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- 16 Mar 2017
- News
‘We Don’t Leave When Things Go Wrong’
Christopher Rodrigues (MBA 1976) is chair of the British Council, an international organization for arts, cultural relations, and educational opportunities operating on six continents and in more than 100... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Changing Nature of Research
School’s Bureau of Business Research—comprised a comparative examination of the costs of operating a retail shoe business. The resulting report helped companies devise strategies to manage inventories, increase profits, and cut waste.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
it always has. It is too expensive; it carries too much investment risk for even the largest utilities without massive transfer of risk to taxpayers and/or ratepayers; and it takes too long from conception to operation to play a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future
There are outstanding international students from modest backgrounds who may not even consider applying here because of cost concerns. Similarly, there are students ready to come to HBS right out of or shortly after college who may lack... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Unexpected Advice from Am Ex’s Chenault
the health and well-being of the communities in which you and your employees live and work.” Chenault grounded his advice in what he called the “unspoken compact” between business and society at large. “Society allows us to operate in... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Rethinking Call Centers: Effective Delivery of Service is Key
call centers, with their attendant voice response units, need not be frustrating. When a company manages its call center well, effectively linking a triad of service, information technology, and internal processes, both the customer and... View Details
- 19 Feb 2020
- News
Running a Decathlon
first president of Academic Decathlon and subsequently helped guide its transformation from a small local event to the international competition it is today. After Patton left the Olympic committee, he became the president of the Academic... View Details
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
Stearns before serving as the CFO for a nationwide health-care company with 24,000 employees. Zweig worked at Time Inc. and Dow Jones and cofounded Salon.com. He was most recently senior editor at the World Business Academy, an View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
technologies need to be operated at is enormous. It's at the scale of the biggest thing that humankind has ever done, at the scale of oil and gas exploration, going to the moon. These are enormous undertakings both from an engineering,and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Alumni Books
Catch Up and Win by Steven J. Spear (DBA ’99) (McGraw-Hill) Spear finds that the internal operations of such market leaders as Toyota, Alcoa, and top-tier teaching hospitals have one thing in common: the... View Details
- 05 Apr 2016
- News
A Business Plan with Spice
saffron fields of Afghanistan as cofounders of Rumi Spice, a company which imports one of the world’s most expensive foodstuffs and markets it to top chefs. “Connecting Afghan farmers to the international marketplace is something that's... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
first salon the following year. The celebrity hairdresser Charles Nessler, interned as an enemy alien in Britain, also escaped to New York under a false identity and built a new business. The 1917 Communist revolution in Russia produced... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
efficiency? What if cars weren’t made up of 25,000 different parts? What if, instead of giant factories that operate on economies of scale, forced to produce millions of the same cars to make a profit, we produced cars in small batches,... View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
German Family to Give $11M After Learning Extent of Nazi Past
After an internal investigation revealed his company’s historic ties to Nazi Germany, JAB Holdings’ managing partner Peter Harf (MBA 1974) announced that the company intends to donate 10 million euros to a yet-to-be-determined charity.... View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Five Receive 2013 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
Jakurski, MBA 1973 Founding Partner and Managing Director, JGP Asset Management Thomas A. James, MBA 1966 Chairman, Raymond James Financial, Inc. Thai Lee, MBA 1985 President and CEO, SHI International Roger W. Sant, MBA 1960 Cofounder... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
of the field, six of the unit's faculty are also affiliated with other units, including finance, organizational behavior, technology and operations management, and ethics. MBA courses having entrepreneurial content include Entrepreneurial... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
(unlike most of Antares's for-profit partners) that operates in five Latin American countries. It combines microfinance with a primary health platform targeted toward low-income women. The Pro Mujer partnership demonstrates how Antares... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
planning and strategy at Ford’s Asia Pacific operations in Shanghai and a panelist at HBS’s “Moving the Future” transportation conference this past February. Just as significantly, charging infrastructure is set to get a boost. According... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Start-Ups Make Their Pitch
Krishna Mahesh (MBA ’05) not only traveled the longest distance to arrive on campus for the final round of judging in the inaugural Alumni New Venture Contest, he also figured he had the longest shot at winning. The seven finalists, representing five domestic and two... View Details
- 19 Dec 2008
- News
WHBS, 820 on Your Dial
Almost fifty years before HBS developed a broadcast presence with its own Web site in 1996, the School had a rather limited one: the radio station WHBS, which was in operation from 1948 to 1964 or 1965. It was limited because the... View Details