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- 16 Feb 2011
- News
Healthy Growth
combination of analytical and intuitive reasoning we practiced has been invaluable in growing a company.” Looking to the future, Ayers currently is envisioning what IDEXX would look like as a $2 billion firm. Even with IDEXX’s leap in... View Details
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U.S. Competitiveness Project - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
research-led effort by Harvard Business School to understand and improve the competitiveness of the United States. Michael Porter is among an esteemed group of scholars from Harvard and other institutions committed to identifying View Details
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
A Bridge to the Future
practical and poignant. The program included keynote presentations from two Harvard University professors: Jonathan Zittrain, who spoke on the future of the Internet; and Daniel Schrag, who addressed the impact of climate change. In their... View Details
- 21 Sep 2015
- News
Helping Japan Build a Strong Economic Future
Partnership (TPP) with the United States, Singapore, Australia, Chile, and seven other countries. “Strong political sensitivities over comprehensive tariff elimination—a TPP negotiating principle—made Japan’s participation extremely... View Details
Jon Staff
Jon Staff is the founder and CEO of Getaway, a company that provides simple, unplugged escapes to tiny cabins outside of major cities across the United States. Getaway grew from Jon’s lifelong appreciation for the great outdoors, having... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
New Releases
practical solutions some have developed in response. Bradach explains that traditional chain enterprises comprise two organizational units: company and franchise. The company-owned unit is run on a military... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
with the burden of integrating their new systems. Then, in the early 1990s, the rise of desktop computing saw IBM lose the PC race to a raft of new competitors. By 1992, IBM was feeling the effect of its sluggish reaction to these... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
New Senior Executive Programme Strengthens African Managerial Leadership
One key to becoming more integrated into the global marketplace will be southern Africa's ability to respond to the radical economic and social changes taking place in its own backyard. "This not only poses complex challenges for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Stanford Lets Students Customize
leads off with a quarter of required “Management Perspectives” courses designed to provide students with an integrative overview of management challenges and to develop soft leadership and communication skills, including courses in... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
New Releases
service, and knowledge management in examining the implications of this paradigm shift for managers, entrepreneurs, and policymakers. Cost & Effect by Robert S. Kaplan and Robin Cooper (Harvard Business School Press) Cost & Effect: Using View Details
- 06 Nov 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?
the unit level." Saravanan introduced the old/new, product-market 2X2 matrix to argue that top-down resource allocation is most appropriate when both products and markets are new. But he reminded us that "The decision on the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story
countries, and economic forces that shaped the infrastructure for an unprecedented new era of technology. Beginning with the vacuum tube in the 1920s and progressing through the inventions of the transistor, the integrated circuit, and... View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
Management Practice and leadership expert Robert Steven Kaplan comments on these issues. Michel Anteby Many companies today operate like Russian nesting dolls, where one large figure is actually made up of many smaller ones. These... View Details
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Juan Pablo Botero
transition into the entrepreneurial world. Juan Pablo can help students navigate the entrepreneurial ecosystem and resources available at HBS, offering practical advice on which resources are most useful given a student's particular... View Details
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Data: The Ever-Expanding Frontier - Race, Gender & Equity
the importance of stewardship during their interviews. How do we design and implement technology in ways that honor the privacy of its users? What strategic goals do we have for our data practices and how might those goals not be the best... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
solutions that you would recommend? In 1977, the United States passed the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), which made it illegal to bribe a foreign government official. Two decades later, the Europeans... View Details
- 03 Feb 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can Business Schools Teach the Craft of Getting Things Done?
students) with real-world experience, one-on-one coaching relationships, a project-oriented curriculum, and time—appear to make it much less economically practical and effective to do it outside the job. Given the natural allure and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Apr 2013
- News
A Walkabout to the Ocean
effective. "When I graduated from high school," Merkl says, "my father gave me 3,000 deutsche marks and told me to leave from the front door of the house and return at the back door, taking the long way around. As naïve as it sounds, I started my 'walkabout' in the... View Details
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Tiera Brown
Tiera realized that the business aspect of having her own practice was more appealing than practicing medicine. "I decided I didn't want to go into medicine — but there was no reason I couldn't work on... View Details
- 24 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
2019 New Venture Competition Student and Alumni Journeys
New Venture Competition experience. View Video The competition is comprised of three tracks: The Business Track of the New Venture Competition provides a unique opportunity for students to put entrepreneurship principles into practice... View Details