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- 11 Aug 2014
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The First Five Years: Melissa Fensterstock (MBA 2012)
it worked. "We saw an opportunity to bring the fragrance to the United States and to create a new innovative category—a fragrance with a function for the outdoor-chic lifestyle. Once we tracked down our supplier, we learned that the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham
fifteen hours of live programming, five days a week. "It's a pretty full plate," she admits in an interview at the network's Fort Lee, New Jersey, headquarters. The CNBC offices clearly favor function over form, with dozens of reporters... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
and heat, it spends $30 on rent and $300 on payroll. This realization can make a focus on miserly utility spending, say, for ventilation, look pretty silly if the expensive assets—the humans—are not functioning at their best. This rule of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
Thinking and Acting Like an Owner by Robert Steven Kaplan (Harvard Business Review Press) Professor Kaplan explains that leadership is accessible to all of us, and it starts with an ownership mind-set. Acting like a leader is a function... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
contain thousands of them. SEEQC is attempting to replace all that room-temperature equipment with digital control chips that measure one centimeter on a side and function at the same unimaginably low temperatures as the company’s quantum... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
Appalachian settlement schools that functioned as both educational institutions and community centers. After serving as an elementary school, a boarding school, and a public school, Pine Mountain transitioned in the 1970s to a center for... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
The Golden Thread
their meaningful work? As long as I’ve got breath and a functioning brain, I can continue my meaningful work—my research and writing—in some way. But the academic profession is unusual in that respect. I wanted to find out what it’s like... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
functions of the Web and wireless protocols," says Azuela. "That gives you an idea of how far we have to go in educating the market. Further affecting the growth of the Internet are problems of regulation, inadequate infrastructure, and... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
discussed China's inclusion in the World Trade Organization (WTO). As a member of the WTO, Barshefsky said, China is moving from a protectionist position to a more active, strategic role, an international function it hasn't played for the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
Latin America and Europe in future years. The main function of the offices will be to facilitate and expand the faculty's research and course development efforts in distant locations. "At the present time, about 25 percent of HBS cases... View Details
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- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
IBM PCs in advance of their market introduction. We used Lotus 1-2-3 for spreadsheets, and we proudly whipped out our HP 12C calculators with their vast array of financial and statistical functions (which we mostly didn’t need but still... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Forestalling Terror
interest is examining the interactions that occur between and across the various functional and product boundaries of the firm, which is the subject of his popular MBA elective Advanced Competitive Strategy: Integrating the Enterprise.... View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
So the experience in a lot of ways was really great. I thought as far as a professional setback goes, I think at the time I was hoping it would be the launch pad to a very comprehensive marketing experience whereby I would get to make a bunch of rotations through... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
failure of the free-market system, but more so the result of decades of misguided government policies that interfered with the functioning of that system.” Nonetheless, the panel’s two Republicans call for reforms, including taking Fannie... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
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Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
monolithic view of business and didn't understand the functions of marketing, say, or finance,” he says. “I became fascinated by it all and found that many of my prejudices were wrong. I also found that businesspeople and students were... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
individual volunteers for a two- or three-year term to keep the whole community functioning smoothly. We also learn that the Zapotec sense of time comes from the sun, not a watch. It’s a difficult adjustment to make from our overscheduled... View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
food industry interest you, because there are many different facets. What functional areas would be a good fit for you? What part of the food supply chain? If you aren’t sure, your time at HBS is a great time to explore options and ask... View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
requiring hundreds of millions of dollars just to get to a certain point, whereas normally you would get it from the public markets. And why there are not more women involved in the later stages: I think it’s largely a function of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
back-office burdens from the doctors and support staff to the company. One of the company's software services, for example, translates electronic records from its system to others (no more stuck MRIs), and lets doctors track and manage test results and other clinical... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
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June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
research from Future Forum, a consortium by Slack, and global case studies from leading companies such as Levi Strauss & Co., Genentech, Royal Bank of Canada, and IBM, How the Future Works offers concrete solutions and practical steps for building high View Details