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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
worldwide, once employed 600,000 Americans alone and estimates it will employ only 86,000 in its U.S. operations by 2008. And in another telling numbers game, highly profitable Toyota has announced it will produce 9.06 million cars... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
done, the problems will fester. Worse, it can easily become a hotbed of terrorism. The question is how are we to return to Iraq and help it back on its feet. The most important thing now is to improve the security situation. Esty in... View Details
- 02 Dec 2020
- News
Nine Ways to Have a Better 2021
Yes, we know it shouldn’t be too difficult to improve on 2020. But just to be sure, we drew on the knowledge, experience, and expertise of HBS faculty and alumni to gather nine strategies to put you over the top, whatever the year ahead... View Details
- 28 Feb 2025
- News
Joy to the World
and how these ideas can improve towns, organizations, and companies alike. READ MORE DM: When did you start thinking about community joy? JP: I was in foster care partly because of my birth mother's mental illness and was aware of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
How Deep Brain Stimulation Could Change Medicine
Mayo’s Neural Engineering Laboratory began to make dramatic improvements to the technology behind the treatment. Instead of requiring constant tweaking like a typical deep brain stimulation device, Harmoni’s sensors work to keep the brain... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Shape of Things to Come
constantly looking for opportunities to say, “How can I improve my course? What are some new things I’m learning about that I want to introduce?” That produces a certain dynamism that’s constant in our programs. In the second year, we... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Labs Enable Large-scale Research
opportunities to use new technologies for enhancing financial inclusion. By working with communities of crypto business practitioners, the researchers aim to help shape the way this industry evolves, inform regulators, and improve the... View Details
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
improvement that both solved the issue but also led to a broader patent. These are the things that you will only figure out if you lean in to imperfection and resolve to figure it out as you go.” What roles do each of you fill? Smith:... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Matter of Opinion
opened his eyes to the fact that “many different reasons bring people to the School, not just the lure of making money. One of my more conservative classmates said the purpose of business is to give people value for their money, put out a decent product, make a fair... View Details
- 30 Apr 2021
- News
Revealing the Rules
context of the unspoken rules, how can leaders improve outcomes for all employees? Leaders should have a frank discussion about the unspoken rules in their organizations and how they might be the cause of employees failing to get promoted... View Details
- 11 Mar 2020
- News
Making It Rain
stations,” he says, adding that ClimaCell has partnered with telecom operators around the world to turn their networks into massive sensor arrays. Everything is a potential weather station to ClimaCell—connected vehicles, street cameras,... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Capitalizing the Corner Shop
photo by Getty Images photo by Getty Images When Samuel Ejeh decides to open a new location for his Lagos-based supermarket chain Grocery Bazaar, he likes to move quickly. But expansion is capital-intensive, constraining his cash flow, and banks in Nigeria just don’t... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
Bazerman explore the value of experiments and the ways in which they can improve organizational decisions. Drawing on real world experiments and case studies, Luca and Bazerman show that going by gut is no longer enough—successful leaders... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
on the enormous success of the event, last summer the Dean's Office invited Dobron to work full-time to refine and implement suggestions for improving campus life that were generated during the case discussions. "Our efforts were mainly... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Downtime
faculty and students, I can’t help but see the struggle between ambition, finding oneself, and the idea of reinventing oneself enacted each day. Zeynep Ton is an assistant professor in the Technology and Operations Management Unit. What’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
that IBM needs to make adjustments to improve its business performance relative to the DNG's constituent group. For example, a DNG of IBM employees with disabilities, aware that IBM possessed certain products, services, and expertise that... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
he always remained open to a better idea if someone truly believed in it. I only had a few days before I would have to cancel my HBS trip. Knowing that Grove by reputation was, above all, a manufacturing maven, I called Professor Bob Hayes, who was head of the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
foremost, to improving the everyday lives of consumers." Despite P&G's successes, Lafley is well aware of the dangers that can loom on any operation's horizon. He has talked publicly, for instance, about the limitations faced even by a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
is the author of Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs (2002). While boards have improved in recent years, the speed at which they were improving lagged behind the speed... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
Terwiesch Harvard Business Review Press What if there were a way to turn occasional, sporadic transactions with customers into long-term, continuous relationships—while simultaneously driving dramatic improvements in View Details