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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advanced Statistics Are the New Foam Fingers
paint a deeper picture of what we’re all seeing on the field—and leave modern fans obsessing over advanced metrics like defensive “route efficiency” and “barrel rate,” the way they used to lionize home runs and strikeouts. It’s not just... View Details
- 01 Aug 2013
- News
A Cure for Cold Storage
Michael Schrader The measles, says Vaxess CEO Michael Schrader (MBA 2012), is the perfect example of what's wrong with the modern vaccine. Despite the fact that a measles immunization has been available for more than 40 years, there are... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards: Honorees and Victories
corporate practices in his country, championing modern concepts of production and manufacturing as well as adherence to the highest standards of governance. Nancy M. Barry (MBA ’75) For fifteen years, Nancy Barry has been president of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
The Nature of Change
creating the Capstone Class came from students who were looking for a way to wrap up their business school experience. Each section invites a faculty member to lead the case discussion. The groups then reunite in their first-year classrooms. “A View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Hot Tip
something relevant.” In 2000, Nkontchou, a veteran of Andersen Consulting and Merrill Lynch, started LiquidAfrica with $250,000 of his own money and $2.5 million from Modern Africa, a Washington-based private equity fund. Among his goals... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
INK: Out of Exile
role of stories in your own life? I come from a storytelling culture. My great-grandmother’s village in Iran had almost no modern amenities, so people told stories as entertainment and to keep up with news. Then, as a refugee you have a... View Details
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Health IT at the Bedside
ordered not to eat anything in advance of a test but was still given his usual dose of insulin. At hospitals that have modern IT systems, when food is being withheld for studies, corrected insulin orders are automatically suggested in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Roads to Recovery
Step Forward: Incremental Improvement In 2000, Amtrak and the Pennsylvania Department of Trans-portation resolved to make the Pittsburgh-Philadelphia train route "auto-competitive" by 2015. That goal is within reach, thanks to modest steps such as replacing 85 miles of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Faculty Debates Lessons from Enron's Collapse
spectacular corporate failure in modern capitalism. Was this an aberration?” he questioned. “Can we draw lessons that can be applied to other corporations? What are the implications for our research and teaching?” Dean Kim B. Clark also... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
moral nuisance to a global brand-driven powerhouse offering products essential to daily life is one of the more intriguing stories in modern business history. The origins of beauty products lie primarily in local knowledge of the scents... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Outside Voices
opportunity for reform in these areas, given that the trauma of the crisis and its root causes are still within recent memory. “Voters decided to elect a government headed by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis (MBA 1995) that is aiming to View Details
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Tosh Barron (MBA 1972) grew up outside of London, studying modern dance and competing on her high school’s sports teams. After college, while teaching physical... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
They Call Him Mr. China
focused on hiring and empowering younger mainland Chinese with modern management training and experience and an open mind toward new ideas. It worked. Over the next two years, ASIMCO overhauled its management structure by bringing in more... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Savings and Loam
working-class people to earn interest on their savings, and become part owners in the process. “This is a model that was designed for stakeholder value, although people didn’t call it that 200 years ago,” Cummings notes. But there’s new resonance in the View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Vision: A Unicorn Evolves
company. “There’s a large, addressable market for sales engagement software that modernizes the workflow of customer-facing reps,” she says. “And with intelligent data in our solution, you have the potential for a winner-takes-all... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
The CEO and the Functions of Leadership
are performed to a high standard. There is a vast literature on the choices, structures, and supporting systems involved in modern management, including strategy, organization structure, planning and resource allocation, and management... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Awards Recognize Excellence
Four HBS professors have received the annual Charles M. Williams Award for outstanding teaching and contributions to student learning. The recipients are David Moss for his Creating the Modern Financial System course; Jan Rivkin for his... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Alumni Books
Belsky has compiled their most powerful (and often counterintuitive) practices, such as generating ideas in moderation, reducing all projects to just three main components, encouraging fighting within your team, and seeking competition and sharing ideas liberally.... View Details
- 08 Jan 2025
- News
Mapping Pain Points at the IRS
than any other—the Internal Revenue Service. As Chief Taxpayer Experience Officer, Tamaki is modernizing the historic agency’s processes and technology to benefit both IRS employees and taxpayers. Excerpts from a conversation with Tamaki... View Details
- 25 Mar 2019
- News
Rent The Runway Joins the Unicorn Club
milestone, CEO Jennifer Hyman (MBA 2009), told Forbes that the company “has created a new consumer behavior of dynamic ownership and clothing rental has become an essential utility in our members’ lives.” Hyman goes on to say that RTR is meeting the market’s changing... View Details