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- 01 Jun 2024
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The Exchange: Chance Encounters
is often about new ideas, new products, new services, or even just improvements in the ways things have been done. It’s hard to quantify that, at least for the individual employee. Wu: For the companies that have been remote in the... View Details
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- 08 Oct 2013
- News
The Green Giant
companies that have the greatest effect on the planet and put a new focus on sustainability. So far, WWF has signed 56 memoranda of understanding designed to deliver large-scale improvements in resource management and conservation. "I am... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Merck’s Gilmartin on Vaccines, Global Health
still die as a result of poverty, poor distribution systems, and lack of trained personnel. The business community and policymakers must work together to improve access to existing vaccines, Gilmartin declared. In addition, they need to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
social enterprise work as a recruiting tool to attract the best young talent, our approach is much more sustainable in the long run because it avoids the reintegration issues that often arise when executives spend months away. What are some of these reintegration... View Details
- 22 Nov 2011
- News
A Storybook Beginning
goal of touching a million kids’ lives by 2015” by providing them with e-readers. Risher developed the idea for the venture during a world tour with his family that combined sightseeing with hands-on community improvement activities such... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
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Going Forward
to improve the perception of HBS and business in the world; to engage with the University in mutually beneficial ways; and to build the case for flexible funding that would support innovation at the School. On all these dimensions we have... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Father of Modern Advertising
made promises that reality couldn’t keep, such as claiming Lucky Strikes (“Reach for a Lucky instead of a sweet”) improved throat health. He preferred to do business directly with chief executives and made many powerful and lasting... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Case Study: Sound Check
improved long-term retention rates. In the early days, it’s best to optimize for product feedback. If it’s easier to sell to smaller customers (with more volume), stick with this segment and treat the feedback as gold. Rapidly iterate... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
entities that have this government backstop, over time you end up guaranteeing riskier mortgages backed by inadequate capital. That’s how Fannie and Freddie got into trouble in the first place. How does your reform option improve on the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The Evolving HBS Campus
“topping off” ceremony for Klarman Hall, a new convening center being built on the southeastern corner of the HBS campus. The ceremony of raising the highest steel beam traditionally marks the halfway point of a building’s construction. Slated to open in fall 2018,... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
After Ozempic
billion to expand production and improve human health across the globe. Yet, skepticism persists. In September, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders challenged Jørgensen in a Senate committee hearing on the high cost of drug prices in the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Noted & Quoted
January 4, 2010) “In transforming a home into just another investment, we have created a class of homeowners who treat their commitment to their homes much as they would treat any bad investment.” — HBS... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
HBS Hosts Chinese Educators
As part of its continuing initiative to help improve management education in Greater China, the School, along with HBS Publishing, welcomed 77 senior professors and deans in mid-January for the fourth session of the Program on Case Method... View Details
- 23 Feb 2015
- News
Preserving a Musical Tradition; Inspiring Future Generations
become home to the first iASO Bachata Academy. “We announced to the classes, ‘We’re offering music lessons in bachata. If you are interested, please come to the tryout,’” de Menil says. “Pretty much every student came. There were hundreds... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Raymond Hwang (MBA 2010)
people will experience significant spine-related symptoms at some point. The ability to improve the quality of many lives makes spine surgery relevant. Contemporary spine surgery is also heavily technology dependent, which makes for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
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Research Brief: So Many Sites, So Little Time
paper by Professor Shane Greenstein with Andre Boik of UC Davis and Jeffrey Prince of Indiana University offers surprising—and helpful—insights for advertisers or anyone else hoping to win online attention. Greenstein and his coauthors analyzed activity on the primary... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
THAT'S A WINNER: The DeWitts enjoy the home field advantage at the new Busch Stadium, which offers views of downtown St. Louis and the city's trademark Gateway Arch. From his office in the new Busch Stadium, St. Louis Cardinals Managing... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
we think about everything," he remarked. "Information technology has to march in lockstep with business," agreed Verizon CIO Shaygan Kheradpir. Software that automates complex transactions and expanding customer service on the Web are... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
had spent a lot of it on a motorbike, selling pots and pans. Haryopratomo: It wasn't about the glamour of being in a startup because it wasn't glamorous to be in a startup at the time. Morrell: Very few people in his home country... View Details
- 23 Jul 2013
- News
Building Great Schools around Great Teachers
boarding school seemed too limiting if he wanted to make a genuine impact. Turning his sights to improving public education, he met with then-HBS Senior Lecturer Stacey Childress (MBA 2000). She presented him with a challenge. Why, she... View Details