IT Productivity - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Apr 2018
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Sowing the Seeds of Leadership

which fired Condo’s imagination. He was also excited by the concepts in HBS professor Michael Porter’s watershed 1990 book The Competitive Advantage of Nations. “My decision to study at Harvard was inspired by the idea of teaching and doing research that might increase... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jun 2006
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Bridging the Success Gap

Navarro Six years ago, Diego (“James”) Navarro (MBA ’89) completed what he calls “a 25-year apprenticeship,” though others might call it a successful career in the high-tech industry. But for Navarro, it was... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

02 Jan 2020
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Empowering Rural Communities

nor would it be limited by the financial restrictions that govern nonprofit electrical cooperatives. Instead, it would have both the incentive and the flexibility to bring renewable power to communities that... View Details

Keywords: April White; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

01 Sep 2004
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Home Sweet (Modular) Home

cracks began to appear in its carefully crafted production plan. The first order of modular homes languished on the assembly line for months as Greentech struggled to resolve a number of serious... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2014
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Nimble, Quick, and Adaptable

(Sergey Nivens/iStock/Thinkstock) Starting a business, says HBS professor Tom Eisenmann, looks glamorous in The Social Network. “But a fair amount of it is moving boxes around. Not org chart boxes—actual boxes.” That’s the kind of insight... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jun 2017
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A Finger on the Pulse of the Financial System

What if it were possible to accurately predict and maybe even prevent the next global financial crisis? Harvard’s Behavioral Finance and Financial Stability (BFFS) Project, conceived at HBS and launched in July 2016, aims to do just that.... View Details

01 Mar 2016
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In My Humble Opinion: Jeffrey Deitch (MBA 1978)

art. “Even though you can’t apply sophisticated financial models to it or the complex structures that I learned in Production and Operations Management,” he says, “art is a business.” And Deitch, in his... View Details

Keywords: April White

06 Dec 2021
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HBS Curricula Explore the Complexities of Innovation

existing. Likewise, through its Executive Education Program and HBS Online, the School is educating business leaders about the latest technologies and how to capitalize on these new capabilities. The course she took, says Hopkins, covered... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Oct 1998
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Value Added

perspective - like that of his 5,000 McKinsey colleagues - extends far beyond the immediate horizon. One of the world's premier management consulting firms, McKinsey conducts business from 80 offices in 37 countries, with almost half of View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

22 Sep 2015
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Getting New Ideas off the Ground

perspective, the great opportunity is to build products that delight people across the globe, but also to create jobs and opportunities for people to explore their creativity and change other people's lives. “I was very lucky. I started... View Details

01 Jan 2002
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Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)

markets in developed nations. But by the mid-1980s, the Yangs decided the time had come to differentiate themselves. They would concentrate on quality and meeting the needs of the most discriminating designers and retailers in areas such as View Details

01 Dec 2017
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Turning Point: The Dark Season

lesson to the team’s rookies called “The Desire Within.” It was drawn from that dark season I lived through and centered on this question: What does it mean to have a desire for something beyond what we can... View Details

Keywords: Jonathan Wilkins (MBA 2007, MDiv 2009)

01 Jun 1998
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Renewing Baker: Tom Michalak, Executive Director of Baker Library

its relevance to HBS alumni. What is Baker best known for in library circles? Baker is regarded foremost for having the richest collections in business and business history in the country, if not the world. View Details

01 Jun 2003
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400 and Counting: Surge in HBS Cases with Women Protagonists

in key decision-making roles. “The cases feature women in all areas of responsibility, including accounting, production and operations management, competitive strategy, entrepreneurship, and service management,” notes Hart in an... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Oct 1996
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Tedlow on Tires and the Meaning of Life

12,000 miles; just a few years later it was up to every 20,000 miles -- unless you had a set of new Michelin or Bridgestone radial tires, imported from France or Japan, respectively, which lasted for 40,000 miles. And these days there are... View Details

02 Mar 2015
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To Market, To Market

Ending poverty and hunger for millions of people around the world may sound like an insurmountable goal, but that hasn’t stopped Pierre Ferrari (MBA 1976) from taking it on—and finding success. “By 2020, we will end poverty for 4 million... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Agriculture; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

05 Aug 2016
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Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier

fewer than 5 percent of neuroscience-related patents are successfully commercialized. Amadio, currently chief resident in the seven-year neurological surgery residency program at Emory University, in Atlanta, was troubled by the gap between neuroscience’s potential and... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

22 Feb 2016
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Cooking Up America’s Food Culture

he’d become an academic—instead he became instrumental in shaping our country’s food culture. Duda’s restaurant experience had been his education. In Miami, he’d been in the kitchen of the Spiral Restaurant, a new kind of counter-culture restaurant that was more than a... View Details