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- 01 Jun 2024
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Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade
access. —Lara Hodgson (MBA 1998), is the coauthor of Level Up and the CEO of Now, where she helps small businesses grow with the payment system, NowAccount. Stell faces a classic challenge for enterprise software startups: finding a way to convey View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
That distinction more likely belongs to Uber and Netflix, Yoffie notes. Uber could never have existed in a 3G world, and ubiquitous mobile video was impossible before 4G. The real winners are the companies that figured out how to do... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Reimagining China and India
pipeline of perhaps 200 to 300 more that are likely to emerge in the next five to ten years. Is entrepreneurship distinctively different in India and China? The fundamentals of entrepreneurship are strong in both countries, and that’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Joy of Work
pressure kills creativity, and others say that they do their most creative work when they are under serious time constraints. But our data indicates that the relationship is more nuanced. In the workplaces we studied, there were two View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Faculty Books
of international capital markets. Several cases go inside multinational firms to consider how hedging strategies can be devised, how to value assets around the world, and how to pursue major financings that capitalize on distinct legal... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Wyss Gift Supports HBS Doctoral Programs
with distinction in 1965. Following nine years working for large multinational corporations, Wyss struck out on his own as an entrepreneur and established Synthes USA. He has taken on leadership roles in both this country and Switzerland... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Ed Tian: Boardroom Revolutionary
company. “There is a clear distinction between the board of directors and the management team,” explains Tian. “I have the right to hire and fire people. I’ve hired about twelve hundred employees so far but none of them on instructions... View Details
- 02 Nov 2010
- News
Commanding Officers
Current and former students, such as Donovan Campbell (MBA 2007) have served with distinction in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the Armed Forces Alumni Association is one of the most active student clubs on campus. (One current HBS student,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Leadership Project Codifies Elusive Traits
these individuals and their companies, we have discovered distinct patterns that were at play during each of the decades in which they rose to prominence. “Many of these leaders had a remarkable ability to adapt to the changes that they... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
created the distinctive Studebaker Hawk automobile. “Years later, I realized what an amazing place I had grown up in,” says Ross, who acknowledges her father’s influence on her own choice of careers — fashion product design. Over the past... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
sift through the common management practices that the most successful companies shared. What the authors and their large team of researchers discovered were two distinct sets of practices — four primary and four secondary. All... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Negotiators Share Lessons from High-Stakes Global Diplomacy
diplomacy and helps students develop and practice negotiation skills critical to success in public service and the private sector. “This is a distinctively Harvard opportunity that is preparing students to make a difference at the highest... View Details
Keywords: University Collaborations
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
New Releases
managerial formula. His book is designed to help managers understand that distinction and show them how to adapt and respond accordingly. The Service Profit Chain by James L. Heskett, W. Earl Sasser, Jr., and Leonard A. Schlesinger (Free... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
career from business to academia. More importantly, however, Ted paved the way for HBS to connect, learn, and, in its own distinctive manner, contribute to the development of understanding and peace between the two superpowers.... View Details
- 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 Oct 1998
- News
Merton Named University Professor
other Harvard faculties. First created by the President and Fellows in 1935, the University Professorships are intended for "individuals of distinction . . . working on the frontiers of knowledge and in such a way as to cross the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
A Focus on You
alumni who work for a railroad?" That got us wondering: how many other alumni are doing unique or unexpected jobs or hold distinctive job titles. See "Who Are We?" to find out about classmates who are "workin' on the railroad," some who... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
John R. Davis
DISTINCT YET OF A PIECE PROFILES FROM THE CLASS OF 1977 John R. Davis: Nature's Blessing Michael F. Cronin: A Focus on the Fundamentals Ann M. Fudge: Enhanced Perspective Steven C. Watson: Course Change Karen Gordon Mills: Her Excellent... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Ann M. Fudge
accomplishments. Her own parents, she explains, “taught me that I could do anything I wanted.” Throughout her life, Fudge has proved them right again and again. — Susan Young (send e-mail to the author) DISTINCT YET OF A PIECE PROFILES... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- News
Crafting Success
distinctive taste that would work well with food.” He founded Cobra in 1989, going door-to-door to introduce stores and restaurants to the brand and somehow turning “noes” into “yesses.” The first five years were the hardest: “...[T]here... View Details