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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
business backstage. This book provides an overview of both the product on stage and the industry that makes it possible. While the industry’s product has unique supply and demand characteristics, it is still an industry, with economic... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
becoming increasingly apparent, the economics of the sector made fighting the virus a less-than-obvious business choice. The market size for a vaccine was unknown, and the paths for financing such research—which could have a price tag in... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
to the first contest. The climate was ripe in 1997. Enrollment in courses like Entrepreneurial Finance and Entrepreneurial Management was way up; the Internet revolution — with its low barriers to entry — was in high gear; venture... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
have a long break-in period: I got out of the Navy on a Thursday before Memorial Day. A week from that Monday we had moved to Boston, and I had two sections of Finance for the summer session.” A native of West Virginia, Charlie Williams... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
changing today. AE: So Bob said he looked at it first and he said he didn’t think that he could do anything with it, but the more Bob talked to me and worked with me, Bob told me, he’s saying, I’m going to try to see what I can do to help you. JH: Bob Ryan set in... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
a lot of doors. - Peter Tufano "Most of us spend the lion's share of our careers teaching thousands of people the way to earn millions of dollars," observes Peter Tufano, the Sylvan C. Coleman Professor of Financial Management and chair of the View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
has ever seen. In the past, biographers of Lord Liverpool have not sufficiently acknowledged the importance of his foremost skill: economic policy (including fiscal, monetary, and banking system questions). Here, Hutchinson's decades of experience in the View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
wants to open a chain of retail shops selling a commodity product you can get anywhere for 25 cents, but he will charge 2 dollars. Of course, you listen politely and then fall off your chair laughing when he leaves. [Starbucks founder]... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
HBS Flunks Finance 101 As regards your December Editor’s Note wherein you refer to Dean Jay Light’s remarks to the hastily organized financial crisis panels during the week of September 22: Light attributes the financial crisis to the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
their supply chains in the developing world. I wanted to get involved in that.” During his year as a Leadership Fellow at the WWF, Murphy served as director of enterprise planning and got to know the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
export. With globalization, supply chains are lengthening and that means growth for railroads and other transportation modes.” According to the Association of American Railroads, an industry trade group, if... 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 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
prepared every day—and that we had better be prepared too. It was an inspired instance of leading by example and one that has long transcended my days at the School. Know Your Market Steve Frenkiel (MBA 2007) I WAS AN ENGINEER BY BACKGROUND, and thus naturally... View Details
- 12 May 2015
- News
A Flash of Insight
When American Airlines Flight 11 struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center on the bright, sunny morning of September 11, 2001, it set off a chain of dark events that would kill 3,000 people and change forever the way many Americans... View Details
- 13 Jul 2016
- News
From Money to Ministry
Admiral Norvell Ward, who commanded a fleet of 52 supply ships deployed in the Gulf of Tonkin, supporting US troops in Vietnam. It was there that he observed a tragedy that only added to a series of hints at what would become his later... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
sprains, and the like,” Herzlinger explains. “The charge is around $69, so uninsured people can go there instead of to the emergency room, which has long waits and charges much more. And with CVS’s chain ownership involving hundreds of... View Details
- 19 Aug 2010
- News
Catchphrases, Mottos, and Cheers
class and I see all the faces,/Tired from reading all those crazy cases,/I think . . . it must be Friday./After many long nights and not much sleep,/ Struggling through Finance and FRC,/It's that . . . time a day, put your books away./Get... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
returns over the last four years have caused this surge, which means, he says, that "people have lots of opportunities to finance projects, either through venture capitalists, angels, or corporations." But, as the saying goes, what goes... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
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Lords of Strategy
widely to the totality of its functions and processes. How much does it cost us to make our steel? How can the Japanese do it so much less expensively? How can we redesign our whole chain of activities, from purchasing raw materials to... View Details