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- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
some people numbers speak, but I don’t think numbers speak to him. I give him a lot of credit for realizing this early on. Back in the 1960s a Citibank offer was like a golden ticket in India. People... View Details
William S. Paley
After entering the media and entertainment field on somewhat of a whim, Paley grew his small radio concern into a media conglomerate with success in radio, television, music, media equipment and more. CBS competed heavily with the larger, older NBC, but ultimately,... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
- 29 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks
quantitative strategy, digging into numbers many ignore; others look deeply into industries or countries they are familiar with that many analysts don't understand. Successful investors learn how to put their unique knowledge to work... View Details
- 06 May 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?
business world. At that time, predictive analytics had been applied to the continuing maintenance of everything from CAT scan machines produced by GE to elevators made by Otis. It enabled these firms to sell "up time" rather than just products, thanks to a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Government Can Restore the Faith of Citizens
on citizens. (See slideshow below.) Click on image to view slideshowWeb sites help Boston citizens visualize what government is doing to help them. In the first iteration of the website, the researchers included only the number of open... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 21 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know
participants was induced through a "winner-takes-all" payment scheme: only the participant with the higher score would receive a payment for each correct answer. Cooperation was induced with a different payment scheme: the researchers would add up the View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web
systems. That translates into long and inconsistent lead times." 50 A number of technology providers are offering Internet-based products that address exactly this problem. Some of them concentrate on integrating information systems... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Linking the Globe: The Role of Media and Communications
number of very sharp and very important junctures." Critical Junctures The first critical juncture was the invention of the printing press, which made it possible to have a media industry to begin with. The second major juncture... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy
are in the midst of what is often described as a gold rush. Is there any danger that firms will fly so high that they may spin out of control? A: The book is built around a number of the tensions that are inherent in all businesses —... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert Simons
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South Asia - Global Activities 2020
students met with executives and toured a number of companies, including the Midea microwave oven manufacturing facility in Foshan. China To better understand the BRI from an operations perspective, the students met with executives and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Making It Count
Weighted Accounts (IWA) Project has set about tackling accountability, a major hurdle on the path to an impact-driven economy. While the number of firms reporting their own ESG data has grown exponentially, and companies of all stripes... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Building a Strong and Prosperous Society
second piece of data from a 2017 edition of Journal of Democracy is that when you ask people if democracy is essential, of those who grew up or fought during the Second World War, nearly 75 percent of them say democracy is absolutely essential. But if you ask people... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
patients’ needs. Today’s doctors work in a system where they are rewarded by Medicare and insurance companies for the number and cost of the services they provide rather than by the value of those services in helping patients. In short,... View Details
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Kwame Owusu-Kesse
experience is that I have been encouraged to focus on personal growth. In understanding who you are, what your values are, and what you are passionate about, it becomes easier to identify a career path that you want to pursue. For me, there were a View Details
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Prita Kumar
Prita Kumar grew up with the desire to start a business. From her childhood, she experimented with a number of ideas, from lemonade stands to e-commerce. Prita moved to New York to pursue an undergraduate education in business. After... View Details
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Justine Lelchuk
each day has in store for me. Finally, I was looking for a company that valued training and would support my decision to go to grad school." Deloitte Consulting met the criteria, placing her in a rotational program that exposed Justine to three different... View Details
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Ed Rogers
contribute to their well-being. Blood pressure readings are an example. But now we have activity trackers that can give us quantified metrics relevant to any number of health goals. By observing these metrics and gaining deeper... View Details
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Abhay Saboo
number of high-impact roles including monitoring the quality of 6,000 suppliers and overseeing the transfer of CT scanner production from Japan to China. "It wasn't just about technical issues," Abhay notes, "but how... View Details
- 12 Jul 2018
- News
In the Market for Environmental Change
on the farm for about 10 years, and we were asking a lot of questions about what was going on in the environment. The Environmental Defense Fund has worked successfully for decades now with the corporate sector. They have had a number of... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
New HBS Alumni Board Members
The second in a series of profiles of the twelve new members of the HBSAA Board of Directors. Since 1987, H. Perry Driggs, Jr. (MBA '61), has been president of Great Lakes Capital Corporation in Farmington Hills, Michigan. He serves as a director of a View Details