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Ryan Kauppila
cashiers, a heads-up penny, and padiddles should be acknowledged. HBS has taught me to use clichés and analogies liberally – simple declarative sentences are worse than C-SPAN reruns. 'Over-animated' is a compliment. Bad bosses and car... View Details
- 21 Aug 2017
- News
The Principles That Divide Us Might Be Greater Than Those That Bind Us Together
“It seems to me that we are now economically and socially divided and burdened in ways that are broadly analogous to 1937. During such times, conflicts (both internal and external) increase, populism emerges, democracies are threatened... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Health-Care Forum's Rx for US System
Experience," HBS professor Clay Christensen analogized that just as the computer industry evolved from massive mainframes to customer-friendly personal devices, "We need to bring technology to outpatient clinics and patients' homes so... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
He Begs to Differentiate
Worldwide, J. Walter Thompson, and Hill & Knowlton. Through his clients, Sorrell has his finger on the pulse of a wide range of industries. Speaking of the Internet, he observed that "the great analogy for the Web is the nineteenth... View Details
History's Guiding Light
understanding of technology/digital issues in the global economy. Despite the perceived “newness” of the field, I became captivated by the abundance of historical analogs to the important global technology trends we are seeing today. The... View Details
- 07 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Competition of Countries
move assets (capital and human assets) into higher and higher value-added enterprises. This, I believe, is roughly analogous to large corporations. But countries have additional challenges, without much analogy. They must manage sound... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 19 Feb 2010
- News
The MBA Oath Debate
recent opinion piece in the Financial Times, HBS student Andrew Sridhar (MBA 2010) cited what he calls “troubling” aspects of the oath. For example, he doesn’t buy the professionalization analogy with oaths in law, medicine, or the... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
The Intellectual Underpinnings of Entrepreneurial Management
that, although this approach greatly simplifies the life of the researcher, it is incomplete and distorting. We make an analogy between new business formation and child rearing: starting the task requires only a moment of enthusiasm, but... View Details
- 22 May 2020
- Blog Post
Remembering Well and Making Meaning of Memorial Day
nods behind masks as we pass one another en route to remotely administered final exams. To call it strange is an understatement. I’ve found this new normal, however – beauty and potential tinged by loss – analogous to how many veterans... View Details
- 07 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Obama’s Clean Power Plan: Can Nuclear Power Beat the Global Threat of Coal?
evolution, he analogizes them to mainframes, minicomputers, and microprocessor-based systems, respectively. Lassiter talks about the promise of next-generation nuclear power, and introduces some of the key players in the field. "If you... View Details
- 26 Mar 2020
- Blog Post
The Road Untraveled: VC Perspectives on COVID-19
thoughtful decisions for their team. Empathy and Honesty in Times of Uncertainty Leverage your peers! We all handle challenges like this differently, and to be honest, there is no "perfect answer" on how to get used to isolation and uncertainty. I love the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Exchange: Chance Encounters
together. To use the analogy of a DJ concert: There are big concerts where DJs perform and—I used to be a DJ, so I’ll admit this fully—the DJ is mostly just clicking a bunch of buttons. The audience has no real way of knowing what the DJ... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
additional applications for the technology that Fuji had developed for the analog film market. So instead of focusing only on digital imaging, the obvious substitute for analog photography, Fuji now has the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Wake-Up Call: Farewell to the American Dream?
transition from the industrial era to the information/high-technology frontier presage a new era of prosperity, analogous to our transition from an agricultural to an industrial society? I don't think it will happen. The productivity... View Details
- 04 Jun 2008
- News
Whistle While You Work
roles with others.” Business borrows these metaphors and lingo from other group-oriented pursuits in order to better understand itself and improve its performance. The world of music provides business with a lot of the analogies and the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Disaster Master
documents to businesses around the world for nearly 30 years. “We have a natural tendency as humans to neglect low-probability events, even if the impact is very high,” he says. “The most basic analogy is the difficulty some people have... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
Reflecting on the Value of an MBA
underlying stock will go up in the future. But you're never really sure -- because the stock price could just as easily go down. The higher the volatility of the stock, the higher the risk of extreme upside -- and extreme downside. My professor was making the View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Action Plan: Writing the Next Chapter
note, but for Hubscher, the romance of an analog writing implement remains: “For me, they are tools of freedom. You don’t have anything between you, your soul, and the paper and the mark that you leave.” How to: Pick your pen-and-paper... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Snapshot: Gary DiCamillo, Polaroid's CEO
photography is going to go away as everything in our industry becomes digitized. But I disagree," he says. "I think analog photography will endure, because it still satisfies many users, and digital imaging businesses will grow up around... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 19 Feb 2008
- News
The Scoop Behind the Silver Screen
Clayton up this weekend for seven Academy Awards. (Any predictions out there on the winners?) Samuels drew an analogy between the real estate industry and filmmaking. “I look at a movie script the same way I look at an empty piece of... View Details