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- 01 Sep 2020
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Building a Strong and Prosperous Society
race because they are so efficient and, as a result, generate enormous prosperity. Moreover, real competition is a powerful driver of innovation. It’s not surprising that nearly every developing country is trying hard to get the free... View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
- News
Tapping into Opportunity
Development will launch a competition created by Shenkar to bring economic drivers of clean tech to West Africa. "It is a tremendous business challenge," she says, "but, just like in the early days of the... View Details
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
our competitive advantage.” Late in 2013, Fieldhouse shared the 2007 HBS case study about Specialisterne with Mitch Levy of Australia’s Department of Human Services (DHS), who in turn shared it with his boss, Gary Sterrenberg, chief... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
& Sciences and the Harvard Medical School. It initiated new faculty research initiatives on issues like US Competitiveness and the Future of Work. It marked the 50th year anniversaries of women being admitted to the MBA program and the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
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Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT
information services. He is also exploring how firms use information technology to achieve competitive advantage through further refinement of his "strategic grid" framework. MIS faculty have made technology an integral part of the... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
- 15 Jun 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
developers, and CEOs. They reveal what makes a building healthy and show how tracking health performance indicators with smart technology can boost performance and create economic value. While the “green” building movement tackled energy,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance. To cover expenses and support her parents she worked first as a Mary Kay sales rep-resentative, then as an investment analyst, running to the office after classes and staying well into... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
Justifying Executive Pay In response to “Over the Top” in the September issue, it’s not a question of whether executive pay can be justified on legal or economic grounds (I believe it can). It’s a question of what is right and what is... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
is still an industry, with economic inputs, business models, competitors, value chains, and a dynamic, challenging marketplace. Gaylin examines each of the major segments (Broadway, regional theater, orchestra, opera, and dance) along... View Details
- 31 Jan 2023
- News
Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
startups, led the panelists through a meaningful discussion that touched on their various experiences with building and scaling a tech company during the pandemic and now, during a time of great economic uncertainty and creeping... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
interesting. People who know us, love us. The problem we have is not enough people know us. So we’re building up our InTouch loyalty program, which we introduced in 2004. Right now about 30 percent of our reservations come through that program. It’s such a View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Social Innovation Goes Mainstream
Two years later at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Microsoft’s Bill Gates announced his own commitment to social change through “creative capitalism.” “With these three events, the movement moved into the mainstream,” she... View Details
- 04 May 2018
- News
How to Win the Kentucky Derby
ago. Hanna: I'm guessing that you were probably part of making the barn clean—that you were picking stalls and stuff like that, which is pretty tough work really. Finley: Well, I didn't answer the second part of that question, but you're exactly right. It's an... View Details
Keywords: horse racing
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976
Chairman, Agency for Science, Technology & Research Former Chairman, Singapore Economic Development Board Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION University of Toronto, 1970 BASc., Industrial Engineering... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All
still do - the financial resources to write new code. Will the worldwide economic downturn complicate matters? Good question. For companies at the top of their game and well into the process, the Y2K problem may actually prove a View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
America the Difficult
United States. More generally, the presence of highly competitive local firms in the United States undercuts efforts by foreign multinationals that don’t have truly differentiated capabilities. Simply replicating strategies that were... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
Among the classes Christenson taught at HBS were Managerial Economics and Control in the MBA Program's required curriculum, Management Control in the Owner/President Management Program, and a doctoral seminar on the Theory of the... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
American economic system.” Castaldo's own path to the industry began in brand management for Clairol; in 1980, he was recruited by Burger King Corporation and left five years later as vice president of advertising. Explaining the leap... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
including my MBA students, to conduct these kinds of experiments,” Norton says. “They are low cost but add enormous value and knowledge—and they have great untapped potential to impact public policy.” —GE A Capital Idea Michael Porter Michael Porter’s groundbreaking... View Details
- 06 May 2019
- News
Startup Talk in Chicago
and the world for over a dozen years,” says Meyer, who wrote an HBS case with Professor Lynda Applegate on the Chicago startup ecosystem. The Council also played a major role in the inaugural year of the alumni New Venture Competition... View Details