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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
the new entity. "Only a well-conceived process for integration and a spirit of partnership can prevent a clash of cultures," he warns. A clash of cultures can be bad enough, but an even more tangible nightmare arises if the new entity's... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
W50 Next Steps
Carroll (MBA 1989) as CEO of global mining giant Anglo American. Both cases center on her decisions around the temporary shutdown of mines in South Africa, one of many steps the company would take under her leadership to prevent worker... View Details
- 16 Nov 2020
- News
Moderna Announces Promising Vaccine Trial Results
the hospital—so sick they have to get to the ICU and have a high risk of dying,” Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel (MBA 2000) told The Washington Post. “If a [vaccine] could prevent 95 percent of people to not get disease, but to not get severe... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Fixing What Ails the Drug Industry
In 2008, private investors and the National Institutes of Health plowed more than $100 billion into pharmaceutical research. And yet, “We’re not seeing the new diagnostics, treatments, preventative approaches, and cures that we might have... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
having attended private school prevented me from participating in the culture of HBS,” he recalls. “Coming to the School was a wonderful rite of passage.” Over the years, Salmon has served on the boards of organizations as diverse as... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
incentives embedded in those plans is key to resolving the current crisis and preventing another. That task falls, by law, to corporate boards, clubby groups that are widely criticized as the handpicked “captives” of self-serving... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
Nation in health care, with a focus on preventing diabetes in indigenous populations. "I quickly realized that business alone was not enough to reverse the dysfunction of some tribal economies," says Keen. Earlier, he'd experienced the... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
prevent missed deadlines, or to kick-start savings—then you know there are thousands of apps, books, and YouTube videos promising to help and offering sound guidance. And yet you’re still not where you want to be. This trailblazing book... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
preventive treatments," says Greenberg, who plans to open thirty more stores by the year 2000. "Our aim is to help people take control of their health care." —J.A.R. « Back African Adventure As a second-year student at HBS, Monique Maddy... View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
Class of 1977, Section H. The story that I will tell is the one after I graduated the B school. In our freshman year we had a case that was called the "chicken lens case." I don't know if it survived. It was about a farmer in California who invented contact lenses to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
packaging the fertilizer in 1- and 10-kilogram sizes, and reinforced the stitching to prevent middlemen from breaking into them. To reach farmers outside the trading areas, Notore trained more than a thousand "Village Promoters," who sold... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Action Plan: Happy Honey
“Bees are cranky on rainy days.” Split hives in the spring. Creating a second hive from the original hive—“splitting the hive” in beekeeping nomenclature—helps you boost honey production, raise new queens, and prevent a hive from... View Details
Keywords: Amy Rogers Nazarov
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
putting users at the center of strategy leads to an almost unfair competitive advantage; ways to build an organizational system that delivers a superior user experience that is replicable, consistent, and scalable; common shortfalls that View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
finally liquidated at the end of 2013, it employed a few dozen people. Now some of those workers, mostly women in their 50s, were occupying the factory around the clock in eight-hour shifts to prevent the sale of the equipment and to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Fıelds of Gold
profits are reinvested in the country’s agriculture sector? In the field Saffron crocuses are harvested by hand during a 21-day window in October and November. They are picked only in the morning, before the blooms open, to prevent damage... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
investments are managed by large institutions, dark pools provide a way to protect those investments by preventing other traders from jumping out ahead of a trade by a penny to get a better price. Konstance does agree that a shift in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
prevented with some forethought. It includes interviews with high-profile entrepreneurs about their own mistakes. It also covers gender biases, cultural challenges, and when to employ agents to negotiate on your behalf. There Will Be No... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Real Estate: A Local Business Goes Global
for example. For several years, it was the number one city for real estate investment. You would have expected that to change dramatically after the Brexit vote—and it did. A lot of European and US investors lost interest in London, but Asian investors filled that gap... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rx for Too Big to Fail
best shot at preventing a future financial meltdown is to be honest about the inevitable risk posed by our biggest financial institutions, and to impose tough and targeted regulation in response. This very conclusion was reached by the... View Details