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- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Class of 1949 Gift Supports HBS Faculty Development
cohort, the Foundations course for incoming MBA students, and a greater emphasis on group projects requiring intensive faculty involvement. Concurrently, the overall MBA class size has increased by 10 percent, while section size has decreased and new sections have been... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
and enhance technical fluency? SK: It’s a major competitive issue for businesses. Do they have a trained workforce? Do they have an empowered workforce? In some of the training, do you even have basic computer skills? Some very good... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Avoiding a Succession Crisis
Citigroup appear to be. One survey of human resource directors of large corporations indicated that 60 percent lacked CEO succession planning. This situation is hardly optimal — not when global competition and technical change, in the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT
information technology can lead to more flexible organizational structures and innovative management control systems. These ideas appear in her recent casebook Managing in an Information Age. Professor F. Warren McFarlan is currently... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
- 18 Feb 2014
- News
Stick with Plan A
over a period of two years builds that discipline, which I believe is critical and can give a company a competitive edge." But Maddy would be the first to acknowledge that the HBS experience is not just what you learn; it's also whom you... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
The charter school movement was supposed to transform American public education. So far, though, the results have been mixed. But HBS grads nationwide are offering new approaches, innovative methods, unique models—all of them begging the... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
volunteers “have helped the city capitalize on the innovation sprouting from Silicon Valley, through specific initiatives such as designing the structure of the city’s startup incubator, developing View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
Company; and HBS professor Michael Porter (MBA ’71). In addition to the pioneering roles played by this innovative quartet, there is another leitmotif — a fifth key player — that runs throughout the book: The industry would not exist as... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Breaking Free from Fear of Change
by the time you speak with your supervisor, you have a clear idea of what you will say. But to do that, wouldn’t you have to admit to others that you don’t have all the answers? That’s exactly right. It takes a lot of courage to be vulnerable, especially in the View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Case Study: Paper Chase
Choi Greenthal (MBA 1991) The key to creating a category here is getting the cards into people’s hands and letting them see the value. Relying on purchases at retail value to drive word of mouth will be slow, and will open up the category for a lot of View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
products. In the world of railroads, business is open to competition from other railroads, trucking companies, and barges. "There can be a significant strategic component, where we try to understand the inputs of a customer's business and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
the test as he methodically refashioned the two old-line chemical companies with disparate corporate cultures into a single entity focused on health care and powered by an innovative approach to R&D. Today, Novartis is one of the world’s... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
combined with a rich empirical illustration, of the C-suite’s transformation to enhance our understanding of these elites’ new command posts, sources of expertise and identity, competition and collaboration, and ways of getting things... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
that new levels of interconnectivity via the Internet could help foster IT entrepreneurship in other regions, Prabhakar also observed that global competition is infusing the "cowboy culture" of Silicon Valley with a greater awareness of... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
life through a massive corporate effort designed to weave environmental thinking into every aspect of the business. "We believe that being environmentally conscious makes good competitive sense," he explains. "For example, we aggressively... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
Jacobs (MBA 2007), working at the international organization reflected a choice: to do innovative work and “to feel good about waking up to go there every day,” as he puts it. The team of 260 in Portland supports more than 5,000 others... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
students, five days, five different business ideas. This innovative alternative to Spring Break was born during a brainstorming session among HBS classmates four years ago. It started with Emma Toshack (MBA 2014) wondering what the... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
Mediva (for Medical Innovation and Value-Added). The medical branch remains a legally separate nonprofit, according to Japanese regulation, but in practice the two entities operate as one: Mediva handles management across both companies,... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 02 Jun 2011
- News
Serious Fun
The educational power of video games and simulations to teach everyone from fighter pilots to senior managers is well documented. Games, after all, are fun. Our competitive instinct kicks in, and before we know it we’ve lost an hour to... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Tapping into more effective water technologies
competitive advantage going forward. "At Artemis, we aim to bring disruptive innovation to address the big water challenges that we face globally," she explains. "HBS gave me the tools to see the... View Details