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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Case Study: A Souped-Up Strategy
demographics to target your neighborhood priorities in the bigger cities. —Sara Fox (MBA 1990) Someone with deep pockets (Groupon?) is going to enter this space. It is a great idea, so go for the maximum impact. Try to do one large city that is close to you, that you... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
entrepreneur than as a doctor. Luckily there is a solution, but there is only one: consumer-driven health care. Let’s take back our $2.2 trillion from the entrepreneur-suppressing status quo and allow consumers to reward those entrepreneurs who lower costs by improving... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
future begins along Woodward Avenue in the central business district—“Dan Gilbert’s duchy,” Cummings says, as he navigates the city behind the wheel of a silver Chrysler minivan, his Detroit-made Shinola watch glinting in the sun. Gilbert View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Professor Ramchandran Jaikumar Remembered
research on the integration of computers into the manufacturing process led to the development of a "minimalist" architecture for manufacturing. His framework emphasizes the elimination of process disruptions and the mini- mization of View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
of future generations to meet their own needs," it is slowly becoming a part of the lexicon of business leaders around the world. Easy Being Green? "One of the problems with turning the idea of environmental sustainability into a viable View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
early 1970s. China, however, had to wait to get out from under Mao’s control before it could make the moves that ultimately enabled it to catch up. Under Deng Xiaoping and then Jiang Zemin, government support for economic expansion really... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
associate John Klug (MBA ’72). Recalls Sasser, “The idea was to view process analysis — a concept we taught in Production and Operations Management — in a setting that didn’t involve steel mills, printed circuit boards, or sorting... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Exhibit at Baker Library Marks HBS Centennial
about their colleagues, jobs, and life outside work. “Management, then, was not about controlling human behavior but unleashing human possibility,” as HBS associate professor Rakesh Khurana and HBS assistant professor Michel Anteby write... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
To accomplish that, Margie Yang has focused her efforts on building an operation that relies on best practices and the latest technology for its competitive advantage. One recent HBS grad who works for her, she points out, is using... View Details
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
didn't plan for those to be control areas on our survey work, but that's what they've become. And the results are dramatically different in those geographic areas where we never ran any ads, where we never did anything. Hanna: Jim, as... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
and the craftsmen involved in producing them. The Accelerating World: Speed vs. Control by Emmanuel Cassimatis (MBA 2009) (Emmanuel Cassimatis) Over the past five decades, several mysterious and seemingly unrelated events have taken... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
Design Rules: The Power of Modularity (Volume 1) by Carliss Y. Baldwin and Kim B. Clark (The MIT Press) Today's fast-paced global economy often seems to operate as an independent force, but its products, firms, and markets are all derived... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Frank Blethen (PMD 35, 1978)
because we're doing the right things, but newspapers in larger markets that should be bigger than us have had a massive disinvestment in journalism and content. WE'VE WON NINE Pulitzers. We're pretty proud of that. ONE THAT really stands out was from 1997, for our... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Navigating the Populism Phenomenon
they’re able to destroy countries that were relatively successful. And that’s certainly true around the world. How does this trend affect businesses? RDT: The rise of populism affects the business environment even in places where the government itself is not populist.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Alumni News | Book Briefs
control and involvement and argue that its impact on business performance will be positive. They offer a road map to help CEOs and directors better balance board oversight with the firm's daily operations... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
One-on-One with Peter Cuneo
mentions a tireless vigilante: the Punisher. What is the motive behind Marvel’s decision to begin producing its own films? Creative control and a greater portion of the potential profits. When we came out of bankruptcy seven years ago we... View Details
- 18 Jul 2014
- News
Team Players
city or region wins the rights to host a Super Bowl, it is required to form a host committee, Blumkin explains. "The NFL controls the game and all surrounding events. Our responsibility was to welcome guests into the region, help people... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
That’s when David Dewan (MBA 1969) launched Contact Incorporated, in fierce competition with another Harvard startup, Operation Match. Both companies sold questionnaires to students—$3 for Operation Match;... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
finding allies in several HBS professors bolstered my confidence to take the leap. When I graduated, I had nothing but a business plan and the $3,000 pitch prize. Then came the $25,000 HBS fellowship in 2009. Today, we are a $3 million View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
entrepreneurship itself. At HBS we define entrepreneurship as the pursuit of opportunity beyond the resources you currently control — so, obviously, creativity is a big factor.” In her new elective course, Leading Innovative Ventures, HBS... View Details