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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
the production process and lower costs. Yong believes the new facility could also spark manufacturing and innovation for local industry. With only 9 percent of the world’s vehicles being produced on the continent—mostly in South Africa or... View Details
Keywords: Amy Yee
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
company's long-term viability. The strategy paid off, with sales jumping well over 50 percent in the first year alone. Under intense scrutiny, Gerstner then reversed a plan to split IBM into independently operated "Baby Blues," choosing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
Art by Craig Frazier Related Links Alumni New Venture Contest Opens Webinar series (ongoing) Entrepreneurship at HBS (video) Harvard Launches Innovation Incubator Why is it that even when smart, educated, well-networked people launch new... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Excitement Building for HBS Global Conference in Chicago
Entrepreneurship is the focus for the 1998 Global Alumni Conference, "2000+: Global Innovation & Entrepreneurial Leadership," scheduled for June 16-19 at the Fairmont Hotel in Chicago. Over one thousand alumni and guests are expected at... View Details
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
increasing lifespans—and why companies needed a more thoughtful strategy for addressing these consumers. Today, Golden is an expert on innovation and entrepreneurial opportunities created by the new... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Karmic Kickstart
aspects of the college, which in its first three years grew from a few holes in the ground to a thriving institution of 1,400 students and one of the largest employers in the country. Virtually all aspects of what we did required View Details
- 06 Dec 2012
- News
New Thinking on Healthcare Reform
HBS heavy-hitters Clay Christensen and Michael Porter closed out a recent conference organized by HBS and Harvard Medical School. Held on the HBS campus November 14 and 15, "Healing Ourselves: Addressing Healthcare's Innovation Challenge"... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
products, and even day–to–day operations. Just when you think you understand the technology landscape, you see a major disruption.” For business leaders who are willing to take an imaginative leap of their own, Artful Making provides a new model to inspire View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
leading from the street to the house itself. That insight, coupled with the radical nature of precision medicine, led to a realization: A “business as usual” approach wouldn’t do the trick; a different way of fighting cancer required an equally View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Accelerating a Gas-on-demand Startup
Model T owners—and it was basically the last major innovation in gasoline retailing for more than 100 years, says Bryan Frist (MBA 2015). “The gas station was stuck in the 20th century.” That revelation led to a question: If you can get... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story
capabilities and learning in areas such as marketing, production, and distribution. This is what I call a "virtuous strategy," which basically means that the learning and profits from an early innovation are then applied to the next one.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Noted & Quoted
Michael Porter on health-care reform strategy (New England Journal of Medicine, July 9, 2009). “There are relatively fewer and fewer consumers willing to pay a premium or suffer a deficit in product quality in order to be patriotic and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Carving a Niche
for a long time, the major ski manufacturers just kept doing what worked last year.” Meanwhile, snowboarding companies were pushing the limits of production technology and design. The Faction Collective, where Hoye is cofounder and CEO, has built its business on... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Clusters and Competition
Michael E. Porter: learning more about the processes that produce competitive success. Michael E. Porter, acclaimed expert on competitive strategy and leader of the HBS-based Institute for Strategy and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
will drive organizational success and provide innovative growth opportunities for both the business and the individual. Based on her more than thirty years at Chick-fil-A, most of which have been spent as vice president of corporate... View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Adam Enbar (MBA 2010)
What’s the story behind the Flatiron School, and how did you come up with the name? “The Flatiron School was born when I met my cofounder, Avi Flombaum, while researching innovations in higher education at Charles River Ventures. I had... View Details
- 16 Nov 2021
- News
Getting Back Together for Global Networking Night; Healthcare Conference Draws New Interest
Plan, Drake is leading a comprehensive strategy for inclusive excellence throughout the HBS community of faculty, staff, students, alumni, and other constituents. Organized by HBSAAA copresidents Sara Clarke (MBA 1997) and Lewis Long (MBA... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 16 Feb 2011
- News
Healthy Growth
Ayers After gaining experience in strategy consulting, M&As, systems engineering, and running a multibillion-dollar refrigeration company, Jonathan Ayers (MBA ‘83) has come full circle to a job that relates to his Yale undergraduate major... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
out of Imperial College London that uses magnesium silicates as its base. The silicates don’t contain carbon, and are heated at half the temperature of limestone, using biofuels; in addition, carbon is absorbed through the production process. The company’s View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
HBX: Reimagining HBS for the Digital Age
leadership teams. Each course is led by a renowned HBS professor: Disruptive Strategy with Clayton Christensen; Leading with Finance with Mihir Desai; and Negotiation Mastery with Michael Wheeler. Through online case discussions, debates,... View Details