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- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
banker willing to stake her acquisition. “She laid out her vision so clearly that I could see it and understand it,” Paul Anderson of the National Australia Bank explained in Russo’s 2002 motivational biography, Meet Me at the Top! “It... View Details
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
Finally, we overcome the computational burden of solving games of complete information with multiple equilibria by utilizing the GPGPU technology, using multiple processing cores in a graphics processing unit to noticeably increase View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2008
- News
The Scoop Behind the Silver Screen
elements are added.” Both businesses require vision and a healthy appetite for risk. Another similarity is permits, budgets, and a cast of people who come together to work on a common project for two or three years. Attracting a... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
inept or complacent management drew the attention of raiders. "I give credit to that 1980s movement as a whole for having created the profit machine that we see in the 1990s," Hayes says. "We now have an M&A; movement driven by strategic considerations, especially in... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part Two
roast beans—becoming one of only a small group of people in Starbucks' history to be judged qualified to do so. As a teenager, Michael Dell enjoyed taking complex computers apart, repairing or upgrading them, and putting them back... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Profile
Dana Hoffmann
family to Monterey Bay, California. “My mom was such a great role model,“ Hoffmann said. “She taught me that you can have it all, have kids, work around the clock, and get everything done.“As far back as the Admitted Students Weekend, Hoffmann... View Details
- 26 Aug 2016
- News
Connecting with the Past
several years as a consultant for Construction Specialties, a manufacturer of specialized architectural products. At the same time, his nephew Mark brought him on board as an investor and marketing consultant in several high-tech startups, including Eicon Technologies,... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- Web
Design: At, Into, & Beyond - Race, Gender & Equity
your photographs captioned? Can site text be increased in size? Do these questions deepen or become inestimably more complex if axes of race, gender, class, ability, (in)accessibility and any others are applied? If design is invested in questions of View Details
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
worldviews may conflict during the process of business innovation. After researching the movement of Internet and computing pioneers among various organizations during a period between the early 1960s and the mid-1990s, the authors... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Exchange: Chance Encounters
Assistant Professor Maria Roche and Associate Professor Andy Wu; image by John Ritter Late one day in the fall of 2021, as she was packing up to head home, Assistant Professor Maria Roche bumped into Andy Wu, a colleague in the Strategy Unit whose office is next to... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
Sikh-founded, $100-million group of service and product companies (including Sun & Son, Inc., a national Lotus Notesbased computer consulting firm specializing in e-commerce; Akal Security Company; and natural food enterprises such as the... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
and clearly articulating goals and priorities directs attention both to grand visions and to the details of execution, which ground visions in daily tasks. While holding other people accountable for living... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
hospital bed in jeans and Chuck Taylors, mussed brown hair, smiling just enough to reveal dimples, with his hand out in front of him, holding two small white pills. "First dose of HT-100. That's it," she says, pulling up the photo on the View Details
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Waking Up a Sleeping Company
undermined the company's performance. For all its strengths, it was my impression that Medtronic's culture was too Minnesota Nice. I realized that these aspects of Medtronic's culture had to change if we were going to be an effective competitor and realize our View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
action, someone who had the energy, discipline, and charisma to bring his big ideas to fruition. Indeed, during the postwar period, Doriot went on to found a number of important institutions. In 1954, his vision of a peacetime research... View Details
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Past Issues - Alumni
and Again How rituals help us create order from chaos, affect performance, and ascribe meaning to the mundane details of our personal and professional lives Quantum Leap Quantum computing has revolutionary potential, but it’s been stuck... View Details
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
hope is that my perspective will nonetheless provide some guidance for people working in this evolving field to understand the true complexity of corporate boards. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52400 Explaining the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
licenses to operate in the country. In the face of these changes, the company has to figure out what its strategy should be to realize its vision of becoming a leading integrated financial services player offering customers a menu of... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
perfect date into a massive computer, on punch cards. The computer spit out the most compatible pairings. Neither company lasted long, but the computer- assisted dating model they promoted had a lot in common with the early days of the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/ August 2013 Computer Applying KISS to Healthcare Information Technology By: Herzlinger, Regina E., Margo Seltzer, and Mark Gaynor Abstract—Current public and private healthcare information technology... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne