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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
HBS Alums Help Jailhouse Entrepreneurs Go Straight
Edis’s classmate, Eliot Kerlin (MBA ’05), serves on PEP’s board of directors and teaches at the program’s entrepreneurship school in Dallas. “For me,” Kerlin says, “one of PEP’s greatest strengths is that it involves spending a lot of View Details
- 17 Apr 2017
- News
Panera-bred Leaders Have Risen Throughout the Restaurant Industry
quality across the country and across many independent franchisees, and being willing to respond to changing consumer tastes. One Shaich-schooled leader, John Maguire (AMP 180, 2011), left Panera in 2012 to take on the challenge of...
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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
PORTER: Health care's zero-sum competition model adds costs and results in severe quality problems. University professor Michael Porter never planned to write a book on health-care reform. In fact, he expected brickbats in response to a...
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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
A Market-Based Prescription
curb cost increases while ensuring quality treatment. Those goals have not been reached, largely because patient and physician resistance to stringent gatekeeping has led to more relaxed controls and freedom to use out-of-network...
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- 06 Jan 2012
- News
Where Are They Now?
the HBS Club of India—over the top. “We identified a significant global market and focused on an unmet but essential need, as health care is not optional,” says Mahesh, who got a very personal perspective on India’s deep deficit of View Details
- 02 Sep 2021
- News
Elevating Ethiopian Entrepreneurs
on the country overall. “And we really understood why companies weren't scaling, and why they weren't growing, and why people were actually having trouble even starting businesses. So we provide a suite of services to any company that we...
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- 01 Apr 1997
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The Businesslike Gourmet: Karen Page on America's Foodservice Industry
feelings, and self-image. Food is like clothing or shelter: you can get by with the basics, or you can aspire to some aesthetics. The new insistence on food quality may be an outgrowth of a larger need to put more meaning and satisfaction...
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- 28 Dec 2016
- News
In Memoriam: Bill Bowes (MBA 1952)
the company’s first chairman and treasurer. Reflecting on his more than 50 years in the industry, he told the Bulletin in 2009 that the qualities that best define a successful entrepreneur are “intelligence, desire, and unrelenting...
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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
She’s Got Your Back
from homeowner hell, and at a fair price? “These are not things we embrace,” says Angie Hicks (MBA 2000), cofounder and chief marketing officer of Angie’s List, an online service that collects verified consumer reviews of View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Case Study: The Speed of Light
access that opportunity: (1) Develop a small set of critical core values that truly define your culture. (2) Hire and retain only people who clearly and strongly exemplify those values. That will make it much easier to maintain your culture of View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
WSA Conference Focuses on Reaching Goals
centerpiece event of the WSA, a fifteen-year-old organization whose mission is to foster a supportive environment for women at the Business School and to provide services that help them to succeed as students and in their careers. The...
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- 25 Aug 2015
- News
Sunset in the East?
population doubled from 500 million to 1 billion. There was and is—in terms of quality of property—still some catch-up to do. It’s said that China is in a better position than the developed world to elongate the business cycle using...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Touting Green Energy’s Potential
MARKEY: Just as the telecom sector was revolutionized in the 1990s by legislation that unleashed competition, so too will a green energy sector be launched, generating enormous wealth creation. In March, at a two-day HBS conference on energy, Congressman Ed Markey...
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- 01 Mar 2008
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Innovation, Inc.
Illustration by Jose Ortega Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.—Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Inauguration Day, 1933 Creativity, a quality more traditionally...
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- 01 Jan 2007
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Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
success in running an established business or entrepreneurial venture." ADVICE TO STUDENTS "Have fun. Try to balance family, career, and society—something that is, in fact, very difficult to accomplish. For those who can do it, the View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
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Entrepreneur's Notebook with Paul Conforti and Kim Moore (both MBA '97)
centrally, frozen, and distributed to multiple locations, thereby allowing quality control, reduced cost, and consistency. Most importantly, customers have an emotional attachment to their favorite desserts — they come back for more, and...
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- 01 Jun 2003
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South Florida and Minnesota Launch Community Programs
A strong commitment to community service is a given for most HBS clubs — the challenge lies in determining the most efficient means of leveraging the skills and interests of club members to create change. New York, Boston, San Francisco,...
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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Steve Barger (MBA 1974)
world was so different then — no cell phones, software, biotech, or espresso. It’s sure to change as much for today’s graduates, with opportunities to create products and services not yet imagined. When I graduated I took a job consulting...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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Faculty Research Online
management literature. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6395.html. Tragedy at Toyota: How Not to Lead in Crisis “Toyota can regain its footing only by transforming itself from top to bottom to deliver the highest quality automobiles,” says...
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- 01 Jun 2014
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School Ties
education and business competitiveness." Balancing the Books Four ways that business is partnering with PK-12 Enabling innovation. Companies in San Antonio, Texas, worked to gain voter approval for a tax increase to fund quality...
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