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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
they’ll fit when people cradle them between head and shoulder. Innovation and process within a firm can coexist and even feed off each other, if you manage their different and sometimes opposing functions... View Details
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
arise when cross-price elasticities are estimated for a set of brands expected to be substitutes. These anomalies are the occurrence of: (a) negatively signed cross-elasticities; and (b) sign asymmetries in pairs of cross price... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
A Force for Good
forged his career at the nexus of business and social impact. With his latest project, Skillist, he is building a fairer, more effective hiring process. Skillist is a proprietary, skills-based application system that works with companies that have unfilled entry-level... View Details
- 03 Jul 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should CEO Satya Nadella Cancel Microsoft’s Contract with ICE?
moral leadership, it needs to carefully examine and discuss issues that cross the line from legal to immoral. Microsoft needs to show its employees that it takes the issue of separation ( of families by ICE) seriously. How it does that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
different could things be?” It’s only been thirteen years since I graduated from HBS, and we in the Class of 1988 were remarkably forward-thinking about technology. Ours was the first class to have a subject called Management Information... View Details
- Career Coach
Guy Kamguia
Guy (HBS’ 15, Villanova’ 11, UMBC’ 08) is a Director of Strategy at TOMRA, a global leader in the design and manufacturing of advanced sorting equipment. He previously worked in private equity, driving value creation in portfolio companies, in emerging markets. Guy is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
There and Back Again: The Challenges and Rewards of Working Abroad
Considering an international assignment? Working abroad can be a pivotal juncture in one’s career. Yet making a successful transition to another country isn’t just a question of adjusting to a new culture — it’s also about personal transformation. Expats View Details
- 01 Aug 2008
- What Do You Think?
Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?
that stretch, by itself, is not a useful management concept. Nishant Miglani pointed out that "as a complement to stretch, GE also had this notion of the 'boundaryless organization' ..." Matthew Tuttle suggested that... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
business unit structures in management thinking, except that healthcare is still stuck in the functional model. These forms of competition and organization have also been institutionalized in medical... View Details
- Profile
Patrick Connolly
community devoted to truly interdisciplinary and cross-functional learning. My choice was also largely a function of the distinctive learning model and the school's commitment to a rigorous general-management education-one that requires... View Details
- 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... View Details
- 02 Jun 2003
- What Do You Think?
What Can Aspiring Leaders Be Taught?
undergraduate or graduate level of education for leadership, such efforts should strive to provide a context in which individuals can draw their own conclusions regarding such topics of vital importance for future leaders. Further, courses in View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Profile
Matthew Mariner
emphasized general management. "I realized there would come a time when what really matters is management leadership. I've found that to be the toughest part about business: That's what makes or breaks success." From then on,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Learning from Global Immersion Experiences
careers will cross international borders.” India Research Center: Connecting HBS to South Asia Ajay Piramal (AMP 110, 1992), Rahul Bajaj (MBA 1964), and Dr. Swati Piramal (MPH 1992) visit the India Research Center offices. “The India... View Details
- 01 Jul 2018
- News
Celebrating and Supporting Leadership
Das Narayandas and Nitin Nohria (photo by Susan Young) Das Narayandas and Nitin Nohria (photo by Susan Young) Through the Harvard Business School Campaign we positioned the School to deepen its impact on management education, business,... View Details
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
travel abroad freely, and it still doesn't allow many ideas to cross its borders. Consequently, while it may be true that multinational companies can invest in China more easily than they can in India, View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Winslow Homer: American Passage By William R. Cross (MBA 1986) Farrar, Straus and Giroux In 1860, at the age of 24, Winslow Homer (1836–1910) sold Harper’s Weekly two dozen wood engravings, carved into... View Details
- 04 Nov 2002
- What Do You Think?
What’s Best for the Corporate Brain?
Summing Up Those offering insights into ways to make the corporate brain function more effectively suggest that the corporate brain may be as complex as its biological counterpart. Respondents alternatively focused on learning, constant... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Drug Imports a Hot Topic at Alumni Health-Care Conference
choices between safety and affordability, all of us involved in policy cannot rest,” he told an audience of some two hundred participants gathered in Spangler Auditorium. Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly took an opposing view, characterizing the... View Details
- Career Coach
Marc Herson
Marc (INSEAD '01) has extensive global experience as a venture capitalist, media executive, entrepreneur and lawyer, working in the U.S., Europe, and Africa. His most recent experience is at 2go Interactive, a start-up mobile tech company based in Cape Town, South... View Details