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- 28 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Meeting China’s Need for Management Education
practices in management education. "Overall, we were delighted to see the impact that PCMPCL is having in the area and on these leading schools of business," Wheelwright says. Report: Q: What general advice would you give our readers who either do business in... View Details
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Israel - Global Activities 2021
Government, and the International Economy Unit John D. Black Professor of Business Administration The case presents Netafim’s new CEO, Gaby Miodownik, in 2019 as he considers expanding the firm from a supplier of precision drip irrigation... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Flying High
didn’t ground demand,” she notes. “The demand was still there, especially for products like ours that limited your exposure.” When passenger air travel neared pre-pandemic levels in 2022, Aero discovered another advantage. With commercial... View Details
Keywords: April White; aviation; airlines; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Air Transportation; Transportation
- 23 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
Leaving an Unhappy Job: How to Look Before You Leap
us are aware of the productivity deficit incurred by the frequent switching of our attention from one thing to another and back again. Same with the job search. Can you give it the uninterrupted mindshare it deserves? But isn't there a... View Details
Michael Kaplan
expansion of Blue Stripes Cacao Chocolate. He is currently launching a new venture in the consumer space. Michael has served as a speaker at the annual Women’s Wear Daily Digital Forum and Women’s Wear Daily Beauty Forum, a guest speaker... View Details
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How Government Suppliers Benefit from US-China Trade War | Working Knowledge
HBSWK with assets from AdobeStock When America levied sweeping tariffs on Chinese imports in 2018, many US firms scrambled to find alternative suppliers or pay the higher tax on goods from sources they’d spent years—sometimes even decades—developing. Yet View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
Alexandre Menard (MBA 2005), a senior partner at McKinsey Paris. Menard, who led the conversion to 4G and today heads the McKinsey Center for Advanced Connectivity, says that 4G was more of a step change by comparison. The advent of mobile video “unlocked completely... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
public infrastructure. As the nation and company grow, the firm also grows and embarks on a strategy of rapid expansion, offering a wide new range of financial products and participating in many aspects of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Profile
Caitlin Reimers
Affairs, where she studied international development and wrote her thesis on "microfinance and health-insurance product integration in Uganda." "When I was graduating," Cait says, "microfinance was just beginning... View Details
- 02 Jan 2020
- News
Empowering Rural Communities
and his cofounders saw an opportunity to create a new kind of energy company—a hybrid of a traditional utility and a financial entity. Guzman Energy, a subsidiary of Guzman & Company, would not be weighed down by the same legacy... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Managing the Map
We are at the dawn of a new epoch in the world of science, one that will cast strong light on a unique corner of the biotechnology field known as genomics. The designation refers to the study of genes, those chemical building blocks of... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Microsoft’s Ballmer Makes His Pitch
without notes while pacing back and forth along the edge of the stage, Ballmer made his case for Microsoft’s continued leadership in technology innovation to a somewhat skeptical audience, as revealed by student questions. If it’s innovation that counts, one student... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Flex Time
sophisticated communication systems that include detailed weekly reports from UCC’s sales force and senior managers. As long as her days may be — talking on the phone with customers, following up on issues raised during a weekly conference call with senior management,... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 15 Feb 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective
organizations are taking advantage of "e-commerce," an entirely new distribution channel. EE: Can you give some examples of these cases? Nolan: We've recently put together a series of cases on Cisco Systems, Inc., perhaps the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
Nordisk. At United Technologies, whose products include Carrier air conditioners, Otis elevators, and Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines, a recent integrated report focused on such nonfinancial metrics as lower fuel consumption and... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 06 Nov 2017
- Research Event
Who is Responsible for the Future of Cities?
Ojomo said, adding that the company now grosses $1 billion per year and employs thousands of local citizens. Macomber summarized the key takeaway of this example: The infrastructure wasn’t built ahead of time in hopes of attracting new... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Primer on Patents
The result of that abiding interest is his new book, Innovation and Its Discontents (Princeton University Press), which he cowrote with Professor Adam B. Jaffe of Brandeis University. Why do we need a patent system in the first place?... View Details
- 30 Sep 2002
- What Do You Think?
Are Business Schools Really Important “Crucibles of Leadership?”
Original Article The new book Geeks and Geezers by Warren Bennis and Robert Thomas, argues that all the leaders they studied, whether "geeks" (under thirty) or "geezers" (over seventy), have the ability to engage... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Case Study: Let’s Dance
Illustration by Avalon Nuovo Before launching her own startup, Lily Liang (MBA 2008) worked as a product manager in San Francisco’s tech industry, including a stint at the movie review site Rotten Tomatoes from 2012 to 2017. Those were... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Jeffrey Deitch (MBA 1978)
The 1970s New York contemporary art world that Jeffrey Deitch (MBA 1978) knew, where painter Jean-Michel Basquiat tagged buildings and artist Keith Haring bartended, was a far cry from the corporate boardroom. But Deitch—like so many of... View Details
Keywords: April White