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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Tedlow on Tires and the Meaning of Life
not want to confront, because these tires greatly diminished the need for replacements. And since the replacement market was the only place they could make money, this meant the end of profitability unless there was a fundamental change... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Do Good: Eat Chocolate
even more fundamental reason: “I have a deep connection with candy,” she adds with a laugh. The company’s current product mix features dark chocolate–covered cacao nibs (intense little hits that weigh in at one to two calories each) and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; candy; chocolate; Crop Production; Agriculture; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Book Smart
school in Ghana. There, they handed those Kindles, loaded with books, to a group of sixth graders and their teachers. “We had to provide infrastructure and scaffolding and instruction, and we had to physically move things around and load books on all these things,”... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Avoiding a Succession Crisis
are outsiders brought in to turn around or reenergize a company. They are generalists who know how to drive efficiency but are fundamentally unequipped with the knowledge of the industry or market that’s necessary to craft and implement... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT
no longer being used as just a tactical resource, it's now fundamentally influencing business strategy and competition," says Richard L. Nolan, MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration, who teaches in the School's Management... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
HBS Forum: Business Leadership in the Social Sector
fundamental importance of education to the future of the individual and the community, he stressed the value of very early education (from prenatal to age three), teacher/principal development and training, and mentoring relationships for... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Short Takes
diverse and unique ways as an effective strategy for achieving industry dominance. "In the IT industry, we can observe a fundamental change in management principles from constrained innovation to unconstrained innovation," Nolan notes.... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Case Study: Golden Ticket
billion market, I would go vertical for the next year or two. I would go deep and learn along the way to master the business fundamentals and identify parallel/complementary markets you can expand into. This will prepare the firm to go... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
L. Paul Bremer: In His Own Words
will require a fundamental transformation from three decades of economic mismanagement and neglect and a Stalinist industrial structure. Even before the war, joblessness was high and public infrastructure was in a shambles. It is going to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Orientation Teamwork
Teams are assigned and cross-sectional, taking advantage of the diversity of students in the MBA Program. “Their fundamental purpose is to serve as enhanced study groups,” explains Professor Jeff Polzer, faculty chair of the Learning... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Egawa Heads New Research Office in Japan
the country in the 1970s and 1980s - ideas such as lifetime employment, cross-shareholding, and keiretsu (Japanese corporate groupings) - are currently undergoing fundamental changes and offer fascinating research possibilities. With the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
systems. What does it mean to be globally competitive in today’s economy? From a business fundamentals perspective, you win through innovation, low cost, or better customer service; in my opinion, innovation is the most sustainable... View Details
- 09 Apr 2020
- News
“Raise the Line”
photo by Douglas Barnes In 2011, Shiv Gaglani (MBA 2016) was a medical student at Johns Hopkins facing the same problem that confronts many medical students: staid, time-consuming lectures. Gaglani knew that the fundamental medical... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Raymond Hwang (MBA 2010)
were exposed to at HBS can be applied to problems in health care and medicine. As an industry, we face the same fundamental challenges, just with the addition of some special regulatory and market characteristics.” How do you use what you... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Conversation with Dean Nohria
international institution. What's ahead for HBS after the University's launch of its online portal, EdX? We're thinking hard about how we can develop a suite of distinctively HBS online materials—what we're calling HBX. One effort, pre-MBA, includes courses to help... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Wide Angle
had then been its peak, looking at the range of tariffs that killed that first great bout of globalization. I do think globalization will be fundamentally shifted and stalled by this pandemic, and we’re seeing it already. Global travel, a... View Details
- 02 Dec 2021
- News
Learning Curve
School are encouraged to meet kids where they are and tailor their teaching to individual learning styles. The majority of students spend just a few years at the Joy School. The goal is to bring the children’s skills to grade level, especially in View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
drove productivity in the IT sector. These entrepreneurs, and so many others, have fundamentally improved our economy by making goods and services better, cheaper, and more accessible. But can you name any innovators in our bloated,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
skills for our students. We’re fully convinced this is going to be fundamental mainstream investing in 20 years. Vikram Gandhi: One key driver is investor demand.If you look at the big pools of capital—family offices, pension plans,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Faculty Books
in the Media Age by Steven Rosefielde & D. Quinn Mills (Cambridge University Press) Professor Mills and his coauthor assert that the United States will confront a series of fundamental challenges posed by terrorism, Russia, China, and the... View Details