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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
Sherwood came to HBS with the aim of being a securities analyst on Wall Street, but she graduated without a job offer. "I guess I picked the stodgiest firms to interview with, and Wall Street wasn't very open to women at the time," she... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
many firms that were making other products. PS: As you well know, one thing that’s been drilled into the head of every business in the world, including health care businesses, is this notion of just-in-time inventory, and we’ve all worked... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
Flavr Savr tomato, introduced more than 20 years ago. The decision was driven by the economics of bringing a value-added product to consumers, Baker says of the marketing of the White Russet. The fresh market would place the most value on its science-enhanced... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
taught by Professor Ross Graham Walker and others, a company’s numbers had value far beyond mere record-keeping. Statistical data could instead be used proactively as a general management tool for analyzing an organization’s production... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
many households, the most important symbol of their place and economic possibilities was where they lived. Before World War II, about 40 percent of families owned their own home. In 1970, a firm majority — 62 percent — did. By the late... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
programs. “Those funds,” says Cox’s Camargo, “are drying up.” The Chinese market is evolving quickly in the face of sun-setting subsidies. Shen, for example, is using technology developed by a German firm he acquired to produce two basic... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
professionals, managers, and executives, from HR to finance, law firms to tech companies, across the world. Those conversations revolved around three key questions: What are the most common mistakes early-career professionals make at... View Details
- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
essentially is the gathering of the global community to discuss climate. I think all those things combined with the experience that humans are having, living in the world with changing weather patterns, with rising sea levels and changing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
Photos by Webb Chappell At first glance, the MBA Class of 2006 is an interesting collection of data points: 897 students from 67 countries, 34 percent women, 32 percent international, and 21 percent minorities. But look again, deeper this... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
data tells you one thing, but it’s talking to people and being out in the world that really give you the creative power to see what’s next.” Joint venture: “We built Bluemercury while we were building our family and associate each one of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
traces the experiences of nineteen new managers over the course of their first year on the job. Based on six years of intensive field research and data analysis by HBS professor Linda Hill, the book explores the transformation that takes... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
filled with leafy greens and fed by precisely tuned LED lights. An intricate digital system measures the room’s temperature and the CO2 levels inside the units every 30 seconds, adjusting as necessary; another delivers computer-calculated... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
Lorsch and coauthors Martin Lipton and Theodore Mirvis — partners of the New York law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz — characterized Schumer’s bill as a misguided attempt at reform and blamed stockholders, not management, for the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
launch his key course, Entrepreneurial Finance. Over time, the Entrepreneurship faculty would grow from 4 in 1985 to 35 today. Stevenson’s experience with the Real Estate area had been especially instructive. “Your typical real-estate View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
method that can be applied to everything from everyday decisions to strategic issues in business to global social challenges, the authors provide 30 detailed, real-world examples to transform the way you approach problems and take you to the next View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
difficult to do. It takes several hours, and there is a lot of opinion masquerading as fact. The media space is becoming more and more crowded every day, and in many ways that’s why we have to exist. We view ourselves as independent in a way that allows us to abstract... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
completely different and new, so we need to keep an eye on what those communities do. “Another big area is the Caribbean, where I do quite a bit of work. As sea levels rise, those island nations could be entirely wiped out, so they are... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
firm in Ghana, West Africa. An accounting major, student body president, and regional president of his fraternity at Purdue University, Richardson and his partner, Kodwo Mills (also MBA '96), worked under the managing partner of Deloitte... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
found the prices so reasonable that he returned to consider — and, eventually, purchase — something in the ten-carat range. Birnbaum notes that this particular client first made contact with the firm five years earlier. In a... View Details