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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
10,000 patients at less than 50 cents per patient. The experience convinced me that the future of cost-effective health-care delivery in developing countries, especially for chronic diseases, is through the mobile phone. My cofounder,... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
market rarely rewarded his efforts, and GE struggled. In Hot Seat, Immelt offers an introspection of his tenure. The most crucial component of leadership, he writes, is the willingness to make decisions. But knowing what to do is a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
eat some grasshoppers, ensuring (according to local lore) that they’ll return to Oaxaca one day. Day 3: Oaxaca Site Visits MI CASA ES SU CASA: On site visits, student groups focus on different tracks (housing, water, retail), gathering information from local residents... View Details
- 22 Nov 2017
- News
How to Build a Winning Culture on a Losing Team
hours into the market. The markets where we say live, work, play, and win. And I think that understanding that we are a millennial group here, understanding that we need to operate differently, really celebrating the fact that it's up to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
from the office building/landlord. The benefit to the landlord was an additional amenity to retain their existing tenants and to better market vacant space to prospective tenants. The employer and landlord contributions would help defray... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
coordination between sales, marketing, and, crucially, manufacturing. As an egomaniacal, 30-year-old marketing maven, I had been conditioned to look down on the “functional groups” run by people without advanced degrees who got their... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
develop a support mechanism whereby alumni could receive training through volunteer IT specialists. Highlights of its recommendations included a broader marketing effort to all alumni, publicizing the benefits of the online services... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
SmartPak to offer additional horse and dog products, with continued focus on a high level of customer service. “On the equine side, we have a great bunch of customers who are totally passionate about their sport — and it’s a very gear-oriented sport,” notes Gisholt.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
Alumni Books Out of the Desert: My Journey from Nomadic Bedouin to the Heart of Global Oil by Ali Al-Naimi (AMP 82, 1979) (Penguin UK) Until May 7, 2016, Ali Al-Naimi was the Saudi oil minister (and an OPEC kingpin), a position he held for 20 years. As global oil’s... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Case Study: Up in the Air
process and convince companies to consider the human cloud? The Answers: Seems like a good mix of broad PR and market education, together with high-value customer selling, will be required. The incubators and startup competitions are... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- News
Carbon Neutral
Walt Minnick (MBA 1966), a successful businessman and former Democratic congressman from Idaho. “It’s the most serious problem facing humanity in the 21st century. If we want a future for our kids and grandkids, it’s imperative that our... View Details
Keywords: Michael Blanding
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
he developed a fascination with market transformation—how to change a market, create demand, decrease prices, and increase industry's capabilities. "It was the mindset I took to HBS," he says. "In each of my classes, I thought, How does... View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
that. Really hard, kind of walking around with the knowledge of who was going to lose their positions and after I got through that I had a hard time pulling myself out of it and focusing on future growth of the organization and rallying... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
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Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
also some sticks and penalties in it. The most important one is probably the first-of-its-kind fee on methane emissions from the oil and gas sector, which is boosting the developing market for equipment to detect and measure methane... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
government before discussing the country’s founding economic and political principles, as espoused by Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations and enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. He goes on to explore the basic principles of the free View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
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Alumni Book Briefs
China, and others will grow rapidly. The authors predict probable new principles for commercial success, among them that an obsession with return on equity will give way to more broad-based measurements of success, and that Adam Smith’s invisible hand of the View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Manager's Notebook
customer information. But now, conveniences such as Web browsers and "smart cards" (which today are used to store electronic money in several European markets and, in the future, could record an individual's daily transaction information)... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Summit Sound Bites
“We mustn’t throw out the baby with the bathwater. It’s a case of two cheers for capitalism. It may not be perfect, but we haven’t found anything that is better.” —Sir Ronald Cohen (MBA ’69), Cofounder & former Chairman, Apax Partners L.P. “There is no View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
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Wendell P. Weeks, MBA 1987
Corning 2007 Named Chairman, Corning 2007 Corning markets Gorilla Glass 2013 Fast Company names Corning one of World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies Chairman and CEO, Corning Incorporated As CEO of Corning Incorporated, Wendell Weeks... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 15 Nov 2024
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Driving Change
Speaking to nearly 700 alumni at the Women’s Leadership Summit last week, HBS Professor Robin Ely addressed both current and emerging challenges facing women in leadership roles, while emphasizing the critical importance of continued progress. “Today, we face a fresh... View Details