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- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
practices to lead some 150 consultants and employees in the building of the aquarium against almost impossible financial odds. "I started the early design meetings with a nondenominational prayer," says Stuart, an Episcopalian who also... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Matter of Opinion
rate. Another was classic HBS: His venerable product was much more than just a magazine. As his classmates and professors assured him, The Nation was a “brand.” “We’re now a $10 million operation that’s been profitable the last two... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
economics major at the University of California at Berkeley, McNamara discovered at HBS “a field of specialization he would make his own and use to change three institutions and, arguably, the United States,” writes journalist Deborah Shapley, a McNamara biographer.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
shipping routes to avoid sanctions—traveling from the United States to Panama to Jamaica before arriving in Havana four to six weeks later. The history of Cuba’s private sector is relatively new, short, and complicated. After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
25-year business career that included 10 years in fashion retailing; 12 years in mutual fund and brokerage financial services; serving as a director on nonprofit and corporate boards; and chairing the Better Business Bureau here in... View Details
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
well-defined financial criteria. We suggest that this dynamic may have important implications for our understanding of the role of management in the modern, knowledge-based firm, and for the potential revival of manufacturing in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
entrepreneurial bug bit soon after, Lo built a Groupon-like platform that helped smaller companies get product discounts. That startup, eZoka, was pulling in £1 million a month until outside investment was derailed by the attacks of... View Details
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
Materials Harvard Business School Case 107-018 Explores the process and inputs behind financial and operational forecasting in the Electronic Specialty Materials unit at Air Products and Chemicals, a global... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
product upon entry, however only a few biosimilars have been approved in the U.S. since 2015, thereby largely preserving biologics from competition. We analyze European markets, which have had biosimilar competition since 2006. Using our... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
The First Five Years: '30 Under 30' Edition
work we have been doing here at Troy Capital. I’d like to think it doesn’t only highlight my individual accomplishments, but more so what we have all done as a team. Personally, I hope it serves as an example for others. Any success that I have had has been the View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #6: Climate Change, Peacebuilding, and Business: Lise Grande and Dr. Teagan Blaine, USIP.
the global food chain. “Global linkages between food and energy are hard to understand. Might cutting off Russian oil help drive green technologies in Europe? Might it increase oil production in the United States? I’m struggling to get... View Details
- 26 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 26, 2016
been able to achieve excellent operating and financial performance. The case examines the challenges it potentially faces as it contemplates growing the chain significantly from the 28 units it currently operates. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Dean Srikant Datar’s 2024 Commencement Remarks | About
society—lifting millions of people out of poverty and providing valuable products and services that have improved standards of living around the world. Across all your courses, you’ve had to consider how you, too, can be a leader who... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
learning to read, to reading to learn. By some reports, more than half of kids are getting left behind. A government mission on Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (FLN) has been launched to address this. I think the government has a role... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
financial services that Washington D.C.-based Microfinance International Corporation (MFIC) had been providing for two years to a growing number of "unbanked" Hispanic nationals in the United States and their home countries.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
and more productive workers. In this excerpt, the authors sketch out the scope of the opportunity. “Why are we ignoring the 90 percent?” This is the question with which Joe likes to start most presentations, to get the audience thinking... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
that we’re smart in the things we’re attacking, and to try to solve real-world problems that make an impact.” Watson General Manager David Kenny (MBA 1986) adds: “The tech sector tends to reward short-term thinking.” But Watson is different, he says: A View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Harvard Business School Case 409-107 Bob Beall is the Chief Executive Officer of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF). CFF is an extremely successful organization, but Beall has to determine how to manage the organization through the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018
minutes at minimal cost with no branding or design skills required. As it sets out to raise its Series B, the founders make some critical changes to their business model, moving to a subscription model and adding additional products and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
Miller wrote in a 1948 issue. "After July 1, these class notes will emanate from Crossett, Arkansas, where I will be busily engaged in learning the forest products industry." The Bulletin's expanded alumni reporting during World War II... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry