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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
One-on-One with Peter Cuneo
film’s revenues and be able to choose a release date that will enhance our sales of toys and other merchandise. What changes will be made at the company as it enters this new industry? Our Marvel Studios division has been intimately involved in the View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
and more productive workers. In this excerpt, the authors sketch out the scope of the opportunity. “Why are we ignoring the 90 percent?” This is the question with which Joe likes to start most presentations, to get the audience thinking... 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 Sep 2004
- News
Tracking a Turnaround
Levy, CEO of Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, if he would serve as the subject for a multimedia case study currently taught in the MBA Program’s General Management elective and in the AMP Executive Education program. “I told... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Faculty Books
Corporate Information Strategy and Management by Lynda M. Applegate, Robert D. Austin, and F. Warren McFarlan (Irwin/McGraw-Hill) This extensive collection of HBS cases devoted to IT gives an overview of contemporary information systems... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
confronted with setbacks. Yet in a survey of 669 managers around the world, “progress” ranked dead last as a perceived source of employee motivation, falling behind more expected (but less effective) carrots such as bonuses and... View Details
- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
on the spot, then processed, packed, and distributed the honey and related products for sale in supermarket chains. To date, the company has helped more than 9,000 small-scale beekeepers (over 45 percent of them women) and its business... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Green Dreams: Eco-Friendly Countertops
commercialized it. Since then, Magagnini and Strugatz had worked tirelessly to bring the product to market, and yet they still discarded more than they successfully manufactured. Meanwhile, Magagnini had too little time for Dante and his... View Details
- 01 Apr 2020
- News
What My Time in Vietnam Taught Me About Dealing with Shortages
nothing away from the brave men and women who brought victory in World War II to say that without the outpouring of weapons and equipment from US companies, the war might have been lost. American companies can do the same thing today to overcome the coronavirus crisis... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
help students launch and creatively manage new businesses, including both stand-alone start-ups and ventures operating within an established organization. Tripsas notes, “Whenever a firm introduces a truly novel product, it has... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Brick by Brick
Jørgen Knudstorp, just 35 years old when Kjeld promoted him from director of strategic development to CEO in 2004. Knudstorp's slow-it-down approach of managing cash carefully, focusing on core products, and reducing View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Young Alums Honored for Social Enterprise
urban and rural communities. Fenton manages programs and financial operations for New Leaders for New Schools (NLNS), a national nonprofit aimed at improving education for all children by recruiting and supporting leaders for urban public... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
was typical for an HBS Leadership Fellow. The program catapults new grads into high-level positions at nonprofit and public-sector organizations, offering access to CEO-level management and decision-making. Meanwhile, organizations... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
The Natural Advantage
After a long career in marketing and management with top U.K. and international companies, Alan Heeks (MBA 1976) turned over a new leaf in 1990. He set up the Wessex Foundation, an educational charity whose centerpiece is Magdalen Farm,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
The Eyes Have It: Business Plan Winners Pursue Global Vision
hadn't really thought about this problem until he visited Peru and noticed that hardly anybody there wore glasses. Back at HBS, in Associate Professor Stefan Thomke's elective course Managing Product... View Details
Keywords: eyeglasses
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Lessons from Private Equity
specific and focused version of the following question: ‘If I put a dollar into this capital project, am I going to get three dollars back out?’ Public company managers who apply the same analysis with working capital and cash... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
@Soldiers Field
modified by former product manager Ellen Chisa (HBS 2016). Former New Jersey Governor and EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman chatted with professor Joe Lassiter about the future of nuclear energy,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
their market? Did they miss important, competitive developments? “There’s all too often an assumption with technological products that people like you should sit back and let the technical folks do it,” says MacCormack, pointing out an... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Ready for Launch
A daily apartment cleaning service (Fresh Maid). An organizer of one-day extreme endurance events for men (Tough Mudder). A market-based solution to increase the milk production of cattle in rural India (Doodh Bhandar). These are just a... View Details
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- 15 Nov 2016
- News
China IFC: Global Access, Global Perspective
and their management teams.” The Business of Going Global, China-Style, one of six IFCs in the MBA Program’s Elective Curriculum in 2016, was designed and led by two faculty members with extensive knowledge of the region. Willy C. Shih,... View Details