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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
for-profit, or “investor-owned,” entities, with the remaining 85 percent operated by municipalities themselves, the Environmental Protection Agency says that the U.S. water industry needs $500 billion of infrastructure investment over the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
act of innovating — though it may well appear to be the right thing to do — can kill a company. Innovation, it seems, is not simply a reactive or random activity on the path to growth, but a strategic weapon. Wielded correctly, it can put... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
Common Asset Management, Boston, Massachusetts Leaders should learn empathy and seek employees who bring greater empathy to their work. Social intelligence distinguishes a firm and leads to superior outcomes. Having diversity of perspectives expands this skill. At the... View Details
- 13 May 2025
- News
If I Knew Then
(MBA 1990), Deborah Farrington (MBA 1976), Jeremy Grantham (MBA 1966), and John Rice (MBA 1992) Photos by Susan Young READ MORE Julia Hanna: Deborah Farrington’s (MBA 1976) advice was hard-earned: ten years into her career as an View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
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One-on-One with Edwin Reed
investments in rehabbing existing houses and apartment buildings as well as ground-up construction of homes sold directly to qualified buyers. In 1982, we built the Allen Christian School (ACS), which, after a recent expansion, can now... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Path to Economic Revival
about is a discussion about strategic capabilities that need to reside within the country. Pisano: Unlike other nations, we don’t have a national economic strategy. There’s this big debate about whether we should have one. My answer is... View Details
- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
BlackBerry Messenger limit his market? Was the decision to release a touch-screen version before the phone with a physical keyboard—a favorite of the business class—a strategic error? Should he have re-focused on enterprise users? Willy... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
that the only way to create this new market was to build a huge library of content that was made specifically for mobile devices, and then pursue whatever marketing investments are necessary for people to sign on for a monthly plan of... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
Watson. In 2014, the company announced a $1 billion investment in the Watson Unit, which would advance its cognitive computing technologies in not only medicine but law and finance and government services and culinary services and on and... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
change,” says Brooks. “Rosa Parks’ civil disobedience didn’t just happen because she wanted to sit down one day; and gay marriage didn’t become legal in one day. These kinds of changes have decades of investment behind them.” The Schott... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
Development: The African Renaissance." The conference, to be held in Cape Town in March, will be a two-day intensive seminar on the economics, politics, and investment opportunities of southern Africa. It will also provide a chance to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
described as "American icons" by moderator Tom Davenport, director of the Accenture Institute for Strategic Change. Jack Duffy, SVP of corporate strategy at UPS, noted that the process of integrating technology into the company's... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
kind of leadership. “Since the investment and R&D decisions you make today are often not easily quantifiable and not coming to fruition for fifteen to twenty years, special intuition and judgment are required,” he observes. “Compared with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
CEO, having first served six months as COO. Since 9/11, it’s hard to think of a business with more growth potential than security. Even before that fateful day in 2001, GE executives made the strategic decision to build from scratch a... View Details
- 02 Sep 2021
- News
Back to School
investment banking to become a seventh-grade math teacher at Harlem West Middle School, teaching for three years before taking positions in school leadership at Success Academy Midtown West and Harlem Central Middle School. The experience... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 17 May 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
create job creators instead of job seekers through an entrepreneurship training program at the grassroots level? In a serendipitous twist, that same year, as part of an HBS alumni outreach program, Bhargava had volunteered to provide View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
performance, and strategize your growth plan. As a young company, this is valuable. It wasn’t until we were ‘in the tank’ that it all felt real, and absolutely nothing beats the feeling of the first Shark putting in an offer. Smith: “The... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
that can greatly improve local governmental services without costing taxpayers more. They discuss incorporating outcome indicators into strategic planning and budgeting; building a local government’s budget with cost drivers; expanding... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
shifts into opportunities for even greater success. In 1985, Martin Sorrell was ready for a change. He had spent nine years at Saatchi & Saatchi, helping the London-based advertising firm reach superstar status with his strategic and... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
$30,000, Norton packaged UnErase with other programs he'd written for IBM PC users, selling them under the name Norton Utilities. Norton's stock rose with IBM's, and his original investment grew into multiple millions. No longer active in... View Details