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- 01 Feb 1997
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Herzlinger on Health Care: Revolution in Evolution
conversation. What are the major market forces that are transforming the health-care system? First and foremost, it's consumers. They have already revolutionized the retailing and information industries because they are so busy working... View Details
- 28 Feb 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Omowale Casselle (MBA 2009)
of incoming samples from our brand partners (P&G, Unilever, Elizabeth Arden), that our field team keeps our machines running and fully stocked with sample inventory, and that we are able to successfully launch and sustain each new market... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Case Study: Moment in the Sun
behemoths of Samsung and Philips. If you remain focused on one market segment, they will figure out a way to squish you (most probably by lowering prices and your margins). Ario needs to continue innovating and penetrating new markets... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
Sigma aficionado, Agarwala puts it this way: “Our business is about setting up systems and processes that result in good customer service.” On the technology front, a first-rate in-house IT team built the company’s Web site and stocked it... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
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Ban the Butterfly Rule for Corporate Directors
associated with the loss of position renders the director no longer qualified to serve, the message to the outside world is that board membership is geared to the position, not the person. Stated another way, the apparent objective is to have a board View Details
Keywords: Joseph Hinsey IV
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Charged Up
however, the low cost of natural gas is currently making gas-fueled turbines more competitive than those run by batteries. Even so, history has shown that energy prices can shift quickly. However it chooses to focus its resources, A123... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Alumni Books
market capitalization. The book examines how misguided investment and acquisition strategies have created the paradox that, in media, the faster revenues grow, the worse their stocks perform. The Elements of Investing by Burton G. Malkiel... View Details
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Into the Light
is in energy efficiency. She was an early employee of OPower, a software company that provides utilities, and their customers, better information about energy usage. After the company’s IPO, in 2014, Poindexter took a step back to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Reimagining China and India
companies are emerging is so different. It’s not that the raw stock of entrepreneurship is different in either country. But the ways in which Chinese and Indian entrepreneurs — whether they are businesspeople, social or even political... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
but from Mexico, South Korea, and elsewhere — was coming in at a lower price point than our unionized operations could match,” Chirchirillo recalls. “And many of my OPM classmates were from outside the United States, so I was getting a... View Details
- 23 Apr 2018
- News
Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
Foods Market regularly stocks EARTH’s bananas, dried fruits, and cobranded coffee. Outreach and Impact In his current role, Condo spends about half of his time on the road, meeting with members of the school’s extended community in the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 02 Nov 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
for compact discs, with section mates Bill Heye and Paresh Shah. “We were the CD tower guys. We produced thousands of them, selling the first ones for $199 at City Schemes and Brookstone. Then everyone got in the game, and retail pricing... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
designed and implemented on value principles. Beyond good intentions, we need to deliver results.” For its part, through a combination of foreign aid and its own resources, Rwanda hopes by 2011 to have a fully funded service of basic health care covering the entire... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
There are some things you just can’t learn in an HBS classroom—what it takes to jump out of an airplane, for instance, or the experience of playing at the World Series of Poker. Yet those kinds of out-of-office pursuits are important, says HBS assistant professor Jon... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
a product or service, any business can improve its innovation track record, creating products that customers will pay premium prices to bring into their lives. Entrepreneurs in Every Generation: How Successful Family Businesses Develop... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences
Always impressive, the annual conferences organized by HBS student clubs bring together industry leaders, alumni, and students for meetings marked by informative discussions of key business issues. Earlier this year, gatherings sponsored... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 08 May 2019
- News
Lessons from the Ashes
subscriptions. So it was doing well, but there’d been friction within the family, as there often is in family businesses, over the last few decades. Kind of towards the end of my time at HBS, my dad died in January '87. And the stock... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
McKinsey. Although the company provided a car and driver, Makarim, who had lived in Indonesia as a child, preferred to use the ubiquitous motorcycle taxis. Known as “ojek,” the two-wheelers were informally organized. Most neighborhoods... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Finding Their Way
The best-laid plans — even those designed and implemented by the remarkably talented alumni of HBS — are seldom immune to life's twists and turns. This is perhaps the overriding lesson that each member of the Class of 1976 has learned since graduating from HBS. Many... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
The True Value of a Tweet
behavior. When was the last time you were influenced because somebody tweeted about a product? I think that research still needs to be done [as to] whether or not it can persuade somebody. LJ: One way to use Twitter that may be undervalued is as a listening tool.... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint