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- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
startup and reality TV aspirations, says there are only two professional, salon-level hair product brands generally available to him, and—even then—access is woefully inconsistent. “You have to be prepared to know what you’re buying,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Running on empty
the gallon or so of gasoline that typically remains in a car's fuel system even when the gas gauge reads empty, SpareTank becomes flammable, and presto, you're on your way. "It's one of the great problem-solving View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Making Finance Personal
use over engineering-driven solutions in the consumer-software space and showed that simplicity trumped bells and whistles, an important lesson for subsequent entrepreneurs in those early days of the computer and software revolutions. That cutting-edge leadership in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
James McKenney Remembered
MCKENNEY: The first information systems expert at HBS, he led its early IT efforts. HBS professor emeritus James L. McKenney,an expert in management information systems and the use of computer View Details
Keywords: Information
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
If You're #1, Watch Out
You're the top performer in your market. Your products are of such a high quality that they exceed the requirements of all but the most demanding customers, and you're the only one able to serve them. Clear sailing ahead, right? Wrong,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
“Culture Is Everything”
culture. As a student at HBS, for example, he didn’t take his courses in human behavior seriously. Now, he said, he understands that “culture is everything.” Culture, in fact, was IBM’s problem. “The behavior, values, and systems were... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
financial products are systemically risky, like credit default swaps. What would you do? My proposal is just the opposite of the Treasury’s. I would put the Fed in charge of risk monitoring because that’s... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Passion & Purpose
expertise in technology was helpful because I didn't have preconceived notions of how things should be done.” Lee transformed a struggling software sales company into a global provider of IT products and services. Under her leadership,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Corruption 101
Corruption doesn't announce itself with a capital C. It is subtler and thornier than that—as one HBS student learned the hard way during a recent summer internship in Tanzania. In a new case detailing his experience, the student struggles to navigate the View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968
and War, by Nathaniel Philbrick In 1979, Mal Mixon parlayed $10,000 of his own money to engineer the purchase of an Ohio-based wheelchair maker that nobody else wanted. Today Invacare is the world's leading manufacturer and distributor of medical View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Primer on Patents
product and so-called paper competitors who have intellectual property rights but aren’t involved in the industry in any real sense. This abuse of the system certainly wasn’t what the Founding Fathers had in... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
The Eyes Have It: Business Plan Winners Pursue Global Vision
It is estimated that one billion people around the world need vision correction but don't have glasses because they are too expensive or simply unavailable. The resulting losses in productivity and self-sufficiency may reach as much as... View Details
Keywords: eyeglasses
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
to help, has the government unwittingly created the mother of all moral hazards — implicit rescue guarantees as far as the eye can see? No doubt about it, says HBS professor and economic historian David Moss. “The extension of implicit guarantees to all View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar
Global Financial System: A Functional Perspective, which analyzes the world's financial institutions, Professor Merton addressed seminar participants - including HBS faculty, research associates, and students - on behalf of the School's Global Financial View Details
Keywords: Elizabeth McNair
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Where Innovation Rules
Kiva Systems Intuit Angie’s List Rakuten athenahealth Pandora Bloomingdale's and Gilt Groupe Social Finance Innovation is the real business of Harvard Business School. It begins with the School’s bias toward action, as embodied in its... View Details
- 06 Aug 2020
- News
Defining Flex Work
companies understand their employees’ needs and best respond to them. There is no a one-size-fits-all solution to the flexibility question, says Auerbach. Werk assesses each employee and recommends a schedule most likely to maintain View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Opinion: Making It Better
Image by Jezper by Regina E. Herzlinger Health care now represents some 18 percent of the American economy. With its costs continuing to rise, and with tens of millions uninsured, we in the United States are understandably preoccupied with our own View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Noted & Quoted
Michael Porter on health-care reform strategy (New England Journal of Medicine, July 9, 2009). “There are relatively fewer and fewer consumers willing to pay a premium or suffer a deficit in product quality in order to be patriotic and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Energy: A Future of Lower Energy Prices
of healthy, albeit relatively slow, economic growth in the developed world and increasing urbanization in developing economies, we expected to see growing demand for oil and natural gas and a subsequent price spike. We saw the growing demand, but as soon as prices... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Buy the Book
as a sublime integration of operations and marketing,” says Deighton, who taught the case to MBAs for the first time this fall in the elective course Consumer Marketing. “Patterson understands that if you want shelf space you need to publish a lot of books; that you... View Details