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- 28 Mar 2019
- News
California Alumni Explore Role of Capitalism in Addressing Climate Change
discussion concluded that making money couldn’t be the only reason for business to tackle the problem “To say we should stop climate change because we can make money misses an important part of the answer,” she said. “Without purpose, even if you have a business View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Entrepreneurship at HBS
Presidents' Organization, is in its 44th year. The materials and courses our faculty have developed are widely used in entrepreneurship programs all over the world. Last year HBS Publishing sold some 175,000 cases in entrepreneurship as... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
A Roaring Success in the Windy City
taking participants through case studies of Southwest Airlines, Enterprise Rent-a-Car, and Neutrogena Soap, Professor Michael E. Porter discussed his latest research on strategy. Rather than choosing to "run the same race faster" by... View Details
- 02 Nov 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
Korea, and Singapore, as role models for what he hopes to achieve. “Across the countries in Africa, roughly 5 percent of the population has completed university. We want to be part of the catalyst of taking that to 20, 30, even 40 percent in a generation or two,” he... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 05 May 2022
- News
Lesson Plans
in the middle of Silicon Valley, I believe it was the first case of community spread in the United States. It was that weekend of the first week of March, California Public Schools were going to shut down. And so, we started stress... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
adds. “They’re not getting in our way, and to the degree they can, they are being helpful on things that we would not have had access to as a smaller brand, such as introductions to certain international distributors.” Kim and Coup say that, despite their scrutiny of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
they work to peel away a portion of the consumer decision-making process, the way Birchbox offered women a new way to sample new beauty products from a variety of cosmetics and fragrance companies, without having to go to the Revlon or Estée Lauder store. In a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
beginning of the last great surge in oil and gold prices. That fact alone provides a powerful justification for the study of financial history. From The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson. Reprinted by arrangement with The Penguin... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
number of talented women attracted to the sector, Groysberg says. And he sees a moment of opportunity for smart tech businesses to turn inclusiveness into a competitive advantage when competing for talent and investments. Tech cofounder Michelle Zatlyn makes the strong... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
one was surprised. On the retail side, the large discount chains — WalMart and Target in particular — had steadily taken market share from specialty toy stores, in some cases using toys as a loss leader to pull in traffic. The ripple... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
beginning a distinguished two-decade academic career that culminated in his appointment, beginning July 1, as the School’s tenth Dean at age 48. A specialist in organizational behavior and leadership, Nohria has coauthored or coedited sixteen books and written dozens... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 24 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Beau D'Arcy (MBA 2010)
other person's shoes. Every case study that we read forced us to think about difficult business situations from the perspective of protagonists such as CEOs, engineers, accountants, and even celebrities or athletes. Before every meeting... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
World’s Financial System by Michael Pakaluk and Mark Cheffers (MBA ’90) (Allen David Press) Filled with case studies, anecdotes, examples, and historical reflections, this book raises key questions like: Did accounting irregularities help... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
(INSEAD), today’s leading European business school. Scaling each of these peaks, Doriot bucked the prevailing system. Although he helped implement HBS’s famous case study method early in his teaching career, after the war Doriot... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
concessions from employers and insurance companies on the one hand and labor on the other that were not the case even ten or fifteen years ago. A breakthrough appears possible, and Massachusetts may show the way. Recalls Fleishman, “Not... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
commercial operation." "Big budget museums don't have a lot of financial leeway," adds HBS professor William J. Poorvu, treasurer and trustee of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, who has written a case about this quirky Boston... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
school districts fail to improve, and what can we do about it?” Coyne describes the system that has generated the challenges we face today and illustrates them with a number of case studies, based on his unique perspective as an... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
back to the studio to use as they wish, giving the creators ownership of their IP. “When HBS writes the case about Quibi, one of the things I’m sure they’ll talk about is this decision to not compete with our suppliers,” Toubassy says.... View Details
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Wired for Innovation
congestion. “By rolling out the welcome mat for innovators,” he wrote, “we can begin to put a dent in what can otherwise seem like an intractable problem.” Skelly says that HBS, especially the case method, helped him to forge his own... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Doing Something Real
BowlÐsized audience for $1,000 - instead of $1 million - per spot." Such bargain hunting has always appealed to Tobias, who buys just about everything in bulk and is rumored to stockpile toothpaste and tuna fish by the case lot.... View Details
Keywords: Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)