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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Price Is Right
is different in that consumers never have to walk away, as any price they generate will be accepted. Conceptually it’s a very efficient pricing model, but I was curious as to how it works from a practical standpoint. How do consumers generate a price? I wanted to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
every field of business endeavor. Their impact has been significant and broad-based: according to research by Associate Professor Amarnath V. Bhidé, more than one-third of HBS alumni currently manage their own firms twenty years after... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Virtual Plant Tours and Beer Game Dysfunction
share computer-generated results of the chaos and inefficiencies produced by inadequate information. “The level of dysfunction in such a simple supply chain is extraordinary,” says Assistant Professor Andrew McAfee. “If you just tell them, they won’t believe it, but... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
supply chain and its parallels to the business world. It was a long deployment; the fact that we didn’t experience a single loss of life is an awesome testament to the training and stamina of the crew. The ship is now in dry dock, and I’m... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
A Focus on You
fields ranging from finance to farming. Where did we find these interesting people? Our research into the "how many" question began in the alumni database, where we found stats about your locales, personal passions, jobs, and much more.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
two years at Soldiers Field had prepared us to size up a competitor, motivate employees, and gain market share, but we could not have anticipated the many other ways in which our leadership skills would be put to the test. Much has been... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Commitment to Leadership
stakeholders. Our group is very excited to be helping fine-tune the new required Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development (FIELD) course, which gives students an opportunity to test what they... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
while BOP individuals may only have tens of dollars a year to spend, that disposable income, multiplied several billion times over, represents significant purchasing power. With this realization have come some dramatic shifts in business thinking, sparking innovative... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
to rebuild family relationships and rejuvenate his sense of purpose, he risks his career on a life-altering physical and emotional journey. Together with his wife and children, Feder sets off for an exotic island on a self-prescribed sabbatical year. That View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
department complements my marketing experience," he says. "I believe it is important to gain experience in complementary fields if you work in consumer products, rather than become an expert in one... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
night shift took over my bunk while I was observing and interviewing the day shift. The food was great, and most of the time I arrived and departed by helicopter.” Looking back on the project, she rates it “the best field research View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
Covington. It’s far enough outside Atlanta that you’ll see cows grazing in fields just beyond the school entrance. But it has a big-city student enrollment of 2,300 and six assistant principals. One of them, Carla Hull, walks us to a... View Details
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
that, field of study is the single-strongest predictor of whether someone would be in a college level job or not. The second-strongest predictor was whether or not someone completed at least one internship. And for those individuals that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
Relief Program (TARP). It was a losing battle. Over the course of an hour, he fielded a half-dozen urgent calls from his staff regarding a draft version of a report on TARP expenditures due to Congress the next day (December 10).... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Devtosh Khare
goal of getting into business in India, Khare thought HBS would help him gain professional credibility while establishing a network of valuable business contacts. "Whatever field I ended up in," he notes, "I knew I would get a world-class... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman photograph by Webb Chappell
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Got Global?
differences, their shared experience at Soldiers Field created a common bond that helped increase trust and respect, which led to the desired de-escalation of tensions. In Shirazi’s view, this kind of global... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
the bakery's finances." For her part, Nundy, an intern in the HBS Nonprofit and Public Management Summer Fellowship Program, was equally energized by her experiences during her twelve weeks of service in India. She spent the first six... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Change, and Making Good Things Happen By Zoe Chance (DBA 2011) Random House You were born influential. But then you were taught to suppress that power, follow the rules, wait your turn, not make waves. Yale professor Zoe Chance will show... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Lori Schock - Listen and Learn
with an open mind.” A Cincinnati native, Schock's lilting Midwestern voice is peppered with moments of laughter as she recounts the work experiences that helped shape her communications skills. Before she enrolled at HBS, Henkel/Cognis... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Brill
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
districts and community colleges and creating apprenticeships. I'm not talking about jobs tourism, “Come on a field trip to my company.” I'm talking about compensated work to gain work experience and earn... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie