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- 01 Mar 2009
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Honoring HBS’s Organization Men
lecturer Robert Eccles moderated the discussion. Nohria, noting that the book turns on just a few key concepts (see sidebar), asked how some of the book’s core ideas had come about. “It’s hard to figure out where ideas come from,” said... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
William Fung: E-Commerce and Efficiency
Internet to improve efficiency and cater to new customers is a clear winner. Group managing director William K.L. Fung (MBA ’72) understands that e-commerce is revolutionary. “But it won’t change what our business is,” he insists. “We’re very clear about our View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Microsoft’s Ballmer Makes His Pitch
narrowly about the product as just a music device, he quickly added. Thinking more broadly about portable digital media, “it’s a category that will continue to change,” explained Ballmer. “Unless you think the category is static, you get in.” Playing off one of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Jeanne Jackson
most global businesses succeed because their core brand proposition has value across borders: Wal-Mart’s selection and low prices; McDonald’s convenience, cleanliness, and service; Nike’s commitment to performance.” Jackson believes that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Faculty Research Online
How Are They Unique? Business leadership is at the core of Asian economic development, says Professor D. Quinn Mills. American and Asian leadership styles, while very different, share important similarities. Creating a Positive... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
New Releases
into competition at different levels and in different settings. Part One, "Competition and Strategy: Core Concepts," addresses competition and strategy for companies. Part Two, "The Competitiveness of Locations," explores the influence of... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
HBS Business Plan Contest Keeps Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive
track, defined as any organization whose core activities address social issues. Each winning team received $10,000 in cash as well as $10,000 in in-kind accounting and legal services to get its venture up and running. For the fourth year,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Full Circle
a new career path that required a daunting nine years of additional schooling and training to become a board-certified surgeon. “It was difficult, as are most decisions when you make a significant course correction,” he says. “The most important thing I gained from HBS... View Details
- 17 Mar 2011
- News
Make or Break for the USA?
“manufacturing industries” over service industries. Notes Pisano, “For many years, people like Bob Hayes, Kim Clark, and Steve Wheelwright were arguing that manufacturing mattered to competitiveness. So what Willy and I are saying today is a continuation of a View Details
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
Marla Malcolm Beck’s Path to CEO
tackle any process in any organization.” The article frames Malcolm Beck’s professional journey not as an accumulation of diverse skills, but as a focus on a few unique ones. [S]he didn’t become chief executive by getting loads of experience across functions. Rather,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Fighting Back from a Knockout
described the rating as “a knockout blow” and vowed that his administration would fight for its constituents and would turn the city around. Declared Laffey, who teaches a college finance course and is a former president and COO of Morgan Keegan, a Tennessee financial... View Details
- 23 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method
Front Row: NYU Prof. and CNN Presidential Scholar Tim Naftali, Business Executive Katherine Gehl, Harvard Prof. Michael Porter, Pulitizer Prize Winner HBS Alumna Sheryl WuDunn (Panel Moderator) Back Row: HBS Club NY President Andy Cheskis, REN View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Juicy Story
to expand its product line into handheld devices like the iPod and, now, the iPhone? The Apple case originally appeared in 1992 and has been rewritten five times since then. “The company always looks a little different, yet many of the View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
The Digital Deck
Anand. "The online platform and course offerings that we've created reflect these principles. The goals are ambitious, and we are committed. But we're also in new territory here, so we'll need to bring a heavy dose of humility to our efforts." The HBX Offerings HBX... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Summing Up the New Students
Ave. that it sunk in.” Levana Sani Jakarta, Indonesia CV: Research officer, Genome Institute of Singapore “My background is in biochemistry, so I took the HBX CORe course over the summer to build my finance skills. I imagined myself... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Hybrid Learning the HBS Way
says. The engaging experience made possible by the hybrid classrooms was key to the School’s continuing ability to effectively deliver its distinctive first-year curriculum–providing students with the crucial core business skills, such as... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
HBS Fund Chairs Reflect on the Past Five Years
the HBS Fund provide flexible funding that the School can use immediately to support core priorities like financial aid and faculty research, pursue new ideas and initiatives, and respond to unexpected opportunities and challenges. The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Right Connections
prospectuses of all public biotech firms going back twenty years. Information from 295 companies and more than 3,000 executives formed the core of their study. The results showed that top managers' ties to notable pharmaceutical companies... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Repurposing Leaders to Attack Social Problems
enterprise. Its fifteen core faculty members intend for the ALI’s innovative new curriculum — “life-stage appropriate and taking experience into account,” as Kanter put it — to serve as a model for other colleges and universities to give... View Details
- 23 Jul 2013
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Building Great Schools around Great Teachers
setting with others of like talent. Employing the case method, it is predicated upon the same expectations as HBS, that the candidates have real-world experience and exceptional ability. In the core program, participants receive 360 hours... View Details