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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Noted & Quoted
Record, July 4, 2010) “You may be Procter & Gamble and selling soap, but if you are in India you may also have to do housing.” — HBS professor Tarun Khanna talking about why Western companies should consider making social investments a View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Case Study: Moment in the Sun
worries about losing focus on the hospitality business. The other side of that: If those pilots prove successful, they could open up a new core business. And with the market getting crowded—with heavies like Samsung and Philips making... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Case Study: Alumni Advice for a Health Care Startup
proposition and pricing because the Wellthy solution is so much more robust? The Answers: Like many startups, Wellthy is trying to change the conversation and the basis of competition in its market—with its product, its positioning, and its View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Case Study: On the Table
When I worked for Ford Motor Company years ago, we partnered with UPS quite successfully for supply chain and logistics improvements. They should focus on their core business and let the experts help with logistics and supply chain.... View Details
- 26 Jan 2015
- News
The Ingredients for Success
have embedded authority from my age, so I had to earn their respect,” Markowitz explains. The job also helped her begin to develop a core value: “I try to respect everyone as a human being. You can’t succeed unless you understand all... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Summing Up the New Students
Ave. that it sunk in.” Levana Sani Jakarta, Indonesia CV: Research officer, Genome Institute of Singapore “My background is in biochemistry, so I took the HBX CORe course over the summer to build my finance skills. I imagined myself... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Up by the Roots
who used to work with Hsu’s father are retiring, and younger generations seem less interested in farming. But even as aunts and uncles retire, Hsu counts another kind of family among his core team of roughly 100 employees. Like Hsu, they... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 21 Jun 2022
- News
Banquet Brings Latino Alumni Back Together; Dallas Club Marks 75 Years with a Look Ahead
high quality of life, and an exceptionally welcoming local culture, combined with growth-friendly public policies are at the core of the boom in Dallas, according to Clark. The discussion also touched upon some key trends in job creation,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 14 Feb 2019
- News
Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change
and Chief Investment Strategist of GMO, LLC, who has pledged $1 billion of his own wealth to fighting climate change through the Grantham Foundation. “Time is not on our side. We should act as if we are desperate,” he said. “We are desperate—but we act blasé.” At the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs
- virtually an HBS case study itself in logistics management. According to one planner, Foundations core design team member Stever Robbins (MBA '91), coordinating 253 individual schedules and the needs of six sets of faculty members while... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
socially responsible Working Assets Money Market Fund. Working Assets Funding Service emerged from the fund entity in 1988 and now operates various enterprises, with telecommunications as its core service. The company purchases... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.
grown into the company's second biggest-selling product. But before Vasella could accomplish any of this, he had to reconcile the diverse cultures of Sandoz and Ciba-Geigy. His first task was to define the new company's mission, values, and View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Can't Knock the Hustle
scavenger hunt—was repeated at HBS in November, with clues left around campus to draw attention to the case and its creators. This so-called HBS Showcase initiative will periodically spotlight new cases by dramatizing some of their central elements, just as the HBS... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Case Study: Farming It Out
versus Apple terms: Should AGR adopt a Microsoft Windows–style ecosystem, where it focuses on its core platform (Burro) but shares data with partners that could build out additional tools? Or should it take the Apple approach of owning... View Details
- 30 May 2024
- News
Women’s Association Goes Nationwide; Connecticut Club Hosts Beshears
2024. The launch marks the culmination of a two-year organizing effort by a core team of alumnae, working closely with HBS, to expand the former HBS Women’s Association of New York (HBSWANY) from a local alumni club to an association... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
other unglamorous things we have to do just right every day, that's hard to duplicate." After more than a decade of doing the right things every day, Shafir is still a very hands-on entrepreneur. With the company's core bulk shipment... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
At Your Service
Frei and Morriss: No heroics, please—partner with customers to make strategic service choices instead of trying to be the best at everything. In their new book, Uncommon Service: How to Win by Putting Customers at the Core of Your... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
technical training for its long-tenured tool-and-die professionals. “We are now a core group, and for anything beyond that we bring in people on a project and per-hour basis,” Chirchirillo explains. “We are doing more just-in-time work;... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
organizations. That may sound like standard practice today, but ten years ago a lot of nonprofit leaders were deeply suspicious of “suits” showing up with advice lifted wholesale from the for-profit arena. They had tried that before, and it didn’t work. Bradach and... View Details
- 26 Oct 2015
- News
Ron Johnson’s Post-Penney’s Rebirth
first aired during the Oscars, represented an elegant solution to the problem of rampant discounting, albeit one that none of the company’s customers, many of them coupon-loving senior citizens, had asked for. "We insulted the core... View Details