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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Spring Reunions
Professor Richard Ruback makes his point perfectly clear while leading one of the weekend’s many faculty presentations. More Reunion photos. Photography by Stuart Cahill, C.J. Gunther, and Brian Snyder More than 2,500 MBA and 500 Executive Education alumni and guests... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Reunited
Photos by Stu Rosner Spring reunions at HBS saw two notable milestones achieved. First, the more than 3,500 alumni and their families who returned to campus to catch up with friends and take in the program of faculty presentations, special guest lectures, and class... View Details
- 10 Feb 2016
- News
Helping Young African MBAs Go Home
help bridge those gaps, he cofounded Young African MBAs (YAM), which provides networking opportunities, educates young professionals and companies about the opportunities in Africa, offers career support, and provides a platform for... View Details
- 03 Apr 2009
- What Do You Think?
How Much Obsolescence Can Business and Society Absorb?
existing organization communication patterns" [such as bottom up plus top down, outside in—from customers—plus inside out, etc.]. Challenges of new information technologies and how to deal with them were the focus of several... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
face with realistic business situations right in the classroom." Building rapidly on the skill base and fiber network already in place at the School, such an initiative has indeed been launched. Progress to date has included the... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
New Releases
Abraham Zaleznik. Grouped in three sections that address the future of organizations, the process of change, and the new role of management, the articles address topics such as how networks reshape organizations, why transformation... View Details
- October 2016 (Revised March 2017)
- Case
uberPOOL
By: Marco Iansiti, Michael W. Toffel and Amram Migdal
This case describes Uber's uberPOOL service, which let multiple Uber users who were headed in the same direction share a ride and pay substantially lower fares. View Details
Keywords: Uber; uberPOOL; Innovation and Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Digital Platforms; Transportation; Transportation Networks; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry
Iansiti, Marco, Michael W. Toffel, and Amram Migdal. "uberPOOL." Harvard Business School Case 617-009, October 2016. (Revised March 2017.)
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on global climate... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Happy Returns
milestones in 2020 and 2021 and Executive Education alumni celebrating their two-year and five-year marks, as well as alumni whose reunions were already set for spring 2022, were treated to two days each of faculty presentations, peer-to-peer programming, View Details
- 01 Apr 2011
- News
My First HBS Class
(On Piskorski, see also here.) The day’s case, written by Jeff Bussgang (MBA ’95C) and Professors Piskorski and Tom Eisenmann, was about foursquare, a location-based social networking game. (For Bussgang’s blog about teaching his case,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
October Reunions Break Records, Strengthen Ties
"Nothing I taught you about technology in management information systems has any relevance whatsoever to the world we're living in today," stated F. Warren McFarlan, the School's senior associate dean for External Relations, in his... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Survey Spotlights HBS Experience
social relationship with at least one fellow alumnus. Fifty-seven percent take advantage of the alumni community for professional networking, and 46 percent tap the network for job search advice. “The View Details
- 08 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Critical Computer Science Principles Every Strategic Leader Needs to Know
network effects allow platforms to grow exponentially, attracting ever more users and partners and eventually crowding out competitors. 3. Think like a sandwich From the computer keyboard and user interface to the smallest circuit,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Spring Reunions
Spring Reunions Photographs by Neal Hamberg And Adam Hunger Related Links Facebook photo gallery Read summaries and view videos from Spring Reunion presentations Spring is the season for pitching tents at HBS, signaling the arrival of class reunions. More than 3,000... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Fall Reunions
Reunion photography by Stuart Cahill, Thomas J. Fitzsimmons, and Neal Hamberg Old friendships were renewed and new ones made during the fall reunion weekend September 30–October 3, when more than 1,400 graduates and guests from the MBA Classes of 1959, 1964, 1969,... View Details
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Computer Security is For Managers, Too
information about benefit programs probably warrant less protection. The next step is to review the people, processes, and technologies that support those assets, including external suppliers and partners. When you're done with that,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Changing Nature of Research
experiments, often facilitated by HBS’s network of global research centers and offices. Professor Karim Lakhani conducts field experiments using crowdsourcing—online networks of external problem solvers—to... View Details
- 10 Apr 2019
- News
Rakuten’s Mikitani Bets $5.5 Billion To Shake Up Japan’s Telecom Industry
A recent feature in Forbes outlines Rakuten CEO Hiroshi Mikitani’s plan to disrupt Japan’s mobile phone market. Named Rakuten Mobile, the company hopes to build the network in “half the time and at a cost of up to 40% less than what it... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
This Site’s for You
current events that impact a significant number of HBS alumni. As with blogs elsewhere on the Web, we make it easy for you to talk back to us. Don’t be shy. The arrival of our own blog inspired Class Notes editor Larson to go on a search for alumni blogs. Tapping into... View Details
- 06 Jan 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Should Management Deal With “Anonymous”?
discovery in a legal case. The wise don't do it. But this can be a costly practice, given our faulty memories. And in the age of WikiLeaks and the Internet, when every "secret" seemingly becomes public before long, the new advice is to avoid trying to keep... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett