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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf
Use LinkedIn to network with an expert and ask her a question about a critical assumption. Run online surveys using SurveyMonkey.com. Tap into Amazon Mechanical Turk, which offers cost-effective ways to perform mundane tasks." The book... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
a production chain, that maximized output.” Klug admires the way Aoki took command of a key variable in restaurant management: table turnover, or “turns.” “Rocky made the restaurant a theater, with the chef as the star of the show,” Klug says. “When the meal was over,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Of Value and Values
stock picker, Generation doesn’t artificially constrain its choices, and the performance of the firm at this time would suggest that its returns can be competitive with traditional global equity funds whose... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
for the world to tell you what job you're best suited for? What if you had the answers before you started your career? That's the premise of the career-matching firm pymetrics. Series of neuroscience-based games, users can determine their... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Exchange: Chance Encounters
Assistant Professor Maria Roche and Associate Professor Andy Wu; image by John Ritter Late one day in the fall of 2021, as she was packing up to head home, Assistant Professor Maria Roche bumped into Andy Wu, a colleague in the Strategy Unit whose office is next to... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Books
have implemented balanced scorecards, the performance management system that the pair developed in 1992. In The Strategy-Focused Organization: How Balanced Scorecard Companies Thrive in the New Business Environment, the authors delve into... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
Michael Jensen, a finance expert, how what is happening today compares to what transpired in the 1980s. A decade ago, Jensen explains, M&As; were often associated with downsizing and what he describes as "the freeing of equity trapped in old-line, inefficiently managed... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Q & A: Pat Russo - Focused on the Future at Lucent Technologies
Fortune magazine's "Fifty Most Powerful Women in American Business." Why has Lucent performed so well since its divestiture from AT&T? We have been growing globally faster than our markets. Our ability to focus on the hottest growth... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Faculty Books
dynamics and strategies used by firms that recognize the transformative power of these “invisible engines.” Shorter discussions of Internet-based software platforms offer glimpses into a future in which the way we buy, pay, watch, listen,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Faculty Books
Pill, and Ingrid Vogel (World Scientific Publishing Co.) Understanding the genesis of financial and currency crises, stock-market booms and busts, and social and labor unrest is crucial in making informed managerial decisions. These phenomena can have a catastrophic... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
extraordinary musical talent who neglects the deeper, spiritual part of himself in the excitement of pursuing his performance career of playing to large crowds. After a crisis of self-doubt, he returns to his grandfather's mountain cabin... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Additional alumni books for your consideration.
The Corporate Lattice: Achieving High Performance in the Changing World of Work by Cathleen Benko (MBA ’89) and Molly Anderson (Harvard Business Review Press) The authors argue that a lattice model rather than the corporate ladder is... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
J. Ronald Fox (MBA '59)
after graduating from HBS. "He struck a chord with me because of the way he could identify and analyze complex problems, then develop implementation plans to solve them." In 1960, Livingston and Fox founded Management Systems Corporation, a consulting View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
DOWNTIME: Varma and Agarwala take a break. Photographs By Tom Pietrasik Imagine that you’ve quit your high-paying job with a big, prestigious firm to launch a financial advisory service tailored for India’s rapidly growing middle class,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: How to Build a More Diverse Board
Recent studies have found that gender diversity in the corporate boardroom can enhance dialogue, curb excessive risk-taking, and boost both performance and share price. And yet, women still hold only about 19 percent of S&P 500 company... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959
Wolfensohn Center for Development, a new global poverty research initiative at the Brookings Institution. He is also relishing the opportunity to work with his son, Adam, and daughter Naomi at Wolfensohn & Company, LLC, a privately held View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Kicking Off a Startup: Jennifer Rottenberg (MBA '96)
way, the league is planning to debut in 2000. "The gold medal performance of the U.S. women's soccer team at the 1996 Olympics showcased our talented players to the nation and the world," says the NSA's development consultant, Jennifer... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
New Releases
an eight-step process to help firms achieve the lasting organizational transformations essential for success in the coming decades. The Balanced Scorecard by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton (Harvard Business School Press) After years... View Details
- 14 Nov 2012
- News
Remembering His Roots
that Curiel performed during his second year. Classmates and cofounders Chadd Garcia and Misha Simmonds joined his effort to test that idea following graduation. The RFDF’s “Mini MBA” program offers migrant students online courses in... View Details
Keywords: farmworkers
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Reinventing the Annual Report
little to do with each other. This is a huge problem. A sustainable society requires that all companies be committed to sustainable strategies. Increasing social expectations regarding a company’s commitment to sustainability mean that View Details
Keywords: Robert G. Eccles