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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Digitalization: The Key to the Future of HBS
to speed on these topics? In what way will this digital transformation affect alumni interactions with the School? We should be able to give them a much more customized experience. For example, we might ask alumni: Given your life stage... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
After the Storm
totally honest with you.” The charter network faced a Chicago political landscape in upheaval, with a teacher strike looming and a heated mayoral race underway with education as a focal point. And then, in the fall of 2018, the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
Eden of 75-degree temperatures, where you can breakfast on fresh guavas and relax into a way of life that values family and friendship over keeping up with the Joneses. Such was the path chosen by Richard Evanson (MBA '62), owner and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
you’d be hard-pressed to tell their nationality,” says Deshpandé. “Among other distinguishing characteristics, these firms tend to have intrapreneurial cultures that encourage and reward risk. They are quick to market and invest a lot in View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
and managing director at BCG Digital Ventures, Walter Delph (MBA 2003) works with companies to develop apps, connected devices, and online content—including video—that will engage customers on a level that goes beyond the straight sell.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 04 May 2017
- News
Going the Distance
where he worked 13 years for Cisco Systems during its meteoric rise. His passion for engaging with customers led him to run a global support organization for Cisco’s biggest customers. While at Cisco, the company sent him to HBS’s... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
Amgen people is helping to cure patients and improving their quality of life." « Back Information Plus Imagination In this era of connectivity and universal access, Michael R. Bloomberg (MBA '66) has found a niche based on customization... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
View from the Top
people in the company and the person who is working the assembly line or answering the phones. How do you stay in touch with those who work for you? Mühlemann: Walking around, seeing customers together with colleagues, e-mail,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
special public protections and oversight. Because it’s scarce, it has an economic value, but that value must be affordable to the communities we serve.” Based in New Jersey, American Water is part of the British multinational RWE Thames... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
employer (1,100 workers) and biggest taxpayer ($500 million and counting). “If we treated the Afghans with respect, it would create a brand loyalty and empathy they’d never had a chance to experience before,” Khoja says of the company’s initial, basic strategy. “In... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
right across the Western financial system. Not many people understood that defaults on subprime mortgages would destroy the value of exotic new asset-backed instruments like collateralized debt obligations. Not many people saw that, as... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
time. What helps? A clear sense of purpose, yoga, centering prayer, and a strong network of support. That support can be from friends who understand and share your values (for me, my church community) or from professionals (a dementia... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
across functions, businesses, and your industry. Engage your peers to deliver solutions to real business problems. Know the customer and the competitor. When you are at the top, be a talent magnet and then build the next generation of... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
and conducted customer research. “We learned that we needed to provide more than just services,” explains Rhyne, who added prestige cosmetics sales to the mix and wrote a solid business plan that was the only non–Internet-related finalist... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
1997. “Sometimes our students arrive at HBS thinking they are the sum total of their résumés,” says DeLong. “In courses like Authentic Leader Development or the Interpersonal Skills Development Lab, we try to move them away from this... View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
the AdSense business was on fire, and when I said how many new customers we added over the last couple of months, Eric Schmidt almost fell out of his chair, and he said, "What did you say? This is incredible. Do you need more marketing... View Details
- 05 May 2022
- News
Lesson Plans
allowed his cousins to pause, rewind, and absorb the material at their own pace. Before long, he was hearing from complete strangers that the videos had made a real difference in their ability to master material they’d struggled with previously. Another View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
Union and started pulling billions of euros out of the banks. To prevent total collapse, the government closed the banks for three weeks and limited withdrawals to 60 a day. The capital controls hit the population hard; for many... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
conditions for the various greens. This focus on nailing the plant science, says Lo, was a differentiator, though one she didn’t immediately grasp. “I have enough experience in technology that I thought, ‘I totally see this hardware being... View Details
- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
the combination of a desire to hold out for the best. And it's also this belief that option value is really sort of valuable in and of itself. That combination not only hurts you because you become indecisive and you become trapped in... View Details