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- 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 Apr 2002
- News
Q&A - Mark Fields
have confidence. If you perform the appropriate due diligence up front, then you can be confident that you’ll make the right decisions, no matter where you are. What are some of the business issues you’ve dealt with? Cost issues, an... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
it seems that if you work hard and keep your nose clean, they'll get rid of your division." Stevenson believes that many of the remedies prescribed today for enhancing competitiveness - organizational innovations such as restructuring, matrix management,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
produces continual improvement and allows them to rapidly adapt to change without succumbing to complexity. Dorade: The History of an Ocean Racing Yacht by Douglas D. Adkins (MBA 1975) (David R. Godine) This is a history of the Dorade,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
team, how to measure progress, and more. The Virtual Manager: Cutting-Edge Solutions for Hiring, Managing, Motivating, and Engaging Mobile Employees by Kevin Sheridan (MBA 1988) (Career Press) As more and more jobs can be performed from... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
proven approach to analyzing and solving challenges and provides a common language anyone can understand. Teams That Work: The Six Characteristics of High Performing Teams by Cliff Chirls (MBA 1979), George Myers, and Tom Champoux... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Education Innovation
system: "By practically any measure, the quality of public K–12 education in the United States is dismal." And the stakes are high. As Childress, deputy director of education at the Gates Foundation, outlined, research continues to show a strong link between a coun-... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
twenty years. He then identifies performance improvements initiatives that have produced impressive results and explains why they can work at scale only if American business leaders become much more engaged... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues
make the next crisis easier to manage but also to ensure that the ongoing operation of our health care system is improved in a fundamental manner.” Leveraging Technology to Gain an Edge In a Working Knowledge article, five faculty members... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Leading Change
weaving to dyeing, sewing, and retailing. By leveraging vertical integration, best practices, and technology such as automation and robotics, the company is constantly improving productivity and raising product quality. At the same time,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
How DC is Taxing the Country
performance has been waning since at least the late 1990s. In Problems Unsolved and a Nation Divided, Professors Michael Porter, Jan Rivkin—cochairs of the School’s US Competitiveness Project—and Mihir Desai, with program director Manjari... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
lucrative industry,” says Moon, who is an investor in an esports team. Fans cheer on their favorite gamers during a Paris competition (Lionel Bonaventure/AFP/Getty Images) Esports entrepreneurs are asking the same types of questions the publishers are asking: How can... View Details
- 16 Jan 2018
- News
Celebrating the Impact of Nonprofits
sending nonprofit leaders from all over the world to HBS. In the last 16 years, HBSASNE has sent 33 local nonprofit leaders to the SPNM program, representing a wide range of social action, from addressing homelessness and improving... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 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 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
Education Leadership Project (PELP), a collaborative effort with the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) that employs management concepts and entrepreneurial strategies to improve student performance... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
Spaces Drive Performance and Creativity, coauthored with Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Assistant Professor Joe Allen. “Public health is obviously directly connected to society’s success in answering this call." In real terms,... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advanced Statistics Are the New Foam Fingers
The Quantified Athlete “Athletes will always look to improve their performance and stay injury-free with technology. But the sports media industry is also starting to explore how to incorporate athlete data... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Eight Join HBS Faculty
teaches the first-year course Technology and Operations Management. His research focuses on techniques to evaluate and improve the performance of complex systems in the airline and sports industries. Fearing... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Hands-on Simulations Complement the Case Method
prepare materials by cutting and stripping wires, and assemble the circuit boards. They test their products to ensure that the lights blink and the buzzers buzz before delivering finished goods to their customer. Each team then attempts to View Details
Keywords: Educational Innovation
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
An Authentic Leader
overpaid? I think it’s embarrassing to see CEOs take big compensation and big bonuses in the same years that people are getting laid off. They should get bonuses and compensation only if the company is performing well over the long term.... View Details