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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Going Forward
complicated challenges. To achieve this, we are focused on several critical priorities. We must continue to build a world-class faculty by ensuring that we are able to attract and develop outstanding junior faculty members. While we have... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
K.O. Chia: The Voice of Experience
A seasoned mentor who can stand behind a novice entrepreneur is a valuable asset for anyone attempting a start-up, but especially for those who are now launching ventures in Asia’s complicated business environment. K.O. Chia believes that... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution
unload them at the border, and reload the goods into an Israeli truck for delivery in Israel. This convoluted process severely complicated logistics, not to mention its role in driving up transportation costs. It was only when Mr. Lautman... View Details
- 03 Mar 2016
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Pamela Meyer (MBA 1986)
being paranoid. But the costs of deception are high. It pays to develop a close team of colleagues you absolutely trust and would go to war with. A complicated stew in our culture is creating a deception epidemic. Social media, for... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
The Exchange: The Tech Leader’s Tightrope
driven by a strategy to distinguish itself from its competitors. And the other issue, which further complicates things, is how Apple should deal with governments around the world that have different views around privacy regarding their... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
New Releases
that the more things change, the more strong leadership is needed and the more complicated the interconnected web of relationships becomes. While effective leadership and management are both necessary in organizations, Kotter points out,... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 19 Aug 2010
- News
Classroom Hijinks: Catchphrases, Mottos, Cheers, and Mascots
and hand-pounding and a call-and-response pattern. I’m told such long, complicated cheers were banned the next year. My favorite cheer, perhaps because it was so discreet, was a purposeful mispronunciation of a sectionmate’s name, said... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
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Point, Click, Give: Internet Fuels Philanthropic Fundraising Revolution
infrastructures common in nonprofits, as well as frequent culture clashes. “Eight months in nonprofit time is about a morning in Internet time,” one Web executive noted. Technical challenges, such as incorporating a charitable aspect into e-commerce transactions, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Trade Off
ideally under the auspices and rules of the WTO. The problem is that nowadays trade wars may have unintended consequences that complicate their resolution. Global supply chains are incredibly complex. When a phone is designed in America... View Details
- 15 Jan 2020
- News
The Business of Access
help,” she says. A success to be sure, but the nonprofit world, Lisle quickly learned, was more complicated than the business world: “In the private sector, a customer pays and receives something, whether it be a product or a service. In... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
face, Merton faced rows of reporters, banks of TV cameras, and flurries of firing strobe lights and calmly strove to put his complicated and abstract theory into accessible terms. Merton's research focuses on evaluating the financial risk... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Getting Security Right
and economic priorities. Another factor both business and government leaders struggle with is the media’s tendency to provide the public with oversimplified or just plain inaccurate information about political, economic, or competitive factors in other countries. That... View Details
- 09 Sep 2024
- News
Basket Chase
number of components, some of which are perishable. So, you could have anywhere from five to twenty-two items that go into this gift basket. It needs to look a certain way. It needs to be designed beautifully and have a theme. It’s actually quite View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
for her analytical skills and sound judgment, Erdoes is particularly sought out for her expertise in assessing complicated financial instruments, such as derivatives. The Chicago native and Georgetown University graduate says that during... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 02 Sep 2021
- News
Back to School
what would be best for each student. That in itself is a complicated operational challenge. On top of that, you have hiring demands and the need to create a culture in which teachers feel enabled to develop professionally. You also need... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
necessarily the best way to organize an industry. This is a fixed-cost business, and it has some fourteen hundred players. Talent and technology get fragmented, and that hinders cumulative learning. And with discoveries happening in separate firms, a whole series of... View Details
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
a talented administrator, died on Monday evening, Jan. 29, at a hospital in Melbourne, FL, near his home in Vero Beach. He was 86 years old. According to his daughter Laura U. Moon, Managing Director of Initiatives at Harvard Business School, the cause of death was... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
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December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
it or not, almost all of us have been complicit in the unethical behavior of others. In Complicit, HBS professor Max Bazerman confronts our complicity head-on and offers strategies for recognizing and avoiding psychological and other... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
deeply about each of these aspects of life. The reality is that this book is ornately written, and the complications of life are intricately explicated. Laymon shows—he doesn’t just tell—us what it looks like to be an American, while... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Bringing It Back Home
centered in where their life is and how it's changing," notes Dutch Leonard. "There is a continuous influx of inspiration we get from their work. It comes from the energy they bring and the willingness to keep working on things that are really View Details