Personalized Learning - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

The Innovator’s Battle Plan

years. Similarly, Digital Equipment Corporation couldn't match the flexibility of the personal computer assemblers' processes, Sears couldn't match the inventory turns and low prices of the discount retailers, and so on. It is important... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Scott D. Anthony & Erik A. Roth

30 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Are You Supporting Your B Players?

labeled. "If you want to threaten a really smart person who is task driven, question his or her competency. That's the very soul of who they are," he said. These managers also keep busy schedules and are reluctant to slow down... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 May 2013
News

Edward E. Matthews, MBA 1957

By the time Ed Matthews arrived at HBS in 1955, he was a married Korean War veteran eager to advance his real world education. “As an undergraduate, you learn things from a theoretical perspective,” says Matthews, a graduate of Princeton... View Details

21 May 2012
Research & Ideas

OSHA Inspections: Protecting Employees or Killing Jobs?

measures. When he and colleague David I. Levine heard of a program at California OSHA to conduct randomized inspections of workplaces, they realized they had the perfect real-world experiment to settle the debate over workplace inspections. "When I View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Jun 2013
News

Building a Better Brazil

similar goal: advancing Brazil. André Esteves, cofounder and CEO of Brazil-based BTG Pactual, the largest investment bank in Latin America, made a significant personal donation to renovate Baker Hall, which will be renamed Esteves Hall in... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing

Profile

Mireya Iglesias Ayala

a masterful literary work, ensures that our experiences in the dynamic sections and moments of introspection contribute to our evolution as future leaders. Just as readers immerse themselves in the plot with curiosity, our journey at HBS is a transformative tale,... View Details

01 Sep 2006
What Do You Think?

Are We Ready for Self-Management?

people in learning conversations, coach, develop, and create a clear picture of the result, you probably will be thrilled with the result ." Others, while attracted to the idea in theory, characterized these views as too inclusive... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

18 Dec 2019
Book

6 Skills That Wise Companies Harness for World-Changing Innovation

Unit. From practical wisdom to action The book expands on the authors’ original theory that companies build organizational knowledge by turning tacit knowledge, which people learn through personal... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

06 Feb 2023
Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on HBCUs

Fitzhugh Conference and the first Black Tech Master Series. It was here that I learned about the diversity in the entrepreneurship and venture capital ecosystem from Black women investors like Jewel Burks Solomon, who later became my... View Details

01 Jun 2022
News

The Exchange: Same Great Price, Now with Fewer Chips

cream or a box of cereal, but it’s more difficult for a person to pick up on the fact that there is less product in a package. From the perspective of the consumer, the lack of transparency seems at least a little nefarious. Is it risky?... View Details

Keywords: Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

01 Aug 1998
News

High Honors

to remove a cancerous tumor in his throat. Stripped of his voice box and vocal cords, he had to learn to speak using his esophagus. Batten, an entrepreneur who thrives on difficult challenges, says that coping with cancer was one of the... View Details

01 Oct 1997
News

High Fives

learned at HBS: “I developed a sense of confidence in myself and in my ability to go out and compete in the business world.” Inspirations & role models: “As a woman, there were no role models!” Best business advice ever received: “When I... View Details

29 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

How Organizations Create Social Value

companies, the researchers found that rich opportunities for mutual learning exist between the business world and nonprofits. They found that no matter what type of organization they were looking at, strategy and leadership were the two... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

Research Summary

Leadership and Leadership Development: An Ontological Approach

This summarizes my research program over the last twelve years (with my co-investigators Werner Erhard, Steve Zaffron, and more recently Kari Granger) in which the objective has been to rigorously distinguish leader and leadership and to create a technology for... View Details

14 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Lessons from COVID-19: The Business Skills Doctors Need

technology. Yet those opportunities came with managerial challenges. Remote patient monitoring represents a case in point. “Medicine has traditionally relied on a physician seeing a patient in person at a moment in time, but the pandemic... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

Web

Scaling Work - Research Computing Services

tools or using LSF job arrays . Requesting multiple CPUs on the HBSGrid When using parallel processing on shared compute systems, you need to indicate to the scheduler, the system software that manages workloads, that you wish to use multiple cores. On your View Details

20 May 2022
Blog Post

Nucleate Eco: Connecting Aspiring MBA Entrepreneurs with Cutting Edge Climate Research

tech-based solutions to fighting climate change (and especially in an entrepreneurial way), getting to partner with a scientist doing breakthrough research is the biggest value proposition that Nucleate brings. And as a team, we got to bring our respective areas of... View Details

04 Nov 2015
What Do You Think?

Why Does Gender Diversity Improve Financial Performance?

the social sensitivity factor within the team” (Julia); and “Emotional intelligence could be a factor... Women tend to have more of it than men, through nurturing, but it seems that men can learn it.” (Paul B). Lest we became too involved... View Details