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- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
performance rather than individual or unit performance. Beer and Katz thus suggest that instead of putting energy into designing complicated incentive plans intended to motivate executives, top managers should focus on developing an... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Entrepreneurs Speak at HBS
increasingly imitated "direct-access" business model. Designed to deal directly with the customer via phone or the Internet, Dell shuns intermediaries such as retailers and distributors and builds computers according to the customer's... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Rebooting Europe
through 2019. “The big objective of my tenure is to help Europe to be able to have an ecosystem where you can actually create the conditions for fundamental science and research to be transformed into real products and businesses that... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Jeremiah P. Murphy, Jr.
It's sad but true: Design Research, the Wursthaus, Elsie's, and a score of other local businesses once patronized by members of the Class of 1977 have long since closed their doors. But those who venture across the river during this... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
status-symbol luxuries, like expensive watches or designer jeans. Why do consumers pay so much for products whose ingredients are well known to represent only a small proportion of the retail price? Beauty... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
Seeding a Better Future for Colombia
destination, the pavilion was also the setting for the announcement, in June, of a British Embassy–sponsored satellite project that will enhance data images of crop conditions in remote areas of Colombia, potentially improving both View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Bridging the Success Gap
he says. After HBS, Navarro worked at Hewlett-Packard, where he designed computer systems. Later, he moved to a small high-tech start-up, where he repositioned the company to product development. After he... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act
An extraordinary career based on the development of innovative, cutting-edge technology products was launched twenty years ago from the front row of an Aldrich Hall classroom. Crunching numbers for case studies late into the night was... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
insight into products and a business. This is what the health care industry was lacking, she realized: a system designed from the patient’s point of view. It would be better for patients and medical staff,... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
HBS Curricula Explore the Complexities of Innovation
Transformation introduces the critical elements of designing and developing digital products and services, how these can be configured and led, and ways to manage the results. A related MBA elective... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
For Boston, whose history is better known for its midnight rides and tea parties with attitude, this was, by comparison, a low-key moment. On a slow July day in 1924 in the Hub's financial district, a new investment product was quietly... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Labs Enable Large-scale Research
Illustrations from VectorStock.com The Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard (D^3) aims to supercharge HBS’s research agenda by applying a lab-based model similar to that used by the scientific community for problem solving,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
campus, rediscovering old haunts, the friends enter into an animated discussion. Their conversation offers keen insights into how each individual has a unique brand, which must be as thoughtfully cultivated as product brands. Personal... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Green House
achieve net-zero-energy demand by pairing ultra-low energy use with solar panels for energy production. But Harper’s home goes even further than that select group—achieving net-positive-energy production—because the house uses so little energy that the solar View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Reinventing Marketing
becoming the victim of its own success, according to the leaders of the Marketing unit at HBS. "Advances in technology and fundamental changes in how products and services are delivered are enabling other disciplines - such as... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Harnessing the Tools of the Digital Age
It wasn’t necessary to understand the technology that powered the company’s washing machines, turbines, or jet engines. “But executives now need to understand the technologies behind their products and think about their implications on... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
distribute products, this is how you price them, this is how you brand them, this is how leadership is optimized, this is how you design organizations, and this is how you motivate people. Take any subject, they were all grounded in... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
resources." Michael P. Cassidy (MBA '91), general manager of the Computer Telephony Product Group at Artisoft, Inc., a maker of tools that connect phones to computers, took these lessons to heart when he created his own company, Stylus... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
400 and Counting: Surge in HBS Cases with Women Protagonists
overseen the venture. While the five-year time span of the initial project is now officially over, a group of alumnae from the Class of 1976 designated that their class gift support and continue the effort. Harvard Business School... View Details
- 07 Jun 2011
- News
Back to the Future
University. That was as far as the idea went, until recently. Partnering with an MIT expert on autonomous vehicles and mobile robotics, Alden has a new company, Alden DAVe Systems (with “DAVe” an acronym for Dual-mode Autonomous Vehicle), View Details