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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
levels of productivity. At 5.4 percent, 2002 saw the biggest annual gain in productivity growth since 1950. Like many consumers, companies are tightening their belts and doing more with less in an effort to survive, and thrive, at a time... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Vision: A Unicorn Evolves
product sped up the process of creating and following up on sales pitches, which resulted in 10 times more meetings for GroupTalent’s two sales reps, Medina says. But the influx of interest overwhelmed the... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
every decision. I don’t have to tell anyone here that we face an uphill battle in Scranton, but I have seen that with a collaborative effort, public officials can accomplish extraordinary things. It can’t happen overnight, and officials must be given the space and the... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
you learned about yourself and your work in the new remote reality? No one believes this, but I’m a profound introvert. I’ve learned that I need to build in processing time in significant ways throughout my... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
vacant. "The country stops. The days that Brazil plays, it will be a national holiday," Sender says. This year, though, Sender won't have much time to celebrate. As CEO of TAM Airlines, Brazil's largest, she'll be managing operations at... View Details
- 17 Sep 2020
- News
HBS Goes Back To School
interactions with each other are at the heart of this education.” Among the changes that Shad General Manager Sue LaRose has seen during re-opening is the appointment system for the facility and the tennis courts. “Members make a 45-minute reservation, and after the 45... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
and other HBS-trained entrepreneurs understand that entrepreneurship means far more than merely getting a business started. It is, according to HBS professor Howard H. Stevenson, chair of the School's Entrepreneurial Management (EM) unit, "a never-ending View Details
- 30 Apr 2025
- News
A Social Enterprise Talk in DC; Canadian Alumni Talk Trade; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Colorado
president Sameera Bazaz (MBA 1999). Bazaz says the club initially reached out to Cole about holding an event to strengthen and expand the club’s Social Enterprise Alumni Interest Group. But with new federal cuts dealing a blow to a wide range of public services, the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
of each affected the actions of others, culminating in the “mass hysteria” (another chapter title) leading to the crash. Buy, Lie, and Sell High provides specific suggestions for reforms to the regulation process in the United States that... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 09 Jan 2014
- News
Tapping into Opportunity
says Shenkar. Her awareness of how precious and limited water can be began while growing up in Israel. The Middle East has prospered for millennia by making the most out of what relatively little water there is in the region. Since the View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Contributing to a Better Future
feels like a fairly traumatic time in world history as a result of the pandemic, increasing vectors of inequality, and the looming threat of climate change. And at this moment, business is playing a strangely two-headed role. On the one... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
you can’t pronounce . Part of the strategy revolution was the coming of what I’ll call Greater Taylorism, the corporation’s application of sharp-penciled analytics, this time not to the performance of an individual worker — how fast a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
GROVE Born in Hungary in 1936, András István Gróf survived Nazi and Communist regimes before fleeing to the United States at the age of twenty. In 1997, as chairman and CEO of Intel, Andrew Stephen Grove was named Time magazine’s Man of... View Details
- 30 Aug 2018
- News
Sharing a Passion for Art
Photos by Richard Bolger Joop van Caldenborgh (AMP 71, 1975) crossed the world many times in three decades as founder and president of the Netherlands-based Caldic Chemie, BV, an international distributor of compounds for industrial,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
financial losses, and a large amount of wasted time for everyone involved. This book was written to help a person, family, or team transform any challenge or problem using a proprietary six-step process. It brings organizations together... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
between the software giant and its closest challenger, IBM, while younger alumni put Microsoft well ahead of Big Blue.) It was IBM that first gave business "the ability to process information that has transformed the world," one... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
dollars. All told, the process takes about 10 to 15 years. "I think we're all frustrated, we're all disappointed," explains PhRMA's EVP of scientific and regulatory affairs Bill Chin, former executive dean for research at Harvard Medical... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
Brisbane, Australia. The building was four times larger than she needed for classrooms and a serious stretch for her balance sheet. “I was scared to death,” Russo says, looking back on the experience. It was a risk she didn’t need to... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All
people and process as much as technology. So there's more to the Y2K problem than technology? Definitely. You can tell a lot about a company by how it's reacting to the Y2K problem. An organization whose people failed to see how it would... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
View from the Top
entire companies and the driving force behind the turnaround of the American economy, is suddenly under siege,” the New York Times declared in June. In the months since, the chorus of voices questioning today's business leaders has only... View Details