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- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
can see it-- if you look at the roots of technology, a lot of the commercial success and just waves of productivity that emerged from technology, all were centered around the formation of communities. And if you look at the example of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
At Your Service
talking about companies that make physical products. When the MacBook Air came out, for example, Apple knew that to make it lightweight, there would be a tradeoff when it came to battery life and memory. Apple didn’t have any angst or... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; customer service; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
with this eternal conundrum. Easy Rider Martin Snoey (MBA ’72) Age: 61 Home: Mercer Island, Washington “My sense is that life is not a simple sequence of events,” says Martin Snoey. “Instead, it’s a continual trade-off among career,... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
554, with billings for 2006 estimated at $1 billion. The agency’s client list now includes brands such as Volkswagen, Burger King, and Virgin Atlantic, among others. “The business I loved is the business we’re in now — being completely integrated with a client’s View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
much time apart, and, two, this is not the life that we had imagined for ourselves in terms of having a really good partnership and thinking about starting a family,” Gordon says. Gordon’s deep network allows her to provide clients with... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Wired for Innovation
ultimate goal of selling transmission capacity to generators of renewable-energy seeking to get their product to market; or to utilities looking to access the lowest-cost clean power in the country. To make that happen, Skelly spends much... View Details
- 15 May 2023
- News
From Scientist to Business Leader
tuberculosis. After several years working in the lab, Kim began to wonder if she was in the right role. Then COVID hit, and demand for the company’s products surged. “My CEO asked if I could step away from the bench into a business... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Turning Point: The Dark Season
Skydeck podcast The NFL is all about production and productivity. When things go well, everyone in the world can see it. When things don’t go so well, the same is true. Last year, the Bears were 3 and 13. I’ve never talked so much about... View Details
Keywords: Jonathan Wilkins (MBA 2007, MDiv 2009)
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
Baldwin and Dean Kim Clark remind readers in their new book, Design Rules: The Power of Modularity. Baldwin and Clark are intrigued by the underlying structure of these human-designed products and systems and the ways in which they evolve... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
of success were no longer the same as they were a decade ago. "Asian wages are rising rapidly," Porter said. Other nations are restructuring their economies and offering an alternative to Asia as an outsourcing location. The key today is View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
student statistics. HBS: Part of the Global Village The international students who grappled with this introduction to an essential aspect of life at HBS are part of a long tradition. Business students have traveled to Soldiers Field from... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
long before she had exhausted her retirement savings. “I never thought I’d be on the needing end,” says Rhenisch. “I was living a good, solid, confident middle-class life until I got sick. Then the foundation of everything I had built... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
studio and uplink center. Not bad for a kid who received a “low pass” in Production and Operations Management and thought he could get away with not having to buy a pocket calculator to do the math for Managerial Economics. View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
everything that the business needs, from raising financing, to customer interactions, to sales and marketing, to product development. It’s a challenge to be able to cover, as an individual and even as a small team, all those bases, and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
attractive to alumni who want to do more in their communities, have an impact, and pay it forward. “What they lack is a clear path on how to make that happen inside a hectic life of work and personal commitments,” he says. “Community... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Podcasts Engage New Audiences with HBS
Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. Professor Mike Toffel lays out the scenario: JUUL is the e-cigarette market leader—its revenue grew from $200 million to $1 billion between 2017 and 2018. But the company also faces questions... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
economic drivers" of business use of the Internet, explaining, "The change in the production process of information is altering the way it's distributed. Information is moving from paper into bits. That is a fundamental change in the... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
of innovation in fields as diverse as real estate law and songwriting. But it is in the health sector where Watson’s impact is most tangible, where its benefits are literally the difference between life and death. “What I focus on,” says... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
capitalism remains a major challenge. “When you don’t have the marketplace slapping you in the face, telling you your product is no good, you can really get confused,” Gates acknowledged. In health care, the foundation simply looks at the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
Colombia — I found that people share similar goals: security, a good job, and a better life for their families. What they struggle with is how to get there. Helping these people requires focused assistance in the form of knowledge,... View Details