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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Life of Ted
Today liked it so much the paper named it one of the best business books of 2008. “Ted has really lived ten lifetimes,” Burke said. “He just turned 70, and I can say he hasn’t slowed down at all. I would fly... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
technology adds an increasingly dynamic dimension by dint of its exponential power to boost output while reducing costs through speed and efficiency. Another feature of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 18 Jul 2019
- News
The Pursuit of Impact
Michael R. Bloomberg (MBA 1966) is founder and CEO of the financial data firm Bloomberg LP, the former mayor of New York City, and founder of Bloomberg Philanthropies. He is a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
The School of Life
them had experience launching a new venture. None of them knew how to adjust a strategy when the first one didn’t work. None had had to figure out how to make a brand-new product profitable before growing it... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
State of the Unions
A McDonald’s employee takes part in a March protest calling for unionization and higher minimum wages for fast-food workers. (© David Eulitt/TNS/ZUMA Wire) In May, thousands of McDonald’s employees swarmed the company’s Oak Brook,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
game and that a passive approach is more profitable in today’s market. By adjusting your portfolio asset weights to match a performance index, you consistently earn higher rates of returns and come out on... View Details
- 19 Jan 2024
- News
The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Speed has gotten a pretty bad rap, says Anne Morriss (MBA 2004). The Silicon Valley mantra of moving fast and breaking things has led to waves of high-profile... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
head up too high here,” she says. “But if you keep too low of a profile, no one will find you. So I stay in the middle, and I keep on moving.” Japan’s population is aging at an unprecedented speed and... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
INK: The Lessons of Blitzscaling
Need for Speed Entrepreneur and investor Chris Yeh (MBA 2000) and Reid Hoffman, cofounder of LinkedIn and a partner at Greylock Partners, have been fixtures in Silicon Valley since the early days View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The New Rules of E-Commerce
lesson, he writes, is the need for speed. Lack of speed (velocity and agility) is a problem Mikitani traces back to the CEO. "If you believe that speed is not your job, then it... View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
retraining and enabling people to adjust their skills as the jobs adjust. Today, there's an incredible shortage of computer programmers. Well, those people who were the elevator operators are not prepared to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
match, “The Big Durian” after the sweet Southeast Asian fruit that emits such an overwhelming stench of blue cheese and sweaty gym clothes that it is banned by most airlines and hotels. The key to making life in Jakarta a little easier is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Evolution of Modern Pricing Models
image by John Ritter From Uber’s surge pricing to dynamic ticket pricing, it seems there’s been more awareness of pricing models and pricing strategy in recent years. What’s driving that interest? Thales Teixeira: We need to go back... View Details
- 29 Jan 2021
- News
How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics
- 12 Feb 2016
- News
Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict
I felt there my first sense of being an entrepreneur.” Mendhro left Microsoft for HBS in 2006, but struggled with the adjustment while facing an acute health issue, which led her to take a break to return to... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
Bjerg is staring blankly at his computer screen. He adjusts his two monitors and fiddles with the speakers as he awaits the start of his next League of Legends battle. As he... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Research Brief: The Real Cost of Countering China
scope and speed at which Japanese firms came to the US was dramatic,” Alfaro observes. “But the US [government] is not going to let China do that.” Instead, China has intensified trade with and foreign direct investment (FDI) in four... View Details