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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
System, a building set for preteen girls. Ello immediately won praise from toy industry insiders and has since become a hit for Mattel. Based upon the success of the Ello project, Mattel’s chairman and CEO, Robert Eckert, enthusiastically... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Balanced Scorecard and Beer Game Go High-Tech
Investing in HBS Great Expectations Model Teamwork Donor Spotlight FIELD 2: Global Intelligence FAQ For one day last November, it was every hand on deck and every eye on screen inside the war room set up by... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Taking Tailoring High Tech
the Boutique Online Shoptiques founder Olga Vidisheva (MBA 2011) offers all the technical tools and support a small shop needs to get started in the e-commerce world and a one-stop boutique shopping portal for customers. Thinking Inside... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Off Script
top posts at Schering-Plough and Wyeth. Are there structural reforms that could be implemented in the drug industry to lower the market-driven price of drugs? Forcing pharma firms to invest in R&D a minimum percentage of the sales of any... View Details
- 18 Apr 2011
- News
Capitalism Meets Conservation
ecologically friendly aquaculture and agriculture, and the sale of carbon offsets, among others. Profit to investors comes from realizing all of the value contained in the conserved land. Adams has already opened a conservation and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
There’s a theme over the past twenty years of American companies creating more horizontal business models that require depending on others for fundamental things. A lot of businesses overdid it, as we did on the 787. So one of the lessons... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
both inside and outside the School. For the past four years, he has managed his family's $1.4 million real-estate and service business, successfully turning the company around by restructuring debt, stabilizing the firm's tenant base, and... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
to move to Havana. The decision came in January 2017, when Gordon was working in a sales position at Castlight, a Bay Area B2B health care technology company. The couple had met while Gordon was working for the Clinton Foundation in... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 23 Jan 2020
- News
Bringing Education Back Home
we attracted 180 students. By now we have over 1,200 students, from elementary school to college. “The way we modeled the school was about getting the students engaged in the learning process and discussing things, which was pretty much... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
the best can be fairly hermaphroditic creatures, one minute exhibiting a professor’s passion for the great clarifying concept, the next displaying sales skills worthy of a street hustler. Among my contentions is that it was this very... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
of their shoes inside the doorway. Each takes a seat on either side of the bed. As the nurse unfolds a laptop, Dr. Umeda closes his hand around the patient’s and leans in, all tenderness and warmth. “You’re looking better, Sato-san. It’s... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 20 Jul 2022
- News
Wired to be Inspired
economic model and the HR model and getting it all working. But he said leaders need to also be poets. Now, what is a poet? A poet is somebody who creates a vision, a beautiful view of what the world could... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Crisis and Creativity
Texas Instruments were also launched during this time. In fact, the odds on the success of an appropriately directed new venture during a downturn may be higher than in a competitive boom. Entrepreneurs — inside and outside of... View Details
Keywords: Bhaskar Chakravorti
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
of newspapers and magazines. And yet, as print ads flee online for pennies on the dollar — and newsprint prices jump while circulation and newsstand sales slump — these enterprises have never seen their financial prospects dim so rapidly.... View Details
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
whole thing (shout out to Thales Teixeira!), which has been incredibly helpful in figuring out our business model and buying advertisements. Until very recently, we were the ones designing all of our ads, buying all of our search terms,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Courting the Poor
A BETTER MOUSETRAP: At a Magazine Luiza virtual showroom, sales staff use computers to help customers make their purchases. Photo COURTESY MAGAZINE LUIZA The inspiration for a new case can strike at any time. For HBS associate professor... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
landlord, the entrepreneur, or the worker contributed most to England's prosperity. Later, as HBS Dean, Gay's primary duty was to prepare his students for their role in the administrative organization that was emerging as the business View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
manufacturing, which is very high-skilled with fluctuating demand. Similarly, with IT, we were first-movers to cloud computing, which saves on fixed IT costs.” Looking ahead, CGM is building on its core strength: family. “Our business View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
Events: Dancing dragons greeted alumni at the closing gala inside the new Science and Technology Museum. Photos by Philip Chau Standing before nearly 1,000 HBS alumni, faculty, and guests in a packed Shanghai hotel auditorium, HBS... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
that involves much more than getting goods from point A to point B. We all work to support that model from the operating department to marketing and sales to finance." "There's a zealotry in railroad... View Details