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- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Operations and the Competitive Edge
Obstacles facing companies in today's hyper-competitive global markets are seemingly more complex than ever, to the point that managers must rethink many of the basic principles of good operations management, says Robert Hayes. In a new... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Social Innovation Goes Mainstream
point for social enterprise legitimacy arrived in 2006 with the confluence of two events, said Rottenberg. First, Bono morphed from rock star to social entrepreneur, making it cool to care and get involved. Second, Muhammad Yunus received... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
How Green Was My (Silicon) Valley
DOERR AND ADVISEE: From bits and bytes to batteries and biofuels. Saul Loeb/Afp/Getty Images “A boyish billionaire in glasses,” John Doerr (MBA ’76) began to shift his focus from bits and bytes to batteries and biofuels about four years... View Details
- 22 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs
the spectrum is the view that US companies hire skilled immigrants through the H-1B program to displace citizen workers with high salaries, effectively lowering a firm's costs. Kerr says his research pointed... View Details
- Web
Credential of Digital Innovation and Strategy | HBS Online
capstone project. Description of silent animated video above: People walking on the street transitions into data points on a map Get social by collaborating and networking with a global community of peers before, during, and after the... View Details
- 20 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
Part 1: Military Transition and the JD/MBA - Setting Career Goals
Phil Caruso, JD/MBA '19, has served as a U.S. Air Force officer for seven years on active duty and four years in the reserve. He continues to pay his luck forward as a Co-Director of the Harvard Veterans Organization and as the Corporate... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Start-Ups "R" Us
way of life for many alumni. Consider that roughly half of all alumni start a business at some point in their careers. But I’m getting ahead of myself. Back to this issue. The takeaway from one story is that students get fired up about... View Details
- 30 Oct 2018
- News
Paths of Victory
based in Montreal, allows businesses to design and order industrial equipment online through a free, web-based CAD program loaded with hundreds of designs for industrial parts that are then created via 3D printing and shipped to the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Exploring the Galápagos
Galápagos Islands. Cameras are pointed at blue beaks and red gullet sacks, inflated like birthday balloons. Unfortunately, Martin Marks (MBA 6/’47), Esther’s companion of 25 years and an avid birder, is back on the ship, resting. It’s Day... View Details
- 28 Jan 2011
- News
HBS Faculty Approves Curriculum Innovation
instruction more than ninety years ago. "The case method will always be a central part of what we do, but we're now at a point in history when we can do some really interesting things in the field. Both methodologies — case and field —... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
HBS Faculty Approves Curriculum Innovations
instruction nearly ninety years ago. “The case method will always be a central part of what we do, but we’re now at a point in history when we can do some really interesting things in the field. Both methodologies — case and field — are... View Details
- Profile
Roy Ben-Dor
business, Roy says, "Very few have great programs in both. And Harvard's scale helps me find people with similar interests. In the Business school, for example, it's like having ninety teachers – you get every different View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Crucible: Relocation
from my apartment in Lisbon, Portugal, engaged and very pregnant. Crucibles were not meant to be predicted. In spring 2022, just four months after my promotion to VP at a Boston-based global company, I was bullied by two coworkers. I... View Details
Keywords: Zhang, Qian
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Novartis AG Establishes Global Research Fund
Four HBS professors whose international research efforts range from biotechnology in Taiwan to foreign investments in Costa Rica have been named the first Novartis Faculty Fellows. The two-year fellowships, funded by a $2 million gift... View Details
Keywords: Anne Kavanagh
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
the greenhouse effect, or global warming, and you’ll likely get an earful. But Mike is a little different. From his vantage point in what’s been called the second-toughest job in America, he really knows about those issues, and he knows... View Details
- 16 Apr 2013
- News
A Walkabout to the Ocean
come alive in such wonderful ways." Merkl joined McKinsey after HBS, and got straight to work to bring "an environmental point of view to business." He cofounded the firm's Environmental Practice, which focused investment on environmental... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Rich Wilson
handle in good conditions, let alone for four months in the open ocean. Sometimes you’re a thousand miles from the nearest ship or point of land. Other times you risk getting run over by ships or crashing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
temptation to fund whatever’s hot. Biotech is one example. Right now, 49 out of 50 states have programs predicated on the argument that their state is uniquely positioned to support biotech ventures, and that obviously can’t be true. The... View Details
- 09 Nov 2022
- News
Part Ownership of a Dream
way to participate in the once-exclusive sport of racing. That model also applies to Flightline, purchased for $1 million by a West Point consortium; by the time he won the Breeders’ Cup, that ownership had extended to View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
"because unlike a Harvard degree, you must be open to being tested on something you profess to know at a moment's notice—long after you've graduated." Feerick believes that facts are delivered most effectively online, but at some point in... View Details