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- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
car will get better over time,” says Mistele. “The software won’t be the same forever; you will be able to update it regularly, just as you do with your smart phone or laptop, and your car will learn your behavior and personal preferences... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed
for the first time in nine years, we asked former chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston’s Board of Directors Kirk Sykes (OPM 26, 1998)—current president and managing director of the Urban Strategy America Fund—to field your... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Feedback
the complementary app—select his league, venue, or team and his preferred content (e.g., only goals) and get the 30-second video sequences pushed to his phone. From the fan perspective, you don’t have to stick to the screen the whole... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
A Market-Based Prescription
are seriously ill or in pain, would you prefer a system where you have to find your own individual specialists, make sure they are communicating, and integrate your own care, or would you rather have a team that integrates itself around... View Details
- 28 Mar 2016
- News
Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
for a company for a couple of years. It’s then that many of them decide to go on to graduate school,” Shibayama says. “In Japan, many of the students decide their position for life as an undergraduate.” He prefers the American path, he... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Price Is Right
to behave in one of two ways. Some people prefer distributions that are more beneficial to themselves—“pro-selfs”—and some prefer distributions that are equal to or maybe even more beneficial to the other... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
attach the word ‘bridal,’ it makes it cost 5 to 10 times more,” says Leslie Voorhees (MBA 2015), who founded Anomalie with her now husband, Calley Means (MBA 2015). “It’s offensive to a woman who understands how things are manufactured.”... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Giving Amazon the Boot
since people preferred Amazon’s free two-day shipping. Occasionally, scammers would return cheaper, used boots in Ranch Road boxes for a full refund, and Ford was anxious that an unwitting customer would wind up with the wrong product and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
levels of productivity. At 5.4 percent, 2002 saw the biggest annual gain in productivity growth since 1950. Like many consumers, companies are tightening their belts and doing more with less in an effort to survive, and thrive, at a time... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Rowing Upstream
endurance. Physiologists say that rowing a 2,000-meter race is equivalent to playing two basketball games back-to-back. The difficulty of keeping oar strokes synchronized has been compared to “eight people trying to do the perfect golf swing at the same time, all... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
market. While in the United States the make-up market is twice the size of the skin care market, in China the skin care market is four times the size of the make-up market. The huge Asian skin care market is unique, moreover, because... View Details
- 06 Jul 2015
- News
Lights! Camera... Market!
an increased awareness of and preference for the brand immediately following the release and premiere of the film at both the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival and 2014 Tribeca Film Festival. “We believe this was the first View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
On The Case
By the time I got around to researching our latest case, he was the CEO of the entire enterprise or ‘mothership,’ as they call it in Cleveland.” Symbiosis “One of the purposes of this case is to look at globalization and how to get the... View Details
- 26 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni Explore a Changing Hong Kong; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Singapore
Conference Looks at Future of Hong Kong as a Global Leader The HBS Association of Hong Kong (HBSAHK) celebrated the club’s 45thanniversary in February, with its 2025 Signature Conference at Cloud 39, a rooftop ballroom at The Henderson skyscraper in central Hong Kong.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
time in this world taken away and then given back, you want to use it in the very best way you can.” Looking back on his childhood, the friendly, unassuming Massie, who is executive director of the nonprofit Coalition for Environmentally... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Come Clean
Simon. But he saw an opportunity in a sleepy family company with a great reputation. He introduced systems that track customer preferences and check an order’s tiniest details, reducing the opportunity for error and improving efficiency.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
that are big enough to keep them interested. "Another concern is staying nimble," he continues. "Someone in a garage right now is inventing a product that could be threatening to me. It's important to stay paranoid and avoid complacency." Which isn't to say Ranadivé... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
with them regularly-originally eleven times a year-to make sure there were no surprises, either good or bad." In a matter of months, Elfers brought five prominent families into the fold, including inventor and financier Sherman Fairchild... View Details
- 10 May 2022
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
preferred me to be more academic—which was a long shot.” Continental drift: “After college I taught physical education at a school in Oxford, and some Rhodes Scholars who lived in my building encouraged me to go to the United States. I... View Details
- 22 Feb 2019
- News
Empowering a New Generation of Business Leaders
U.S.” Guests were able to read the case prior to the chat, which made the discussion quite substantive, according to Zuluaga. Under Conde’s leadership, Telemundo has become the leading Spanish-language network for the first time in the... View Details