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- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
markets in developed nations. But by the mid-1980s, the Yangs decided the time had come to differentiate themselves. They would concentrate on quality and meeting the needs of the most discriminating designers and retailers in areas such as View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
Your Life. NOVEMBER 4 Rod Harl (MBA 2000), president and CEO of Alene Candles, led the pivot of his company from candlemaking to the production of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in response to the pandemic. Closing just before a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders
“Investing in startups is risky, but it’s more productive than minimal return gambles such as lotteries, which drained some $70 billion from Main Street America’s pockets in 2014 alone,” Republic cofounder... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Leading Change
weaving to dyeing, sewing, and retailing. By leveraging vertical integration, best practices, and technology such as automation and robotics, the company is constantly improving productivity and raising View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Books
Prusak identify the social elements that contribute to knowledge sharing, innovation, and high productivity and show how nearly every managerial action can enhance or diminish an organization's social capital. Profit from the Core: Growth... View Details
- 12 Feb 2016
- News
Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict
three students, so the children can work with each other with minimal direction from a facilitator. The result was immediate, Mendhro says. “One of the Hindu children told us his new best friend was a Muslim boy named Mohammed, to whom he... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
Best B-Schools.” Up to that point, business schools built their reputations largely on the research productivity and scholarly reputations of their faculties. BusinessWeek’s customer-focused look at MBA programs was an instant hit; the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Patrick Moreton
discrimination and product bundling. After graduating from HBS as a Baker Scholar, he worked as a Charles M. Williams Research Fellow at the School from 1991 to 1993, writing more than a dozen cases on finance, business ethics, and... View Details
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
large internal market and easy access to raw materials and fuel. But America's real edge lay in its genius for mass production and not labor-intensive work, which could be done more cheaply overseas. Since imported glass was typically... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
company. Finally, in 1990, my wife and I purchased a controlling interest in a middle-market manufacturing company with a successful, proprietary product line. I served as president for the first 10 years, and then my wife took her turn... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
suppliers—run with thin margins and minimal cash reserves, even in the best of times. “When COVID-19 hit, they felt the shock immediately,” Mills explains. Beginning in March 2020, the pandemic and unprecedented public health measures... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
susceptible to everything from intellectual property theft to uneven product quality. But the novel coronavirus created chasms. “One thing that COVID-19 revealed is the extent to which business systems were predicated on global supply... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
exhibitions and NFL Europa, a de facto minor league, failed to establish a viable Continental presence for the league. Longer term, the NFL will look at London and other foreign markets to determine whether a franchise could be supported.... View Details
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
Amadio, pointing with pride to one such early-stage firm, Atanse, founded by Michael Kelly (MBA 1990), which manufactures devices designed to inject stem cells into damaged areas of the brain, to repair it from the inside in a minimally... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
subprime crisis. “It’s hard to overstate the dramatic buildup in subprime lending by mid-decade,” he said. “Subprime lending represented a minimal share of home mortgages in the 1990s. As recently as 2001, it represented only 2 percent of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
smaller groups for a full day of site visits, each focusing on a different track (water, microfinance, and retail, for example), with the goal of identifying a viable business opportunity to present to the group that evening. Intrigued by... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
energy sources and state-of-the-art systems, machinery, and products — often come to mind, the most dramatic inroads may be made in much more prosaic ways, especially in the urban setting. “Nontechnical solutions — such as making cities... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
conclusion turned her toward business school to research “how to build a sustainable business with a ‘double bottom line’ — a firm that is profitable and benefits society.” Choi aims to lead a company that will provide low-income individuals with View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Effective Communication in the Age of Zoom
left the house in three weeks." You know, this conversation style can leave you feeling minimized or unheard. There are others like the “expert.” The “expert” knows more than you do and silences you with her confidence. If you might say,... View Details
Keywords: Zoom
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
education expenses and home purchases for a million new IDA holders. But even if that funding comes through - no easy task, given Washington's post-September 11 spending priorities - convincing financial institutions that low-income savers present a View Details