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- 01 Dec 2019
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The Race Against Resistance
data, Kimble says: “We need to justify the higher prices of our drugs, and we need to do a better job of helping hospitals understand that by using a more extensive antibiotic up front compared to the older generic version that has some... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
Michael Jensen, a finance expert, how what is happening today compares to what transpired in the 1980s. A decade ago, Jensen explains, M&As; were often associated with downsizing and what he describes as "the freeing of equity trapped in... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Case Study: On the Table
Mexican firms. But Gaia Design has not grown the way that Philippe Cahuzac (MBA 2014) and his two cofounders—former coworkers at an online furniture company in Brazil—had anticipated. Compared with the United States or even Brazil, Mexico... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Straddling Two Worlds
Tierney, who moved into this comparatively luxurious setting with his wife, Susan, after he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in rural Chile for two years. But the difference between being a student at HBS and working with farmers in... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Happy Monday
decision after taking the reins at Twitter—can sharply reduce peoples’ sense of connectedness. Among employees who lacked flexibility in the Gartner survey, 18 percent reported feeling connected, compared to 53 percent of those who... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Reimagining China and India
chose to write a comparative book to better illuminate their similarities and differences. Says Khanna: “What China is good at, India is not, and vice versa. The countries are inverted mirror images of each other.” Understanding these... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs
at the end of the intensive three-week module, one student compared the experience to running a marathon. "First we stretched, then we warmed up, and then we ran," is how Dwayne Romero (HBS '97) described his nine-and-a-half-hour days... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The View from the Pit
president of Disney's global television and telecommunications businesses. Noting that compared with his generation, today's MBA students have a better sense of balance when juggling work, family, and community service, Hightower counsels... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
The awarding of “up-front” bonuses — before cash and profits from commercial endeavors — invites employees to maximize their short-term interests while compromising the company’s long-term interests. Systems of reward that ignore View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
temporarily.” Incredibly, McNamara says that the conventional wisdom about the domino theory and the question of whether U.S. troops could ever in fact prevent the loss of South Vietnam “were never debated at the government’s highest levels.” In the case of Iraq, he... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
One example is the heart surgeon Devi Shetty who started building Narayana Health, a chain of hospitals in India that are now the lowest-cost tertiary care centers in the world, with comparable quality to our hospitals here. They treat... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Labs Enable Large-scale Research
LAB The rapid advancement of the crypto sector has sometimes been compared to the early days of the internet. As the internet sprints toward a Web3 future (Web 3.0, the next iteration of the World Wide Web) that will enable users to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
little envious” when he compares the cost structure of his son’s operation with his own. “I’m a card-carrying member of the Sierra Club,” he stresses, “but I have to acknowledge that some regulations create a disincentive to manufacturing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
area and a mentor from my days at HBS. Professor Hayes had just returned from doing research in Japan and had written a white paper comparing differences in manufacturing management between American and Japanese electronics production.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
after they've contracted an illness, compared with public health's cost-effective preventive approach. I realized that public health is all about policies, systems, and distribution on a wide scale. As an investor, I could see huge... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
where people want to buy their cars,” Thomke says. “The companies can’t simply restructure their way out of their difficulties.” Thomke, an authority on the management of technology and product innovation, senses that “the culture within American firms seems different... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
took care of 1,000 children at a cost of $80 a child, which is less than $120 a child spent by comparable organizations. Even that amount of reporting would be very useful, but it is not the norm. By and large the reporting focuses on the... View Details
- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
evolution. So what makes carbon capture special? Why is it commanding so much attention and capital? JM: It really is a math problem. DM: And the big number in climate change calculations is 1.5 degrees Celsius or about 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, which is the amount of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
two full-length practice exams at the end of the book as well as a glossary. It compares and contrasts generally accepted accounting principles in the US and international financial reporting standards for every topic covered in the book.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
don’t you even think of passing off older men or second-raters. I’m asking the same thing of every major company in the country, and I’ll be watching very closely how well your men do compared to the best young men from all the other... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons