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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
our capital so that we can get a return on it. Potentially, we can even garner some strategic advantage from the relationships.” When evaluating offshore deals, cost saving isn’t the primary motivating factor, explains Breyer of Accel... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
boarding school,” says Clay. “They’ve entrusted you with their prized possession and expect you to manage it properly.” Once the owners have settled on a home for their horse, the farm manages the syndication process for a fee, selling... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
They also detail how the city's business leaders stepped in to begin the slow, arduous process of creating new organizations, strategies, and alliances that eventually turned Cleveland into a vibrant commercial center. As part of... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
very well-crafted campaign to portray the music in a certain way." Part of the process involves educating the label's entire staff about the artist. "You have to get everybody really excited and proud to represent this person or group,"... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, it’s Dan. Today, we are sharing a brief excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, the critically-acclaimed podcast from my colleagues at Harvard Business School. Each episode, HBS professors Bill Kerr... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
turn back. “This historic reform process will not stop,” Long observed. Advice for Business and Investors The rapid pace of change not only creates new opportunities, it shapes new ways of doing business. In a session titled “Modes of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
one-cup feedings per day costs $20.95 — more than most grocery brands but a manageable sum for customers who value the convenience of automatic shipments that make taking care of the family dog as easy as peeling the top off a SmartPak.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
’59), and was moderated by PBS’s Charlie Rose. Whitman, former CEO of eBay, noted that most Americans are “deeply afraid” as they watch energy and food costs rise and their retirement accounts shrink. More must be done, she said, to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
A New Approach to Contact Tracing
implemented a tried and tested tool to help contain infectious disease: human-led contact tracing, the process of tracking down and notifying individuals who have been exposed to the illness. Singapore’s Ministry of Health (MOH) used... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
whole portfolio, relocated one of the company's major factories, and reviewed every element of the cost structure. Whirlpool offered a front-row seat for the dramatic changes under way in Brazil's economy. "When the middle class really... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
visits a noodle shop with an unnecessarily long wait, for example, she’ll reengineer the process in her mind: move the food there, put one employee here instead of two to reduce the line by half. “I’m pretty sure the owner would not... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
Dreyer’s and ice-encrusted competitors’ brands. Today, it means Dreyer’s is still in charge of its in-store inventory. To help cover the high cost of its company-owned trucks, Dreyer’s over the years has formed partnerships to distribute... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
group of small businesses and nonprofits that could benefit from MBA talent. Now in the process of hiring an executive director, the nonprofit connects service-minded MBA students from 20 schools with community organizations that need... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
Dean Light, the only participant who appeared on all three panels, gave an overview of the market events leading up to the crisis and outlined a three-part process for dealing with it. Using the metaphor of an emergency room, Light... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
to the trade group Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), only one of 5,000 to 10,000 experimental compounds make it to FDA approval, and just 2 of the 10 that get that approval produce enough revenue to exceed the View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
In addition to its growth in manufacturing, India began grabbing headlines in the United States a few years ago for its sudden surge as a center of offshore IT work and business process outsourcing (BPO), industries unto themselves that... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
high-tech approach to managing information on the soil composition of pastures and the quality and yield of beef from various genetic combinations. Each calf is tagged at birth and tracked through its life cycle. After it's been humanely slaughtered and View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
1981. The School's Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration, Herzlinger is the author of seven best-selling books, including her landmark volume Market-Driven Health Care (1997), which analyzed the revolutionary impact of consumer awareness, View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
making the process too complicated and focusing on the BSC process rather than the outcome. Dead Eye Trilogy by Burt Avedon (MBA 1950) An action-adventure retelling of Avedon’s life, chronicling almost 100... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
formative years, his decorated career, and his postwar life. Sail the World: Everything You Need to Know to Circumnavigate the Globe by Erick A. Reickert (MBA 1965) CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Reickert explains the whole View Details