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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
is that bad guys have so much data that they just haven’t gotten to yours,” says Thomas. It’s easy to steal your credit card. “The only hard part is using it without tipping anybody off.” There is evidence of the relative ease of these crimes in the View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
intense pricing wars by electronics chains and discount department stores destabilized account bases." Some record executives have admitted to losing touch with their audiences and to alienating consumers by relentlessly pursuing and... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
part of Harvard's “American Secretaries of State Project” that Sebenius and Mnookin have co-directed since 2014 with Nicholas Burns (now U.S. Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China). War in Ukraine: Soaring Gas Prices and the Return... View Details
- 07 Apr 2021
- News
Road Work
conceptually I do not want it to be about me. In fact, there's not even a picture of me without a helmet on right now, nor is my name mentioned yet because I'm still grasping with how much I want to expose myself, quite frankly. But I want this to be what I... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
subscribers in financial services and the media who pay more than $1,000 a month to lease them. Just sixteen years after leaving a partnership position at Salomon Brothers, Bloomberg is outpacing more established competitors to make his... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
Harlan County disappeared between 2008 and 2016. Today, Harlan households earn less than half the national median income, and the unemployment rate is nearly 60 percent higher than the national rate. And like many rural communities across... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
entire supply chain, from purchasing thread to delivering finished goods complete with price tags to individual stores. William Fung (MBA 1972) and his older brother, Victor (PhD 1971), who taught at HBS for four years, are the third... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
positive reinforcement to maximize discretionary effort; find out what’s really going on, increase intensity of feedback, learning and knowledge sharing, and understand and address resistance to change. Stay at Risk and Live Forever By Byron Wien (MBA 1956) and Taylor... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
second senior advisor delivered some further bad news. The higher the teaching ratings you get, he told Sahlman, the more likely you won’t be promoted. Come again? Entrepreneurship is amorphous. It’s storytelling. And storytelling is... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
achieve price parity with diesel trucks in 2023, five years sooner than previously forecasted. This is leading to big investments by EV battery manufacturers in the US, as well as fleet electrification investment opportunities. While most... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
markets in bulk and get better prices for everyone. But such entrepreneurs seemed to figure only vaguely in the Rwandan government’s plans, and I couldn’t figure out why. Why take the riskier co-op approach? My mind started to wander. As... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
inputs that are 19 percent cheaper," says Masha. "We get them the knowledge to increase their yields up to three times the national average, and sell their produce for about 37 percent higher than what they can get themselves." When Masha... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
so one of the advantages of being in a conglomerate is you can see trends earlier, right? So if you go back to 2004 and 2005, I could see, like, energy efficiency in our appliance business. I could see fuel efficiency in our jet engine business. I could see green... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Meal Plan
to pay for high levels of service at the front of the house may decrease. And there’ll be additional costs to maintain that level of service due to the decreased capacity demanded by social distancing. There could be higher compensation,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
into a product affects how easy it will be to market. There’s always this idea of feature creep that leads to adding bells and whistles. But every time you add bells and whistles, chances are you’re also adding costs. The ideal situation is one with the same cost and... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
gamer, the coder, the hacker—all stereotypically male. Recent statistics give some truth to that image. In 2014, Google reported that 7 out of every 10 of its then 48,600 employees were men. The number was even higher among its engineers... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
made it far enough to launch a spring and fall collection and received widespread media coverage. The brand was slowly starting to gain traction with customers, too. But by the end of 2012, the startup—running low on cash and plagued by... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
of doing any business with you? My bank adviser can guarantee higher returns than you can.” Such was the investment climate in India during the spring of 2007 as Dhruv Agarwala and Kartik Varma (both MBA ’02) attempted to get their... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
proposed new regulations: higher capital requirements; leverage limits; FDIC-like insurance charges; and, when all else fails, a receivership process to restructure, sell, or liquidate a failing company. Bottom line, no firm should be too... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
Motivation leads to higher performance in iconic companies, from Apple and Starbucks to Southwest Airlines. Most importantly, they teach how to build great cultures, using a systematic and sustainable approach. Can These Bones Live? A... View Details