MBAs around the world study the Harvard Business School case Optical Distortion, Inc. to learn key lessons regarding the challenges of bringing an innovative product to market. However, there are hidden lessons to be learned in this case, ones that could affect the personal lives of MBAs over an entire lifetime-not just during the launch [...]
Sep 142009
Apr 212009
In FRC and LCA, we have learned that despite a firm demonstrating outstanding profitability, a lack of robust controls and boundary systems can result in a company culture that undermines the entire business. It is imperative that the HBS dater consider how she or he can set up mechanisms that both encourage positive behavior in [...]
Jan 302006
Mr. Yoshito Hori (HBS’91), chairman & CEO of Japan-based Globis group, was on-campus with students Thursday, January 21 to share his perspective on entrepreneurship, success and progress of his Globis enterprise. Prior to Globis, Mr. Hori worked for Sumitomo Corporation where he was in charge of new business development and foreign trade of production-plant facilities. [...]
Mar 082004
Dana Gioia, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, spoke to an audience at Radcliffe Yard last month. Nominated by President George W. Bush in January 2003 and unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Dana Gioia began his term as the ninth Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts in February 2003. Besides [...]
Business School: The Ethical Dimension
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Sep 232002
The arrival of the MBA Classes of 2004 on campuses across the country has been accompanied by much commentary in the popular press on the rising emphasis on business ethics in the curricula of leading business schools. Increased Attention on B-Schools In the aftermath of recent corporate scandals, attention has been focused on the role [...]
Women at HBS: Making History
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Apr 082002
Few HBS students today would fail to recognize names like Meg Whitman (MBA 1979) and Donna Dubinsky (MBA 1981). For many students, these women are members of a group of pioneering women from all sectors of the economy and all corners of the globe who have helped to shatter the “glass ceiling” and, in the [...]
The HBS Story
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Jul 022001
Harvard was considering business training as early as 1885. University President Charles W. Eliot felt that Harvard should offer more training and guidance to its college graduates, particularly since increasing numbers of them were entering careers in industry and finance rather than the traditional careers of ministry, law, medicine and education. The Spanish War in [...]
SFP Construction Stopped to Stop
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Jun 182001
This sudden and unexpected announcement has taken the entire community by surprise. `I cant believe it’ said one of the local workmen we spoke to. “One minute you’re just getting along and the next minute this comes up.” Before even considering the consequences of such a drastic measure, we first sought to find out `Why [...]
New Footbridge Across Charles Announced
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Jun 182001
This sudden and unexpected announcment has taken the entire community by surprise. `I can’t believe it’ said one of the local workmen we spoke to. “One minute you’re just getting along and the next minute this comes up.” Before even considering the consequences of such a drastic measure, we first sought to find out `Why [...]
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