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- 01 Mar 2009
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The Case for Studying Financial History
the point of the book was to explain where this extraordinary system came from and to explain it component by component so that readers could understand the financial system as the product of history, and as one of the key factors in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
software. So when a family friend suggested that Marietta use talent from eastern Kentucky instead, he promptly set up a pilot office in Letcher County, just northeast of Harlan, and hired four recent high school graduates who had completed a media View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Additional alumni books for your consideration.
Top by Neil Giarratana (MBA ’65) (Career Press) Giarratana lays out a top executive’s priorities — the key areas that must be handled well — and explains in detail how to do it. He offers advice on such critical tasks as ending divisive office politics, fast-tracking... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
people in real life and laughing with them. The virtual world is here to stay, but nothing replaces the beauty of communal physical spaces.” —Aishetu Fatima Dozie (MBA 2002) “I’ve learned that it’s doable and productive but doesn’t feel... View Details
- 12 Mar 2019
- News
Acting Naturally
Karina Birch (OPM 49, 2017) is CEO of Rocky Mountain Soap Company, based in Alberta, Canada. In this interview, she explains how the mission, culture, and products of her company are blended together. “I was 24 years old and right out of... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
are some ways forward, says Fuller. Companies might need to embrace automation technologies that can help reduce labor hours per unit, an approach Fuller has seen start to take hold in the garment industry. There could be regulatory aid,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Myth of Laissez-Faire
argues has set in rather silently since the 1970s. With Ronald Reagan spinning in his grave, Madrick, a wonderfully passionate contrarian, argues that we’ve been brainwashed to believe that more government and higher taxes translate to lower View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Manufacturing: The Supply Chain Goes High Tech
must now be more cost competitive, in both domestic and foreign markets. Meanwhile, the explosion of digital technology has forced manufacturing to look at its competitive advantage not just in terms of cost competitiveness, but also in the way the sector defines View Details
- 20 Apr 2016
- News
Steps to Success
the oats for Cheerios,” she remembers. “I had the great fortune to go to headquarters periodically, and decided to move to the marketing division.” She spent most of her time in the company’s Big G Division, working with products such as... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
process is the product,” Bohmer confirms. “It’s much more than a piece of paper.” Next, Kaplan and his team introduce the Toyota Production System (TPS), which transforms the hospital’s health-care delivery model. How those enormous... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Five Honored for Missions Accomplished
complete profile. As Yahoo! president, entrepreneur Sue Decker led the company’s global business operations, including sales, product, product marketing, and distribution. Since leaving Yahoo! in April 2009, she spent the past academic... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Toy Story
centered on quality, FAO Schwartz now focuses on higher-end toys. The company is also designing its own products with its own brand and has acquired a children’s clothing company. The chain is now down from forty stores to just three, in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
production and exports. As a member of the entrepreneurs union and chief of its economic commission, I am quite active in the ongoing work of labor and government relations to better our economic... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
The School that Donham Built
campus on the banks of the Charles. “Dean Donham was an extraordinarily innovative and productive leader,” says Dean Nitin Nohria. “Many iconic HBS elements—including our mission, residential campus, case method teaching, the Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
manufactured consumer goods first used the union label as a way to show solidarity through their purchases. One hundred years later, men and women, and even teenagers, organized to protest sweatshop production in various countries around... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Meal Plan
example, so people didn’t have to take public transit. We also invented some new product and business models. One brand in the Boston area is Life Alive Organic Café. It’s a plant-based, fast-casual concept that’s very health-oriented.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Starting Lineup: Upturning Travel
in 2011 “The best way to book bus tickets,” aggregating information on a half-million bus routes in 63 countries. Winner of the 2014 Alumni New Venture Competition’s Best Investment category, Busbud has debuted a product that allows third... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Real Conflict
economic pie available to be divided among its various stakeholders, instead of just slicing up a fixed pie in a way that favors one group over another. Consider, for example, the conclusions of the McKinsey Global Institute’s study of U.S. View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire
Giants of Enterprise: Seven Business Innovators and the Empires They Built (HarperBusiness), a new book by HBS professor Richard S. Tedlow, presents fascinating biographical essays of seven men whose products and practices have... View Details
- 21 Aug 2017
- News
The Principles That Divide Us Might Be Greater Than Those That Bind Us Together
our country. They appear more inclined to fight for what they believe than to try to figure out how to get beyond their disagreements to work productively based on shared principles.” While Dalio concludes that he sees no immediate... View Details