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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Same the World Over: Focusing on Customers and Innovation Brings Success
prevail - even when the companies were state-owned. The role of innovation among high-performance companies in developed nations notwithstanding, Deshpandé points out that the most significant lever among emerging-market firms is... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Facing Ambiguity
of hindsight because the fact that the foam strike was to blame isn’t general knowledge.” A four-person production team led by HBS multimedia producer Melissa Dailey played a vital role in the yearlong collaborative process of creating... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Ann M. Fudge
When Ann Fudge was pursuing her MBA at HBS, she used her one-hour commute to Soldiers Field to shift gears from being the busy mother of two toddlers to a focused student handling cold calls with aplomb. Fudge managed her roles as wife,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
HBS Association of Ireland: Connecting at Home and Abroad
paid the bill.” Barry, who joined the HBSAI when he returned to Dublin, first served as its secretary. He jokes that he became president in the summer of 2000 “because I was the last man left standing.” In reality, the HBSAI's lead role... View Details
- 02 Jun 2011
- News
Serious Fun
innovation approach to developing these games,” he says, noting that representatives from academia and the private sector (including companies such as Zynga and Harmonix) serve an advisory role in creating the games. “We don’t assume that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
analysis, resulting in value-added intellectual capital, that has helped define HBS’s role as a key institution in enabling and influencing business and industry over the decades. It is a role the School... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Building a Movement
important role to play, supporting businesses and business leaders during this transition. When you’ve been trained to do one thing—to maximize profit—we cannot assume that it’s going to be easy to change the system and pursue multiple... View Details
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
Photos by Rafael Monroy Daphne Leger (MBA 2012) did not enroll in business school to maximize profits, but rather to maximize social impact. “I firmly believe that business has a key role to play in solving social problems, and the power... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 22 Mar 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Los Angeles
the School into three priorities, he offered insights into work that is underway on the role of business in society, digital innovation, and reimagining learning. "I don't think there is another institution other than business and free... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Lesson Plans
if you’re creating online content, some element of storytelling—real people working through real problems—makes it stick. It’s relatable, and thus, memorable. What role will online learning play in the recovery? PM: I think interest will... View Details
Keywords: Jen Mele
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
The Past Informs the Future of Work
roles requiring different skill sets. In comparison, by 2018, Vodafone had installed chatbots—software applications simulating interactions with people—where one bot may replace three workers, but it hadn’t yet significantly altered its... View Details
- 19 Feb 2020
- News
Running a Decathlon
for nine years.) He eventually had to step away from Academic Decathlon, but he has enjoyed watching the competition flourish and become a household name—and is thrilled when the event comes up in casual conversation and he’s able to reveal his View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A U.S. Turnaround?
electronics industries were developing momentum. We took our leadership for granted, ignored this shift, and became complacent. Our problems became more serious when communism failed in Russia, Chairman Mao died, and reforms that were started in China and India began... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Look Again
role of co-curator of Le modèle noir, de Géricault à Matisse, at Paris’s Musée d’Orsay through July 21. “Due to broader societal changes, museums are acknowledging that they need to rethink the way they present art to the general... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Star Search
retailer Wayfair. “They want to know, ‘Do I feel like I can add value and make a difference?’” Gulliver manages a 300-person team at Wayfair dedicated to helping the growing e-commerce company recruit and retain talent. Her role is... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Meeting the Challenges of Third-World Development
sector both domestically and abroad. "The complex web of factors that shape and govern communities in need, whether here in the United States or in the developing world, requires a lasting, cooperative partnership between the public and private sectors," she says. She... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
VC Luminary John Doerr: Education Reform Critical to Success of New Economy
with a few of my friends," Doerr told an audience of nearly one thousand HBS students who had gathered for his presentation, offered as part of the Social Enterprise Speaker Series. Since joining Kleiner Perkins in 1980, Doerr has played a major View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Gazprom Goes Global
confirmed the fears of many in the West that the wounded Russian bear, smarting from its diminished role in the post-Soviet era, could be a cruel and dangerous troublemaker. With about one-quarter of the world’s reserves of natural gas,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home
and accurate commercial data (to facilitate business forecasting, for example), and a skilled workforce with seasoned supervisors. “That mix of factors does not come standard with every country,” Fields notes. As for government’s role in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In the Zone
the organization’s top leadership role in the midst of a pandemic came with unexpected challenges, which included overseeing the launch of a hybrid teaching model in two of HCZ’s charter schools, implementing safety protocols, and... View Details