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Paris Wallace
monitors and tracks their monthly cycle and suggests the optimum time for baby-making. Its pregnancy app guides women to healthier pregnancies. In its two years of existence,... View Details
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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer
focus on educational program innovations, and other initiatives, in fiscal 2023, the School continued to execute its pedagogical mission: to educate the next generation of global leaders who make a difference in the world. For the first... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
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Green Day
for livestock and wildlife will grow. And grow. And grow. A more recent discovery is that elephant grass can feed power plants as well as animals. Cut, dried, View Details
- 18 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon
shipping model, according to Ngwe. Ngwe attributes the higher purchase totals to customers overshooting the minimum balance needed to qualify for free shipping, due to the extra time and effort required to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
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Business Answers the Call
Quaker Oats in brand management. Her interest piqued, she changed industries, went to work for superintendents in Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia, and then returned to Harvard, this View Details
- 25 Mar 2018
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Modernizing Infrastructure Management
in and fix them for us. “When gWorks started, it was just in three states—Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota. In the last 4 and 1/2 years, we've grown to be in 32 states with our... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
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The Real Conflict
$18 billion per year. And because Wal-Mart forces its competitors to charge lower prices as well, this figure is a fraction of the company’s real impact. These kinds of savings to customers far exceed the View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
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Making It Count
to how companies measure and report their ESG metrics. A company that touts its record in one dimension might be failing to mention hidden societal costs in others, like harmful labor practices,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Management. Doriot taught Industrial Management and Manufacturing classes that focused on manufacturing methods and organization, material and labor, View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
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Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
look at leadership in American public life. If you spend as much time as I do around politicians, you hear a lot about leadership. They all promise to offer it, in different shapes and forms. Strong... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Streamlining the Supermarket
full-time employees, slashing labor costs by 90 percent. Those two innovations are expected to add up to a net profit margin of three times that of the overall industry. “And that is really powerful,” Pedró... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
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Alumni Forums - Alumni
cannot be in the same forum.) All forum candidates have the opportunity to review the list of other members before meeting, and also check for any potential conflicts based on close business or personal relationships. What are the View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
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Case Study: On the Record
producers. Operational efficiencies will allow Gold Rush Vinyl—which started with $750,000 raised from family, friends, and an SBA loan, to cover the expensive pressing equipment—to reduce wait time from an... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jan 2005
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Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964
Once they placed their order, customers had to wait ten years to receive it. Finally, Bajaj, whose grandfather had been known as the "fifth son" of Mahatma Gandhi and whose parents and grandparents had spent... View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
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Don’t Be Afraid of AI
doing something that simple. I mean, you would have to program it for that specific bridge, you would have to tell it what to look for. Instead of just letting it loose and saying, "Survey the bridge all the View Details
- 24 Oct 2007
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Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation
originate with users, and as user communities quickly add more improvements, a "design space" is initiated. User innovators seem to spring up around industries such as recreation, where participants are passionate, View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
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Putting Ghosts to Rest
who reflects on his experiences in Rwanda and how unfamiliar environments abroad can lead to reevaluating traditional notions of business risk and social return. It was late at night, View Details
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Strategic Plan | Information Technology
with our school and departmental business aspirations. The plan addresses current IT challenges facing higher education while also embracing the unique needs of the HBS community. Given the nature of technology, we expect the strategic... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
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Ink
Fuji Photo Film combined interests to steal low-end printer share from Canon, both companies wanted to have a markup over their own separate costs, which would have created an overpriced product. The eventual answer was a carefully crafted partnership that... View Details
- 25 May 2020
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Has Occupational Licensing Outlived Its Usefulness?
variation in licensing stringency across states and occupations, we can evaluate the aggregate costs and benefits of licensing regulation. In our study we take government... View Details