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- 30 Sep 2010
- News
Can’t We All Just Get Along?
coveted Nobel for his work in ending the hostilities between the province of Aceh and the government of Indonesia, a struggle that had claimed 50,000 lives during a 30-year war. Before that, he was a key figure in negotiating Namibia’s... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
British government to declare a state of emergency and place businesses on a three-day workweek to conserve electricity. It would take more than luck to grow a business in such conditions. By 1977, two of the founding partners had moved... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
Brightstar and Encore, which act as trade-in white labels for large retail chains and mobile carriers. Sure, these competitors lack Gazelle's brand in the eyes of consumers and Gazelle's website has a great NPS score, but I worry that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Chinese Premier Speaks at HBS
475baf4874c54b74d6872cb82ffdcb34 Amid the backdrop of U.S.-Chinese relations — tension over trade issues and Taiwan’s independence on the one hand, cooperation on terrorism and North Korea on the other — Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao spoke at HBS during a four-day trip to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Fever Pitch
This year’s New Venture Competition saw heavy alumni participation on both sides of the judging. More than 160 graduates critiqued student startups during April’s on-campus event, weighing everything from team chemistry to financials. The alumni version of the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
an excellent public-private partnership model that provided the right incentives for investment and the flexibility to attack the problems in service delivery. This was key. How did you structure Manila Water’s concession with the View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
Sunil B. Mittal, OPM 27, 1999
in 15 African countries 2012 Launches India’s first 4G service 2013 Elected Vice Chair, International Chamber of Commerce 2014 Bharti’s Airtel launches 4G in Africa Founder and Chairman, Bharti Enterprises With a magnetic smile, an... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Herzlinger on Health Care: Revolution in Evolution
The Bulletin recently spoke with Regina E. Herzlinger, the School's Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration, about her new book, Market-Driven Health Care: Who Wins, Who Loses in the Transformation of America's Largest View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
South Africa's Lucille Meyer: Shaping a Practical Presidency
aware that combining career, family, and school may be too much. In addition to working in several other government positions, Meyer previously served as chief director of management and executive services... View Details
Keywords: Morgan Baker
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Stocking Up Can Build Customer Value
papers (and miss one or more possible sales) once a week, or one-seventh of the time. What's ignored in this equation, though, according to HBS professor David Bell, is that customers care how often a retailer runs out of stock. "The... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
services produced. (GameStop, for example, is up more than 900 percent YTD.) “That means, in the medium to long term, these stocks are likely to fall in value, which is not a great recipe for some of these excited, first-time investors,”... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Research Brief: Political Capital
It’s no secret that politicians are trying to buy your vote—in the 2012 presidential campaign, Republicans and Democrats shelled out nearly $2 billion in their fight for the White House. But what’s the most effective way to spend that money? In a new working paper, HBS... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
government and individual donors may have different priorities and demands, and soon a nonprofit trying to please too many (including the general public) pleases no one—least of all those constituents they were hoping to help.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Government; Government; Government; Government; Government; Government; Government; Government
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Making Big Data Fashionable
from anything so unquantifiable as emotion, Moon values that intuition and wants to “help validate” it. More Retail Revolutions Speeding Up Accessories BaubleBar cofounders Amy Jain and Daniella Yacobovsky (both MBA 2010) apply the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
had been suspended for several years. One of the first women to graduate from HBS, Franklin is used to breaking down barriers. She has worked with five Presidents of the United States, founded an international trade consulting and investment firm, and earned kudos as a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Faculty News
Nancy F. Koehn, a member of the Entrepreneurial and Service Management unit and an authority on business history, has been named a full professor. Honored in 1998 by the HBS Student Association for her classroom excellence, Koehn... View Details
- 15 May 2018
- News
Spreading the Safety Net
paid sick leave and the flexibility to work from home, or even abroad. Our hourly employees, working in Rent the Runway’s warehouse, on the customer service team and in our retail stores, had to face life... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
Upon Further Review I found “Fixing America’s Leadership Deficit” in the June Bulletin to be a brief but exciting summary of the three-person panel discussion that took place at the Kennedy School of Government last March. For a while, it... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
for itself.” Let all political leaders worldwide pledge to end government subsidies that promote the overconsumption of hydrocarbons. Stephen M. Batty (MBA 1977) Newport Beach, CA Spangler Tribute The September Bulletin article “The... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
intend to navigate the regulatory environment? In particular, how could they educate governments and ease concerns about the various types of risk pertaining to payments and currency? —Caleb Reeves (GMP 16, 2014) Even though there are... View Details