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- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
rise to $82 million under a new contract. That cost could drop to $58 million aboard Boeing or SpaceX spacecraft. (NASA announced in January that Sierra Nevada Corporation—where Gregg Burgess [GMP 5, 2008]... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
that is affordable and simple to use. In your book, you identify fee-for-service reimbursement as a “runaway reactor” in accelerating the rise in health-care costs. Why is this system such a problem? By some estimates, 50 percent of all... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
and the difficulty of gaining access to treatment appear to be the two chief failings of the reform. Says HBS professor Regina Herzlinger, “The rise in costs is partially caused by greater than expected... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
base. As a result, they get cost savings, and we get sales.” Welcome to the new reality in U.S. manufacturing, where, more than ever, intense foreign competition is driving product and strategy innovations. Even those firms without direct... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
W. James McNerney Jr., MBA 1975
commitment to ethical behavior was the only way to right the ship. “You have to tackle problems head on and fix them,” says McNerney, who tested his crisis management chops again when confronting delays, cost overruns, and reliability... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
In this business, you're only as good as the person peeling the potatoes," calls out Jerry Shafir (MBA '84) through a rising cloud of steam, as a hundred pounds of freshly chopped vegetables slide into a Jeep-sized cauldron of chicken... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
persons from 1999 to 2016. Beyond the devastating personal costs, there is an economic toll, too, caused by rising health care expenses for overdose prevention drugs and addiction treatment, criminal justice costs, and productivity loss... View Details
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Home Grown
kind of scaling itself up and mobile internet coming to the foray, developing countries will actually kind of rise because you know, now every consumer would have a computing device in their hands. And if that were to be true, then... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
historic emergence of credit and debt was as important in the rise of civilization as technological invention. In the excerpt that follows, he explains the recently developed symbiotic financial relationship between the United States and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
Chartered Bank) in India in 1982, rising through the ranks in a variety of merchant, retail, and investment banking assignments before moving to Morgan Stanley’s India operation in 1994. Through a joint venture with the investment bank JM... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
in the United States will continue to creep inexorably toward the $2 a gallon mark while the rising cost of heating oil and natural gas sends consumers in the frigid North diving for their down comforters.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
dramatic rise of BPO as the primary driver of the new Indian economy. In 1990, the company was focused primarily on businesses in manufacturing, textiles, and infrastructure — its technology arm had been operating for only a year, and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
time, and expensive because it used diesel, which costs a whole lot and was hard for him to get. Morrell: A visiting dignitary flipped a switch to turn on the local grid. Poindexter: So we get to the chief's house, the soccer match is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
one-third of China’s GDP. “In eight years,” he predicted, “I expect the private sector to contribute three-quarters of the GDP,” as the role of local and state-owned enterprises continues to fade. Economic reforms already have given rise... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
much variety. What you’re seeing now is something similar, with the rise of media targeting specific communities that have been ignored under the “most eyeballs” ad model, which involves creating content that satisfies as many people as... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
These micro-entrepreneurs desire to have the economic and social benefits of managing their own business but do not want the startup costs or demands associated with traditional business planning. As such, becoming a direct-selling... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
successfully in global markets while also supporting high and rising living standards for Americans. America is not more competitive if businesses succeed by paying lower wages. Actually, the need to cut wages reflects a lack of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
(MBA 1984) and Dan Olmsted Skyhorse Publishing Even as the autism rate soars and the cost to our nation climbs into the billions, a dangerous new idea is taking hold: There simply is no autism epidemic. The authors believe autism is new,... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
overcrowded with flu sufferers and cancer patients alike. Doctors feel the pinch of wave after wave of government-imposed budget constraints, such as the decision to freeze the number of hospital beds in spite of the increasing percentage of aging patients. For... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
advice, insight, and perspective, and facilitating a new understanding of things." That definition neatly sums up a profession that's been shaped and populated by HBS alumni since the emerging notion of strategy in the 1960s sparked the View Details