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- 06 Dec 2021
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The Sparkles in Our Skies
worries by emphasizing green energy use and decreased water consumption. Meanwhile, lab-grown diamonds, which first entered the commercial jewelry market in the late 1980s and are View Details
- 04 Dec 2020
- News
Hour by Hour
for hourly workers, Morris realized: Companies lost money on training, and employees often started right back at minimum wage with each new job as they worked to learn an entirely new set of skills. This insight is at the heart of Syrg,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
bulletin@hbs.edu From Baker Library: Last year, about half of hospital staffers reported staff shortages and overwork. Can online staffing improve that? Accenture predicts that “crowdsourcing, labor... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Ideas That Stick
CHIP AND DAN HEATH: What makes messages memorable? Photo COURTESY THE HEATH FAMILY Everyone “knows” that strangers have tampered with children’s candy on Halloween. But actual examples of this are hard to come by. It is, however, an idea... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Class of 1974: Timed for a Change
would take a German commodity chemical business to a major position in detergents and perfumes, that Eileen Friars would trade in her jeans and long tresses and take charge of... View Details
Keywords: Charles B. ("Chuck") Mercer
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The State of Play
If the category of offerings known as “immersive experiences” were a soup, it would probably have to be a gumbo—a saucy and colorful assemblage of potentially disparate things. And while it’s rooted in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
The Weather Channel Forecast: Challenges Ahead
2f1f4a24430fe040f37c6d7564258142 Viewers love The Weather Channel, giving its president and CEO, Bill Burke (MBA ’92), an enviable edge over many of his counterparts in the notoriously fickle business of cable network programming. On... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
“Baseball appeals to my entrepreneurial spirit because each season is a new season,” says DeWitt Jr. “It’s not like a normal business where you can make certain forecasts and expect to hit plan. Lots of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
Schumpeter Illustration by Anita Kunz Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883–1950), an Austrian who taught at Harvard for twenty years, was “one of the greatest economists who ever lived, and an electrifying personality besides,” writes HBS... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Meal Plan
at a white-tablecloth restaurant. This year is looking a little different. On May 8, as some states loosened dining-in restrictions and others maintained strict guidelines for takeout and delivery only, the... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
(MBA 1979) and Bob Frankston presented their VisiCalc invention—the first-ever electronic spreadsheet—and was blown away. Having spent countless hours retabulating forecasts with a calculator, one equation... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Research Brief: Field Research
their yields. The findings were promising, Cole says: Those who received a weekly call about weather forecasts or pest strategies, for example, saw their yields increase by 8.6 percent for cotton and 28... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Harnessing the Tools of the Digital Age
time, but we also want to learn from them. The second is a Research Accelerator, which will engage with companies to identify problems for our labs to address and share learnings from the research. The third is a Digital Business... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Curb Your Smartphone Habit
you asked at BCG? In the BCG experiment, our immediate goal was to make it possible for team members to have predictable time off each week. Typically, the target was one night with no work contact, but it could be any View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
General Electric and its CEO Jeff Immelt (MBA ’82). GE has announced its intention to reach $10 billion in water-business sales over the next decade. Worldwide, as water becomes increasingly precious, it is often View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- News
The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
Scott Howe Nineteenth-century Philadelphia retailer John Wanamaker famously said, "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half." Nearly 150 years later, Scott Howe (MBA 1994), president and CEO... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
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Staying the Course
Within a week of launching a 90-day free trial, subscriptions grew by 3600%. In addition, the company accelerated the release of a new product, originally designed for classroom instructors and now geared to administrators. The recently... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
Above: illustration by Matthew Roharik/Getty Images In November 2019, a team from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, visited Moderna, Inc.’s manufacturing plant in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
The Weather Channel: The Impossible Rise of a Media Phenomenon, by Frank Batten (MBA '52) with Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (51st PMD), is the story of a cable network that succeeded when all the experts predicted it would fail. Former chairman... View Details
- 25 Sep 2008
- News
Been There, Seen That
the energy crisis, and (2) the economic meltdown. I’ve been rereading Energy Future, HBS professor emeritus Robert Stobaugh’s 1979 best-seller that predicted America’s dependence on foreign oil could well... View Details