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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
But Westley was just one horse in a stable full of horses, each with its own nutritional needs. Sometimes he got his vitamins, sometimes he didn’t. After talking to the barn’s owner, Minard began to appreciate how complicated it can be to keep track of View Details
- 28 Oct 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Nick Soman (MBA 2010)
if you are in control of the information you share.” What have been the best and most challenging parts of launching your company? “The most challenging and best parts are the same—building a company is hard, so the learning curve is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Faculty Books
Accelerating Energy Innovation: Insights from Multiple Sectors edited by Rebecca M. Henderson and Richard G. Newell (University of Chicago Press for the National Bureau of Economic Research) Studies have suggested that significantly... View Details
Keywords: Utilities
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Breaking Down Barriers: The Electronic Wallet
bypass passwords, maintain purchase records from multiple sites, and link to customer service departments. Wallet advocates say that the technology gives consumers greater control, allowing customers more freedom of movement and choice... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981
Embroidery. There she experienced all aspects of a small business, from sales to quality control to delivering merchandise. "Every businessperson should have sales experience," she says. "That's where the rubber meets the road. It is also... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
Dutch flower industry has responded to increasingly stringent laws restricting the release of pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers into the soil and groundwater. The Dutch, he reports, have created a closed-loop greenhouse system in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The Exchange: Takeaways from the Takedown
To me, it’s really the human-psychology factor playing out in a new setting. Eugene Soltes: When I look at the failures at FTX, I see a company that grew dramatically, and at some point between day one and the day it ultimately fell, they failed to put regulatory View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
financial services industry, with the 1940 Investment Company Act imposing especially tight controls on the nascent mutual fund industry. In recent years, Light says, besides benefiting from the bull market's record-setting rampage, the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
New Releases
and product markets." Jensen and his contributors detail three major systems that play a critical role in organizational strategy and help address control problems within the decentralized organization. They... View Details
- 03 Jul 2024
- News
Surviving the Iditarod
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Sunny Stroeer: Many folks have heard of the Iditarod Sled Dog race, which is the last great race on earth where mushers compete to cover the distance from Anchorage to Nome as quickly as possible. The... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
Baldwin and Dean Kim Clark remind readers in their new book, Design Rules: The Power of Modularity. Baldwin and Clark are intrigued by the underlying structure of these human-designed products and systems and the ways in which they evolve... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
commercial scale. Verdant, for example, is currently raising funds to develop turbines twice as large for deployment off the coast of Wales, where Smith anticipates generating megawatts of electricity by 2025. And he has his eyes on an even larger prize: Once the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
trajectory of overdose deaths from prescription drugs and heroin. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the US death rate from opioid overdose has increased over 400 percent since 1999; the picture is even grimmer... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Rowe (MBA 1993) Templeton Press Every child in America deserves to know that a path to a successful life exists and that they have the power to follow it. But many never set foot on that path because they grow up hearing the message that View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
information. We owe it to those who passed away in the disaster to upgrade our systems to help save lives in any future calamity." —GE AGRICULTURE John Whiteside Grass Farmer, Wolf Creek Farm For years, the résumé of John Whiteside (MBA... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
No Time Like the Present
I realized I needed to start giving right away and as my means scaled, so too would my donations,” says Delle, who has supported the HBS Fund every year since he graduated and has served in multiple volunteer roles throughout the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
the last quarter century, not only in terms of entrepreneurship but also in the dynamics of the free-enterprise system itself. In 1975, venture funding in the United States totaled about $50 million. Today, it is somewhere between $50 and... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
system. In August 2020, Mercy Corps handed over the management of the system and its distribution network to the local utility company. (Ezra Millstein/Mercy Corps) On a Wednesday afternoon in early August, McKenna is Zooming from her... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Case Study: A Souped-Up Strategy
demographics to target your neighborhood priorities in the bigger cities. —Sara Fox (MBA 1990) Someone with deep pockets (Groupon?) is going to enter this space. It is a great idea, so go for the maximum impact. Try to do one large city that is close to you, that you... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Ink: Start Small, Rise Above
degree in aerospace engineering and several years at a real estate development and investment firm. But they collaborated on multiple ventures over the last 17 years. The most recent is NowAccount, a fintech startup that helps small... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint