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On Campus Logistics - Recruiting
classrooms. We encourage companies to bring the presentation on a flash drive or email it to themselves to utilize the classroom computer and the class remote to advance the slides. If using your laptop, you will need to bring a remote or... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
You Only Thought You Were Republican
TOBIAS: “When CEOs make 500 times what their employees make, there is an upper class.” So there I am moderating last fall’s 35th Reunion panel, “Two Steves and a Joe,” with classmates Steve Schwarzman (estimated net worth, $15 billion), Joe Perella (estimated net... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
performance. Putting in $300,000 for 60 percent of the equity, Dunn helped launch Prime Computer in 1972 and served as its chairman for the next seventeen years. With his hands-on help, Prime became an early high-tech success story, and... View Details
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History - Entrepreneurship
nascent high technology industry lead to the creation of a Hall of Fame list of disruptive, innovative, landmark companies such as: Fairchild Semiconductor Intel Apple Computer Teledyne Diosonics New Venture Competition A year long... View Details
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Valerie Porciello | About
included Research Computing Services, the HBS Behavioral Lab (BeLab), the Case Research and Writing Group, the Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning, an Executive Fellows Program, and a Predoctoral Fellows Program. Prior to... View Details
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Globalization: The Strategy of Differences
production to low-cost countries faster than European competitors such as Philips and Siemens while also benefiting from greater scale economies. But even the best management can get only so far in melding the two strategies. Acer, one of the world's largest View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
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John H. McArthur | About
HBS became the first business school to require the use of personal computers in its MBA Program. A larger review, called Leadership and Learning, was carried out in the early 1990s. At its conclusion, the faculty voted to adopt a... View Details
- 04 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
Meet the HBS Tech Club
register to attend! What courses are popular for students interested in tech? Many people cross-register for the foundational computer science course at Harvard College (CS50). A smattering also cross register for MIT courses at the Media... View Details
- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker
created an enormous amount of profit for advertising agencies. Often services, and to a lesser extent products, can be priced not just by quantity, but also according to the performance or quality provided. Thus, a computer consultant... View Details
Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro
- 17 Jun 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Excellence Comes From Saying No
student made a Choose Your Own Adventure computer game about making the right choices in a workplace environment. (When Frei played the game, "I ended up getting fired.") One of the most moving projects in the class, she says,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Future Vision
metaverse, and quantum-edge computing are just a few examples. In this environment, leaders must understand how to use data for decision-making (and use judgment for data); how to use design-thinking approaches to address unmet needs for... View Details
- Research Summary
Organisational Learning in Software Requirements Engineering and Management
The current research project addresses the continuing low success rate of software development projects, which has been frequently reported in empirical studies. For example, the 2004 Chaos Report by the Standish Group found that only 29% of 9,236 application... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Gifts Create Frist Financial Aid Fund
TOMMY, JULIE, AND BILLY FRIST: New fund supports fellowships and innovation in financial aid. Photo Courtesy Frist family Financial aid at HBS has received a $10 million boost, thanks to a $9 million gift from the Thomas F. Frist Jr. Donor Advised Fund of the... View Details
- 18 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask
various frustrations she was experiencing-including unusually high turnover among her senior facilities-management staff, as well as various back-office struggles, computer system failures, and so on. I surprised her a bit by asking her... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
- 11 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Meet the MBA Class of 2020
Design Club Mollie Breen “I WENT TO AN MBA PROGRAM BECAUSE I WAS KICKED OFF A REALITY TV SHOW!” HOME REGION Washington, D.C. UNDERGRAD EDUCATION Duke University, Computer Science/Mathematics, 2015 PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE Department of Defense... View Details
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
great-grandfather, the business editor and analyst Henry Varnum Poor, to 2 recent volumes, published while he was in his 80s: Inventing the Electronic Century: The Epic Story of the Consumer Electronics and Computer Industries and Shaping... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 May 2021
- Blog Post
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS
owned the corner store and worked 16-hour days, 7 days a week, with no vacations. But they were able to put me and my sister through college, purchase a home, and lived frugally. When I told my Dad that I was a Computer Science major, he... View Details
- 02 Mar 2012
- HBS Seminar
Joe Lassiter/Gordon Jones, Harvard Business School/Harvard University
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
the solution. In prior writings, we called this strategy “coring.”5 There are several examples. In order to solve the problem of how to build an IBM-compatible personal computer during the 1980s, which IBM tried to control as a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace