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- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
one such place that has embraced the sustainable local food mission. “We’ve been working with them for a little over two years,” says Kendall. “Farms in the Pioneer Valley now provide much of the food, and the dining halls are all... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 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 Dec 1997
- News
Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
moving in a similar direction in collaboration with the late Fischer Black. Investors use derivatives to hedge their portfolios against the effects of sudden shifts in the market. Merton's work provides them with a formula for evaluating... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
from something more thorough than the brief statistical reports that were then the typical product available. “We wanted to do research that added value by analyzing a company’s strengths and weaknesses in long reports that provided an... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968
the company puts a premium on new product development and innovation, while providing help and hope to people of all ages with disabilities. Mal Mixon takes his guest on a tour of the product showroom on the first floor of the Elyria,... 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 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
where analysis of the facts and data fails to provide a clear answer. Gray areas test managers’ skills and humanity. Badaracco presents a five-question framework offering a way for managers to balance their analytical work with the human... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
Most of the money is taken from revenues generated by the Working Assets credit card, long-distance telephone, and Internet businesses, whose customers sign on for these services because they support the company's progressive stance and the organizations it benefits.... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
becomes so successful that it provides jobs and desperately needed income to hundreds of women and families in her community. Inspired by Kamila and women like her, Lemmon wants to change the way the world views them. Her book is part of... 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
- 28 May 2019
- News
Research Brief: Field Research
intervention that amounted to less than $10 per person (but at no cost to the farmer). Even more encouraging to Cole was news that another colleague, Harvard economics professor Michael Kremer, had seen similar results in Kenya. “We were... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Right Connections
an especially promising area for studying the effects of top executives' social capital on their ability to secure resources. "In biotech, it can take eight to ten years to developa product and cost hundreds of millions of dollars to... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Five Honored for Missions Accomplished
helped create Citigroup; and rescued Bank One. As a manager, you are known for cost cutting. Would you say that’s a fair assessment? I never call it cost cutting because that implies it is indiscriminate. I... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
that the new companies’ high labor costs undercut their ability to compete. A second example would be the Australians’ creation of eleven incubator centers to provide financing and advice to information... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
Emory University, where she graduated with 40 percent more credits than required. A year out of HBS, Wallace and classmate Alex Nelson cofounded Quincy Apparel, an online retailer providing stylish, affordable work clothes for women in a... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All
function. They'll provide whatever help is currently available. As to your bank and other financial institutions, there's not much you can do - nor should you be overly concerned. Personally, I've had a problem with a credit card that... View Details
- 01 Nov 2012
- News
First and Goal
Swearengin and a friend cofounded the Downtown Giants, Manhattan’s only public youth football team. Many of Swearengin’s HBS classmates provided annual support for the Downtown Giants’ scholarship program, which allowed children from all... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
provide electricity that is affordable, and reliable, and sustainable, using a technology called solar-powered mini-grids. What that means is, we provide electricity to people who don't have it in rural... View Details
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
employer-driven training experience that we are supplementing and supporting and then providing the backing and accreditation around—is something that doesn't just work in K–12, it works in any industry that requires a skilled workforce.... View Details