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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
HBX: Expanding Our Reach
graduation, and focus on the fundamentals of business. This offering, like all HBX offerings, will require students to actively engage in the course and demonstrate mastery of content through rigorous exams, replicating the School's... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Crisis and Creativity
fundamental decisions for any business: where to play, how to deliver, and how to win. Where to Play. Entrepreneurs must target downturn needs such as superior value relative to existing players or provide good substitutes for the... View Details
Keywords: Bhaskar Chakravorti
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Juicy Story
to believe that Apple can maintain that incredible level of success.” The verdict is still out on that question, says Yoffie. Even so, the iPod has altered the fundamental dynamics of Apple. In a change that signals the company’s growing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Shareholders' Value?
will be—because they are less rooted in the fundamental value of the corporations whose shares are being traded. Sure, some volatility is good because it gives people a reason to trade, thus keeping markets liquid. But too much volatility... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Bookshelf: Try As One Might
understand the necessary risks and how to manage them. Cultivating doubt becomes fundamental to that: We have to treat what we think is true as a hypothesis and doubt the things we’ve accepted as true. Because the opposite of true is not... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Alumni Books
Professional Property Development by John McMahan (MBA ’61) (McGraw-Hill) McMahan addresses the fundamentals of successful property development — marketing, financing, planning, designing, construction, merchandising, and property... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Amy S. Langer
sounds corny, but it's true.” — Margie Kelley 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:... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
and consequences. Boards and managers cannot simply be regulated into managing their companies in a responsible manner. Here’s an idea we might try. The United States has gotten a lot of mileage out of having a constitution, a set of View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Authentic Leadership
semester, students read chapters and complete exercises from True North, consider cases illustrating the core values of a particular businessperson's life, discuss the importance of real and consistent leadership that empowers others, and submit written reflections.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Studying Japan from the Inside
Japanese business during the 1970s and 1980s — such as lifetime employment, cross-shareholding, and keiretsu (Japanese corporate groupings) — are going through fundamental changes. There is ongoing debate as to where Japanese companies... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
An Advocate for Women's Equality
years after her appointment, Franklin left the White House to become vice chair of the Consumer Product Safety Commission; later she would serve as US Secretary of Commerce and form a business consultancy. By the time she left government, writes Stout, "a View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Silent Killers: Overcoming Barriers to Organizational Learning
employees are concerned, the problem in their organization had to do with the fundamentals of management and leadership, not the quality or commitment of the people nor the quality of management systems and processes," write Beer and... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Building a Social Network
fundamental dilemma organizations face when they try to help individuals build better connections,” Piskorski says. “Should you do this by allowing open communications without guidelines — the equivalent of bringing people into one big... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Action Plan: Fired Up
fundamental purpose that’s meaningful both to customers and employees,” he says. “You strive to be the best version of your customers.” That goal was relatively easy to attain in his previous role as CEO of the trendsetting headphone... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Courting the Poor
2004. “When it comes to services, a fundamental question is whether you are competing with a new idea or building a better mousetrap,” Frei says. “Magazine Luiza is indeed a better mousetrap.” The store sells a mix of furniture, consumer... View Details
- 18 Sep 2019
- News
Level Up
through these early indicators, these cracks in the surface, we can see that the fan is fundamentally changing.” Here, we offer four ways that Ruggiero and the Sports Innovation Lab say this new era is redefining the business of... View Details
- 03 Feb 2021
- News
Power Play
climate crisis. “We fundamentally believe that we don’t have to make a trade-off between having good investment returns and doing something that is good for the environment and sustainable,” notes Graziano. For Smith, SER partner and CFO,... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Q & A: Pat Russo - Focused on the Future at Lucent Technologies
and improved customer relationship management opportunities. We're really talking about fundamental changes in how people communicate, get information, and conduct business. Wired for Success Pat Russo worked for eight years in sales and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Alumni Books
transplant, or a joint replacement in the United States, here's the key to getting the very best medical care: be a straight, white, middle-class male. White, a pioneering black surgeon, and his coauthor make sense of the unconscious bias that riddles medical treatment... View Details