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- 10 Jul 2022
- News
Manufacturing Process Innovations: A “Bessemer Moment” For Titanium?
- 18 Mar 2020
- News
Why it’s so hard to hit pause on the economy
- 21 May 2024
- News
A New Chapter
operate and fund the program long term,” Wolf says. The tablets Imagine Worldwide distributes do not require internet connectivity. Each is loaded with a full, culturally appropriate curriculum developed by the organization’s software... View Details
- 07 Nov 2022
- News
Victoria’s Secret Buys Alumni-Founded Adore Me
garment industry in France, so I frequently heard friends and family complain about the options for buying lingerie in the United States,” he said in a 2014 article from the “First Five Years” HBS alumni profile series. “I found that there was a huge opportunity to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Buy Big, Sell Small
bus to restock. Their orders are relatively small, so they can’t negotiate on prices or credit terms,” adds Shruti, who watched her uncle’s kirana go out of business years ago due to issues with pricing and product selection. ApnaKlub (Hindi for “Our Club”) View Details
- 04 Feb 2021
- News
Andy Jassy Named Amazon’s New CEO
most recent quarter, AWS had net sales of $12.7 billion with an operating income of $3.6 billion, more than half of the company’s overall operating income,” the Journal reports. In a recent episode of the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
result of a "third industrial revolution" whose origins in the United States, he says, can be traced to the leaner and meaner approach to corporate operations that was spurred by the tenfold increase in energy prices during the 1970s.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 31 Jul 2023
- News
Striving for Imperfection
programmable biology, and then all of the disruption from the pandemic, from conflict and economic disruption, the frame in which we’re doing strategy has all changed. Now, you’re just as likely to be View Details
- 23 Mar 2023
- News
Winners Crowned in 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition
Alumni-founded startups M7 Health and Hue came out victorious in the 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition on Thursday, winning the Grand Prize and Runner Up awards respectively in an impressive field of eight global regional winners. During the virtual, live... View Details
- 11 Apr 2024
- News
Mission Control
transformation that happened there. So, I had a blueprint of how disruptive innovation, so to speak, looks like. And then I had gone to a school, where they do talk about this, and they have probably the most famous guy in the world to... View Details
- 16 Aug 2018
- News
Working with a Giver’s Spirit
half that of traditional pawnshops; and Rappler, the Philippines’ last independent news outlet and where Ayala also serves as chairman of the board. “At Hatchd, it’s kind of like we’re professional cofounders,” he says. Ko, who is now Asia lead for Zipline... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
being disrupted as we retool and refuel machinery, as the dietary preferences of younger generations become more vegetable-based and as we learn to produce our needs with less labor, less equipment, and fewer emissions. Within sectors... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Future Vision
situation. For all the disruption the pandemic caused at HBS, and the real toll it took on many individuals, it also pushed us, quickly and forcefully, in directions it otherwise might have taken us years to pursue. Consider remote... View Details
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
Illustrations by Edmon DeHaro “Cheers!” As her father’s wedding toast comes to a close, Vanessa Royle (MBA 2022) raises her champagne flute into the evening air to clink glasses with the groom, Andy. She tilts her glass to take a sip and, with the flavors of the drink... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
the vehicle, and up to 1,000 meters ahead, in order to drive those long stretches of highway safely, saving the human drivers for shorter distance pickups and deliveries in cities and towns. The company had 70 trucks on the road throughout 2021, with safety View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
Borders is gone. So are B. Dalton, Waldenbooks, and Crown Books. Barnes & Noble, headed by CEO Demos Parneros (AMP 178, 2010), now has about 630 physical bookstores—down from more than 700 in 2011. But the number of independent bookstores, a breed declared endangered... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 10 Apr 2019
- News
Rakuten’s Mikitani Bets $5.5 Billion To Shake Up Japan’s Telecom Industry
A recent feature in Forbes outlines Rakuten CEO Hiroshi Mikitani’s plan to disrupt Japan’s mobile phone market. Named Rakuten Mobile, the company hopes to build the network in “half the time and at a cost of up to 40% less than what it... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
investment. Detailing a half-century of stock market hits and misses, often with brutal honesty, the book relays lessons learned from both the crucible of failure and the elation of success. The Disruption Mindset: Why Some Organizations... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Faculty Books
Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael B. Horn (MBA ’06), and Curtis W. Johnson (McGraw-Hill) Taking a cue from Bill Gates’s 2005... View Details