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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
will help it thrive in captivity? Three professors in the School’s Entrepreneurial Management unit who focus on the study of creativity recognize the romantic allure of believing it’s a rare quality bestowed... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Lessons from the Tsunami Disaster
CURRAN: "The most important thing I learned is that central planning in such situations doesn't work." Courtesy Dan Curran International relief agencies that raced to aid Indonesia’s tsunami-ravaged Aceh province have a lot to learn from the unique View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
$200-million, ten-year commitment to sponsor the Brazilian team, the world's soccer leader. Bronx Cheers If a principal challenge for pro sports is managing the high level of player salaries while keeping the onfield product affordable... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
advertised as “The Soap of the Beautiful Woman.” Just as soap was transformed from being about hygiene to being about beauty, so toothpaste brands increasingly emphasized their ability to make their users more attractive with whiter teeth and fresher breath. These... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Bright Future for Green Business
any type is a thorny problem at every stage — innovation, funding, product development, and distribution. “Big companies are not particularly good at innovating, and incumbents are very good at protecting the status quo,” said Dave Prend (MBA ’84), View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
mitigation. And because cities are discovering that the greener they are, the better their quality of life and the greater their competitive advantage, they have by necessity become innovative, reality-based drivers of environmental... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
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Jay Light Named New HBS Dean
HBS over the years, and the School will be well served by his leadership qualities and his deep knowledge of the School’s distinctive character,” he added. In response to a question, Light included among his early priorities building and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
News in the News Biz
Professor Joseph Bower brought his expertise in management and economics to the newspaper trade in an article titled “News Is Strategic in the Newspaper Business,” which appeared in last fall's issue of Nieman Reports. “If the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
Christensen rhetorically intones, “How do you prepare to deal with the unexpected that’s coming up? Get there early, set the place up. Read every signal you can get. So it’s intuitive, but it’s also systematic.” Those two qualities —... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Studying Japan from the Inside
Motor was turned around by Carlos Ghosn. Ghosn was sent from Renault, the French auto company, which acquired management control of the financially distressed Nissan in March 1999. Ghosn motivated Nissan’s middle View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
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Balancing Progress and Preservation
In his work managing real estate investments at Samson Investment Partners in New York, Lloyd Zuckerberg (MBA 1990) often draws on the same sensibilities that guide his leadership of the nonprofit New York Landmarks Conservancy. “I don’t... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
leading figure in the nonprofit world. The first priority for the site is a memorial, all agree, but after that, there is much disagreement. "The size of the plot is not nearly as important as the nature and quality of what is built... View Details
- 22 Nov 2024
- News
Deep Reading
searchable way to access them. Leboyer could have joined a havruta, the rabbinical version of a study group, to help him navigate the corpus, but as managing director of the Venture Lab for Software and AI at the Technical University of... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
PORTER: Health care's zero-sum competition model adds costs and results in severe quality problems. University professor Michael Porter never planned to write a book on health-care reform. In fact, he expected brickbats in response to a... View Details
- 30 Sep 2014
- News
Life Lessons on the Open Seas
love, instantly,” he recalls. His passion for the water prompted him to start training to sail competitively—and to leave his job in wealth management at Goldman Sachs in order to skipper his first therapeutic sail, for eight disabled... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
Cash, Jr. Professional Achievement Award: Raymond J. McGuire (MBA 1983/JD 1984), managing director, Mergers & Acquisitions Group, Morgan Stanley This year’s conference — named for one of the School’s first African-American alumni —... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
technologies on the health-care industry. A highly rated teacher, she is also an acclaimed public speaker, board member, and policy adviser whose expertise on health-care management has influenced private- and public-sector... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Katharine Graham Offers Advice on Leadership
clerking for Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. When, after World War II, Meyer left the Post to become the first president of the World Bank, he asked his daughter's husband to take over as the paper's publisher. "Neither I nor anyone else even considered that I... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
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Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
masculinity and how such conflation disadvantages women in the workplace. On the two platforms in this study, management had implemented some innovative approaches to leadership development to reduce unsafe behaviors stereotypically... View Details
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
day. I believed that families should be able to bank their children’s cord blood or make donations; but there needed to be a trusted, quality laboratory and logistics business enabling them to do so. Haemonetics didn’t have an interest,... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley