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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
Nundy, who has a background in nonprofit service and worked as an analyst at Morgan Stanley before coming to HBS. "The fellowship gave me the confidence to try something completely different." "The summer internship program is a great way for students to View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
A Growing Drumbeat
The Business Plan Contest’s popularity is just one indicator of a surge in entrepreneurial activity at HBS, which this year saw the launch of a $50,000 MVP Fund to support students using the “Lean Startup” approach to develop and test a... View Details
Keywords: Contests
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Patricia ("Tosh") Rapoport Barron
Equanimity has been the hallmark of Tosh Barron's life, one filled with precipitous moments and tests of character that might have overwhelmed a lesser person. From her quiet, comfortable office at Xerox Corporation headquarters in... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 10 Dec 2010
- News
Notes from the Trenches
on his company’s board. Good Start, which closed an $18 million Series A round of fundraising in September, will use advanced DNA sequencing technology for a pre-pregnancy test to more accurately screen for a range of potential genetic... View Details
- 03 Apr 2012
- News
Just Compensation
an executive’s pay is in line or out of line with performance over a long period of time, like 10 years.” With its benchmarking, the model helps companies and their investors know if pay and performance are aligned. If improvement is needed, it can help identify the... View Details
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
intentional, can you talk a little bit about that difference? Ayr: About everything we’re doing that works really well is the result of some engagement with customers. We’ve tested a lot of different things over the years. We’ve View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
business,” says Cunningham. CMO Morgan Flatley says the good narratives about the business are there. “I think we just need to dust them off and show them in a new light to our consumers.” That April, Cunningham and her team first tested... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
employs an enviable tactic: "I eat," he laughs. "I'm always nibbling and testing - my favorite is our chocolate-chunk cookie." No Typical Days An excellent set of taste buds is one obvious asset in the food business, but other qualities... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
these “dogmas” was that memory was Intel’s “technology driver.” Because memory devices were easier to test than other Intel products, they were traditionally the products that were debugged first. The lessons learned could then be applied... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
check, testing every system on the Limiting Factor before the retractable hangar is opened and the submersible is lowered alongside the ship. Vescovo dons his flight suit. Along the right sleeve of the blue coveralls are the flags of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
manager of GoLite Footwear, which is managed out of Timberland’s New Hampshire headquarters. After the deal was done, GoLite’s Brillon tested the shoe for himself. He drove down to Pikes Peak and ran uphill 13 miles, climbing 7,500 feet,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
to refine the concept, inviting friends over to test and retest the game. The two colaunched the game, Cranium, in 1998 and found an unlikely initial partner — Starbucks — to help market and distribute it. Two more unconventional game... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
And what precisely should be the larger goal of society? “I have come to believe,” Massie has written, “that the true test of greatness for any group of people — be they a family, a community, or a nation — is the manner in which they... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Turning Point: Sparking Change
Gillette, Pillsbury, and L’Oréal. In 2001, I launched The ComfortCake Company, selling pound cakes based on my original recipes to customers ranging from United Airlines to Walmart. But teaching was always at the back of my mind as a potential profession—the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Hybrid Learning the HBS Way
design thinking to conceive, iterate, and test ideas, and ultimately settled on two 4k cameras. One at the back of the room captured the professor and blackboards. Another at the front provided a wide-shot of both the in-person students... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Research Brief: Field Research
can do research,” he says. And finally, PAD’s iterative approach is based literally on the ground and out in the field, circumventing the dangers of so-called solutions that don’t meet the practical needs of the end user. “We’re doing a lot of A/B View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Kid at Heart — John H. Eyler (MBA 1971)
free that makes the job so appealing to Eyler -- it's also the chance to put to the sternest test yet his 25 years of management experience with retailers such as Federated Department Stores, Hartmarx, and the May Company. When Eyler took... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ears to the Ground
and groundwork help police identify patterns and root out the problem: Most repeat shootings in an area actually come from a small number of repeat shooters. Maybe it’s a gang leader. Maybe it’s an illegal gun dealer using a backyard to View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
revenue.) The exchange and nearby buildings were checked for safety and cleaned up, power was reestablished, and computer systems tested and retested over the weekend. On Monday, September 17, Lhota stood by as the bell rang to open the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
as NEHI, a nonprofit health policy group based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that brings all sectors of health care together to work on some of the industry’s systemic challenges. “What we’ve done in Massachusetts is incredibly innovative in terms of View Details