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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Be Our Guest: HBS Show 2002 Goes Off without a Hitch
which ran April 17–20 in Burden Auditorium. Since its first production in 1974, the event has showcased the dramatic, musical, and theatrical talent of HBS students. This year's performance was no exception. Titled Infernal View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Tax and Grow
prod corporations to put some of their remarkable cash hoards to productive use. Estimates of the cash held by U.S. public corporations easily exceed $1 trillion; several technology companies alone are sitting on cash balances in excess... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
confidence in credit rating agencies? The first thing Congress did in 2006 was to boost competition. We now have nine approved rating agencies instead of three. However, if you are a bond issuer and you... View Details
- 19 Apr 2016
- News
LuminOva Makes Great Strides Tackling Infertility
Alexandra Dickson (MBA 2013) Alexandra Dickson (MBA 2013) LuminOva, a biotech startup in Boston that won the 2015 Bertarelli Prize, is making progress on its quest to develop a new technology that could increase in vitro fertilization success View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed
Board of Governors to formulate monetary policy, ensuring that its policies take into account conditions in every state and across all economic sectors. Each Reserve Bank is supervised by a nine-member board of directors. With the Federal Reserve potentially poised to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
India’s Oil
India’s finance minister, Palaniappan Chidambaram (MBA ’68), is presiding over an economy, Asia’s third largest, that’s chugging along nicely and projected to finish with a 7 percent growth rate this year. But as Chidambaram told Reuters... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
The Businesslike Gourmet: Karen Page on America's Foodservice Industry
Karen Page (MBA '89) is a consultant to Fortune 500 food companies in marketing strategy, culinary trends, and new product development. With her husband, Andrew Dornenburg, a professional chef, she has written the award-winning Becoming a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
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
- 25 Aug 2015
- News
Sunset in the East?
Illustration by Daniel Bejar The Chinese economy seems to have finally hit the brakes. Thanks to stalling real estate and export markets, this year China reported first and second quarter growth rates of 7 percent—its lowest numbers in... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
In the business of empowering women entrepreneurs
As a cofounder and managing director of the Women’s Venture Capital Fund (WVCF), Monica Dodi (MBA 1984) backs female-led, early-stage ventures in digital media and sustainable products and services. Dodi says these emerging consumer... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
Image by John Ritter In the 50 years since modern microfinance was introduced as a tool to fight poverty, institutions have distributed hundreds of millions of loans to people in developing countries. Such loans are repaid at rates often... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Case Study: Paper Chase
operates four sales kiosks in the Boston area, with mobile retail teams that visit local fairs and markets. The kiosks offer a valuable in-person experience with a high conversion rate for the $8–$13 cards. The split between in-person and... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
New Releases
addition to product information such as price, running time, and year of release, reviewers provide a concise discussion of each program and offer recommendations for its appropriate audience and most effective usage. Easy-to-read... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Raymond A. Baxter: Sweet Smell of Success
creating new products for giant brands such as Keebler and Nabisco, Interbake is the oldest producer of Girl Scout cookies and the primary source of ice-cream sandwich wafers in the United States. ABC Bakers, a division of Interbake... View Details
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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
New Magazine Makes Its Mark
challenge — and their greatest opportunity. Avid readers, it seems, can’t be defined and targeted with the same laser-like precision that aids purveyors of products like toothpaste or plasma TVs. “We are so much different from a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
system of multinational megafarms won't be enough—the hope for the future lies not in mass production, but in production by the masses. And that's where Nigeria comes in. With only 40 percent of its arable land currently used by farmers,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Strange Bedfellows
estimates are that a 15 percent tax on reported GAAP profits would be revenue-neutral for the government. A tax with a lower rate on a more sensible base is a central lesson of economics. Legislators would also be restricted to changes in... View Details
- 27 Jun 2016
- News
Ulf Mark Schneider Has Plans to Make Nestlé Healthy
in 2015, compared with 4.2 percent rate for the group as a whole, while Nestlé is aiming to lift annual sales of health products to as high as 10 billion francs. The health operations also bring stronger... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
The Kids Are Alright: Alumni Children Crack Case
pop-up ads on most sites. Instead, its “immersive” advertising was more like the product placements common to television and movies — sponsors’ products or messages appear in the context of the site’s games... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Brick by Brick
fun. Godtfred championed slow, steady growth. Because of this, it could take years for a new product to go to market. Green bricks, for instance, appeared in play sets only after a decade-long decision-making process. The snail's pace... View Details