Events for Cardiovascular Devices By: Stern, Ariel... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
and then go further to consider ways the domain of innovation itself has changed. We suggest that because of fundamental shifts in communication and information processing costs and the increasing modularity of products and services, the View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
entrepreneurs constitute a key economic driving force for many countries, they often face unstable environments due to violence and civil unrest. Yet, we know very little about how environments characterized... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients
instruments intended for worst-case scenarios. If you’re an OldCo leader looking to proactively manage defection risk, you should: Stay close to your teams. Pre-pandemic, office culture functioned as a kind of surveillance by virtue of pattern recognition. People are... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
“Big breakthroughs are great, but we found that even incremental progress evokes a powerfully positive inner work life,” Amabile notes. “In my Managing for Creativity course, I ask students to consider how they will establish a work View Details
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1.11 Leaves of Absence | MBA
Services (which may consider information from the student’s current and/or former health care providers, if made available by the student), after an individualized assessment of all of the pertinent factors, such as: the nature of the... View Details
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
been able to preserve the long-term strengths Jan just mentioned—we stay ahead in those areas. But ironically, we've lost out on some things that seem more basic. For instance, do we have a regulatory environment that makes it easy to... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
males previously assumed to be most likely to donate. More broadly, our results suggest how the intersectional nature of donors' demographics, in particular, gender and migration status, shapes the configuration of the donor pool,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
Moore described the rise of the semiconductor industry and the uniquely fertile environment for startup companies in Silicon Valley, Arati Prabhakar of the National Institute of Standards and Technology discussed the future of the Silicon... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 13 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 13, 2007
financial returns but are also deeply committed to improving the environment and making a difference in people's lives. Robert Salas, CEO, wants a management system that communicates and motivates Amanco's three high-level goals.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Reddit as COO in 2018, the user-generated content site wasn’t exactly a burning building...but it might have been... View Details
- 27 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Sidetracked: Why Can’t We Stick to the Plan?
avoid getting sidetracked in the future. Forces from within are factors that reside in both our minds and our hearts, and exist because of the very nature of being human. We will explore the accuracy (or lack thereof) of our beliefs about... View Details
- 14 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Key to Managing Stars? Think Team
naturally become increasingly concerned that they attract, leverage, and retain the best knowledge workers. In addition, our culture is very enamored of stars and with the idea that extraordinary talent accounts for individuals'... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Operations and the Competitive Edge
than mass production or mass customization should be. So the book's first section, on operations strategy, focuses on how a company can go about creating an operations organization and approach that best fits and supports a particular business's economic View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 27 Oct 2017
- News
The Best Business Advice I’ve Ever Received
sometimes, maybe the outcome is no action. But that's fine. You learned it. And then you never know when the external environment changes. There will be something actionable. Sarah Wright, 1997. All leadership is very close in View Details
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
and the environment while still creating value for their shareholders. How to Become a Sustainable Company Authors: Robert G. Eccles, Kathleen Miller Perkins, and George Serafeim Publication: MIT Sloan Management Review 53, no. 4 (2012)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
of environmental damage and climate change over the last two centuries. The time has come for mainstream business history to incorporate the environmental impact of business in its agenda. The editors welcome and encourage submissions that focus on how firms have... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
Welcome to the age of business interdependence, say HBS professor Marco Iansiti and collaborator Roy Levien, authors of the new HBSP book The Keystone Advantage: What the New Dynamics of Business Ecosystems Mean for Strategy, Innovation, and Sustainability. Think of... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
from those that succeeded—a form of "superstitious learning." In an environment as challenging as planetary exploration, however, the difference between a failed mission and a successful one is often extremely subtle. There is... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne