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- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977
financing that ranges from micro loans to help home-based businesses buy delivery trucks to sophisticated loans to build factories, she believes the SBA can stimulate "not just initial product creation, but production innovation,... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
New Medical Devices Get To Patients Too Slowly
Delicate Balance For nearly 80 years, the FDA has performed a delicate balancing act between getting life-saving drugs to market, and ensuring that those drugs will be safe when taken by patients. In order to serve that dual function, the FDA has drawn up View Details
- 07 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?
provide prescriptive recommendations, many of these papers pursue an optimizing approach given the assumption of a completely rational decision maker. Testament to the complexity of these activities is the high level of mathematical View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 15 Nov 2018
- Book
Can the Global Food Industry Overcome Public Distrust?
JamesBrey Food is the largest segment of the global economy. It is also widely recognized as more critical for human health than any pharmaceutical drug on the planet. But significant changes in the industry are making people lose trust in many institutions involved in... View Details
- 08 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Hunt for Talent on Digital Platforms, Not in Resume Piles
colleagues also find that companies are becoming more sophisticated about identifying talent. By analyzing the skills that US firms want from prospective human resource workers, the researchers discovered that companies are increasingly... View Details
- 24 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach
framework can serve as the cornerstone of both effective management and sound governance. Key Learnings · A sophisticated governance system is necessary in a complex capitalistic economy to ensure that capital funds the best ideas. The... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Derek Ferguson
this on my own, without a sophisticated businessperson at the helm. Just think of what we can do together.’ He was a good salesman.” The businesses that today make up Bad Boy consist of more than its popular music label, however, a fact... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
each distinct product area, where strategy is set, core product and process technology are maintained, and a critical mass of sophisticated production and service activities reside. A clear locational core, combined with selective... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
- 13 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis
Ask jazz fans the world over to name their favorite compilation, and chances are their response is Kind of Blue. With music that is sophisticated and sublime, spare yet complex, trumpeter and composer Miles Davis (1926-1991) reached... View Details
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
a beginning, a middle, and a finish. Their ready-to-drink cocktails are naturally low in sugar and calories (less than 2 grams and 35 calories). They are bottled and labeled with a sense of sophistication that would feel right at home on... View Details
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
network of individual contracts or the vision of its entrepreneur. The people inside firms learned, developed effective routines, and innovated. While we have sophisticated theories of competition in economics, the cooperative teamwork... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
members of the platform community policing themselves? Facebook, for example, has about 30,000 people working on curation of the Facebook platform. The problem is there are more than 2.5 billion users. Thirty thousand people, even with the help of AI and View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
M. Kenneth Oshman
As one of the principal founders of Rolm, Oshman is credited with the design and development of a sophisticated private branch exchange or PBx switch that has become a central component of telecommunication systems. Over the course of... View Details
Keywords: Communications
David D. Glass
early proponent of automated technology that Wal-Mart has utilized to develop one of the most sophisticated distribution networks in the industry. Under his leadership, Wal-Mart became the largest retailer in the world and the second... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 12 PM – 1 PM EST, 17 Nov 2016
- Webinars: Trending@HBS
Global Family Offices: Trends & Opportunities
Over the last few years, substantial growth in family offices (FOs) has resulted in their emergence as a significant investor class. There are an estimated 2,500 FOs globally, controlling $7+ trillion in assets; approximately 300 of these FOs manage over $5 billion... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Upstart Startup
specializes in sophisticated financial analyses, and expects revenues of $100 million this year, according to Business Week (July 11, 2005). In the beginning, “No one thought it was a viable idea, but we decided to do it ourselves... View Details
- Web
2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
inquiry that is both theoretically sophisticated and grounded in the urgency of the contemporary moment. The 2018 symposium will be held on the Harvard Business School campus in Boston, MA on Thursday, March 8, & Friday, March 9, 2018.... View Details
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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
inquiry that is both theoretically sophisticated and grounded in the urgency of the contemporary moment. The 2018 symposium will be held on the Harvard Business School campus in Boston, MA on Thursday, March 8, & Friday, March 9, 2018.... View Details
- Web
Policy - Business & Environment
widely recognized by scientists and the general public. Industry Documents Industry internal documents showed sophisticated understanding of the relationship between increasing CO2 concentrations and increasing temperatures. Industry... View Details
Henry F. Henderson, Jr.
After working at Richardson Scale Company for a number of years, Henderson’s entrepreneurial spirit led him to start Henderson Industries (HI) in 1952. Winning a contract from Richardson, HI began growing rapidly. Manufacturing View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods