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- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
says. “There’s always going to be a pure technology component, but that will often be overwhelmed by a managerial component.” This morning’s case, “Rich-Con Steel,” proves his point: A steel distributor attempts a company-wide conversion...
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
ineluctable advance . In a speech from late in the 1990s, George Stalk Jr. MBA ’78, arguably BCG’s leading thinker on strategy over the prior fifteen years — and certainly the firm’s most prolific — neatly summed up the main themes of the era, in the View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
technologies. Particular areas, such as Finance, Marketing, Control, and Managerial economics, seemed to lend themselves naturally to computer analysis, as did cases on manufacturing, where computers could provide instant feedback on, for...
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by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Tried and Tested
lab and fieldwork. How do you settle on a particular research question to investigate? Katherine Coffman: I’m looking for two things. The most important one is whether it has the potential to really make a difference for outcomes. It has to be a big and View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
New Releases
Initiative at Arthur Andersen, in their new book, Broken Promises: An Unconventional View of What Went Wrong at IBM. Based on interviews with IBM executives, company records, and surveys of the company's customers, Broken Promises is a cautionary tale of strategic...
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- 01 Jun 2022
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'Rooted' In Innovation
team, novel biotechnology that extends cassava’s shelf life from three days to 18 months. The process transforms the cassava tuber into nutritious food products that provide alternatives to wheat flour. The first product CassVita...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
A Message from Dean Clark
promising distance learning initiative that will enrich the prematriculation process for incoming students. In Executive Education, the Program for Global Leadership now includes distance learning modules on global financial markets and...
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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
disappointments? To learn more about some of the ramifications, pitfalls, and managerial issues associated with the M&A; process, the Bulletin asked a number of HBS faculty members to comment on the M&A; phenomenon from their several...
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Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
Planning Process with Minimal Effort by Tracy Morgan (MBA 1990) (North Star Strategies) Supreme Commander: MacArthur's Triumph in Japan by Mike Morris (MBA 1971) (HarperCollins) Morris combines political history, military biography, and...
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- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
economic drivers" of business use of the Internet, explaining, "The change in the production process of information is altering the way it's distributed. Information is moving from paper into bits. That is a fundamental change in the...
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Daniel Penrice
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Faculty Research Symposium
nonprofits to the managerial emphasison unregulated pro forma earnings, to teamwork in health-care organizations. Synopses of three of the presentations follow. Pay Check: Equity-Based Compensation and Incentives In 2000, CEOs were...
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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
They also detail how the city's business leaders stepped in to begin the slow, arduous process of creating new organizations, strategies, and alliances that eventually turned Cleveland into a vibrant commercial center. As part of...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
Business School provided him with the managerial know-how and business contacts to begin to turn that dream into a reality. "When I came to Harvard, I was keenly interested in leadership and in what the best companies were doing to make...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
global value chains and global competitors. And recruiting itself became global,” notes Palepu. As the nascent globalization process picked up steam in the 1990s, HBS began to grapple with its implications for the MBA Program, says...
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- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
to make “transforming commitments” — managerial actions like exiting a legacy business, publicly committing to a new goal, or firing a powerful executive who defends the status quo. Such actions break the organization from the past and...
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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
leadership and managerial skills at the district level is critical to improving public education," explains Senior Lecturer and William Henry Bloomberg Fellow John Kim, who will take over as PELP's cochair when HBS professor Allen...
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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Leading Boston and Beyond
via the city’s Citizens Connect app were “closed” without a resolution. It is a balancing act between making residents feel their concerns are heard and helping them understand the process the city uses to prioritize snow removal given...
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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
single largest reform initiative is the Strategic Compact. Its goals are to make the Bank more user-friendly and client-responsive by moving more resources, personnel, and budgetary and decision-making power into the field. Along with this decentralization, reductions...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
and other HBS-trained entrepreneurs understand that entrepreneurship means far more than merely getting a business started. It is, according to HBS professor Howard H. Stevenson, chair of the School's Entrepreneurial Management (EM) unit, "a never-ending View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
over, certified that ethical boundaries were being respected.” Massie was learning a lot, too — not only a greater comprehension of the business process and ethos, but also the managerial skills that have...
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