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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Rediscovering America
a path to success in many schools. What business could survive if it didn’t have the resources to buy supplies and attract and retain quality employees? What retail store could motivate customers in a dingy, outmoded building where even... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Protagonist Goes Prime Time
To create a multimedia case about IDEO’s creative process, a video crew from HBS’s Educational Technology Services followed a design team through each step of a project with Peru-based movie theater chain Cineplanet. (Photos courtesy of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Immersion Program Digs Deep
was charged with discovering what happens to all of the uneaten prepared food in the city; they came away with a government incentive scheme to reduce the leakage of untreated food waste into the animal feed supply chain. “International... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
Marty also developed excellent cases and created superb interpretive weekly student assignment memos — a technique I adopted and still employ.” A Missouri native, Marshall was in college when World War II broke out. He enlisted in the Navy, which sent him to HBS in... View Details
- 31 Jan 2025
- News
New York, Boston Alumni Volunteer to Boost Small Businesses
When the HBS Club of New York (HBSCNY) launched its Small Business Partnership Initiative (SBPI) in 2020, its goal was to simply help small businesses survive the COVID pandemic with guidance from a small group of volunteer alumni advisors. Now, nearly five years on,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
Drycleaners (established over 60 years ago), East Africa's largest chain of dry-cleaning franchises. White Rose was one of the first companies in East Africa to offer equity to its staff, assist company retirees who were establishing... View Details
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
about because, as had been the case with stem cells, Fisher began observing a critical—and growing—gap between supply and demand. “Blood and water are both life transport systems—our rivers and oceans are our earth’s circulatory system,”... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Savings and Loam
process was painful, he concedes, but federally insured deposits would make all the pain and suffering worthwhile by clearing a key blockage in the system. While he was building Walden Local and its supply View Details
- 21 May 2019
- News
Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest
disease are likely to multiply. If the Midwest is able to maintain its high standards for agriculture, it has an opportunity to supply the needs of growing populations in other parts of the world. The U.S. “needs a long strategy” around... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
The choices available to consumers in the postwar boom transformed societal norms and expectations. With the advent of fast food, for example, millions of men, women, and children began to break bread — or hamburgers, chicken wings, and pizza slices — at View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
“Some decent-looking pixels and a really excellent vision.” That’s all it took for Russ Wilcox to fall for the technology that would become E Ink, a company supplying the electronic ink for a new world of digital reading devices. Now, as... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
currency manipulation. In the first phase of the crisis, between mid-2007 and mid-2008, the dollar depreciated roughly 25 percent against the currencies of its major trading partners, including 9 percent against the renminbi. Because this coincided with simultaneous... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
these issues, not just because of supply chain or competitive advantage, but because increasingly they also want to be good citizens. And they want to do the right thing while delivering to their... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
and PhytoTEK were semifinalists, while AI Exchange received a mention at Monday's awards dinner as the winner of an informal popular vote. Modeled after the HBS student Business Plan Contest, now in its 15th year, the Alumni New Venture... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
forth." As it happens, a large grocery store chain recently moved into the neighborhood Crockett studied, and he hopes eventually to return to Milwaukee to document the impact the new facility is having on the community. "Clearly, having... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
of the country, Green tried to negotiate space on a Soviet flight. They refused the American officer’s request. “This is the final contact from here,” Green wrote on October 25, as the OSS agents destroyed classified records and gathered what View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Business
improve customer targeting, streamline supply chains, and develop new products and services are addressed in the 70 cases published by HBS faculty. The School’s Digital Initiative serves as a hub for this research, which is being... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Helping Hands for HBS
with the School over its technology and entrepreneurship initiatives. "To the School's credit, they recognized that they had lagged in these areas, and Dean Clark was openly seeking new ideas," says Zider, whose own business experience has View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
engage in global cooperation to get these planes done. Another lesson was IT systems. We lost visibility of the supply chain because our systems weren’t good enough to keep track of manufacturing activity.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
“Speed Trap” Can Snare Companies
Nelson Repenning of MIT draws on firsthand observations of the meteoric rise and ultimate bankruptcy of a disguised Web-based company referred to as Notes.com. Using information gathered at management meetings during the company's brief,... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton