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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
discusses how the United States can reformulate some of these ideas from China to foster much-needed change at home. Understanding Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy by Joan Magretta (MBA 1983) (Harvard... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Social Enterprse Forum Discusses Strategy
ChildrenU.S. has responded to changing societal norms. A second case considered how NGOs can improve their organizational performance by using strategic frameworks from the private and public sectors.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Predictable Surprises
immediate loss of income, in exchange for a better situation at some point down the line. What about organizational biases? Since the events of 9/11, it’s been well documented that the CIA and FBI didn’t coordinate their information. Each... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
The US Patent System’s Uncertain Fate
One is how are the bad patents getting issued in the first place? The situation is the result of the confluence of two things: the strengthening of the patents themselves, which has been a gradual change over the last 30 years, and the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
A New Path for Alumnae
that. What is more typical of HBS alumnae? Although they all wanted meaningful full-time employment, their goals had changed substantially over the years: Money was important, but not the primary motivator. View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Better than Cash
greater impact. The alumni came courtesy of the Community Action Partners (CAP) program organized by the HBS Association of Boston. Through CAP, alumni work in teams of four to six over several months to provide Boston-area nonprofits with View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?
invented, they’ve always been private,” he says. “You have to get over the cognitive block of, ‘Oh my God, this is going to be open to all the parties,’ and secondly, ‘I now have to change all my processes.’ ” The technology, Lakhani... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Building a Network for Social Enterprise in Latin America
H-E-B and the Monterrey Food Bank, a program administered by the Mexican branch of the nonprofit organization Caritas. The outcome? The nonprofit, which received sporadic support in the past, suddenly had access to the organizational... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Class of 1975 in Review
the one I remember most vividly happened in Paul Lawrence's Human Behavior class. A distinguished expert in organizational behavior, Professor Lawrence was known for the intricacy of his blackboard diagrams. The idea of our game was to... View Details
Keywords: J. Hans Stumm
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The Exchange: Venture Forth
and its place in the business ecosystem has changed significantly in the intervening decades. Two recent working papers explore those changes—Gompers’s survey of decision-making at hundreds of VC firms and Professor Ramana Nanda’s study... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
together an ambitious agenda for change and hired a charismatic leader named John Stanford, a former Army major general with no ed-ucation administration experience, to be superintendent. Stanford would die tragically of leukemia three... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
New Releases
evolution of the TOM unit, acknowledging that the strong reputation it holds - both inside and outside the School- must be constantly monitored due to the rapidly changing nature of the discipline. In what they call a "paradox of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
The Influence of Geography on Work and Innovation
mobility. To explore possible solutions, in another recent study Choudhury evaluated how policy changes around worker location in the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) improved productivity. The USPTO employs about 8,000... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Ink: Miami’s Dark Neon Era, the Language of Success, and Getting Psyched Up
that nobody seems to remember. It is one of the most inspiring and influential books that I’ve ever read.” Excerpt “Language can affect every aspect of global organizational life. A lingua franca is the closest we have to the ‘tongues of... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Stephen Covey's Successful Habits
conflicts, and interdepartmental rivalries. That's the high cost of low trust. What can be done about this trust problem? Companies have to change their paradigms and recognize the overriding importance of trust. The only thing that can... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham
height of the civil rights movement, Thomas-Graham's parents held up Thurgood Marshall and other lawyers as role models who created peaceful change at a time when racial tensions were running high. "Our family heroes were African... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Culture Clash: Exploring Cross Cultural Conflicts in Business
organizational values and business ethics, Paine has long focused on American companies engaged primarily in domestic U.S. business. But faced with an increasing number of questions from international students about whether U.S. corporate... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
New Releases
Managing Across Borders by Christopher A. Bartlett and Sumantra Ghoshal (Harvard Business School Press) A decade ago HBS professor Christopher A. Bartlett and London Business School professor Sumantra Ghoshal proposed a revolutionary new View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
between. Kids are constantly changing and how we parent them must change, too. But how do we stay close as a family as our lives move apart? In the midst of guiding their own kids through this transition, Lisa Heffernan and Mary Dell... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
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Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office
Both transitions have strategic and competitive implications for firms operating in and out of the region. The current "reconstruction" of Asia offers insights about differentiating systemic from asystemic risks and illuminates possible View Details