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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
everybody's rushing toward it, that's a warning sign. People think they'll make a lot of money on the zillions of Web sites they're putting out there by selling advertising. Many will. But I think many more are in for a rude awakening."... View Details
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
those five quarters? Susan Wilner Golden: Okay. And first, to warn you, I know that's funky math. There's only four quarters. DM: [laughs] SWG: Um, but this was the paradigm and framework I came up with. It was too hard to think of life... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges
Schechter closed on March 12, then went to remote learning the following week. Schwartz says the speed at which he and his fellow school administrators were able to pivot benefited from advance warning about the severity of the crisis... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Faculty Retirements
One of them, "Managing Our Way to Economic Decline," a 1980 piece coauthored with the late William Abernathy, became a classic for its warnings about the dangers of sacrificing long-term technological competitiveness in favor of... View Details
- 29 Jan 2010
- News
Back to Glass-Steagall?
Financial System, warns that “reinstatement of Glass-Steagall would increase the likelihood that the government would bail out a large financial institution in the future.” Meanwhile, the proposed Volker Rule has its weaknesses. Chiefly,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
and expense involved in data collection. Deans complained that focusing on rank diverted prospective students from the truly important question: Which school is the best fit? Academics who studied the rankings challenged their methodology and View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Kill Groupthink
field of critical thinking. Just think back to the 2008 financial crisis, when a group of experts ignored the warning signs and arrived at an uncritical consensus. The consequences were disastrous, Bouygues reminds us, but the best... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
At Cyberposium, Amazon's Bezos Debunks Internet Myths
something to lose. Myth #7: Every company needs an Internet strategy. Not according to Bezos. "The Internet is an enabling horizontal layer that is causing broad disruptions across a big part of the economy," said Bezos, but warned that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
efforts remained a secret from the SB. In the meeting, Maj spoke forcefully in favor of a student organization to support the workers and KOR. An SB informer was in the audience. After the meeting, Maj was called before the university administration and the secret... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
supplier, New York’s Chenango Valley Pet Foods. “That’s the reality of modern food manufacturing,” Gisholt remarks. “Food for people is also made without a complete wet cleaning in between productions, which is why you will see a nut allergy View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Raymond M. Jefferson
Knowing that detonation would occur in seconds, he looked around for a safe place to throw it. None existed. Surrounded by his team with no time to warn them of the danger, Jefferson encircled the device with his hand, held it against his... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 26 Aug 2016
- News
Connecting with the Past
says he “wanted to warn other members of the family whom I knew, and those I had yet to find” about their chance of inheriting the serious blood disorder. Diamond had been retired only a few years after a successful career in the global... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
GM invested half a billion dollars last year. Shen, at WM in China, is thinking along similar lines. In fact, his entire business model hinges on selling drivers smart, cloud-connected, mass-market electrics ready-made for ridesharing. Those cars won’t just View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
wrote in 1935 that Hitler's government "dominates through the medium of fear," and Professor Philip Cabot warned of widespread conflict in "The Crisis Which Confronts the Nation" in 1940. Even while reporting on HBS and alumni... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
storyteller—I had been warned about that!—but rather to create an economic analytical framework that made sense.” As a starting point, he drew on Poorvu’s and Stevenson’s prior work, which focused on four elements: people, opportunity,... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
strategy practice leaders, warn that internal complexity is the silent killer of sustainable growth. Successful companies endure by maintaining simplicity at their core. They don’t stray from their business model to pursue radical... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
and corporate battles that he witnessed in the nearly six decades of his career. He replays his two stints—in the late 1980s and the early 1990s—as the CEO of Canada's darling of the telecom industry, Mitel Corporation, and offers many cautionary tales, View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
investing. As a student at HBS, Cohen was fascinated and troubled by the thesis of a best-selling book, The American Challenge, that warned of American cultural, technological, and economic domination of Europe. “My feeling was that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Leading Boston and Beyond
Koh’s fifth floor office, cooking up a communications strategy ahead of the looming Boston winter. “We want to avoid what happened last year,” warns Koh, Chief of Staff to Mayor Marty Walsh. Last winter, the Hub’s snowiest on record, left... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Unleashed
travel.” Seeing the CEO treat a passenger like a human being was a warning shot to everyone that no one flies steerage on this airline. That’s how things are really done around JetBlue. Another way to describe culture is that it’s our... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint