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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Negotiating with Wal-Mart
For example, Frey Farms used school buses ($1,500 each) instead of tractors ($12,000 each) as a cheaper and faster way to transport melons to the warehouse. Talley also negotiated a coveted co-management supplier agreement with Wal-Mart,...
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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Building a Strong and Prosperous Society
political climate in the United States today, do you think that democracy is in jeopardy? Rebecca Henderson: Yes, I think democracy is in trouble, and there are two key indicators. One is that in the United States, according to a 2019 NBC...
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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
(or maybe the Big 2, after Chrysler’s merger with Daimler) continue to dominate the U.S. market, they are beset by falling sales, staggering financial obligations, and the relentless pressure of globalization and foreign competition. GM, for example, while it still has...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
hire roughly two-thirds of all graduates from top-ranked MBA programs, increasingly have in-house programs for developing and promoting talented employees who have only undergraduate degrees. One anecdote drove the point home. When Datar...
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
graduating MBAs to engage in and influence the key strategic priorities of leading social sector organizations. Although the article cited the generous financial support that HBS and its donor base provides to fellows, it’s also worth...
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- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964
me to bring about fundamental change." The agency Rossotti took over had 102,000 employees who annually collected $1.5 trillion in taxes, processed a billion documents, and churned out 80 million refunds. Amid so many transactions,...
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- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
together to survive this crisis and have proudly contributed, as a group, over $110 million—through employee support, business operations waivers, and monetary and in-kind donations as a response to the COVID-19 crisis in the...
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Margie Kelley
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
Gordon Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, and a tactful bridge builder who has played a key role in launching and guiding several collaborative HBS-China initiatives. “There was a two-lane road between the airport and...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
skills for our students. We’re fully convinced this is going to be fundamental mainstream investing in 20 years. Vikram Gandhi: One key driver is investor demand.If you look at the big pools of capital—family offices, pension plans,...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
government can actually help a lot through modifying and extending key policies, particularly in results measurement and removing restrictive and unnecessary impediments to competition. For example, the need for physician certification by...
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- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
Relations, and one of the driving forces behind the School's Global Alumni Conferences, began by praising the conference cochairs' hard work and dedication in organizing the event. In his remarks to the capacity crowd, he quipped that Ewald Wessels had become a...
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Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
company can ever be completely safe — even if a firm disconnects from the Internet, unauthorized personnel or disgruntled employees inside the company’s facilities can figure out ways to access its computers — some firms, especially those...
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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
service outlets. "When Gerry was hired, it was the company's first deliberate action to view consumer packaged goods as an important growth platform for Starbucks," says Barry Beeninga, a 16-year veteran of the company who worked with Lopez as CFO of his division. "We...
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- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
the imperative to improve school quality and its key importance to the health of a regional economy. She also cited her work in the US Treasury during the financial crisis: “I witnessed that it’s possible to address enormous problems if...
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- 10 Mar 2021
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Next Normal
Edited by Julia Hanna; illustrations by Fabio Consoli One year after the pandemic mandated an abrupt shift to working from home for millions of people, organizations are taking a long, hard look at how and where employees work—and why. In...
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- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
orders and have them delivered to their tables—a service often performed by managers. “Now when I see a customer talking to a manager, it’s a good thing,” says Karavites, smiling. Traditionally, the bank of cash registers that separates the customers and the View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
recall of 450,000 tires missing a key safety feature that a U.S. importer had purchased from a Chinese manufacturer and distributed to retail outlets. “I don’t think there is a strong culture of adherence to regulations in China right...
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- 15 Jun 2021
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June 2021 Books and Podcasts
talents and trials to lead with authenticity in all areas of life. The Entrepreneurial Guide: The Key Principles of Building and Growing Your Business By Srikanth Gaddam (OPM 43, 2013) Independently published Do you ever think that your...
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- 01 Apr 1996
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Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
guidelines and encouraging employees to create value through long-term thinking - rather than by trying to follow the latest "flavor-of-the-month." "Predictability is not certainty," Stevenson emphasizes. "It isn't about having a lifeless...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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Money Matters
funds, and insurance companies — in two key ways. Rather than open a high-cost retail branch network and wait for customers to walk in, iTrust has forged partnerships with 130 large and midsized companies across India to become a...
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