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- 01 Dec 2011
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Reimagining the MBA
entrepreneurial. And they are less hierarchical, with flatter management structures. Service and knowledge industries have overtaken traditional manufacturing businesses as the engines of growth in the West, while China and other... View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
- News
Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized
are mandated by external agencies often win out.” Unfortunately, says Bushkin, these expensive medical record systems are incompatible with each other, and patient access is often restricted by a portal View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
Schumpeter Illustration by Anita Kunz Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883–1950), an Austrian who taught at Harvard for twenty years, was “one of the greatest economists who ever lived, and an electrifying personality besides,” writes HBS professor emeritus Thomas K. McCraw... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
untested, financial system,’ one that has proven to be unexpectedly fragile in a way that nobody really understood.” This is the Harvard Business School? If the basics of the financial system are not understood here, then perhaps the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Studying Japan from the Inside
choose between two types of governance systems: the traditional Japanese system and one similar to the U.S. system. We are already seeing companies divided into two camps: Toyota, Canon, and Matsushita are saying that the Japanese View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
loyalty) into a full-fledged management system that results in extraordinary financial and competitive results. They define the fundamental concept of Net Promoter; explain its connection to a company’s growth and sustained success;... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Bright Future for Green Business
Partners — touched on several systemic problems that hold the green tech industry back. One is a failure to think about the interrelationship of resources: You can grow great biofuels, for example, but only if you have an abundant supply... View Details
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
NYC Club Hosts Nonprofits
general expectation that in a down economy many donors of necessity will be less generous just when demand for services from nonprofits will be on the upswing. As a result, several panelists predicted that many smaller nonprofits will... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
know we have the capability in McHenry to fix any problem and make that product work.” CGM has some twenty full-time U.S. employees. Although the global recession brought about downsizing at the company in 2009, it was also an opportunity to invest in state-of-the-art... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
neighborhood-based health plan for the city of Charlestown, and I became involved in building a system of benchmarks for the various services that were being offered—everything from dental care to drug and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
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Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
No sector of our economy is more in need of innovation than health care, yet its many regulations handcuff entrepreneurs. A consumer-driven health-care system will unlock these shackles to bring about a much-needed entrepreneurial... View Details
- 23 Jan 2020
- News
Bringing Education Back Home
preK-12 to bachelor’s and master’s degree programs. In 2019, the system had 1,250 students, with 370 students at the university level. Since its inception, the university has graduated 408 alumni; 292 completed a bachelor’s degree and 116... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Feb 2000
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Better Mousetraps: At Product Design Fair, Student Ideas Get Real
Kresge Hall last December, is where students present their final projects - the culmination of a semester spent learning to design and develop products and services and get them to market. "Hopefully it is here that any shortcomings in... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
proper nutrition. The project in India is Nanhi Kali, an organization dedicated to keeping underprivileged girls in school by providing academic and direct material support. Our Honduras project is focused on Central American Medical Outreach, which strengthens... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
Capitol Hill, Barney Frank, the Democratic chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, initially championed the Fed as a systemic risk regulator but more recently has expressed second thoughts. In... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Community Investment
inspired to address inconsistencies in society by working from within the system rather than pursuing more radical approaches. Joseph Schell: As we turn fifty, many of us finally have time to reflect on our life's ambitions. It's a great... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
software bus and plug applications into that." As simple as it sounds, this insight had a dramatic impact on the financial services institutions that were among Ranadivé's first customers. (TIBCO is an acronym for The Information Bus... View Details
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- 22 Oct 2013
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Pulling the Plug
decades of his career, he cofounded and ran Brooktrout, growing it to a $150-million-a-year company that designed voicemail systems when everyone else was still using cassettes. After retiring, he became CEO of Groove Mobile, the first... View Details
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- 02 Jan 2018
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Reconsidering Retirement
computer system to allow the company to reduce the costs paid to other firms—software expert Tuchman’s area—the men had to build trust with consumers used to relying on big-name financial services firms.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
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Business at the Summit
Sunday evening in a Baker Lawn “pavilion” erected for the summit’s general sessions. Nearly everyone failed to understand how much the global financial system had changed in recent years, and how fragile it had become because of... View Details