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- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
their Competition and Strategy professor Michael Porter. The group thought it would be a good opportunity to take some of Porter’s ideas about what makes a nation competitive and apply those on a city level. Two organizations spun out of... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
former partner and current HBS assistant professor Myra Maloney Hart (MBA '81, DBA '95) - Stemberg created a company whose sales of $3.1 billion in 1995 are expected to surpass $10 billion when a merger with Office Depot becomes official... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness
When HBS launched the US Competitiveness Project in 2011, the American economy was struggling to recover from the Great Recession, Washington was in gridlock, and the nation was caught in the hype of a presidential election. Against this backdrop, Dean Nitin Nohria and... View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 7
many users but also multiple types of users. For example, it's not enough that many customers want to book taxis by smartphone. Drivers must also be willing to accept smartphone bookings. Harvard Business School professor Ben Edelman has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
they made by history, or do they make it? In Indispensable, Harvard Business School professor Gautam Mukunda offers an enticingly fresh look at how and when individual leaders really can make a difference. By identifying and analyzing the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Innovation & the War Effort - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
toward the war effort included the production of quinine. Natural quinine was derived from the bark of tropical tree in Java, but this source was cut off by the Japanese occupation. Polaroid sponsored the work of MIT graduate Dr. Robert Burns Woodward and Dr. View Details
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
forthcoming Stanford University Press Lead and Disrupt: How to Solve the Innovator's Dilemma By: O'Reilly, Charles A., and Michael Tushman Abstract—In the past few years, a number of well-known firms have failed—think of Blockbuster,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
If you ask any given environmentalist to identify the biggest threat to the planet, you may expect to hear about man-made climate change, consumerism, or overpopulation. But if you ask Harvard Business School's Joseph B. Lassiter, he'll toss in another: single-issue... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
Victoria Crittenden (DBA 1989) and William Crittenden Business Expert Press Direct selling is not an industry, per se, nor is it merely a go-to-market business model or channel to reach consumers. It is bigger than any of that: Direct... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 04 May 2017
- News
Going the Distance
as the professors and courses. “What they were doing in the world was amazing, and I realized I had been given a tremendous opportunity. I gained leadership skills and strategic vision that has enabled me to make a difference in the... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 23 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method
New York members, based on research by business executive Katherine Gehl and HBS Professor Michael Porter, detailing how partisan polarization has rendered government ineffective. That research resulted in a recently-released book, The... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
effect, these individuals bridge the lacunae between distant groups in the company's social structure. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-004.pdf How Is Foreign Aid Spent? Evidence from a Natural Experiment (revised) Authors:Eric Werker, Faisal Z.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
former professors if they’d heard of a new technology that could be the basis of a start-up. Faculty member Jeff Rayport threw out a few ideas before Wilcox got specific: He was looking for something that would change the world. So in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
treasure trove of information for the entrepreneur, and accompanying the book is an interactive website, www.midasand1000cows.com, which opens the door to more great resources. Orthopedic Emergencies edited by Melvin Makhni (MBA 2012), Eric Makhni, Eric Swart, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
a Professor of Management Practice at HBS who serves on the boards of ExxonMobil and Goldman Sachs, told a forum of directors in 2008, “Serving on a board is about one thing: It’s about responsibility for the preservation and growth of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
he had with these doyens, in an easy-to-read, anecdotal form. Converting the Saints: A Study of Religious Rivalry in America by Charles Randall Paul (MBA 1972) Greg Kofford Books Inc. In this study of religious conflict in the US, the... View Details
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS
and professors close to practice. Striking a balance between continuity and change is the challenge ahead, he noted. With that in mind, Nohria outlined the five areas for change that emerged in his wide-ranging conversations. 1.... View Details
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
reviewed and directions for further research are discussed. How Concentrated Is the U.S. Advertising and Marketing Services Industry: Myth vs. Reality? Authors:Alvin J. Silk and Charles King III Publication:Journal of Current Issues and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
concern with the role of firms in creating markets, shaping policies, and diffusing globalization," says Jones, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, and Faculty Chair of the School's Business History Initiative. In this... View Details