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- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
high-tech approach to managing information on the soil composition of pastures and the quality and yield of beef from various genetic combinations. Each calf is tagged at birth and tracked through its life cycle. After it's been humanely... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Taking Flight
Fund, he invested millions of dollars for pension fund clients. In the early 1990s, Thayer taught himself a database program that he thought could be useful for shareholder accounting. As a test exercise, he used the database to keep View Details
- 19 Apr 2018
- News
One Last Pitch
stores, or for cash withdrawals. Others finalists included George Hessler (MBA 1985), who pitched Magma Trading, a new kind of stock market for large block trades that he’s dubbed “the Costco of trading.” Aiden Feng (MBA 2016) introduced... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Vision: A Unicorn Evolves
Medina and his cofounders had courted at GroupTalent were interested in Outreach’s product, but usage wasn’t growing as quickly as the founders had hoped. Plus, the company faced the challenge of making their software compatible with numerous applicant View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Building New Connections
between the School and its graduates.” In recent years, Foley has presented his research to a number of alumni groups; engaged with alumni and companies for his CFO courses; and chaired the Network and Community track of the Dean’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Combating Climate Change
If global temperatures rise by 6 degrees celsius by 2050—as they are on track to do—officials at the International Energy Agency say the changes would bring “devastating consequences for the planet.” And those consequences will extend to... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Cash flow struggles can take down a company or spark ideas that transform an industry
Plans that Jonathan Bush (MBA 1997) had for an obstetrics practice ran into trouble when faced with unpaid claims and problems tracking patient records. In that, Bush saw an opportunity that forever changed the health records services... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Latest Model
Similarly, Prysm’s online courses are designed to help working professionals grasp the business implications of emerging technologies, regardless of sector. If you want to trade in digital assets, for instance, it doesn’t matter whether... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Research Brief: Lost in Translation
intraday trading volumes and more modest price movements in stocks compared with calls led by more fluent speakers. “Executives typically speak English quite well when they’ve had time to prepare and rehearse,” says Yu. “But when they... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
Francisco Opera, helping it through a difficult era—flying, teaching entrepreneurship, track and field, and fishing. Johnson, a nationally ranked runner in college, regularly attends the Olympic Games. From his father, a View Details
- 25 Jul 2024
- News
Mentorship Program in Singapore is Still Lighting the Way to Success
Clubs News Clubs News It’s been a decade since the HBS Club of Singapore (HBSCS) launched its signature Mentorship Program, aimed at helping local university and trade school students to prepare for life after graduation, both personally and professionally. The program... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Braving an Insecure New World
Are limits or balance possible? Clemens Aichholzer (MBA 2003), London, England Additional Reading Scott Howe (MBA 1994) is making Big Data–driven marketing more transparent We've been trading privacy for convenience for a long time—from... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Alumni Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books 20+ Years of Urban Rebuilding: Lessons from the Revival of Lower Manhattan after 9/11 By Patrice Derrington (MBA 1991) and Rosemary Scanlon (PMD 42, 1981) Routledge Following the destruction of the World Trade Center and the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
any such occurrence." Seated at his desk, Lhota suddenly heard "a screeching noise" and then an explosion. He ran to the front steps of City Hall, where a police officer told him that a plane had hit the north tower of the World Trade... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
out: “Stand well with the trade & are in high credit.”[5] The personal nature of some of these details, and the fact that an individual had no access to his or her report, made Dun and other agencies vulnerable to criticism. The Irish... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Incentives and Operational Excellence
Rentrak kept track of the scanner data and performed audits and spot-checks to ensure compliance with the revenue-sharing contracts, thus enabling the new system to thrive. “In this case,” said Narayanan, “the solution was win-win-win.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
foreign-corruption legislation extant. High-level bribery is part of the fabric of many societies, Wells says, because in a number of developing countries, the scarcity of well-paying jobs, among other reasons, encourages officials to make money while their party is in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
of the President’s Export Council. Do you have any perspectives to share from your work in that particular post? American business is trying to find the most constructive way to engage with the Obama administration. I happen to think that View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
Growth," followed four tracks of inquiry: managing innovation, information technology and competitive strategy, transforming the enterprise, and entrepreneurship. "Ours is an era of organizational experimentation," observed Professor Gary... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
"Unheard Voices" Brings to Light Three Centuries of American Women at Work
Trade card from 1833 advertising "Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound." (Baker Library Historical Collections) From the time of her marriage in 1743 until her death in 1765, Sarah Chamberlain, wife of Nathaniel Chamberlain, a blacksmith... View Details