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Dan Lennox-Choate
"Supply systems were nonexistent. Key equipment was missing from the arms room." Shedding bad advice to embrace good collaboration "Everyone gave me the same advice: Micromanage the crap out of everybody until it's fixed.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
Reflecting and Digesting
their existing infrastructure functions. The output of my project will be a list of actionable business requirements and IT system adjustments needed to achieve the new processes that I will design. The team has been extremely welcoming... View Details
- 26 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 26, 2008
Sugar Limited Harvard Business School Case 508-038 Until industry deregulation in 2006, Queensland Sugar ran Australia's single-desk marketing system for raw sugar exports. Since deregulation, eight of the ten Queensland sugar millers... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
employers. While 93 percent of senior executives surveyed indicated satisfaction with the health-care insurance options they offer their employees, 46 percent said they would be receptive to a defined contribution system - often because... View Details
- 20 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Dragging Patent Trolls Into the Light
Harvard Business School; Umit G. Gurun, of University of Texas at Dallas; and Scott Duke Kominers, of the Harvard Society of Fellows, attempts to answer that question by studying which firms NPEs target in litigation, when the litigation occurs, and the View Details
- 20 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for Japan
Vogel pointed to technical sectors, such as electronic games, as a sign that "Japan is a lot more creative than it is given credit for." It was impossible to discuss the role of business in Japan's recovery without discussing the keiretsu View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
tighter coupling is more likely in suppliers with certain types of managerial structures (certified management system and unions). We also find important interactions between these organizational structures: managerial structures offset... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
in the credit market that have deep roots in the system's structure, conduct, and regulation. The time has come for a clear-eyed assessment of what happened and how the system should be strengthened and restructured. Such reform will have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
Z. Ahmed, and Charles Cohen Abstract We use yearly variations in the price of oil to construct a powerful new instrument to test the impact of an important but often-overlooked foreign aid channel: money given by wealthy OPEC nations to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
story—it is the story of the personal computer, its software, and its impact upon society. From two college drop-outs based on the West Coast came a revolution which fundamentally influenced the global practice of business. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Cast a Longer Shadow on the 21st Century: Friedman or Galbraith?
Summing Up Like all good discussion topics, this month's issue split respondents nearly equally, with a slight nod to the notion that Milton Friedman's views will have a bigger impact on us in the twenty-first century than those of John... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Navigating the Populism Phenomenon
believe that the ideas the elite present are not universal and true but, in fact, are designed to serve their own interests. Why are we seeing a surge in populism? See more from the online-only September Alumni Bulletin IMPACT section’s... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 13 Apr 2017
- News
Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge
job. It shouldn’t matter that it’s not packaged in a degree of four years,” says Rewane, who was recently named a Social Impact Fellow by Gerson Lehrman Group Inc. Her enthusiasm for the project began in earnest at HBS, where she met her... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 10 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Celebrating 'The Men and Women of the Corporation' 40 Years Later
people who directly impact the world, and not just by teaching MBA students and executives here at HBS. It's through consulting. It's through activism. I've always been interested in that. Ely: You published Men and Women of the... View Details
Keywords: by Robin J. Ely
- 26 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
SEI25 Series: Misan Rewane, MBA 2013, CEO, WAVE
necessarily prepared for work. Those who have developed their competencies in non-traditional ways continue to be blocked out of opportunity. Our next frontier is to rewire the education-to-employment system so that it provides a level... View Details
- 11 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
2018 Oxford University Press Food Citizenship: Food System Advocates in an Era of Distrust By: Goldberg, Ray A. Abstract—The global food system is the largest segment of the world's economy. As... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
competitive context. This support translates into purchase intention, real purchase, and more favorable online reviews in a study of over 10,000 Yelp posts. We argue that this "framing the game effect" is mediated by consumers' motivation to express their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
IT Strategy: HBS IT Website Provides Easier Access to News and Support | Information Technology
expertise from Marketing and Communications as part of the work being done to refresh all HBS websites through the Web Content Management System Program. The new platform brings standardization, consistency, and control for site owners.... View Details
- 07 Jul 2016
- News
Creating a Viable Future in Rural Africa
Louise Fenn Ruhr (MBA 1977) is helping empower poor and displaced communities in the developing world—particularly women—cope with the impact of climate change through sustainable food, water, energy, and income-generation programs. As... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Powering Up
Watertown, Massachusetts. The company builds systems derived from innovative electricity-delivery technology developed by an MIT professor (Boston Globe, February 22, 2010). While initial applications — Giler thinks they will be... View Details