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- 01 Jul 2013
- News
The Nature of Business
learned at Harvard and at Goldman Sachs," he recalled. "Viewing nature through the lens of basic business principles—maximize returns, invest in your assets, manage your risks, diversify, and promote innovation—can open the door for View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Case Study: On the Table
logistics can be outsourced to a global company like DHL. Mexico has a cost advantage, so it can naturally be a production center. —Ali al Shihabi (MBA 1985) Consider researching how Indian furniture startups and food companies are... View Details
- 21 Nov 2024
- News
Mother Nurture
Julia Cole, Tina Keshani, and Sophia Richter (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) When Tina Keshani (MBA 2020), Julia Cole (MBA 2020), and Sophia Richter (MBA 2020) met at Startup Boot Camp in their first year at HBS, they quickly discovered they shared a vision to create a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
background in air and water filtration at SpaceX and Brita, so we knew we could come up with something better.” What are your short- and long-term goals for the company? Taylor Wiegele: “Long term, we want to dominate the odor category––with multiple View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
of the Blackstone River in Northbridge, Massachusetts, the factory manufactures zinc-galvanized, plastic-coated welded wire mesh used to make lobster traps, security fencing, and other wire products, using a process Knott invented. The company’s first success was... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
you run the marathon. And it is a marathon, not a sprint—especially in life sciences, where it can take several years to get products to market. So culture is critical: You need people who can last, and, even if they don’t stay on until... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Investing in Innovation
products and services. "In an era of budget austerity and political gridlock," Hess added, "business is called on to play a larger role in providing social good. And we need the public to understand how important Harvard Business School... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
software. So when a family friend suggested that Marietta use talent from eastern Kentucky instead, he promptly set up a pilot office in Letcher County, just northeast of Harlan, and hired four recent high school graduates who had completed a media View Details
- 24 Mar 2021
- News
Clubs Reaffirm Equity in Community Partners Work; Alumni Angels Invest in Member Education
Clubs News Clubs News Community Partners Lean In to Racial Equity Each year, hundreds of HBS alumni volunteer with their local alumni clubs and associations to offer pro-bono consulting to nonprofits in their communities. This year, the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 09 Apr 2025
- News
The Working Parent Revolution
parents in the last decade. What are people reacting to? SK: Certainly this idea of managing both productivity at work and having a good family life has been something that's been really important forever. And the reality is there are... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New Releases
can respond appropriately to demand, lean inventories, and the rapid replenishment of stock. "The old way was to gear planning and production decisions to forecasts and guesses made months in advance of a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
the Toyota production system and lean manufacturing, we also discuss the complementary need for pooling inventory across sites and even firms. Right now, we are seeing companies and health systems bidding... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
process is the product,” Bohmer confirms. “It’s much more than a piece of paper.” Next, Kaplan and his team introduce the Toyota Production System (TPS), which transforms the hospital’s health-care delivery model. How those enormous... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
right out of business school," Sahlman says. "They don't yet know enough about hiring and firing or managing. They don't know enough about selling and marketing or production and operations." He advises freshly minted MBAs with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
access to yoga in their communities and online. Despite the adrenaline rush that comes from launching a new venture, however, Tecco is enjoying her bird's-eye view. "We're working with companies at such an early stage that we're seeing the most out-of-the-box... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
focused on building up HabanaLive, the company’s new meetings, incentives, conferences, exhibitions (MICE) business, and growing CET’s luxury leisure business. This means meeting with partners like the Kempinski and cultivating new business, View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 02 Jun 2021
- News
On the Road Less Traveled
Louis, no one talks fast. She talked fast, you know, and I'm tilted over, you know, I'm sort of, I lean forward, like you're in a tennis position or, you know, I don't stand up straight. My mother didn't stand up straight. And she rhymed.... View Details
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
meat. And I think one of the problems vegetarian food has had or meals when you take the meat away, often vegans and vegetarians eat a very, very lean diet. And I think that what happens is when somebody who has a meat based diet eats a... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
of their shoes inside the doorway. Each takes a seat on either side of the bed. As the nurse unfolds a laptop, Dr. Umeda closes his hand around the patient’s and leans in, all tenderness and warmth. “You’re looking better, Sato-san. It’s... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
Class Day & Commencement
prevailing conditions. “In good times and bad,” he counseled, “it's wise to remember to lean against the wind.” Whitehead concluded by noting the trend among companies toward greater social involvement and responsibility. “I believe your... View Details