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- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
it's supposed to." Bower continues: "Theoretically, when an industry has excess capacity, prices fall and the least efficient producers can't survive." But, Bower adds, that doesn't always happen. "In many countries, for all sorts of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Seeing glass in a new light
Rao Mulpuri (AMP 171, 2006) wants to transform the building industry by disrupting a common product: glass. View Dynamic Glass brings smart windows to buildings, and is gaining rapid adoption in North America—the California-based company... View Details
- 08 May 2015
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Adopting a common language can strengthen global companies
Multinational firms are increasingly mandating a common language—typically English—to gain efficiencies and enhance collaboration overall. Associate Professor Tsedal Neeley has discovered, however, that merely mandating a common language... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
It was wonderful to see so many of you at the recent Global Alumni Conference in Cape Town, South Africa. Critical to the mission of the School, these annual events provide networking opportunities while offering a dynamic continuing... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Putting on the Wheels
the development of new economies and profoundly improve the prospects for those countries. "By starting fresh in Eisenach," Hughes explains, "we were able to introduce lean manufacturing processes to workers who were ready for a new approach. Eisenach is today the most... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
to previous administrations,” he notes. “There is a huge opportunity to reframe the debate.” Part of that debate could argue that support for green technology might jump-start a dynamic new industry to help boost a moribund economy. Says... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Globalization Revisited
should become “global” by standardizing the production, distribution, and marketing of their products across all countries. Sameness meant efficiency and would be more profitable than difference. From economies of scale would flow... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
good ROI.” Diniz began to brainstorm with Paulo Puterman, a friend studying to get his PhD in biotechnology at the University of São Paulo who also happened to be focused on the highly efficient elephant grass/electricity equation. “After... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
stage in the early 1990s, the computer industry's balance of power -- economic and strategic -- was changed forever. As Baldwin and Clark explain, "The architecture of modularity partitions designers' efforts and efficiently coordinates... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
The last few months have been exciting ones at the School. We have witnessed the announcement of a new Harvard president, sponsored another dynamic Global Alumni Conference, welcomed club officers along with current and emeriti board... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Private Equity under Investigation
efficiency of capital markets, the opaqueness of the groups’ operations, and the abuse of inside information. It is hard not to feel that history is repeating itself. For not only is this investigation sure to fatten the profit pools of... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
trading has been beneficial. Derivatives serve as a form of sophisticated "adapters," he said, linking economic systems together and helping to bring about a unified world economy. They have also brought about vast reductions in costs by connecting these systems with... View Details
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
the development via NASA to an era where industry leads has sped up the pace of growth and primed the space sector for investment. Co-founder of space technology company Escape Dynamics and a longtime investor in the industry, Garriott de... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Books
clear that innovative accounting and control tools are needed to implement strategy appropriate to the business dynamics of the 21st century. He offers important new techniques such as profit wheel analysis (integrating profit planning,... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
also brought about change. In 1874, Dun placed an order with E. Remington and Sons for 100 of the newfangled machines at a cost of $55 each, assuring the future of the young, struggling company. After that, a report could be typed and mailed out directly—an View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
All in the Family
make sense of family-business dynamics. The School has made further strides in the past six years with courses, cases, and conferences designed to explore the frustrating yet fascinating dynamics that make family businesses among the most... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
space startups, one giant leap for space exploration. Video Embed Blue Origin’s historic November launch. Arianne Cornell is visible at ~1:08, midscreen with binoculars in hand. This promise of cost savings and efficiency has long been... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
business backstage. This book provides an overview of both the product on stage and the industry that makes it possible. While the industry’s product has unique supply and demand characteristics, it is still an industry, with economic inputs, business models,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
back to basics," said Bruce Harreld (MBA '75), SVP of strategy at IBM. "Our goal is to increase the efficiency of organizational systems by creating software that remaps how processes work together." Steven Elterich, president of Fidelity... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
Tatsuyuki Saeki: Putting Stock in New Options at Nasdaq Japan Edwin Yu: Bidding on the Future Khoo Teng Chye: Technology Turnaround in Singapore Jimmy Lai Chee-ying: Rags, Riches, and Risk William K.L. Fung (MBA 1972): E-Commerce and View Details