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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
business: Venture Kits, an educational game that taught kids how to be entrepreneurs. A would-be bakery owner, for instance, could work through the necessary steps of calculating costs and doing market research on the way to selling... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
HBS Alumni On Leading Their Alma Mater
decades? SG: Cost is absolutely a challenge. We’re very fortunate at HBS to have the capability to provide robust financial aid packages and to be able to support our students while also furthering our... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Additional alumni books for your consideration.
company to still lose money, Byrnes explains how managers can rethink their business for maximum profit. Along the way, he punctures such harmful myths as revenues are good, costs are bad; all customers should get the same great service;... View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
supplies, food, and other essential commodities. They’re doing everything from providing critical funding to donating space for medical services, as the ICCP Group did when it offered its property, the World Trade Center Manila, and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
took care of 1,000 children at a cost of $80 a child, which is less than $120 a child spent by comparable organizations. Even that amount of reporting would be very useful, but it is not the norm. By and large the reporting focuses on the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
recruited Moss, an expert in risk management, to provide historical context to the financial crisis and a framework for reform. For his efforts, the panel acknowledged his key role “in conceptualizing and drafting” significant parts of... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.
poverty level. As a result, about 1 million participants in the United States alone receive a 25 to 40 percent discount on their prescriptions for a wide variety of illnesses. Internationally, the company provides free leprosy medication,... View Details
- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
status quo, and focus on elaborate plans and execution infrastructures, in an environment more suited to trial and error learning. Ultimately, their core businesses are so large and successful, they have to be protected at all costs... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Private Equity under Investigation
into any one deal. Syndication allows venture groups to undertake transactions that otherwise they would need to pass on, due to concerns about lack of diversification. Are there costs of syndication? Undoubtedly. When venture groups team... View Details
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
do that. The best I could do was help it and make it better. The bet was that there would be personal and professional upside that we could fix it. It was the opportunity cost of doing something else. It was that bet on whether we could... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
(MBA 1984) and Dan Olmsted Skyhorse Publishing Even as the autism rate soars and the cost to our nation climbs into the billions, a dangerous new idea is taking hold: There simply is no autism epidemic. The authors believe autism is new,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Case Study: Sneak Peak
would cost less and would be a faster, healthier way to get to the $1 million mark. —Karen Barth (MBA 1986) They should grow the old-fashioned way: hold back enough cash to grow in a controlled manner. Borrowing money to double in size... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
response: By providing preventive care and earlier intervention, Primedic’s network will lower costs compared with a public health system notable for its long lines and months-long wait for referrals.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
price-fixing, and influence peddling. But bribery is corruption’s most recognizable face, with some $40 billion annually doled out to corrupt government officials, TI says. Half of the executives in a 2009 TI global survey said that bribery and corruption raised... View Details
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
second one is quality coaching. For most learners who grow up in a highly educated, affluent family, they get most of what they need to know about education and career pathways just around the dinner table. But for those who grow up in more challenging circumstances,... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
professionals to implement them, companies were eager to embrace an end-to-end service delivery partner providing open, nonproprietary solutions that simultaneously cut costs and increased efficiency. "We... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
in the oil patch during that boom—that’s how I put myself through college. But once the price of oil dropped in 1982 and 1983, then that boom went bust because it was no longer cost effective to extract the oil. It was a very painful... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
forces, differentiation—Professor Porter’s conceptual frameworks are the foundation for understanding how companies achieve and sustain competitive success. A senior associate at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at HBS, Magretta View Details
- 20 Jul 2017
- News
Pushing the Next Generation Forward
really try to think of the child and the community as a whole and weave together a set of services so tight that no one within our grasp will fall through the holes,” Owusu-Kesse explains. Those safety net services include a “baby college” that View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 24 Feb 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Palm Beach
qualified students without regard for their financial status. This includes the decision last summer to provide scholarships to cover the total cost of tuition and course fees for those with the greatest... View Details