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- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Terrorism, Insurance, and Uncle Sam
have long understood that private markets for risk don't always function adequately on their own, Moss said, adding that "involving the federal government in the management of terror-related risks would in no way constitute a radical... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
learned about the effects of one-to-one tutoring—that in a live environment with one great teacher and one student, you get amazing outcomes relative to group instruction. The challenge is that we can't afford one great teacher for each... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International
its pragmatic use of the profit motive and market mechanisms to make a sustainable, self-perpetuating, and effective impact on the lives of poor people. When the ACCION opportunity came along, it forced me... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Designing Change
Hill, who expects the case to be taught in Marketing and Organizational Behavior courses as well as in design schools. “Most of our change-management cases focus on a CEO or senior leader, not a middle manager, and few consider how to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
New Releases
technology is having on business practices. Drawing from papers presented at the 1995 HBS colloquium "Multimedia and the Boundaryless World," the 24 authors - many of whom are HBS faculty members - observe the effects new technologies are... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
effective on several levels. Nina B. Shapiro (MBA '76), a senior official at the World Bank, completed the program in August. As director of the Project Finance and Guarantees Department, she is in charge of implementing the Bank's effort... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Fred Lazarus: Art Work at the Office
wasn't just a school - it was a business, where one could apply business concepts such as fiscal management and marketing strategies. However, he also had to remember that a nonprofit was a very different kind of operation from most... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey Lazar
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
that angioplasties and bypass surgeries are funded. Despite compelling statistics that show preventive measures are far more effective and would cost much less than the $2 billion Medicare spends on those surgical procedures each year,... View Details
- 21 Jan 2021
- News
New Menu
In 2018, Andrew D. Ive (MBA 1997) launched Big Ideas Ventures to find and support the entrepreneurs positioned to mitigate the effects of climate change and help the world adapt to the realities of a warming planet. The firm’s first fund... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade
Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez The Los Angeles–based startup Stell was borne of a pain point almost as old as recorded history itself: paperwork. One of Stell’s cofounders, Malory McLemore (MBA 2022), had landed a job as an engineer at Airbus after earning a... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
The Influence of Geography on Work and Innovation
Illustration by VectorStock As a doctoral student at HBS, Prithwiraj “Raj” Choudhury identified a little-studied phenomenon in innovation: Managers from emerging markets who migrated to the United States for jobs at multinational... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Double Vision
The rise of the "second screen"—watching TV while also surfing on smartphones or tablets—would seem to be bad for advertisers, stealing precious eyeballs from their pitches. Not so, says Thales Teixeira, an assistant professor in the View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Vision: A Unicorn Evolves
product sped up the process of creating and following up on sales pitches, which resulted in 10 times more meetings for GroupTalent’s two sales reps, Medina says. But the influx of interest overwhelmed the small startup, and they were unable to View Details
- 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
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
exactly had happened to the 62-year-old icon. It was a massive professional challenge: Morgan Flatley (MBA 2004), who was hired as chief marketing officer last April, says that part of the reason she was excited about the gig was the... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
Arizona, give their CEO updates on their respective projects via video chat. There are more than a dozen reports, covering everything from marketing to engineering to HR. Some are brief, some—a disagreement over a potential... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
intense, markets tend to form, with supply responding to demand, in spite of controversy. Thus, with the potentially huge, lucrative, and beneficial industry that could emerge from embryonic stem-cell research, the question seemingly... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
economy to a market economy. Many foreign investors have expressed renewed interest in Mongolia due to its rich natural resources (e.g., copper, gold, coal, uranium) and its strategic geographic location relative to its neighbors, China... View Details
- 19 Aug 2010
- News
Catchphrases, Mottos, and Cheers
fish” as a mantra. On some wall on campus we found a stuffed fish and used that in our class picture. Man, were we wild or what! OPM 17's favorite saying is “Look at the fish.” The first paper we read in Marty Marshall’s marketing class... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
A Legacy of Support
Robert’s memory of that time is filled with emotion: “I walked into Ted Levitt’s Marketing class, saw ‘Jonathan Ariel Kraft, March 4, 1964’ written on the board, and received a standing ovation. It’s a moment I will never forget.” The... View Details