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- 01 Jun 2017
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Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
others, you’ll create a self-perpetuating culture.” “My parents were the first in their families to attend high school, never mind college,” says Jack Brennan (MBA 1980), former chairman and CEO of the Vanguard Group. Brennan cites the... View Details
- 04 May 2018
- News
How to Win the Kentucky Derby
I couldn't get out of my mind. And one thing led to another, and I'm good friends with the two gentleman that owned him and that bought him at the point where he was about 18 months old as a yearling in Kentucky. And everything just fell into place. They put an ungodly... View Details
Keywords: horse racing
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
Citizen Year — SEF 2009 honoree Global Citizen Year is disrupting the traditional path to college and creating a new generation of global leaders through a "bridge" year of service learning and leadership training in Africa, Latin America, and Asia. After View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Giving Amazon the Boot
would ship it for us,” she says. “And you didn’t have to sell anything on Amazon. So they would store it and ship it, and it was really cost effective.” Ultimately, realizing that Amazon “is like the world’s biggest mall,” Ford decided to... View Details
- 20 Jul 2017
- News
Pushing the Next Generation Forward
year-round pre-K charter schools that serve 2,000 students; school-based support and enrichment programs for 11,000 students who attend New York City elementary, middle, and high schools; a comprehensive college-access program; support... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
will also drive them to India because only India can compete with China on both labor costs and domestic-market potential. Foreign firms will demand access to India and force the country to open up. As India does open up, what are its... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
while higher-level management interaction with international departments was common, its day-to-day management style was localized and gave limited international exposure to some managers. By contrast, at Philip Morris International, a Switzerland–based company, there... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
OPM Celebrates 21st Anniversary at Gala Florida Reunion
the difficulty and high cost of bankruptcy. "Bankruptcy lawyers charge anywhere from $200 to $350 an hour, and I want to tell you that even for a small company, those hours can easily mount up to $20,000 or... View Details
- 05 Aug 2014
- News
A Diversified Portfolio
demonstrated its unique value proposition in the large electronic b-to-b payments space with significant market traction and consistent year-over-year growth. Organizations across many industries are using NVoicePay to significantly reduce AP View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
they “enjoyed eating in exotic surroundings but were deeply mistrustful of exotic foods.” He also determined that labor cost and availability was the key problem in the U.S. restaurant business and that eliminating the conventional... View Details
- 17 Dec 2017
- News
How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression
advocacy and managing their international support funds. White: Obviously, the Pussy Riot story is one that really broke through in, at least, US media. Do you think it raised people's understanding of this issue that you're trying to help with? Heaney: It was such a... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
information junkie, but I did generally know every answer to every nit-picking question that the higher-ups threw at me (e.g., the cost of capital at Playboy was 10 percent). I even developed a working knowledge of things as abstruse as... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
to really transform the organization.” That drive for increased efficiency and quality at lower cost resonates with many of the institutions represented at MHCD, which include the Cleveland Clinic, Children’s Hospital Boston, and The... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
majority are men and women with families in all different stages. Some have small children, budding high school athletes, or aging parents, while others are just married or are recent grads who want to travel and gain global experience... View Details
- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
afford these patients a better quality of life for a longer period of time. It could be the first new treatment for ALS in nearly 25 years and the first one to potentially affect muscle function and strength as well as hopefully preserve patient independence.” While... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
optimism could be considered another prerequisite for entry in an unpredictable industry that has surfaced only recently from a twenty-year depression. "The overall return is inadequate for the risk," concedes Kaiser, "yet the very nature of the challenge — the View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
essential investing guidelines. In this book, you’ll also find eye-opening discussions of: whether bonds are an appropriate investment vehicle for long-term investors; the costs of excessive liquidity in the typical portfolio; and the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
huge inefficiency.” It was while attending HBS that Makarim formed Go-Jek, a more efficient ojek service that organized 20 or so drivers through a call center; he relied on word of mouth to market the idea to friends and relatives in a city that was riding View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Meal Plan
to pay for high levels of service at the front of the house may decrease. And there’ll be additional costs to maintain that level of service due to the decreased capacity demanded by social distancing. There... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
the future may be identified as too big to fail. “What’s worse, these firms impose costs on society by creating systemic risks that they don’t have to bear on their balance sheets,” says Moss. “That’s not a situation we want to maintain.”... View Details