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- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
announced as the 2001 conference site. After two days packed with dynamic breakout sessions and inspiring keynote addresses by HBS faculty and some of the world's leading business executives, however, no one was laughing. The conference, "Leading in a View Details
- 25 Aug 2015
- News
Sunset in the East?
consume. + ONLINE Isn’t it likely that the domestic need and want for better health care, education, water, and other basics—all across the socioeconomic spectrum—will drive continued dramatic growth in China? Is it a question of how well the economy can retool to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Finding a Balance
Do the rules of business change when a company’s product holds the power of life or death over its customers? That’s a question students must consider when discussing “Cipla,” a case about a $325 million... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
Alexandre Menard (MBA 2005), a senior partner at McKinsey Paris. Menard, who led the conversion to 4G and today heads the McKinsey Center for Advanced Connectivity, says that 4G was more of a step change by comparison. The advent of... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
what's really the job is to oversee a production from start to finish. But really, when you're deep into the production process, to hand over the keys to a director and then continue to work with that... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Creating a more just and celebrated multicultural world
Sarah Endline (MBA 2001) produces chocolates with a mission. As founder of sweetriot, Endline works directly with Latin American cacao farmers to ensure a fair price for their labor. Founded in 2005, sweetriot’s product mix features dark... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Students Forecast Climate Change’s Impact
MORE Watch three students discuss their approach to the climate change challenge MORE Watch three students discuss their approach to the climate change challenge Professors Mike Toffel and Marco Iansiti... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 30 Sep 2016
- News
Competing Against Luck
has really become a part of the modern business canon. And he has a new book coming out next month, Competing Against Luck, which argues that understanding customers' motivations, what quote unquote, "role" consumers are buying a product... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
A Better World, One Idea at a Time
A dozen budding social entrepreneurs pitched their ideas for innovative products and services during the annual Social Enterprise Conference in February, and four came away with top honors. The sold-out event marked the 13th year of the... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
stacks of the white foam growing racks—she lays out the challenge. Climate change and its progenies, drought and flooding, are threatening traditional agricultural systems. And even when those systems work, they still rely on... View Details
- 15 Jun 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
deep understanding of how change takes place, combined with fascinating in-depth stories of companies that have made the first steps toward reimagining capitalism, provides inspiring insight into what capitalism could be. Healthy... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The End of Cows?
Price is a market barrier for lab-grown beef, with production costs currently exceeding 250,000 euros per burger. (Photo courtesy of Cultured Beef) Price is a market barrier for lab-grown beef, with View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
Corporation, where he was involved in product planning for their Music Video on Demand software. So how did an aspiring entrepreneur with an engineering degree become a rock star at Harvard Business School? Easy. He just asked. "At the... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
United States in 2021. The Juneteenth Story provides an accessible introduction for kids to learn about this important American holiday. The Changing C-Suite: Executive Power in Transformation By José Luis Alvarez (PhD OB 1991) and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
consumption it’s not an accessible product for the vast majority of people who are reading the news online. Many respected news outlets don’t make it easy. Sometimes it’s a curation issue, where you’re getting a lot of volume. There can... View Details
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
has risen significantly. The productivity out of the pipelines has decreased significantly over time and so that begs the question of where do we go next for treating mankind’s diseases. One of those answers is personalized therapeutics.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Evolution of Modern Pricing Models
the same assortment. However, certain cheaper items required some extra clicks and scrolls to discover. TT: In the end, we were able to increase Zalora’s gross margins by up to 31 percent in some experimental conditions—and it did not require any View Details
- 23 Apr 2016
- News
Tipping His Cap to Open Source
As COO at Delta Airlines, Jim Whitehurst (MBA 1994) helped bring the legacy carrier back from the brink of bankruptcy in 2006 while fending off a takeover bid by US Airways. That feat accomplished, he moved on to lead Red Hat, which builds open-source software View Details
- 28 Jun 2011
- News
Beyond Case Writing
interest in global health to the realization that an estimated 13 million people die each year for lack of low-cost products that could save their lives. Over the past seven years, she has conducted research projects in Zambia aimed at... View Details
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
boards. HBS professor Lynn Paine has written widely on leadership and corporate governance and co-chairs the Women on Boards Executive Education program. Listening to the experiences of women who have served on boards, or are trying to find their place on one, she’s... View Details