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- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
and the City Library, and most importantly, helping the Office of the Mayor develop a system of collaboration where startups can play a role in doing pilots with dozens of city departments without the typical red tape.” “San Francisco is... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
order to offset the negative impact of a sagging economy and sharply rising employee benefit costs. Over the course of the past three years, U.S. manufacturing has shed some 2.7 million jobs, with companies marshaling technology and ever-leaner View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
industries for decades. And even though Mustapha and his sons had earned a reputation as hard workers, there was only so much they could produce within a system that left farmers either chronically undersupplied or dealing with bags of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
acquisitions. Today, the company Parker leads from its headquarters in Bradenton, Florida, offers a wide range of products to protect people and property, has 6,500 employees, operates in 35 countries, and generates annual sales... View Details
- 02 Sep 2021
- News
Elevating Ethiopian Entrepreneurs
to bringing the right type of HR and systems and finance systems to those companies. And finally, really helping them raise capital. “Capital is really looking to enter Ethiopia as it opens up as we speak.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
discipline. It comes in a mess, and we try to figure out how to understand it, and how to deal with it. What the world most needs going forward is integrative, holistic, and systemic thinking. The challenge for the School is how to keep... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
9/11, Jeff Immelt had already built an impressive nineteen-year career at GE in its plastics, appliance, and medical systems divisions. With revenues in 2007 of $173 billion and more than 300,000 global employees, GE has seen significant... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office
Both transitions have strategic and competitive implications for firms operating in and out of the region. The current "reconstruction" of Asia offers insights about differentiating systemic from asystemic... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
“Culture Is Everything”
culture. As a student at HBS, for example, he didn’t take his courses in human behavior seriously. Now, he said, he understands that “culture is everything.” Culture, in fact, was IBM’s problem. “The behavior, values, and systems were... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
to get inside the system.” Nielsen decided to run for the Seattle school board and was elected in 1993. For the next eight years, he and other reformers on the board pushed through some remarkable changes, making Seattle one of the most innovative urban school View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
HBS Press Books in Brief Total Access: Giving Customers What They Want in an Anytime, Anywhere World. Regis McKenna, the renowned "father of high-tech marketing," sets forth a new marketing paradigm in which machines and networks do most of the work, marketers must... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Bright Future for Green Business
Partners — touched on several systemic problems that hold the green tech industry back. One is a failure to think about the interrelationship of resources: You can grow great biofuels, for example, but only if you have an abundant supply... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ears to the Ground
to $40,000 a year. That was a high bar. So Clark switched to a subscription model: ShotSpotter would eat the upfront cost, operate the system itself, and charge cities an annual $65,000 per square mile for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
weapon called life experience. Just Change: How to Collaborate for Lasting Impact by Tynesia Boyea-Robinson (MBA 2005) (Advantage Media Group) Equal access to opportunities for all citizens is the key to a sustainable national economy. To address View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Case Study: Let’s Dance
markets and coordinate the expansions there. Based on my own experience, nothing beats spending in-person time in the new markets. —Matias Recchia (MBA 2007) is the founder and CEO of Unlock, a real estate technology platform with View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
Campus Martius Park. The city’s mile road system originates here; 8 Mile is eight miles away. In the 1990s, when the park was first conceived, it was a signal of a future for the neighborhood; Cummings sat on the board that designed it.... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
luxury boxes and other premium seating - is driven by the exponential growth in players' salaries," explains Dennis R. Robinson (MBA '90), who as COO of the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority, oversees the operation of Giants... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Clean water that provides a trickle-down effect
improving the city's wastewater service. In 1997, the Philippine government enlisted Ayala Corporation to assume control of the water and sewer systems of Manila's east zone, where more than 60 percent of the water was either lost or... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Strange Bedfellows
goal. Profits reported to tax authorities and to capital markets were essentially the same. Over time, well-considered exceptions — expensing of investments, for example — were introduced to advance policy goals such as stimulating investment. In the last decade, the... View Details
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Acquiring Business Skills To Advance A Career Trajectory
the next phase of his career. “I see business playing an increasingly important role in the aerospace industry, going beyond just having the engineering know-how to build a spacecraft. In the past, spacecraft were primarily built and View Details