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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
are trying to do the right thing. How do we make boards even stronger? Some good ideas I've heard recently call for getting the independent directors to meet alone without management and having somebody other than the CEO lead the board,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
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smartphone. (photo by Peter DaSilva) Dubinsky and Hawkins—shown here with Numenta cofounder Dileep George in 2005—first paired up at Palm, where Dubinsky was the founding CEO, and later at Handspring, where they pioneered the modern smartphone. (photo by Peter DaSilva)... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Robots to the Rescue
warehouse. The bots rely on a Wi-Fi network and a grid of 2-D barcodes on the floor to navigate. Products are delivered to the human operators, who pick and pack the items and send them to shipping. “When I started out, companies were interested but skeptical that the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
From Das’s Desk
alumni-to-alumni learning options to include a live-interview session that is recorded for the Skydeck podcast series. In these interviews, an alumnus who is exploring interesting, new ideas shares his or her experience and perspective... View Details
Keywords: Das Narayandas
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Innovation: Revenge of the Nerds
of Cambridge and Boston, approaching any independent business owner who might have a business problem the “nerds” could help them address. They also convinced Professor Lynda M. Applegate to allow them to pitch the idea to her Executive... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Cracks in the Foundation
months ahead as they and other HBS faculty travel to a number of cities to meet with alumni, as well as government, labor, and other business leaders, to disseminate ideas and catalyze local actions around competitiveness. "Our alumni... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Enhancing Students’ Cultural Intelligence
his classmates’ FIELD Global Immersion (FGI) projects. But in retrospect, he says, conducting field research in Mexico and developing and presenting innovative product ideas to senior executives at Colgate’s Consumer Innovation Center... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Rethinking Housing in the Motor City
Detroit needs more housing, says developer John Rhea (MBA 1992). That’s a counterintuitive idea for most people who have driven the streets of that shrinking city, passing thousands of vacant homes and nearly abandoned neighborhoods.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Giving Kids a Better Chance
right now in Los Angeles, only in the neediest areas of LA. We started by building a charter-school organization. Charter schools are public schools, but they're not a part of the traditional public school system. So it allowed someone like me, who had a lot of new... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
HBS Students Help Rebuild New Orleans
be a library of cases for use by communities coping with future disasters. “The idea is that we’d be able to fly in and talk to local business leaders and say, ‘These are some things that folks in New Orleans found useful and that you... View Details
- 04 Sep 2013
- News
From HBO to HBS
Me. Or questions related to the financial services industry by looking at Inside Job." McGee mentioned his idea to HBS professor of management practice Arthur Segel, a good friend from their undergraduate days together at Harvard College.... View Details
- 11 Oct 2019
- News
Balancing Act
listening to their concerns. The response she received at Princeton Review and at PresenceLearning was overwhelmingly positive. Most of the staff at PresenceLearning, as in much of the education sector, already consisted of women, and their clients were also primarily... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
India's Chidambaram Says Nation Is "Poor Rich"
doors to many people who wished to enter the marketplace.”) It wasn’t until India nearly went bankrupt in 1991 that the idea of “an open and competitive society was embraced by the people,” who, Chidambaram observed, brushed aside... View Details
- 05 Feb 2016
- News
The Wheel of the World
contains close to 20,000 items). “I realized that I was more interested in the ideas expressed in the mechanisms than in owning the physical objects,” he says. “Time is a central element of the human experience, which, understandably,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: Reemerging Technologies
industries have in common? When an industry faces a shock, it can attempt to compete directly with the new technology or retreat into a niche. However, some technologies are well suited for a third strategy, one that’s anchored on the View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Modupe Akinola: Outreach In Africa
reading, writing, and math,” she explains. “I wanted to bring that idea to Ghana.” With the cooperation and input of local nongovernmental organizations and a $350,000 grant from the Danish government, Akinola collaborated with a teacher... View Details
- 10 Dec 2010
- News
Notes from the Trenches
hitting on the right idea for a business. “You’re not going to find it — it’s built over time.” His partner, Eric Boutin (MBA ’07), added that the pair did not have a background in biotech. Shelby Clark (MBA ’10) noted that the Rock... View Details
- 17 Mar 2011
- News
Make or Break for the USA?
with HBS professors Gary Pisano and Willy Shih, Pisano says, “One of our key messages is to get students to appreciate that manufacturing involves a lot of knowledge work. There has been almost a whole generation of MBA students and managers who have been brought up on... View Details
- 27 Nov 2012
- News
The Beauty of the Network
of Restorsea intrigued Krentz, who asked for more information and suggested she meet with HBS classmate Muneer Satter, formerly of Goldman Sachs. In less than five days, Satter had funded the balance of the necessary capital. (Krentz also invested.) Pao hit upon the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The MBA Turns 100
an eye on all the details of our infant School,” wrote Edwin F. Gay, the first dean. The Big Idea took root and, over time, spread far and wide. One hundred years later, the MBA is the world’s most popular graduate degree, and HBS remains... View Details