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- 01 Mar 2006
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Academic Cross-Pollination
launch a start-up based on the technology. Did all of the projects lead to viable business concepts? No, and that’s an essential lesson. A lot of the ideas don’t work, and the students hate that. But it’s reality when you’re dealing with... View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
- News
Embracing Chaos
we want to give back, but none of us, individually, knows how to do that. I can write a check, but have no idea who to give it to, and no idea how it's going to be used. There's not the satisfaction of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dare to be Different
successfully offer products that are meaningfully different. As a result, Moon writes a book about business that does not read like a business book. What motivated you to write Different at this point in your career? Well, for quite a long time, I had been resisting... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
if they listened long enough to give him a shot,” says HBS professor emeritus Stephen A. Greyser. “Also, it’s interesting to note that he didn’t go to the academy to get his ideas accepted; his approach was to convince important people in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
associate John Klug (MBA ’72). Recalls Sasser, “The idea was to view process analysis — a concept we taught in Production and Operations Management — in a setting that didn’t involve steel mills, printed circuit boards, or sorting... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Curb Your Smartphone Habit
great deal you can do to facilitate change in interdependent groups, especially when everyone in the group realizes that the collective goal is also in his or her personal best interest. We started with one team, but the idea spread,... View Details
- 30 Apr 2019
- News
Leading Schools That Change Lives
impact in Roxbury and subsequently got involved in launching two new Nativity schools, the first of which was in New Bedford, Massachusetts, where he became the founding principal, and then again in Wilmington, Delaware. “As much as I liked teaching,” he says, “the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Futures Made Bright Through Opportunity
at HBS, the idea is to teach you to be a good leader and to equip you with skills, and then you can go do what you really care about.” SVMP was transformational because it not only prompted Wu to apply to HBS but also provided him with a... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act
An extraordinary career based on the development of innovative, cutting-edge technology products was launched twenty years ago from the front row of an Aldrich Hall classroom. Crunching numbers for case studies late into the night was never Dan Bricklin's View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Steven Rogers
"but that idea really crystallized when I went to Cummins and saw a Fortune 500 company that made values an integral part of its mission statement." Rogers' own values were tested shortly after a 1981 move to rural North Carolina. Upon... View Details
- 20 Feb 2013
- News
Thanking Veterans Online
Thereafter, the user's email and password identify him or her as a qualified veteran or active military member as they log in to participating partners' sites across the web. Back in 2006, when Hall led 46 men under his command on patrols through the streets of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Capitalism’s False Mantra
was aligned with the interests of shareholders. If the company’s stock did well, executive pay would rise in concert. Thus was born the idea that CEOs should serve to maximize shareholder value, the mantra that has defined the business... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Consumption Is America’s Competitive Advantage
surplus in the United States. The really good news for America, he says, is that our well-developed and venturesome consumerism provides the ideal potting soil for all these mobile ideas to take root. Consumers, not patents, are our... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
The Show Goes On
rehearsing separately so far. As much as I’ve tried to connect the various groups and lay out a vision for every scene, it’s inevitable that everyone will have a slightly different idea of what it’s going to look like. Also, some of our... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Books
idea about why some individuals, teams, businesses, and even countries are consistently successful while others can’t seem to get out of a downward spiral once it begins. Kanter shows that confidence is the key factor in perpetuating... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
and so many of the ideas that came to be taught were developed by the faculty. The cases were shorter and simpler but still raised important issues. Most of the students enjoyed the few lectures that the faculty offered because it was... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
phase four is the single-patient clinical trial. Morrell: So you are trying to build this new model of customized medicine and your first proof of concept is your brother. Horgan: That’s exactly right. And the idea isn’t just, let’s do... View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
- News
Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart
sort of drug addiction, my mother who suffered from mental illness had started to disappear. And I guess, if I was a psychologist, I'd say, I, at 11, decided that I would be perfect in everything that I could control. I remember when my mother started disappearing, I... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
Illustration by Martin Leon Barreto In a lot of ways, it didn’t seem like a very good experiment to run. A young HBS professor—a rising star in the Finance area, an economist by training, by then already looking down the road at an all-important tenure decision—had an... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 10 Mar 2017
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The Business of Lego Batman
business. It's not show friends. So the movies that we make have to make money. And so when I'm pitching this idea to Warner Brothers I make about a Lego Movie, I have to have in back of my head of course I'm pitching a creative vision... View Details