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- 01 Mar 2008
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Classroom Legend
and faculty chair of the Christensen Center, is a former student who later became Christensen’s coauthor and friend. “More than anyone else,” Garvin notes, “Chris genuinely trusted the case-method process. He had a different idea of what... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Forward Thinking
There was a time when human activity in outer space was a highly centralized, government-led endeavor, says Professor and Senior Associate Dean Matthew Weinzierl. But that era has passed: Over the past two decades, a calcified space bureaucracy has given way to a... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: A Timely Tension
Pandemic project: When COVID-19 hit, Thoren led a pitch to the UK government to create jobs for unemployed and disadvantaged young people, in restoring the UK’s depleted natural infrastructure, based on the US Civilian Conservation Corps. “We’ve had lots of interest in... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Engaging More Deeply with Business in Africa
Administration—of the trip. “There is so much excellence, ingenuity, innovation, and ideas that we can tap into,” Datar notes. The two professors are not new to the region: They serve as co-chairs of the School’s Senior Executive... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
including venture-based approaches that consider the ROI necessary to attract investors. “Delivering philanthropic and investment dollars into the areas with the most potential for accelerating cures is our top priority,” Giusti says. “We need to bring together money... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Alumni Books
Minutes, 10 Months, 10 Years: A Life-Transforming Idea by Suzy Welch (MBA ’88) (Scribner) In today’s accelerated world, with its competing priorities, information overload, and confounding options, people can easily find themselves... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Book Review: Getting Beyond Yes
by $100 billion spent annually on management consulting and training. Yet that message doesn’t always get to the people who need it most: fewer than half of public-facing employees are well versed in these grand strategic ideas when it... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Book Review: The Old West
disruptive ideas are likely to fail." —Mark Hurst and Phil Terry (MBA 1998) in Customers Included: How to Transform Products, Companies, and the World—with a Single Step What I'm Reading Photo courtesy of Bill Dunaway "He had a profound... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Two Kinds of Green
holding its own; in fact, Clorox has adopted many of its sustainability practices. “The idea that Burt’s Bees could in fact have a huge impact on Clorox’s culture is something that students find intriguing,” he says. “I think they were... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Chaotic Funding Derails Research
have invested years in developing their careers and selecting an area on which to focus their research. People need predictability — not in the research ideas they pursue, but in basic human issues such as pay and employment. It may be... View Details
- 17 Dec 2017
- News
How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression
each other. And it was an incredible story, I mean, to listen to these women and their resilience. And their idea was they wanted to band together, buy a grinding mill, and sort of take care of each other, live together, if they could,... View Details
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
Gates, and Paul Allen, and some of the guys that ended up founding Sun Microsystems and Seagate-- they would rent a room at the Stanford Linear Accelerator to share projects and ideas they were working on. And out of that set of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
Illustration by Martin Leon Barreto In a lot of ways, it didn’t seem like a very good experiment to run. A young HBS professor—a rising star in the Finance area, an economist by training, by then already looking down the road at an all-important tenure decision—had an... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
trading. And yet, even with many of the necessary pieces in place, the NYC fintech scene of the early 2000s just wasn’t catching fire. What was missing? Turns out, all it needed was a match. Nearly a decade ago, when Niko Karvounis (MBA 2011) and Lowell Putnam first... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
challenge is to hammer out details for implementing changes in the three areas where there’s broad agreement for action. Ideas abound. In response to an invitation from Light, fifty faculty members sent the committee detailed curriculum... View Details
- 15 Sep 2016
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The Burning Man Project
Donatella Versace. It is so much fun planning for Burning Man, organizing, thinking, scouring thrift shops. That's all part of the Burning Man experience. This idea of radical self-reliance means you don't buy a costume in a costume shop.... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
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Turning Point: Coming to Cambodia
skills I’d developed over several decades of consulting work. Yet I had no idea how to make that happen. Working in Washington at the time, I cold-called the curator of Southeast Asian ceramics at the Smithsonian’s Sackler Museum, asking,... View Details
- 09 Apr 2020
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“Raise the Line”
born. Today, Osmosis features thousands of engaging animated videos that explain complex ideas in under 20 minutes and is working with more than 60 institutions, including the University of Illinois, New York University, and the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
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In My Humble Opinion: Taking Attendance
musicals and the idea that one day I’d live in a city.” Teaching moment: “One simple word: rest. Our work is so hard, and it’s so urgent. This job has helped me realize how the beautiful gift of rest provides the clarity and fuel to get... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
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Read All About It: Journalism Can Be Profitable
You have access to a wider diversity of ideas than you ever had before. But it’s up to the consumer whether to take advantage of that. Facebook and Twitter don’t cause the filter bubble—even though they provide the tools that make it easy... View Details