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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Books
implicit in the book’s title, the authors interviewed more than forty CEOs from both industry and the nonprofit sector, studied what successful managers do right, and drew on their own years of experience at Bain. They came up with four principles: View Details
Keywords: Management
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Short Takes
care by encouraging effective communication among care providers. In their working paper, "Networks and Organization Design: A Framework for Improving the Coordination of Patient Care," Gittell and Weiss argue that organization design needs to be paired with View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction. With this graceful, authoritative biography, McCraw, a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, has all but ensured that a seminal but relatively uncelebrated twentieth-century visionary... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
notions of poverty; emerging markets; and the roles of business, government, and the nonprofit sector. “The IXP program is all about active learning,” says HBS senior fellow Regina Abrami, who serves as faculty chair of the program. Abrami emphasizes the distinction... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
itself. Viana sensed that the workers, and brand, enjoyed broad-based public support. So he turned to crowdfunding, still a relatively unfamiliar concept in France, posting his cause on the site Bulb in Town and cross- promoting his... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
relatively pro-business government and an energetic young population and growing middle class that make no secret of aspiring to a better quality of life, complete with all the consumer goods such an existence entails. The downside,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
or competitive strategic analysis could measure. I learned that, as with so many things in Africa, the context was everything. It is hard to put a number on the “value” of reconciliation, but it is here where measures like social return... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Borders and the Self By Chinwe Ajena-Sagna (MBA 2003) Masobe Books “Who are you?” Every border tells a story. Every story has its origins. Tracing a cultural lineage from the beginnings of Igbo history in the ninth century by delineating... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
reprimand; and establish a culture where people are treated with respect. Amabile notes that the study of creativity at business schools is a relatively new phenomenon, dating back to the 1980s or so. “It’s very new in one sense, yet the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
that cost him his adopted children, his colleagues, and the career of Xi Zhongxun, father of President Xi Jinping. When Zhou left Huai’an, another group came to his birthplace to serve society through medicine, education and evangelism.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
Chernilovskiy and Eykher, Kazzinc’s CFO, were suddenly facing an urgent need to reduce costs and improve cash flows. At the same time, they were growing acutely aware of the industry’s inequity: Miners (who produce raw materials) and... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
pretty businesslike in your judgments,” he says, noting that even a backup player generally earns an annual salary of $1 to $2 million. “The financial skills I learned at HBS have been extremely useful in that sense. You need to be able to evaluate how much to give a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
each time we added seats, average attendance and contributions increased. I made a cash-flow analysis and revenue projections that helped lenders understand our business model. We’re now able to negotiate and secure reasonable financial... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Value of Difficult Conversations
particular people: Do the descendants of those who died or lost property deserve reparations? The relative recency of the Tulsa Massacre and the economic loss—estimated at $26.1 million in today’s dollars—accompanying the tremendous human... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The First Scrum
and style and meeting deadlines, six days a week, three cases a day. By 6 p.m. on Saturday, your Written Analysis of Cases paper had to go down the chute [at Baker Library]. If it was 6:01, that chute just discarded your work. I needed an... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
almost the size of Kuwait. What’s clear, though, is that while this city is rich relative to the rest of the country , its city managers were miserly when it came to building the ribbons of roads and rail needed to bind its residents... View Details
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, it’s Dan. Today, we are sharing a brief excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, the critically-acclaimed podcast from my colleagues at Harvard Business School. Each episode, HBS professors Bill Kerr... View Details
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
Fortunately, says Lerner, the opportunities for entrepreneurs have probably never been better, in part because the cost of starting a business has never been lower and in part because the mania for investing in startups has led to all... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Case Study: On the Record
“completely revolutionized our business in terms of operations and streamlining,” Cleary says. With a relatively small $20 million in robo-advised accounts, “the effect on the revenue side was minimal, but the positive effect on the View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
need for management experience in nonprofits, and I decided to try to combine my business skills with my commitment to the environment," says Kendall. He embarked on a "classic business school analysis of the industry," talking to the... View Details