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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Shaping the Way Business Does Business: HBR at 75
the times. HBR has been a voice for the concepts and practices that have created the practice of management - a profession that was in its infancy when the magazine was inaugurated in 1922. This month marks HBR's 75th anniversary, a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
John Weber In his new book, The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World (Harvard Business Press), Walter Kiechel III (MBA ’76) traces the rise of modern management consulting from the 1960s to the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Kicking Off a Startup: Jennifer Rottenberg (MBA '96)
- a strategy, marketing, and athlete representation firm she founded - has been selected by the league's seed investors to create and manage the new league. The league's marketing strategy is "a hybrid of the ABL and WNBA women's... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 06 May 2019
- News
Startup Talk in Chicago
of Wine” and possibly a “Business of Museums.” “It’s a way to get people out to the corporate facilities for a first-hand look at how different industries work,” he says. The HBSCD worked with Sandy Weissinger and Erica Hebert, both relationship View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Entrepreneur's Notebook with Paul Conforti and Kim Moore (both MBA '97)
managing call centers for insurance companies but wanted to switch from telephonic to face-to-face service, so I decided to focus on restaurants. I spent the first year at HBS researching the industry and settled on desserts. They are the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
that described why competition in health care had failed. Some health-care experts, he feared, would take offense at any critique written by mere management professors. To the surprise of Porter and coauthor Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg, an... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
New Releases
aside conventional thinking to reveal that any group - if designed and managed effectively - can produce innovative services, products, and processes. Unlike most books on creativity, When Sparks Fly focuses... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Protagonist Goes Prime Time
Buell sprints from the Skydeck, his gray jacket flapping, to add another student idea to the slowly growing list on the chalkboard. The Managing Health Care Delivery Executive Education class is brainstorming ways to improve the customer... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Building a Network for Social Enterprise in Latin America
Angela Serino, manager of corporate responsibility for Natura, a Brazilian cosmetics company, and Maria de Graça Fernandes Branco, principal of Matilde Elementary and High School. The pair are subjects of a case View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
launching Anomalie in 2016, she was a supply-chain manager for Apple Watch—and a bride-to-be in search of a wedding gown. In the process, the self-described TOM nerd discovered that one city in China View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
weight is assigned to the various answers. “I think people would be surprised just how different the methodologies are,” says Brian Kenny, chief marketing and communications officer at HBS whose office manages the data requests that... View Details
- 21 May 2019
- News
Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest
producers and farmers and giving them an equal voice in the process,” Johnson-Hoffman said. Heidi Gilbertson (MBA 2017),an associate brand manager at MillerCoors, discussed a new effort by the company to... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Hands-on Simulations Complement the Case Method
participate in two simulations in the required Technology and Operations Management (TOM) course. The “Shad Exercise” provides a sense of the challenges of managing a complex process. In teams of 12,... View Details
Keywords: Educational Innovation
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Alumni Books
I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History by Walter Mirisch (IA ’43) (University of Wisconsin Press) The producer of such film classics as West Side Story, Some Like It Hot, In the Heat of the Night, and The Magnificent Seven, Mirisch... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Gazprom Goes Global
recently produced a three-part case on Gazprom, says the 2006 Ukraine cutoff was in reality a business decision, albeit an extreme one. The context for that incident between the two countries went back years and involved at least one... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
is one of the key reasons why I wrote my book. Back in 2006, Chris Anderson [author of the The Long Tail] got people thinking that new technology would change what consumers would be choosing and, therefore, what content producers should... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Decoding the Promise and Perils of Generative AI
ChatGPT burst into the public consciousness on November 30, 2022. Within two months, the generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) software, which leverages a large language model (LLM) to produce human-like, text-based conversations,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Faculty Books
Corporate Information Strategy and Management by Lynda M. Applegate, Robert D. Austin, and F. Warren McFarlan (Irwin/McGraw-Hill) This extensive collection of HBS cases devoted to IT gives an overview of contemporary information systems... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Dog’s Best Friend: Jim Hawes’s Charles River Rescue
producer Norman Lear, dropped in. Alan proceeded to tell Norman about the dog rescue, because Alan genuinely appreciated the act. Later, I said something like, "Alan, I have been doing other things for the last 25 years and all you can... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
requirements with life obligations and to persuade managers to adopt these custom-fit work strategies to improve their bottom line. Telling the stories of people at companies like JetBlue, Ernst & Young, and Best Buy, the authors discuss... View Details