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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
What I Do: Philippe Hellich (MBA 1996)
Founded in Sweden in 1943, IKEA is the world’s largest furniture retailer, outfitting dorm rooms and designer homes around the globe. A company that engages nearly a billion customers every year and employs over 194,000 workers in 49... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
The CEO and the Functions of Leadership
standards can be treated as part of setting direction. Coordination: Organizational structure defines how individuals in the organization are grouped into units, and how these units coordinate with each other. Processes such as the... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Green House
task. The process began with a lot of education. Her Cambridge neighbors, unfamiliar with the Passive House concept, were initially skeptical of Harper’s plans, but two historical commission meetings and nine neighborhood meetings later,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Capturing Human Capital
corporations rely on information planning and control systems and processes that are designed to help management make sound strategic choices and ensure efficient implementation of those decisions. "They do... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Books
The Heart of Change by John P. Kotter and Dan S. Cohen Searching for a Corporate Savior by Rakesh Khurana Making Markets: How Firms Can Design and Profit from Online Auctions and Exchanges by Ajit Kambil and Eric Van Heck Leading Terms:... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
A Deal on Wheels
Will Boland (MBA ’09) cofounded CarLotz, based in Richmond, Virginia. It’s an innovative venture that’s designed to take the hassle out of the automotive sale-by-owner market. “Most people describe the View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Clicks and Mortar
as fast and easy and convenient for you to get the products that you need? But part of the joy of shopping at places like Marshalls or T.J.Maxx or the old Filene’s Basement is the idea of hunting for a bargain. That friction is designed... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
their best moments, can lift people up, and in their worst, let them down.” Teaching by Heart isn’t designed to be an academically rigorous analysis of teaching, he adds. It’s personal, based on decades of classroom experience and his... View Details
- 12 Jul 2022
- News
Expanding the Power to Prosper
Grant, Millicent is designed to make it easier for the world’s 1.7 billion marginalized and unbanked people to access financial services, according to a recent article in Forbes. Dyer moved to the United Kingdom as a refugee from Nigeria.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Diagnosing DC’s Dysfunction
Washington isn’t broken. It’s thriving. The real problem is that our political system benefits the major political parties and their industry allies—not the people it was designed to serve. That’s according to “Why Competition in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
MBA Program:Rapid Innovation in '96
September. January cohort students have also benefited from new initiatives by MBA Career Services, such as industry panels and career fairs held during the summer, designed to help them prepare for recruiting. "By all accounts, January... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Replicating Toyota's Success
Spear focused on the company's approach to solving problems and noticed the conscious way Toyota's managers involve employees in this process, even to the point of leaving a production line at suboptimal performance so that workers could develop improvements on their... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Teaching and Learning Center Established, Honors Christensen’s Legacy
will also help faculty in their efforts to develop case-writing skills and design new courses. As part of its capital campaign, the School is in the process of building an endowment for the center. A number... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
HBS Business Plan Contest Keeps Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive
Dubilier Prize, established in honor of the late Martin Dubilier (MBA '52), cofounder of the LBO firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice. The HBS Business Plan Contest was developed by students in 1996 with the cooperation of faculty and MBA Career Services to educate students... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
New Releases
aside conventional thinking to reveal that any group - if designed and managed effectively - can produce innovative services, products, and processes. Unlike most books on creativity, When Sparks Fly focuses on the View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
The Big Book of New Design Ideas edited by David E. Carter (OPM 26, 1998) (Harper Design International) In his 100th book, Carter, an expert on logo design and corporate... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Flexibility Is Key to Product Development in Internet Time
When the number of Internet-based businesses took off in the mid-1990s, many long-standing rules for product innovation were blown away. Previous models of development based on a sequential process of planning and execution are not... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Dean Clark Addresses Journalists
HBS experience. As for the “barrel,” Clark observed that HBS and other business schools can also make important contributions by studying ways to design markets more effectively, reduce conflicts of interest, and build stronger governance... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Disrupting India’s Dental Market
dentist,” he recalls thinking, “but the process is not working.” Singh, who spent his formative years in Canada and his adulthood in the United States, had recently moved back to his native India so that his children could be raised among... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
The Eyes Have It: Business Plan Winners Pursue Global Vision
research in Nicaragua. Last spring, the plan designed by the LCAE team, whose advisors included Thomke, entrepreneurs, consultants, product designers, and ophthalmologists, was selected as the winning entry over ten other... View Details
Keywords: eyeglasses