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- 24 Sep 2020
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The Race for a Vaccine
companies and has a financial stake in Moderna.) There was a dollars-and-cents logic to this, since the big rewards that can be had in the pharmaceutical industry come with big financial risks. “There’s really no other View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
undergo renovation. "For years, every measure of success in our industry was driven by quantity," Lopez observes. "How many buildings, how many screens, how many seats? We turned that equation around and began to focus on quality." AMC's... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
to make good relationships alongside great deals, earn respect while earning multi-million dollar returns, and maintain character even when surrounded by an industry full of characters. Let’s Be Frank began in the final years of Frank... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
MBA course, in which he would combine then-emerging thinking at HBS about entrepreneurship with some new kinds of financial strategies he had been roughing out. Entrepreneurial Finance seemed like a logical name for the course. Almost nobody up the food View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Alumni Honorees Urge Students to Emphasize Ethics
helm, The Esquel Group makes more men's cotton shirts than any other company in the world, producing private-label apparel for high-end chains like Brooks Brothers and designers like Ralph Lauren. Egon P. S. Zehnder (MBA '56) Founding... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
after stints at the World Bank and at his family's industrial distribution business. "Then you have to consider the outputs: Did they use this new technology and training? Did it produce more bananas or mangoes or pineapples? Did they... View Details
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
average American consuming 3.1 servings of meat daily, Muir (MBA 2004) realized that food was a place he could make a difference. In 2008 he started Clover Food Lab with the goal of making vegetables irresistible for people who love to eat meat. Now a View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Road Tested
industry. “The transportation industry is very transaction-intensive,” Gregg observes. “A driver might work for a different employer for each and every load—so there’s a lot of opportunity for friction.” The company’s products include... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
intend to navigate the regulatory environment? In particular, how could they educate governments and ease concerns about the various types of risk pertaining to payments and currency? —Caleb Reeves (GMP 16, 2014) Even though there are organizations and View Details
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” he says. “He could have bought the script for $30,000, but I wasn’t much more expensive, so he hired me.” Singer wrote or cowrote six episodes of the show over the course of the last three seasons, working his way up the food View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
until many years later that I came to appreciate the dissenting view of the Vietnam War." Ed Mathias, now a managing director of the Carlyle Group, a merchant bank in Washington, D.C., came to HBS after serving as an officer in the Navy View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
Steven B. Belkin (MBA '71) began his highly successful travel and financial services marketing enterprise, Trans National Group, a few years out of HBS. G. Peter Bidstrup (MBA '59) started to put together the Doubletree Hotel chain in the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
itself from a competitive perspective to continue its growth and stand out from the other industry players?" The Answers: "I would suggest looking at the business model and trying to extend the brand by extending the offering. Cellphones... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
fast,” hyper-growth can spell disaster for even the most promising ventures. Help wanted. Rapidly scaling startups need lots of capital and talent, but they can make mistakes that leave them suddenly in short supply of both. Cascading... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
beyond West Wind, he passes the high-tunnel greenhouses that Pine Mountain provides to local farmers. “In many ways, it’s like running a small town,” says Marietta, casting his eye across the potato fields and chicken coop that help View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
industry's release of an unprecedented total of twenty thousand new titles. Is there trouble brewing for the business with a beat, a virtually recession-free industry for the past fifty years? To shed some light on the situation, the... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Doctor Is In
finance, it seems, are never far from the minds of anyone in health care these days, even at fiscally sound MGH, the Harvard-affiliated teaching hospital that is recognized as an industry model. Indeed, with its conflicting mix of human... View Details
- 25 Aug 2010
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Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
week of school. Pranks 1977H had a group of us who wrote “risqué chain stories” during Accounting; something about a mink posing strap and a Viking helmet springs to mind. Each person would write perhaps three or four sentences, the last... View Details
- 31 Mar 2023
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How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
changes in who's entering? Are we seeing changes in the quality of who's entering and in the outcomes they're getting for students? So those are the three tranches we think about—of total supply and distribution, quality of the educator,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
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Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
American leagues' revenues but also the exporting countries' infrastructures. By contrast, to establish solid franchises overseas, the NFL has to create a supply of foreign homegrown players and support systems in order to build the... View Details