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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Ticktock
partner with an American product design firm and risk prohibitive expense, or to team up with a less-expensive overseas firm and risk the inherent quality control and communications issues? (Nanda, who was... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
heavily in quality control and state-of-the-art equipment, a strategy that has helped him fend off competitors. A case in point is a Chinese company that launched a product similar to Aquamesh in 2000. “They... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
spaces. The drive and attention to detail that characterize Hansjörg Wyss can be misleading. While these are qualities that colleagues would probably use to describe him, it would not be accurate to assume Wyss is also a meticulous... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
subsidiary Entertainment Asylum, an entertainment-related content provider on the Internet. Despite the hefty title, she still spends quality time with her children in the evenings and on weekends. "I think it's actually healthy to have... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
increased its involvement in developing commercial enterprises? Yes, it has. In addition to providing outstanding education, competitive communities must offer high quality goods and services — an escalating need in our neighborhood... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
technologies to come) is needed to develop that knowledge. "Education is a $3 trillion industry globally, and no player in the world controls even 1 percent of it," he says. "I think there will be a Facebook or Google in learning. I'd... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
Illustration by Jose Ortega Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.—Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Inauguration Day, 1933 Creativity, a quality more traditionally... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Christensen and Vernon Remembered
teacher and gentle man, he was always eager to share his insights and wisdom with students and colleagues alike. A mentor to many members of our faculty, Ray inspired us all with the extraordinary quality of his work and his life." Born... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
A Market-Based Prescription
curb cost increases while ensuring quality treatment. Those goals have not been reached, largely because patient and physician resistance to stringent gatekeeping has led to more relaxed controls and freedom... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
U.S. consumers more power over decisions related to health care. Those who advocate consumer-driven health care - including conference chair Professor Regina E. Herzlinger - believe that shifting control of health-care purchasing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
miss their exit cues when the meal is over. Careful design of the bar area helps control all that. “As for my students,” Upton concludes, “they really get a kick out of the fact that, at a Benihana restaurant, the parts arrive, they... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
manufacturing process for quality and compliance (including regularly uploading video of work in progress back to McHenry for review). Says Chirchirillo, “It doesn’t matter that it’s being built halfway around the world. Even remotely, we... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981
Embroidery. There she experienced all aspects of a small business, from sales to quality control to delivering merchandise. "Every businessperson should have sales experience," she says. "That's where the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
looking at which qualities and characteristics psychologists consider to be “gendered” to see if they were stereotypically male or female. We found that if you look at the top ten characteristics, more than half were male, a small number... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
Energy Services, while Peter R. Formanek (MBA '68) and his AutoZone cared for car owners in need of quality parts and friendly service. This kaleidoscope of achievement was being replicated by HBS alumni virtually everywhere across the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Frank Blethen (PMD 35, 1978)
relevant, quality newspaper and deliver it on time. To my knowledge we're the only newspaper in the country that guarantees 5:30 a.m. weekday home delivery, which is very expensive to do. But we think that's critical. About 40 percent of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
relatively pro-business government and an energetic young population and growing middle class that make no secret of aspiring to a better quality of life, complete with all the consumer goods such an existence entails. The downside,... View Details
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
as a pressing issue. What sparked your interest? Originally I came to the DBA Program to study finance, but I switched to control, primarily because of the pathbreaking work that Bob Anthony was doing on control in nonprofits. Bob was... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
forces of natural selection and enable us to take control of our genes. We will be able to alter our own species and many others—a good thing, the authors suggest, given that our eventual survival will require space travel and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
this world,” she says. “There should be no monopoly on the ability to set that direction. No one gender or one race should control the flow of capital.” Solution #1: Make the Business Case “Women entrepreneurs are an untapped market.”... View Details