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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
These Walls Can Talk
(Javier Larrea/Getty Images) Today: Most smart homes connect basic electronic devices such as lights, locks, smoke detectors, security cameras, and thermostats. Tomorrow: Homes will be fully outfitted with smart appliances, which can make... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Books
steps of successful change previously identified in Kotter's Leading Change. (An introductory chapter offers enough background for those unfamiliar with the earlier work to appreciate the instructive and often inspiring anecdotes.) For... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Going For The Summit
CANDICE CARPENTER has led some high-profile enterprises - Time Life Video and Television and the electronic retailing enterprise Q2 Inc. among them. But nothing, she says, has prepared her for the rocky terrain of online business better... View Details
Keywords: Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Disaster Master
photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images News “Fast” and “unexpected” are two words Adrian Beer (OPM 31, 2002) uses to describe his work as CEO of GrupoBeer, a Madrid-based corporation providing post-disaster services such as building... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981
products." After graduating from Yale and working two years at the Philadelphia National Bank, Dubinsky came to HBS, where a presentation of the first electronic spreadsheet helped shape her career path. "I... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
former president of both the Harvard Club and the Harvard Business School Club of Chicago. When asked why he works so hard for the School, Wong responds, “There's an old Chinese proverb that says, ‘Drink water, ponder source.' Harvard has... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
working steadily for years to understand new technology in a managerial context and using it where it makes sense to link it to our pedagogy. Along the way, we've made the best of new technology as it became available - from mainframes,... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
patients’ needs. Today’s doctors work in a system where they are rewarded by Medicare and insurance companies for the number and cost of the services they provide rather than by the value of those services in helping patients. In short,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
through sheer size and number of transactions. Unfortunately, there are quite a few good reasons that the marketplace model doesn't work for reCommerce of used electronics (see my article in the March 2013... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Steven Murch: Philanthropist-in-Training
I've always loved to build things,” Murch remarks. “It's refreshing, especially after years of e-mail, meetings, and working on electronic stuff. High technology is so ephemeral. For all you know, what you... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
league is a nonprofit trade association) underpins the NFL's unique architecture. Even NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell concedes the model is "a form of socialism [that's] worked quite well for us. So we try to combine socialism and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
society that should offer a safety net, but also companies, where they recognize that employees are, first and foremost, people who must manage through the volatility we all experience over the course of our lives. Employees are there every day View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
were talking about innovation, few were talking about how to lead innovation. The managers she spoke with seemed to eschew most business books on leadership. “The first paragraph always says you have to ‘have a vision,’” says Hill. View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Core Values Keep Airline Flying High
Amidst Change: A Conversation with Southwest Airlines' Top Management Team," a new working paper written by HBS assistant professor Jody Hoffer Gittell, MIT professor R. John Hansman, and MIT doctoral student Anne E. Dunning. The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ink
experiences, situations, and learning will keep us more mentally sharp and physically fit than a routine without these. Wendy and I wanted to work hard for a cause, but we also wanted to take advantage of our situation and take in all... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
computers will become a reality. And the competition to bring the first working solution to market is incredibly fierce. Levy is aware of all this. “We’re little guys,” he says, laughing. “We’re going against the biggest, best-funded... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
the unique impact of the School in the world. As in past years, the Alumni Board's working committees will continue to focus on three areas of particular interest to alumni. Over the course of the year, the board will seek to address the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Conversing in Cyberspace: Students and Alumni Talk Management
such questions to people with some real answers - HBS alumni who have made the transition themselves. Making innovative use of technology to involve HBS graduates in the classroom, Garvin conducted a pilot program on the World Wide Web in which students and alumni... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
Jamaica, and Zimbabwe. Some have worked in cities like Baghdad, Phnom Penh, Monrovia, Tokyo, and Madrid. But none of the students in our group has been to Santa Ana del Valle, a village of just under 2,000 inhabitants, where rug weaving... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
David B. Price, Jr.: Aiming High
him to be his best, Price was captain of his high-school swim team, president of his fraternity at the University of Missouri-Rolla, and a drill instructor in the Army. "I was always very goal-oriented and wanted to lead," he recalls. Then, in the early 1970s, while... View Details