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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Slam Dunk
they are known, say they intend to emulate the standards of community involvement set by New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft (MBA '65) and his family, especially with regard to children's issues and education. View Details
- 24 Jul 2020
- News
Reimagining Chicago’s Schools
Photo courtesy of Melissa Zaikos Back in 2011, when Melissa Zaikos (MBA 2000) began digging deeply into the standardized test scores of the Chicago Public Schools, she saw some concerning trends. Elementary schools, she thought, seemed to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Touting Green Energy’s Potential
he said, to create a green energy industry that has the potential to be much larger than telecom. Key elements are legislation that is raising the fuel-efficiency standards of cars from 25 mpg to 35 mpg; providing $80 billion in stimulus... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Yla Eason (MBA 1977)
would be difficult. But the toy business is a serious, cutthroat industry. Later, my experience building Olmec Toys would be documented in an HBS case. I was working as an editor at Standard and Poor’s when I started Olmec. I had no... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Using IT to Heal U.S. Health Care
and cutting death rates. Brailer’s challenge is to create electronic recordkeeping standards for the medical profession and to fund construction of the computer network necessary to store and share patient data. Said Brailer: “Health-care... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Case Study: Alumni Advice for a Health Care Startup
how should it price and position its offering? Current eldercare/EAP solutions use a standard per-employee, per-month pricing structure (usually $0.30 or less). Should Wellthy use this standard pricing... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Honorable Mention
HBS Business Plan Contest, and the organizer of the High Growth Career Fair, was hailed by Clark for his understanding of "the process of setting high standards and empowering others." The Dean's Award, which was conceived during the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Innovation Imperative
of a major research project that addresses whether rapidly growing Chinese universities will set the world standard for excellence in the 21st century. When I talked with Nohria recently about the year ahead for HBS, I asked him to assess... View Details
- 18 Jan 2012
- News
Survey Reveals Depths of US Competitiveness Problem
“the ability of companies in the United States to compete successfully in the global economy while supporting high and rising living standards for Americans.” While HBS alumni widely shared a negative view of the country’s competitive... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Raymond A. Baxter: Sweet Smell of Success
operational systems has resulted in a 99.9 percent compliance rate in order fulfillment; it is also the only baking company in North America to be registered ISO 9001, the highest standard for quality systems in food processing. Cookies,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Racial Bias Pervades Health Care
cites a library full of studies (some his own) as well as his own personal experiences to document that minorities receive a lower standard of health care than do white men. For example, he writes, African Americans receive fewer... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Mario A. Corti: Global Reconnaissance
defining Web-based standards for global commerce. Last spring, amid a flurry of acquisitions by competitors, Corti didn't rule out similar moves by Nestlé. "But for the most part," he notes, "we are in the areas where we want to compete,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
employees of the chairman and CEO. Ethical Discipline What Skilling and chairman Kenneth Lay failed to understand as leaders is that compliance with espoused ethical and legal standards is an organizational achievement. Or to put it... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advanced Statistics Are the New Foam Fingers
and RBIs—is WAR (wins above replacement). What was once a weird new metric, which caused panic among traditionalists, has become industry standard shorthand for assessing player value. “If anyone tries to explain how WAR is calculated, it... 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 Dec 2010
- News
Eight Join HBS Faculty
accounting information affects economic outcomes, specifically, how accounting standards and corporate disclosures influence capital allocation decisions. Yu’s work has been cited in the New York Times. She earned her Ph.D. from the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Former HBS Dean Fouraker Dies at 74
and unshakable integrity. His dedication to quality and the high standards he set in everything he did strengthened the School immeasurably for all who followed in his path." Lawrence Edward Fouraker was born in Bryan, Texas, on October... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
American life. New technologies, such as the cell phone and BlackBerry, came to be viewed as necessities. Firms selling small luxuries, such as Starbucks, which created an enormous market for specialty coffee, grew to rival the size of more View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
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Barbie: Reviving a Cultural Icon at Mattel
in their products and communication, especially as part of a transformation. Enter Barbie, which had been grappling throughout the 2000s with softer sales as a result of perceptions of problematic beauty standards and gender stereotypes.... View Details
- 24 Feb 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Palm Beach
the Dean. "If you look at the billions of people lifted out of poverty, the standard of living we have created, the kinds of jobs we've created it all came from the enormous force for good that is business." This powerful idea paved the... View Details