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- 07 Jul 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can We Have Too Much Productivity Improvement?
improvements improve life somewhere in the globe, but not necessarily in the U.S.A." Bill Donohue wrote that "In the 20's ... the root cause may perhaps have been the massive building of low cost assembly line-based industrial enterprises ... We have a View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Feb 2019
- Book
What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology
When I started eight years ago looking into what was going on in certain industries, what came out initially was this idea that it was technology, right? We all talked about Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple. But in many industries, both the disrupter and the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Luxury Prime’: How Luxury Changes People
whether "luxury-primed" individuals are simply self-interested or are indeed more prone to harm others. Thus, we conducted a second experiment that was similar to the first one in that the participants were either primed with... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- Web
Disruptive Innovation Online Course | HBS Online
a thoughtful and timely manner. This will mean meeting each week’s course module deadlines and fully answering questions posed therein. This helps ensure your cohort proceeds through the course at a similar pace and can take full... View Details
- 06 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Innovator’s Battle Plan
Co-option A Natural Choice Incumbents can't flee when they have no up-market to penetrate. When else are incumbents strongly motivated to respond to disruptive attackers? When an entrant makes money in similar ways or uses View Details
- 03 Jul 2015
- Blog Post
What is HBS Bridges?
a powerful and fitting conclusion to our time at HBS. Here I was, nearly two years later, back in Burden Hall where it all began. The excitement and buzz in the room was just as palpable as it was then. Similar to when we started at... View Details
- Profile
Ethan Li
time at HBS—in class and out—is valuable. I love the case study method; it helps me relate my prior experience to future goals. For example, we just had a case about the international expansion of a Japanese business—could a similar... View Details
- 31 Aug 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?
announced recently they would increase efforts to recruit persons of color, in part a response to the Black Lives Matter movement. Some of the same organizations made similar announcements in the past—yet the numbers of persons with... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 27 Aug 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
The Impact of Patent Wars on Firm Strategy: Evidence from the Global Smartphone Market
- 02 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
When Ideas Become Reality: Entrepreneurship at HBS
Hoffman-Senn (HBS '19) and I work to on Venuefly there. The iLab fosters community amongst entrepreneurs who get to interact with other founders working on interesting startups and facing similar challenges – from both emotional and... View Details
- 08 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Recalling My First Cold Call: A Conversation with Second-Year Students
protagonist, or a set of issues as examples, I’ve been able to relate the cases to the real world. If I’m ever in a similar position in the future, I can relate that to a case discussion rather than a certain concept or a bunch of slides... View Details
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ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
in the development of new technologies and industries during the war, the US government had assumed significant risk," HBS Professor Tom Nicholas asserts. "The fact that several of these risks paid off–in ways that Doriot had seen firsthand–primed investors to take... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War
Tigers. "Consumer product markets in Vietnam are starting to reach capacity, but if you look at companies in the intermediate manufacturing sectors, such as those that serve the car and television industries, there will be many opportunities," she says. "Our... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr. (MBA 1992)
- Profile
Peggy Mativo-Ochola
returned to Nairobi, Kenya where she founded and launched Pacemaker International, an educational nonprofit similar to Teach for America. "Kenya is short about 70,000 teachers," says Peggy. "The people most affected by the... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit/Government/Education
- 10 Apr 2023
- News
Leading the Way
Be A Leader helps them connect to college tutoring services, provides internship and career planning, and offers monthly check-ins with a college success coordinator all the way to graduation. "The kids we work with are similar to me,"... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 23 Jun 2023
- News
Highlights from the Spring 2023 Alumni Board Meeting
the HBS MBA program have seen a similar trajectory, although there have been periods of plateaus, including the time we are in right now. As the world is rapidly changing, HBS is asking challenging questions about how the MBA can remain... View Details
- 02 Apr 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Making the Move to General Manager
entry strategy for China. So we each have something different, but we know each other well from having lived and worked together in the program. After getting advice from the people in your living group, the next step is to match people with View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
Drug & Alcohol Policy | About
Drug & Alcohol Policy Overview of HBS Substance Abuse Policies and Procedures Harvard Business School’s policy on drugs and alcohol—adapted from and in accordance with other similar policies at Harvard University—reflects our concern for... View Details
- 18 Dec 2017
- Op-Ed
Why Employers Must Stop Requiring College Degrees For Middle-Skill Jobs
Credit: Pixsooz American companies have a problem. Over the past decade, they have begun to demand a bachelor’s degree in hiring workers for jobs that traditionally haven’t required one. This uptick in credentialing, or “degree inflation,” rested on the belief that... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Fuller
- 18 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
Meet the HBS Family Business Club
to network and connect with people of similar backgrounds, and have the opportunity to learn from distinguished professors and guests at our action oriented workshops and speaker series. Students also get to interact with classmates who... View Details