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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
shelves stuffed with books. Now the pale wood shelves share wall space with expanded windows, and the center of the long, high-ceilinged store is filled with low, rolling display tables. The store’s design captures the things that make... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade
engineering. There she helped suppliers design and certify their systems for flight: new seats for an aircraft, for example, or a Wi-Fi system for the new Delta Air Lines plane. She was surprised to find that engineers relied on outdated... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Professorship Brings Brierley's HBS Connection Full Circle
many future entrepreneurs - accidental or otherwise - in his faculty role as the Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration. After graduating as a Baker Scholar, Brierley entered the DBA Program and worked as a research... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
New Idea: State of the Art
Photos courtesy of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum On the subject of art’s relevance in the digital age, Scott Belsky (MBA 2008) has never been one to mince words. “Art institutions need to change the way we think about the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Customizing Couture Online
The way Áslaug Magnúsdóttir sees it, her new website, Tinker Tailor, which uses interactive web technology to customize high-end designer clothing, is an old-school approach to fashion. “Couture always was a collaboration between the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
The American Dream
part of a field study, she worked out an idea for a digital library for users of computer-aided design (CAD). That became InPart Design, a company she sold to Parametric Technology for a reported $60 million... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Case Study: Power Nappy
had worked as a design engineer at Procter and Gamble, in addition to having cofounded a social enterprise that successfully commercialized biodegradable sanitary pads in India. Saigal started looking into... View Details
- 10 Nov 2022
- News
Peloton Founder Starts His Next Trek
A funding. "You might buy your first rug from Home Depot or Walmart, and then maybe later you're able to afford something from a place like Pottery Barn," Foley told Axios. "And then, just a fairly small number of people get to work with... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Scott D. Cook
best-selling software package, while watching his wife do their finances by hand twenty years ago. "Computers — especially the ones we were working with in 1982 — are crummy at a lot of things, but they happen to be very good at... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Plugged In
WITH FUNCTION "People want to do the right thing, but they want to do it in style," says Camargo, who describes the ELR as a mix of "art and science." The early mass-market alternative fuel cars, he adds, used abstract designs to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
explain how we have arrived at this point, he says: Businesses everywhere are short staffed, and call volumes are at record levels, so the human-to-call ratio doesn’t work in the customer’s favor. Plus, with wages as high as they are,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Rehito “Ray” Hatoyama (MBA 2008)
Kitty, with silver and black-based T-shirts. Orange is popular, too. In Japan, it’s mostly based on red, blue, white, and pink. Purple works well in Europe, although there are many different tastes from country to country. Last year, the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
else’s problem — until now. A phone call from the IT department reports that your company’s computer systems have been accessed by an intruder. Troves of business and financial data, your customers’ as well as your own, have been compromised. Is this the View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Clay Christensen on Competing Against Luck
have not taught managers and marketers we have a problem, and so, if you think that more data will solve the problem of what is not in the data, then we are misleading people in a serious way. How would cars work as an example of a job... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Competencies and Credentials
Joseph Fuller (photo by Russ Campbell) Joseph Fuller (photo by Russ Campbell) American businesses can’t afford to ignore the reality: The nature of work is changing. If companies hope to hire and hold on to employees, they need to be... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
After the Revolution: Putting the Internet in Perspective
completely scrapped. Traditional practices certainly still work for Boeing, which can't realistically release new airplanes with flaws the way Microsoft can release a new version of Windows with "bugs." Microsoft can serve and respond to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Hands-on Simulations Complement the Case Method
During a hands-on simulation, first-year MBA students work in teams to design and implement a complex process to produce electronic circuit boards. During a hands-on simulation, first-year MBA students View Details
Keywords: Educational Innovation
- 30 Sep 2016
- News
Competing Against Luck
note in the book that you've been working on the theory of jobs to be done for two decades now. Clayton Christensen: That's right. Morrell: Tell me a little bit about how your thinking has evolved in that time. Christensen: I came here... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Net Positive
At LOVB, designing a “community-up” volleyball ecosystem, from youth teams to a professional league. (photo by Melissa Golden) Volleyball is the number-one sport for girls in the United States by participation, yet unlike soccer and basketball, it hasn’t had an... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Redesigning Schools for Today’s Learners
Through the NewSchools Venture Fund, Stacey Childress (MBA 2000) is bringing together teams of innovators and educators to reinvent the way schools work for today’s learners, to help the current generation of students gain access to what... View Details