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- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
two-week online contest broadcast to participants outside academia and biomedical disciplines. Participants in our contest produced over 600 submissions containing 89 novel computational approaches to the problem. Thirty submissions...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power
Central University, and at the apogee of research, the Academia Sinica), accompanied by a creative set of private colleges and universities (Yenching University, St. John's University, and Peking Union Medical College, to name but a few)....
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by William C. Kirby
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues
Law School and Design School, this year's conference hosted over fifty speakers from business, government, and academia in the United States and Asia. Panels focused on the economic future of countries such as Taiwan, India, Japan, Korea,...
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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
archives One of the first African American graduates of HBS, the late H. Naylor Fitzhugh overcame numerous racial barriers in a career that spanned academia and the private sector. Born in Washington, DC, in 1909, he earned a scholarship...
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- 10 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Celebrating 'The Men and Women of the Corporation' 40 Years Later
companies. I wanted to learn how to have an impact and shape decisions. I had an opportunity to start doing some projects in a large corporation that became the one I wrote about for the book. Simultaneously, the question of women in the workplace was rising at that...
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by Robin J. Ely
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
must change the way it supports basic and applied scientific research to promote the broad collaboration with business and academia needed to tackle society's big problems. Second, corporate management practices and governance structures...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
doing. The goal is not to turn around quick policy ideas, but to generate important and long-lasting research. Often, though, good policy ideas turn out to be a happy by-product.” Those kinds of contributions can help ensure that academic research on policy advances...
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by Michael Blanding
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
"aware that business practices changed faster than academia could hope to capture in any sort of grand theoretical system," Cruikshank observes, "HBS professors tended to talk in terms of 'currently useful...
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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
business practices changed faster than academia could hope to capture in any sort of grand theoretical system,” Cruikshank observes, “HBS professors tended to talk in terms of ‘currently useful generalizations.’” In contrast, Christensen,...
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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
paths. Clif Darden worked in economic development in the United States and Tanzania before returning to HBS to earn his DBA in 1982. His career in academia culminated in a tenured professorship in organizational theory and management at...
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Annual Report 2019 - Annual Report 2019
sales, podcasts, and webinars and other learning programs. Chief Information Officer Ron Chandler, with extensive experience in IT leadership, technology design, and management both in academia and in professional and financial services...
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- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
That’s a key underlying theme of Life Is a Startup, of being able to go and identify where those are. There’s a magnetic pull towards certain things. A pull toward what we in academia call homophily, birds of a feather flocking together....
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- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
competitive thinking to bear on questions of strategy. Kenneth Andrews put these elements together in a way that became particularly well known. In 1963, a business policy conference was held at Harvard that helped diffuse the SWOT concept in View Details
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by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 30 Sep 2016
- News
Competing Against Luck
and then I started a company with several MIT professors. And then I came back to academia after I was out for 10 years. And I had to get a doctorate in order to join the faculty here. And I brought with me a couple of big questions. And...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
process of taking an innovation from academia to the marketplace when he joined the new venture in 2008, even if the cement industry itself was a departure for him. That turn, taken in the later phase of his career, has resulted in an...
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Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
of the strategic budgeting process, of the project approval process here at the school or in the confines of academia was very different from what happened in the real world. And you found that who's behind a project matters. What else...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
and seeing how these negotiations go, to see how the information flows from what we typically do, say in academia or from the private sector—whoever—or from the government statistics that are put forward, how they get translated into...
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Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
investors at their needs, at the lowest cost possible. And the other one, unfortunately, and there's the whole field as we know in academia but also with huge implications for practice, which is behavioral finance. We all have, when it...
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Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
that we conceived of the strategic budgeting process, of the project approval process here at the school or in the confines of academia was very different from what happened in the real world. And you found that who's behind a project...
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Print View - Course Catalog
difference and areas of agreement. The Instructor. My career, both prior to academia and now as an academic, has been focused on exploring how to run organizations such that they make their people more effective, not less. I hope to share...
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