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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Who Owns Yoga?
yoga style. Then there’s the former model and ballet dancer Tara Stiles, who isn’t particularly interested in yoga’s roots or rules but rather in mixing up styles of yoga to create a beneficial exercise. “These are two different examples... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964
defense at age 29. In 1970, Rossotti and several Pentagon colleagues started American Management Systems (AMS). "We decided that big companies and government agencies could do a lot more with computers than... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
What Industrial Policy?
consumer-electronics companies started outsourcing their manufacturing to Asia. But by the 1990s, the R&D had migrated there as well. This tight connection between R&D, innovation, and production is present in sectors like biotechnology,... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- News
The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
probability of being the wrong decision. If you can apply some data, you will heighten your probability of making a better decision." Howe isn't speaking theoretically. Today companies like his can capture, store, and analyze massive data... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
don’t make it past five years. Stacey Abrams and Lara Hodgson want to help today’s entrepreneurs beat the odds by revealing the unseen tethers that keep small businesses from growing and thriving. Drawing on firsthand experience starting... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
want to launch a business today in blockchain and you're a historian like me and you understand there's an opportunity. I can spend three years learning blockchain, maybe learning how to code, or I can go to... View Details
- 18 Nov 2013
- News
Diving into the 'Shark Tank'
My dad was an artist, so there was art everywhere when we were growing up. We were always encouraged to try things, to fail, and just be creative. How did the company start? I dragged my sister with me. My sister was still a senior in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
intellectual conditions of the times, Khurana explains. Over the past 30 years, historic shifts have taken place in the business arena that set the stage for the curriculum innovations playing out today at HBS and other View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Rationale for Non-Rationality: Why We Make Bad Choices
drink is killing him or a CEO who lets the company go bankrupt instead of changing business tactics, most humans consistently resist listening to feedback about their mistakes.... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA '88)
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
William Fung: E-Commerce and Efficiency
Ask fund managers covering the Hong Kong market about smart technology plays in these days of crashing dot-coms and you’re likely to hear one company name repeated often. Li & Fung has become the firm to... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Tedlow on Tires and the Meaning of Life
as original equipment, therefore, that was the signal for tire companies either to insist on higher prices to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) -- prices that would not be easy to obtain, or to sell... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
staffing business should be cash-flow positive quickly in a given market, so focus on building critical mass dynamics in the top 25 health care markets. —Paul Sims (MBA 2002) Much to my surprise, Lyft’s success proves that often it is two... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Negotiating with Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, sold $315.6 billion worth of goods in 2006. With its single-minded focus on “EDLP” (everyday low prices) and the power to make or break suppliers, a partnership with Wal-Mart is either the Holy... View Details
- 28 May 2021
- News
Unspent Love
of paper origami fish to swim across the ceiling of the family dining room, Kingston writes. “My mother, who put her business degree to use running a small nutritional beverage company with my father in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
The Next Big Thing
It's a case of competition and strategy on a global scale, and the stakes could hardly be higher. The prize? Leadership in the realm of life sciences, a field that experts say will shape and dominate 21st-century enterprise. What city or... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
Gleason (MBA '97) is finding a way to make both a profit and a difference. Last fall, as a part of HBS associate professor Marco Iansiti's Managing Product Development course, Gleason created a model for a View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Breakthrough International Negotiation
When the stakes are high - in business, politics, or everyday life - it pays to take a page from the playbook of the world's greatest negotiators. And if you want to learn how to be a world-class negotiator, consider how Richard Holbrooke... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Karmic Kickstart
imagined and caused me to engage in work that (I hope) has been useful to others. Even disastrous moments in our lives, it seems, can be an opportunity for rebirth. Douglas Schofield is on the management committee and is head of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
The Future of Books
result of digitization.” To the contrary, book consumption overall has remained stable over the last two decades. What digitization has really done is expand our ability to reach our consumers. How has digitization changed the ways in which a publishing View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Devtosh Khare
investments in a variety of Indian business sectors. After graduation, Khare plans to work in a hypergrowth, high-tech Silicon Valley company or in private equity in Singapore... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman photograph by Webb Chappell