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- 15 Jul 2014
- News
Adapt to a New Culture - but Don't Go Too Far
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Nimble, Quick, and Adaptable
(Sergey Nivens/iStock/Thinkstock) Starting a business, says HBS professor Tom Eisenmann, looks glamorous in The Social Network. “But a fair amount of it is moving boxes around. Not org chart boxes—actual boxes.” That’s the kind of insight Eisenmann says students get... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Bless this Stress
percent transferable: By learning how to better manage the everyday stuff, we can retrain our brain and our body to overcome stress when it matters most. Our bodies are designed for this, she says. In a recent Zoom from her office at Columbia, Akinola suggests that... View Details
- 06 Jul 2023
- News
Lessons from Major League Baseball's Game-Changing Innovations
streaming product available for over 20 years on mlb.com. And so we actually have a real rich culture of innovation on the business side as well, not just on, on the on-field side. And so we really strive to, to innovate. DM: I just want... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
That Was Then, This Is Now
It started with a question. But before that, it started in the classroom. Tony Deifell (MBA 2002) loved the discussions in his LEAD course, taught by Professor (and now former Dean) Nitin Nohria; wanting to make them more tangible, Deifell View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Future Vision
teach by the case method in new and different modalities. These were huge lifts for our IT and operations teams and for our faculty and students, and we failed fast (and often) many times before we were satisfied. But we also learned a lot about our ability to View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
moment? What new business opportunities could come from the efforts to both mitigate and adapt to climate change? Over the course of several days, we are releasing a selection of alumni responses in the hope that this spurs further... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
believed in pure evil, as personified in the psychopath Max Cady (Robert De Niro, in the 1991 film Cape Fear). This and the 1962 original were based on MacDonald's The Executioners and were among the few successful film or TV adaptations... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
in either a team or a one-on-one setting.” Continues Klump, “I understood enough of Chinese culture to know that you rarely, if ever, confront someone in a group setting, as maintaining face is important. So I waited to have a one-on-one... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
“Culture Is Everything”
IBM chairman Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. (MBA ’65) discussed the importance of strategy, execution, and culture when transforming an institution, as part of the MBA Program’s Distinguished Speaker Series in November. “Institutional... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Unleashed
better or simply adapt to the status quo. What’s more important, growth or excellence? Action or analysis? Being direct or saving face? Strategy drops hints, but it’s culture that has the definitive answers.... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Alumni Books
how it works); illuminates the challenges of bringing billions of dollars in private capital to bear on social problems; identifies smart public policies that promote social innovation; and recommends specific investment opportunities. Global Dexterity: How to View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
The Next Big Swing
players. But as much as the Toronto native loved hockey, baseball offered an even greater data set—perfect for the burgeoning math whiz. “I was interested in sabermetrics before it was even a word,” says Tippett (MBA 1985). Today, it’s a View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Short Takes
product prototype would have meant costly and time-consuming changes. In contrast, the second technology could adapt much more readily to design changes, including late-stage customer requests, thus allowing designers greater latitude and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
of characteristics that we look for, but one that stands out in our culture is the capacity to adjust and adapt — the ability to figure out a different way to deliver results while always acting with utmost... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Steady as She Goes
executive leadership committee, it was not normal for someone to say ‘Can we start the meeting at nine o’clock, because I want to drop the kids at school?’ I have worked to normalize that and to build a culture where people are... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Fostering a synergy at work that benefits associates as well as customers
Ganesh Natarajan (AMP 169, 2005), CEO of Zensar Technologies, is cultivating a collaborative management philosophy and innovative HR policies to ensure its 7,000 associates help customers achieve their business needs. At the core of the India-based IT company is an... View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
talk about how Liberty actually can support mitigation and adaptation and what that looks like in real terms. Tim Sweeney: We have risk engineers on staff. And so even when new construction projects are happening now, we lend our risk... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Happy Monday
previously at Diapers.com, where the prevailing culture was one in which team members thought like owners. It’s one of the values that the cofounders wanted to bring with them as they built their own brand. “We look to hire people who... View Details