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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Immersion Program Digs Deep
was charged with discovering what happens to all of the uneaten prepared food in the city; they came away with a government incentive scheme to reduce the leakage of untreated food waste into the animal feed supply chain. “International... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
“Some decent-looking pixels and a really excellent vision.” That’s all it took for Russ Wilcox to fall for the technology that would become E Ink, a company supplying the electronic ink for a new world of digital reading devices. Now, as... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
currency manipulation. In the first phase of the crisis, between mid-2007 and mid-2008, the dollar depreciated roughly 25 percent against the currencies of its major trading partners, including 9 percent against the renminbi. Because this coincided with simultaneous... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
Marty also developed excellent cases and created superb interpretive weekly student assignment memos — a technique I adopted and still employ.” A Missouri native, Marshall was in college when World War II broke out. He enlisted in the Navy, which sent him to HBS in... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Savings and Loam
process was painful, he concedes, but federally insured deposits would make all the pain and suffering worthwhile by clearing a key blockage in the system. While he was building Walden Local and its supply View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
The choices available to consumers in the postwar boom transformed societal norms and expectations. With the advent of fast food, for example, millions of men, women, and children began to break bread — or hamburgers, chicken wings, and pizza slices — at View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Business
improve customer targeting, streamline supply chains, and develop new products and services are addressed in the 70 cases published by HBS faculty. The School’s Digital Initiative serves as a hub for this research, which is being... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
“Speed Trap” Can Snare Companies
Nelson Repenning of MIT draws on firsthand observations of the meteoric rise and ultimate bankruptcy of a disguised Web-based company referred to as Notes.com. Using information gathered at management meetings during the company's brief,... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Helping Hands for HBS
with the School over its technology and entrepreneurship initiatives. "To the School's credit, they recognized that they had lagged in these areas, and Dean Clark was openly seeking new ideas," says Zider, whose own business experience has View Details
- 14 Nov 2019
- News
Keeping Red Lobster Fresh
joined the Monterey Bay Seafood Watch program. We've actually partnering with Worldwide Wildlife Fund on fishery improvement projects. We've had we've actually had NGOs audit our supply chain which was which... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
1943. “This is the complexity you need to run five qubits,” Levy says, referring to the fundamental units of information used in quantum computing. Qubit is shorthand for “quantum bit,” a bit being the basic unit of View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Kill Groupthink
and your organization. Escape the bubble. With more than 90 percent of our information-gathering happening online these days, we are subject to more and more confirmation bias in the information we consume. The result is de facto tunnel... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Steve Barger (MBA 1974)
mistakes and learn from them. Every week we spread the paychecks out on the counter so everyone knows what each other — including me — makes. There are no secrets. I think the key to success is hiring great people and keeping them View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future
scenario that seemed unlikely just a few decades ago — affect what we teach and how we carry out our research. We must test our ideas against a broader range of experience and bring work informed by this understanding back into our... View Details
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
as is happening right now, can drive change very effectively. This episode of Skydeck was edited by Jocelyn Gonzalez from PRX productions. Skydeck is produced by the External Relations Department at Harvard Business School. It is available on iTunes or wherever you get... View Details
- 11 Aug 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Melissa Fensterstock (MBA 2012)
educated, and provided with artisan skills. Doing well by doing good is important to us and we support a good cause through our supply chain." What's been the best and most challenging part of building the business? "The best part of the... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
economics perspective. I thought maybe that was an approach, but, you know, there are all these paradigms, economics is so locked in this paradigm of demand and supply and prices, clear markets, and things like that. A few years later... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
than 100 volunteers from across the US, Europe, and Asia. The nonprofit matches those who need PPE with verified suppliers who can provide vetted products. The demand shock to the supply chain in March left... 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 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
started planning that school, now known as Year Up. Headquartered in Boston with sites in three other cities, Year Up’s mission is to help “disconnected youth” access real career opportunities through an intense year of training in professional and practical skills in... View Details