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- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Faculty Q&A: Price Check
relatively low investment when they go beyond the common approaches of determining price based on intuition, competition, or a standard cost-plus-markup formula. How does this connect with your research on dynamic pricing? Many retailers... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Finance: Helping Consumers Improve Their Financial Life
Large consumer banks have historically collected a lot of data on their customers, which they have used to sell standardized products. Increasingly, however, we have seen new entrants using customer data to help the consumer and provide... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
open source, allowing academics and others to build on its work, but Numenta also offers standard commercial licenses—like the one Cortical.io is using—to pursue commercial opportunities. The idea behind making the work open source is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Alumni Luminaries Discuss Careers, Values with HBS Students
leadership during the Tylenol crises of the 1980s set the standard for corporate responsibility. Burke has been hailed as one of the ten greatest CEOs of all time by Fortune magazine. Lillian Lincoln Lambert... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Stacey Lawson (MBA '96)
illustrations of standard parts, such as valves, pumps, and gears. Today Lawson is the vice president of marketing at InPart, a company she cofounded upon graduating from HBS. InPart, now fifty employees strong, is creating a library of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
The CEO and the Functions of Leadership
standards can be treated as part of setting direction. Coordination: Organizational structure defines how individuals in the organization are grouped into units, and how these units coordinate with each... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Business History Gets a Boost
“HBS faculty members have long been recognized as pioneers in the creation of the field, and the Business History Review sets the standard for business history scholarship.” HBS professor Geoffrey Jones and... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Sustaining a commitment to the environment
board of the Westchester Land Trust, Riverkeeper, and the Mount Auburn Cemetery. At Harvard University, he funded the Harvard Sustainability Initiative in Infrastructure Design at the Graduate School of Design to develop a set of... View Details
- 21 Aug 2008
- News
Stylin’ at Gallatin
percent of the discarded materials were recycled in some way. Three thousands bricks were reused in the renovation. Gallatin is the second residence hall and fifth building on the HBS campus to achieve LEED certification for construction that meets sustainability View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Good as Our Word
For most of the 20th century, three bond ratings agencies—Moody’s, Fitch, and Standard & Poor’s—controlled 97 percent of the credit ratings market. The status quo was disrupted, however, by the 2008 global economic recession, an event... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Multiple generations of computing
Palm Computing to found Handspring, creator of the Treo smartphone, a handheld device that set the standard for next-generation smartphones. They teamed up again in 2005 to found the software company... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Good Day, Sunshine
developments at the School, and enjoying faculty presentations. "Our alumni are the measure of the School," said Dean Kim B. Clark in a welcoming address to all classes. "I am grateful for what you do in your lives, for the standards that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Hollywood Squared
cochairman Amy Pascal were honored with Variety’s 2007 “Showman of the Year” award. The pair, cited for personifying excellence in entertainment and for setting standards for performance and leadership, have... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Making a Difference
Bridgespan Group — Jeff Bradach (PhDOB ’92) and Tom Tierney (MBA ’80) — pioneers in the application of data-driven strategy and consulting services to enhance the effectiveness of nonprofits and foundations. Founded a decade ago, Bridgespan has helped View Details
- 20 Nov 2014
- News
Expanding Audiences Through HBX CORe
requires a weekly commitment of about 10 hours. CORe features interactive teaching elements that encourage engagement and peer-to-peer learning: Students collaborate with individuals located worldwide and contribute to curated discussions. They are also required to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
In Brief
Q&A with Daniel Vasella. Initially regarded by critics as too inexperienced to lead a major pharmaceutical company, Daniel Vasella (PMD 57, 1989) has set a new standard for innovation as CEO of Novartis. The... View Details
- 25 Sep 2009
- News
Are You Being Served?
surprising than my unexpected win was the fact that all through the process, the state — and its oft-reviled bureaucracy — went out of its way to be fair, courteous, and forgiving. It got me to thinking: Has government been forced to become more customer friendly... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Groundswells
Baker Library Historical Collections THE ORIGINAL 13 Speaking at the campus dedication on June 4, 1927, George Fisher Baker, whose $5 million gift funded the construction of the thirteen original riverfront buildings, set the tone for the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Myth of Laissez-Faire
taxes bring us? Improved schools, universal health care, energy and environmental solutions, better jobs and rising incomes, and the flexibility to deal with abrupt changes in the world. In short, the standard of living will once again... View Details
- 23 Jan 2017
- News
The CEO Who is Perking Up Peet’s Coffee
change everything,” Fernandes said, but maintaining the standards set by Peet’s founder, which include careful coffee sourcing and hand-roasting, has been important to keeping the brand popular among its... View Details