Information Networks - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2008
News

Alumni Clubs Put Skills to Work

forum for networking and sharing best practices. Following in their footsteps, several clubs this year are organizing their first-ever nonprofit conferences, including those in Atlanta, Charlotte, and New York. This past winter, the HBS... View Details

Keywords: alumni clubs; Centennial; Educational Services

01 Apr 1999
News

Short Takes

IT Management from 1960 to 2000 "Today¹s managers are grappling with the turbulent dynamics of the Information Age," says Richard L. Nolan, the School's William Barclay Harding Professor of Management of Technology. The author of a new... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

18 May 2015
News

The First Five Years: Anjali Vaidya (MBA 2010)

Competing through Social Networks with Misiek Piskorski. They were all charismatic professors and some of the cases I remember most came from their classes (chicken contact lenses, anyone?).” What advice—career or personal—do you have for... View Details

Keywords: Google; Yahoo; Information; Information

01 Apr 2001
News

Ed Tian: Boardroom Revolutionary

nationwide high-speed, high-capacity fiber-optic network covering fifteen coastal cities and over 80 percent of the domestic data services market. With backing from shareholders, including the Ministry of Railways (fiber is being run... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; Information; Information

01 Jun 2012
News

Think Locally, Act Globally

In 1992, after reforms by India’s government improved the country’s business climate, he formed a consortium that included SFR-France, Emtel-Mauritius, and MSI-UK and bid successfully for one of four mobile-phone network licenses... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Information; Information

01 Sep 2004
News

Books

Advantage outlines a framework that goes beyond maximizing internal competencies to leveraging the collective competencies of one’s entire network for competitive advantage. Confidence by Rosabeth Moss Kanter (Crown Business) Taking on... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

25 Apr 2014
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Raising the bar for financial literacy

before joining CEE, says that some financial lessons about choices and tradeoffs aren't about money: "An economist in my network in Memphis was asking kids what they had learned, and one said, 'I learned not to join a gang,'" she recalls.... View Details

01 Apr 1998
News

New Releases

Sense & Respond Stephen P. Bradley and Richard L. Nolan, editors (Harvard Business School Press) In the Network Era - where access to and use of information technology is increasing at an ever-faster pace -... View Details

01 Jun 2006
News

Getting on Board

corporate board consideration.” As you organize your campaign, Stautberg says, “It’s best to cast a wide net. Networking is essential,” she emphasizes. “Who knows you and respects your capabilities? If you have a positive relationship... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management

01 Feb 2002
News

Building Community in the Bay Area

Last fall, over eighty HBS alumni and nonprofit leaders gathered in Menlo Park, California, to hear HBS senior lecturer Reynold Levy discuss the relationship between nonprofit CEOs and their boards. Levy, himself a CEO of the New York City; based International Rescue... View Details

Keywords: Reynold Levy; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2008
News

HBS Opens Shanghai Office with Harvard China Fund

Harvard University has opened a new office in Shanghai that will serve both HBS and the Harvard China Fund (HCF). The HCF was launched in 2006 as a University-wide “academic venture fund” to enhance Harvard’s teaching and research in and about China. The office will... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

08 May 2019
News

Fellowships Enable Students to Broaden Their Impact

girls’ JV high school basketball team and ran a tutoring program. “I realized I was happier doing that and wanted to be in education full time. That’s what I’m passionate about,” says Agarwal, who took a leap of faith and landed at Success Academy, a View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

2014
Chapter

The Language of Global Management

By: Tsedal Neeley

Over the last two decades, organizations seeking global expansion have been mandating an English lingua franca, or common language to facilitate global collaboration regardless of the country location of their headquarters. This article explains why stipulating a... View Details

Keywords: Language; Lingua Franca; Networks; Governance; Information Technology; Management; Ethics; Emerging Markets; Innovation and Invention

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01 Sep 2003
News

Alumni Navigator Takes Off

Staying in touch with the School’s network of 65,000 graduates just got a lot easier. Directory search, the most popular feature on the Alumni Web site, now uses the same cutting-edge technology that powers searches on Barnes & Noble.com,... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

17 Nov 2011
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Organizational Design

Questions To Be Answered: What are the best techniques for fostering innovation in multicultural teams? I want my functional experts to influence high-level strategy. How can managers get the best thinking out of support staff? What role does View Details

Keywords: Re: Ranjay Gulati & Raffaella Sadun

01 Jun 2014
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014

in the Networked Age by Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha, and Chris Yeh (MBA 2000) (Harvard Business Review Press) The employer-employee relationship is broken. The old model of guaranteed long-term employment no longer works in a business... View Details

01 Apr 1996
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

The HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors has had a busy year, meeting both on campus and in informal settings around the world. In January, we returned to HBS for our Winter Meeting. The sessions included important reports from the... View Details

Keywords: Cathy Connett

19 Aug 2010
News

Catchphrases, Mottos, and Cheers

(sent in by class-notes secretaries) Catchphrases and Mottos 1972B studied an HBO (Human Behavior in the Organization) case in which there were two hourly workers. One of them would steal the other fellow’s banana every day from his brown-paper-bag lunch. Every day... View Details

Keywords: Keith Larson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

November 2003 (Revised March 2004)
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Teledesic (Abridged)

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann

Describes plans for a failed project that proposed the use of 288 satellites to deliver high-speed data communications services anywhere in the world. View Details

Keywords: Communication Technology; Network Effects; Failure; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry