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- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
car company. You need to go to business school.” In 2006, during his first year at HBS, Rogers sought out sectionmate Jeff Jones (MBA 2007), who had just left a job at Ford. On a run along the Charles one day, Jones laid out the state of the automotive View Details
- 05 Jan 2022
- News
Untapped Potential
and wastewater systems of varying size, the majority of which are extremely small. Those systems—some investor owned, others government operated—have a variety of governance structures and infrastructures that are decades old. This... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Beyond the Numbers
needed to manage its operations by business instead of by country, strategically reallocating resources. "I also showed them how to look at expenses as a percentage of revenues, something that's commonly done in the packaged-goods View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
bold moves. One of the bigger risks involved a tour she had planned with Kanye West. When West had to drop out, the question was, should Gaga go on the tour by herself? It seems a risky move for an artist who's not well known. But she and her manager took the gamble,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
Schwarzman defended his industry and cautioned that the good times can’t go on forever. Private equity’s been all over the headlines for months. Why is it suddenly such a big deal? Over the last ten years it has grown from 5 percent of... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Doctor Is In
finance, it seems, are never far from the minds of anyone in health care these days, even at fiscally sound MGH, the Harvard-affiliated teaching hospital that is recognized as an industry model. Indeed, with its conflicting mix of human... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Male Consumers as Man-of-Action Heroes
products and activities that help them escape the daily pressures of families and careers, in order to become rebels for a day. But in a working paper titled “Man–of–Action Heroes: How the American Ideology of Manhood Structures Men’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
to take the information revolution very seriously. Echoing Rudenstine's re-marks on the aptness of the word "revolution," McFarlan declared, "The changes are that fundamental and dramatic. Products, services, and industry View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
New Releases
which looks at the roles of three management groups: worldwide business managers, country or regional managers, and worldwide functional managers. A second new chapter, "Managing the Transformation Process," outlines the structural and... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Driven
In Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices, HBS professor emeritus Paul Lawrence and professor Nitin Nohria explore one of the most basic questions of human behavior: What motivates us to act the way we do? Drawing on theories of evolutionary biology and social... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
Products in the 21st Century by Gábor Rekettye (ETP, 1992) Transnational Press London The cyber age—Industry 4.0—represents radical changes in many industrial sectors, in value creation and customers’ value judgments. Value Creation 4.0... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
firms find it so difficult to adapt in the face of change—to innovate? In the past 10 years, the importance of this question has increased as more industries and firms confront disruptive change. The pandemic has accelerated this crisis,... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
time in class discussing how to structure deals and leverage resources you don't actually have - both key issues when we started Stylus," he says. "My goal," Bhide explains, "is to help students make smarter choices about the businesses... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
management consultant at Monitor, which sharpened my perspective on business and industry strategy. I learned a huge amount at HBS in discussions of leadership, entrepreneurial marketing, finance, and ethics. I also spent some time at... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Case Study: Sound Check
Hoffman-Senn. The founders have questions about a leap like this: How would they adapt to the sales cycles? How or when would larger clients affect their staffing structure and self-service platform? Are these worries even warranted?... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
leadership and mentoring and on achieving organization alignment, both vertically and horizontally, across the entire structure of the organization. He also gives readers a method for tracking progress—plant by plant and function by... View Details
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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
deployed after the Boston Marathon bombing, as well as during world wars, previous pandemics, and other disasters. With that structure in place, the hospital was able to make the “crisp decisions that are required in warlike times,” says... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
after stints at the World Bank and at his family's industrial distribution business. "Then you have to consider the outputs: Did they use this new technology and training? Did it produce more bananas or mangoes or pineapples? Did they... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
into the VC industry but that we also retain those currently in it.” —Madeline Keulen (MBA 2019), vice president, Victress Capital Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, general trends on gender diversity were moving, slowly, in the right... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
turn, moving ideas on new paths to market and perhaps even publishing research to enhance industry knowledge will provide new and important ways for companies to realize the value of their discoveries. — Laura Singleton (MBA ’88) Artful... View Details