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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Gaining Currency
Kim Reynolds (MBA ’79), the weakness of the dollar is a good thing: It makes Markel’s products — insulated wire and tubing for cars — attractive to buyers from Europe where locally manufactured goods have grown pricey due to the euro’s strength. The weaker dollar has... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
New Book Recounts Storied Class of ’49
of Xerox, Thomas S. Murphy of Capital Cities/ABC, William J. Ruane of the Sequoia Fund, John Shad of Wall Street and the SEC, and Marvin S. Traub of Bloomingdale’s. But lesser-known figures like George M. Berman and Malcolm Hecht, whose semiconductor firm Unitrode... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
2nd HBS Survey on US Competitiveness
accessible energy supplies and a more level playing field in the international trading system also garnered strong support across the political spectrum. Liberal business leaders tended to support greater infrastructure investment,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
sufficient. Instead, the problem we have to deal with has as much to do with the supply side as the demand side. That's very different from the 1930s. Additionally, the demand-side problem that we’re facing now is fundamentally different... View Details
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes In the first of a weekly series of Skydeck episodes honoring recipients of the 2022 Alumni Achievement Award, finance veteran Naina Lal Kidwai (MBA 1982) talks about her second act as chairman and founder... View Details
- 29 Aug 2024
- News
A Kick Start for Latin American Startups
According to Forbes, the region’s annual loss in food supplies represents 6 percent of the global total. Diferente rescues organic food seen as "imperfect" by the traditional market and sells food baskets at a fraction of the cost of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Negotiating with Wal-Mart
negotiations to supply Wal-Mart with her family farm’s pumpkins and watermelons. Like Muccio, Talley confronted some of the same hardball price challenges, and like Muccio, she acquired a deep understanding of the Wal-Mart culture while... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
and retaining faculty as well. On the incoming side, the tightening supply of new faculty is a concern, not just for us but also for business schools more broadly. At HBS, we seek out faculty candidates with a strong commitment to... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Conversation with John Doerr (MBA '76)
students? Doerr: What's in the shortest supply is great marketing talent for technology-based companies. So in addition to entrepreneurship, HBS should emphasize education and research into understanding and marketing technology products... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Lumry Chair Supports IT and Entrepreneurship
them to make a difference in their companies and in the world. In his professional life, Lumry has achieved that by supplying new and emerging enterprises with the vision, inspiration, and financial support they need to chart new waters.... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Feedback
Collins (MBA 1984) via LinkedIn We have removed almost all price signaling from health care. The only way to align supply and demand is by correcting this. A bureaucracy will never get it right. Only a political bureaucracy could have... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
American leagues' revenues but also the exporting countries' infrastructures. By contrast, to establish solid franchises overseas, the NFL has to create a supply of foreign homegrown players and support systems in order to build the... View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Exploring China’s Belt & Road Initiative
analyzing the impact COVID-19 would soon have on the global supply chain.” Pallavi Menon MBA 2020 Pallavi Menon (MBA 2020) considers the course to have been the defining experience of her time at HBS. “It was a truly unique opportunity to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Immersion Program Digs Deep
was charged with discovering what happens to all of the uneaten prepared food in the city; they came away with a government incentive scheme to reduce the leakage of untreated food waste into the animal feed supply chain. “International... View Details
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
the concept that the person who “owned” the final purchaser actually could control the supply process all the way up the line, by controlling the shelf space. From that evolved the concept of private labeling, and Peter formed a company,... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Designing a More Artful Future for the Middle East
way people dress, with a significant number of women wearing hijab,” says Halwani. “Companies don’t create specific fashions for the region, so women often end up with very bland choices.” Halwani aims to fill that niche while eliminating the waste that he has learned... View Details
Keywords: Inclusion
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
Marty also developed excellent cases and created superb interpretive weekly student assignment memos — a technique I adopted and still employ.” A Missouri native, Marshall was in college when World War II broke out. He enlisted in the Navy, which sent him to HBS in... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Pearson Hunt
Industrial Administrator Program, the Army Quartermaster Corps School, the Navy Supply Corps School, and the Army Air Forces Statistical School (where I did my teaching), as well as the Navy's Contract Termination course in the ending... View Details
Keywords: Pearson Hunt
- 22 Jul 2014
- News
Hungry for Change
technical solution or a cure for something that isn't scientifically possible or known," says Zeaske. "We have a resource scarcity and distribution problem, not a production problem." That last point is particularly true in agriculturally rich Minnesota. "We've... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards: Honorees and Victories
concessions company and building it into Boston Culinary Group, of which he is chairman and CEO. The firm does business in forty states, supplying food and drink to arenas and convention centers and operating theaters, ski resorts, and... View Details