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- 01 Dec 2000
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Core Values Keep Airline Flying High
Good people are essential for success. Keep the product and the process simple. Deliver the most reliable service at the lowest cost. Invest the time to connect with employees and customers. These are the basic tenets fueling the... View Details
- 08 May 2019
- News
Lessons from the Ashes
take me from '87 to essentially 1990. That process and how that plays out. Warwick: One of the assumptions I made was I wanted to change management and increase profitability and that the family would somehow stay in, which was an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
players to the table, none driven by purely economic rationale, says Lee Sandwen (MBA ’77, JD ’78), the former head of real estate for Fidelity Management & Research Company in Boston who now handles special projects for Fidelity. Real estate syndicators View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
create value for shareholders and society alike. That worked in many cases. But some executives who were loaded up with stock options succumbed to the temptation to “game” a financial-markets inefficiency, inefficiencies caused by inadequate disclosure rules. Those... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
A Better World, One Idea at a Time
essential technologies, such as bicycle-powered machines, affordable solar lanterns, and smokeless cook stoves, designed for the rural poor at the bottom of the economic pyramid. View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Napkin Finance: Say It in a Picture
The humble cocktail napkin is a tried-and-true medium for honing a concept to its essential elements. For Tina Hay (MBA 2002) it’s also a business. As founder and CEO of Napkin Finance, Hay oversees a multimedia effort to simplify... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
11 years later, with market penetration essentially complete, that number hovers around 6 million, with over $300 million in annual revenues. Afghanistan’s stability, however, is entering a particularly challenging time. GDP growth is... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
particularly interesting to Mukhtar, based on his experience as a physician in Nigeria, where medical treatment is essentially unavailable or unaffordable for much of the population. "One cohort in Singapore that is highly susceptible to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
Adams. “As individuals, alumni should measure success by what they feel is essential to their personal growth and happiness, not just job titles and net worth. Waiting until retirement to focus on nonprofessional aspects of life can lead... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
understanding of the oceans. When the Five Deeps Expedition is completed, Vescovo hopes to sell the Triton-built Limiting Factor and other essential equipment for the dives to a government, philanthropic organization, or university.... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Research Brief: Paying the Price for Remote Work
work. “We didn’t expect to find such large differences for jobs that are essentially exactly the same and that can be performed from anywhere,” Cavallo says. “These are jobs that require very little initial capital—just a computer or even... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Braving an Insecure New World
value most—corporate IP, personal data, and financial data. And that same privacy is a necessary condition for innovation—consider IP safeguards or reasonably secure communications. Putting limits on privacy or innovation sets up a false choice between the two. They're... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Research Brief: Lost in Translation
English-speaking investor bases. For Yu, the lesson is obvious: Crystal clear communication is essential for CEOs and other leaders who are talking with their investors. “So much communication is becoming real-time these days, thanks to... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Sep 2022
- News
Your Family, Your Work, Your Way
surges and comes at us, it’s really essential to push back on that guilt by just very gently asking yourself, first of all, where that guilt is coming from. So let’s say for example, you promised your toddler that you would spend all... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
“I came to the conclusion pretty quickly that I’d rather be on the business side than on the lawyer side because the lawyer was essentially a service arm to the business side, and the business side was really making the decisions,” says... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Research Brief: So Many Sites, So Little Time
Shane Greenstein (photo by Russ Campbell) Shane Greenstein (photo by Russ Campbell) Understanding how people spend their time online is essential for any organization hoping to capture and keep consumer eyeballs—yet what we know about... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
this was about managing an institution. McArthur saw HBS as essentially a small community — one that a leader could easily get his or her arms around. But equally, it was about McArthur himself: a warm and generous man who makes friends... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
An Experiment in Online Education Reaches 50,000 Learners in Five Years
entrepreneurship, and finance and accounting. One of its first offerings, the Credential of Readiness (CORe), remains its flagship. This unique program provides an intro- duction to essential business concepts, including financial... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Alumni Luminaries Discuss Careers, Values with HBS Students
leading-edge R&D, Novartis considers community outreach an essential part of its mission. It offers some drugs at a discount or free to needy patients; a new malaria therapy will be available at cost. Greylock, one of the country’s most... View Details
- 21 Aug 2008
- News
Stylin’ at Gallatin
here. Gallatin was designed by McKim, Mead & White and built in 1927 as a collection of what were essentially linked townhouses on a U-shaped plan. The building was no doubt charming but a bit of a warren: Some students had to leave their... View Details