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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Ideas: Faculty Research Online
new book, Implementing E-Commerce Strategies: A Guide to Corporate Success after the Dot.Com Bust, shows how to put appropriate metrics to work to measure performance. IBM Finds Profit in Diversity Former IBM CEO Lou Gerstner (MBA ’65)... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
End of Campaign Celebrated
presented new HBS work supported by the campaign. Guests then attended a reception in Baker Library and a dinner in Spangler Center. Among those participating were Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers, Kim and Sue Clark, and Campaign... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Addressing roadblocks to innovation in health care
convenes health care management educators to develop and implement new curricula for health care management education. She also recommends policy changes, such as standards for health care IT and transparency to consumers on the price and... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Protecting conservation land while turning a profit
the lands will be managed sustainably in perpetuity, and, in many cases, the assurance of public access to the land for recreation,” he explains. Based in Hanover, New Hampshire, Lyme is recognized as a leader in conservation investing,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Campaign Success Continues
The generous gift for the School’s doctoral programs fulfills an important need at HBS and will have a far-reaching impact. “We are grateful to the thousands of alumni and friends who generously have supported the campaign,” said Dean Kim B. Clark, noting that many... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
HBS Bon Mot Enriches the Lingo
Pick a word or phrase you love to hate, be it “impactful,” “scalable,” “mission-critical,” “face time,” or...well, don’t get us started. Such utterances, unlike memorable, enduring slang terms, are ephemeral due to their very vapidity. They are “buzzwords,” according... View Details
- 01 Aug 2014
- News
A closer look at the industry of beauty
homogenization persists, the purchasing power of emerging economies, aging populations, and increasingly multiethnic US consumers has now led to a new sensitivity to diversity. Further, Jones has found that today's generation of industry... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Necessity became the mother of invention for staffing-firm founder
When she became a new mom, Allison O’Kelly (MBA 1999) wanted to have more flexibility in her life, and realized that other parents did as well. As founder and CEO of Mom Corps, O’Kelly turned a personal challenge into a profession. As a... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A commitment to conservation supports the bottom line
sustainability. “We strongly believe in the appeal of a strategy that achieves the goals of both purely financial investors and mission-driven investors, as it allows us to access more capital and have a greater impact,” explains Hoffer. Lyme Timber, a Hanover, View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Mining precious metals through e-waste recycling
BlueOak Resources, and 2011 winner of the HBS Alumni New Venture Competition. “Growing up, my mother always told me, ‘For you, nothing is impossible,’ and these words have made every assumption worth challenging.” Bradoo wants to... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Making A Difference: HBS Club of Puget Sound Reaches Out to Young Alumni
Tracy E. Kwiker (MBA 1995) arrived in Seattle three and a half years ago when she was promoted to manage store operations for a Toys “R” Us region in the Pacific Northwest. Eager to establish contacts in her new community, Kwiker began... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Mark Pincus (MBA 1993)
night. I have new ideas for products and product features all the time, which I call bold beats. An example of a small bold beat was animals that move in FarmVille. This took a day of engineering, but when we turned it on, our players... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Innovation Takes Center Stage
different times and came from many countries, the alumni who filled Burden that morning all shared an intense curiosity about where the new Dean intended to take their School. Just shy of 100 days into his tenure, Nohria came prepared... View Details
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
RoboCar, the Sequel
expert on autonomous vehicles and mobile robotics, Alden has a new company, Alden DAVe Systems (with “DAVe” an acronym for Dual-mode Autonomous Vehicle), designed around the use of small vehicles in places like airports, university... View Details
- 06 May 2019
- News
Are You Ready for Veggie Fast-Casual?
The founder and former CEO of Panera Bread has a new lease on life. Life Alive, that is. And it’s not a lease—he’s the owner. Ron Shaich (MBA 1978), has tapped his $300 million fund, Act III Holdings, to buy and reimagine a mini-chain of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Noted & Quoted
concept of shared value tries to focus on the tremendous opportunity to create economic value through the creation of social benefit.” — University Professor Michael Porter, describing a new take on capitalism. (Harvard Business Review... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sea of Dreams
professional life working as a journalist and real-estate developer in New York, London, and Hong Kong, the hour-to-hour realities of blue-collar life were a revelation. The open-air shipyard was painfully cold in the winter and... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Gold Mettle
City bidders interested in landing the Games, and to make matters worse, the local organizing committee was in financial and organizational disarray. The scandalous situation made news around the world. Searching for a savior, the Salt... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Health-Care Initiative to Leverage Ongoing Efforts
activities and to facilitate new work that will enhance our understanding of this important field.” “Our main goal is to increase our critical mass in this field by fostering a community of faculty, researchers, students, and alumni that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Alumni Books
how companies use innovative business models to achieve transformational growth by fulfilling customer needs in current markets; serving new customers and creating new markets; and responding to shifts in... View Details