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15 Jun 2021
News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2021

children feeling every skinned knee and caring so much about their well-being. Our family found our way through it. I believe it is important to talk about these things. Back to top H. Naylor Fitzhugh (MBA 1933) Posthumous award HBS Distinguished View Details

12 Dec 2018
News

Lesson Plan

favor, and manufacturing dried up. At a certain point, jobs in local government and services became the gold standard for security, benefits, and compensation—which is when the pendulum swung toward corruption. “Patronage, taking care of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Chris Sorensen

2011
Article

Strategic Change and the Jazz Mindset: Exploring Practices That Enhance Dynamic Capabilities for Organizational Improvisation

By: Ethan S. Bernstein and Frank J. Barrett

How can leaders adopt a mindset that maximizes learning, remains responsive to short-term emergent opportunities, and simultaneously strengthens longer-term dynamic capabilities of the organization? This chapter explores the organizational decisions and practices... View Details

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06 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 6, 2007

larger class of financial and managerial consultants who sought to refine business decision-making through the introduction of statistical data and scientific analysis. The failure of most forecasting agencies to predict the stock market... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

Managing and Innovating in Financial Services David Scharfstein Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Market Perspectives (previously Finance and Capitalism) Robin Greenwood Richard Ruback Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Private Equity Finance Victoria Ivashina Ted... View Details

29 Apr 2022
News

Clean Slate

percent of kids’ brains don’t develop to the full potential because of this. Thirty percent remain stunted and don’t grow to their full physical form because of this. So this is a big health issue and it needs resolution. I consulted... View Details

Keywords: Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities

08 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 8, 2008

tail in action-reviewing sales data from Nielsen SoundScan, Nielsen VideoScan, the online music service Rhapsody, and the Australian DVD-by-mail service Quickflix. What she found may surprise you:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6

improvements in outcomes such as productivity and longevity, and that good nuts-and-bolts management at individual firms shapes national performance. At 14 textile manufacturers in India, for example, an intervention-involving free, high-quality advice from a View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 Jan 2023
News

Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups

possible that the kinds of ideas women are pitching—like diapers, clothing, and underwear—can help them stand out to VCs. “We are coming up with ideas that maybe men wouldn’t, and that’s a good thing.” Pelluru cited another study by Boston View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

12 Jul 2021
News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

award-winning consulting firm focused on underserved small businesses, particularly women and minority-owned enterprises. When the COVID-19 crisis hit, TAP responded by offering free emergency services to... View Details

16 Apr 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom

based at HBS, Christensen's influence and legacy extend well beyond the banks of the Charles and transcend the study of business administration. When he received the School's Distinguished Service Award in 1993, Christensen was honored... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Education

01 Jun 1996
News

1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"

Business on the Internet." Peter Granoff, whose company Virtual Vineyards sells wine exclusively over the Internet, and Steve Kirsch, president and CEO of the Internet search service InfoSeek, were among four panelists who discussed... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

16 Feb 2023
Blog Post

The Rituals of Case Method Teaching

Eliseeva. For Eva Ascarza, the Jakurski Family Associate Professor of Business Administration, rituals are all in service of devoting her mind solely to the case discussion. First and foremost is printing out her “logistics” document: a... View Details

01 Jun 1996
News

Four Professors to Retire

the Air Force's Exceptional Civilian Service Award. Christenson also participated in the development of the U.S. Army's first cost-based budgetary control system. His publications include Strategic Aspects of Competitive Bidding for... View Details

Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage

04 Sep 2019
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019

or providing investment banking or consulting services to private equity firms, Private Equity is also appropriate for readers who are interested in a more detailed exploration of corporate finance. Patient... View Details

01 Sep 2017
News

City of Dreams

trying to go and be fluid enough to push various buttons along the way to get there.” As far afield and varied as those experiences were, each one brought Mawilmada a step closer to coming home. The war had just ended when he returned to Sri Lanka in late 2009 to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

12 May 2022
News

Onboarding

service as a director and lead director on multiple nonprofit and corporate boards. In this special edition of Skydeck honoring recipients of the Alumni Achievement Award, Associate Editor Julia Hanna talks to Barron about board service,... View Details

26 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation

developing countries. As a result, they must rely on the customer-pull approach: finding ways to solve customers' dilemmas without relying on novel science. Many multinationals entering developing countries pay lip service to serving... View Details

Keywords: by Donald N. Sull, Alejandro Ruelas-Gossi & Martin Escobari

09 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 9, 2008

the core concepts from elBulli--this "taste of innovation"--can be applied to domains ranging from consulting to fast food. The case walks readers through an evening at elBulli by using the rave reviews of former patrons to... View Details