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- 01 Apr 2001
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The Small Business Difference: How Smaller Companies Manage with Less
brochures, and Web sites. While making moves to cut costs and stabilize the company for the short term, Slayton sought new ideas from his team for future growth possibilities. “The company needed a high-growth idea that would work or else it might be doomed,” Bowen... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Sheila Lirio Marcelo, MBA 1998/JD 1999
crafted her business plan for Care.com, which she launched in 2006. Care.com brings together Marcelo’s passion for helping others and her entrepreneurial and management skills, to enable working families to find the care they need. More... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Roads to Recovery
Cars Verizon chairman and CEO Lowell McAdam said his company is connecting cars to infrastructure. At sports stadiums, for example, Verizon plans to put special chips into parking structures to alert drivers to an open spot. Daniela Rus... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Faculty Debates Lessons from Enron's Collapse
leaders of organizations that worked with Enron acted with a different set of values and purpose.” Encouraged by the afternoon, Clark announced plans for an Enron session for MBA students later in the spring and said he would create... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
GE's Jeff Immelt
employees with investors.” For students planning early career strategies, Immelt had these words of advice: “When you join a company, find somebody you trust. I had mentors early in my career who helped me out a lot. Always be dedicated... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
about students' "road trip" stories Plan B: The Brick Bank Issue Focus: The Global Manager They Call Him Mr. China Think Locally, Act Globally Bringing Global Back Home HBS celebrated the opening of its newest classroom in early March—in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Case Study: Power Nappy
Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez Before she had a baby of her own, Amrita Saigal (MBA 2014) kept hearing from friends that the “natural” diapers on the market didn’t hold up as well as the old standards, like Pampers. Trained as a mechanical engineer, Saigal knew her... View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
Christopher B. Howard, MBA 2003
area for business school. Howard’s HBS experience expanded his already broad sights. “I left feeling emboldened and empowered,” he says. His plans to join the corporate world were initially sidelined by a call to serve in Afghanistan, but... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 29 Jun 2016
- News
Women of Wall Street Tell Their Story
and the business of movies, both concepts of which were totally new to the trio. “We didn’t go into this as a vanity project,” observes Munger. “We did our due diligence first, knowing there are enormous risks involved but that they’re calculated risks.” What they... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
All Hands on Deck
observes Dean Nitin Nohria, who deferred his plans to step down as dean until December in order to lead the School through this crisis “Every day, we must make key decisions amidst significant uncertainty and with incomplete information.... View Details
Keywords: Jen Mele
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Meditations on the Bottom Line
Massachusetts, the problem is just the opposite. Once an ashram - or religious community - for 350 practitioners of a yoga-based spiritual lifestyle, Kripalu has plenty of soul. What it needs now is a business plan that will help it... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Case Study: Golden Ticket
long-term “strategy” is fun to talk about but rarely works out the way you planned it. I would focus on proving out the revenue (and profit) model and trying to get to cash flow breakeven by delighting the 200 customers. After executing... View Details
- 02 Jan 2014
- News
The Power to Change
by Ralph Ranalli Talking about his ambitious plans to create a safer, cleaner type of nuclear power plant, Russell Wilcox says, quite matter-of-factly, that he was "looking for a project that would have an impact on the world." There... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
extending the idea that information could be used not just for after-the-fact scorekeeping but for real-time managerial decision-making. In particular, he was in the vanguard of advancing the idea that information could be used to plan... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Case Study: Up in the Air
consumers can be assured of the quality and effectiveness of the resources they are procuring. It appears you plan to have a measurable way to assess the technical and soft skills of the resources: Consumers will want to know what the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
is filling a market need, and the first-year revenue response is confirmatory. Since many events like weddings are planned far in advance, I suspect that Clay can still deploy a consignment model until it builds up the needed inventory by... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges
Archdiocese of Washington. As strategist for the Washington, DC, office of the deputy mayor for planning and economic development, Lina Feng continued at the job after finishing her fellowship in 2013 and is now a student at HBS. “There... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
Minds," a venture fund launched by two HBS grads, as well as a case written by Roberts about a medical devices company. Of the cases they identify, CRC staff plan to write about ten each year, but much of their time will be spent laying... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
Group, a division of IAC/InterActive Corp, continues to grow, expected to generate $1.7 billion in revenue in 2015 and a planned IPO.) Now companies are experimenting with a freemium model. Tinder introduced its Tinder Plus in March,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
hardest assignments. He drafted plans to institute new military regulations, to reform the inspector general's office, and—most remarkably—to reorganize the entire army . Despite his emotional insecurities, he had total confidence in his... View Details