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- 12 Dec 2005
- News
The Education of Andy Grove
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
to novel hardware, quantum computers require new software to exploit their unique capabilities.) Since then, progress has accelerated rapidly, and interest in quantum computing has exploded. Amit Kumar (MBA 2008), a managing director and...
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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Case Study: The Home Team
Illustration by Jon Krause Illustration by Jon Krause Brendan Kennealey (MBA 2006) wasn’t even searching for a business idea. A couple of years ago, the Wilmington, Delaware, native met up with an old friend who’d bought a new house. Over dinner this friend enumerated...
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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
You Only Thought You Were Republican
treasurer of the Democratic National Committee (actually, I have zero power, but that’s another story), I hereby pronounce you — at least for a while, until you get your party back — a thoughtful, moderate Democrat. Welcome! — The post-MBA View Details
- 02 Sep 2014
- News
Many of the best ideas for improving health care are quite simple
better together than people who haven’t—and most organizations could do a far better job of exploiting this simple but powerful insight,” he says. Huckman’s research points to five factors that make team familiarity powerful: the ability...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Faculty Books
Business Press) Professors Khanna and Palepu argue that the main exploitable characteristic of emerging markets is the lack of institutions (credit-card systems, intellectualproperty adjudication, data research firms) that facilitate...
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- 25 Nov 2021
- News
An Aria for the Ambidextrous Organization
organization—one that, as Tushman says, has “the dynamic capability to exploit existing strategies better than anyone and simultaneously explore new terrain.” Doing this can present a contradiction for organizations, Tushman admits, but...
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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
The Ambidextrous Organization
processes of the past, while also gazing forward, preparing for the innovations that will define the future. This mental balancing act is one of the toughest of all managerial challenges — it requires executives to explore new opportunities even as they work diligently...
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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
Bananas and Business by Marcelo Bucheli (New York University Press) Based on research in the archives of the United Fruit Company in Colombia, Bucheli, a Newcomen Fellow in Business History at HBS, disproves the idea that the firm was always a powerful corporation that...
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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Faculty Books
for assessing differences between countries at the industry level; tracking the implications of particular border-crossing moves for a company’s ability to create value; and creating superior perfor-mance with strategies optimized for adjusting to, overcoming, and...
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- 02 Apr 2014
- News
Disrupting the Criminal Supply Chain
her dual law and business degrees to fight some of the world's most disturbing criminals. Since 2011, Brochu, 42, has been the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime's Expert on Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking, a position she...
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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
India’s Oil
areas of concern: pressure on government spending, the need to attract domestic and foreign investment, and oil prices. “I think oil prices are outrageous,” said Chidambaram, whose country imports 70 percent of its petroleum. “Oil-producing countries are View Details
- 12 May 2016
- News
What Ernest Shackleton has in common with Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk
Will space explorers create new ventures that benefit us, or will they (like the old factory whaling ships) exploit and ravage natural landscapes that had been untouched? Will even less human restraint in space require even more...
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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Strange Bedfellows
firms are well-governed. The actors in various corporate scandals, including Enron, Tyco, and Parmalat, were expert in exploiting the dual-tax system to manufacture accounting earnings. Corporate tax shelters that reduce book income are...
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- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Disrupting criminal enterprises that prey on children
Department of Justice for more than eight years, prosecuting child exploitation and human-trafficking crimes. "The UN is in a position to coordinate and incentivize countries to work together to develop laws and practices that are...
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- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Short Takes
some of the latest computer-aided tools, managers can dramatically lower the time and cost of changes. Second, they should review management processes. Many companies cannot exploit these new technologies because their management...
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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Thinking Outside the Centerfold
“Truth” campaign, which began in Florida in 1997, played to teenagers' natural rebelliousness and got them to thinking about how tobacco companies exploit them. Experts consider the “Truth” campaign to be one of the most successful social...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Alumni Books
helping to rescue passengers and ships, and as pirates, for exploiting these shipwrecks for their treasure, the wrecker captains operated from the early 19th century to the early 20th century. Their exploits...
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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Alumni Honorees Urge Students to Emphasize Ethics
exploitative capitalists, the student was amazed by Yang's talk. “When I said it didn't have to be that way, it was a revelation to her,” said Yang. As part of the School's Leadership and Values Initiative, Yang and three other honorees...
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
School’s 100th MBA Class Graduates
and former chairman of Apax Partners, shared three central lessons with the graduates and their assembled families and friends. “The world runs away from danger,” Cohen said, but there is value in uncertainty: “Risk is your friend; the trick is to View Details
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