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- 02 Feb 2023
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Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
computer to predict important properties of molecules. DM: Like how much energy it takes to bind the molecule to CO2. Or how much it costs to produce the molecule. AS: And the other part is using machine learning to connect the dots... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Media: Courting the Cord-Cutters
dropped their $120 subscription it cost everyone in the chain, from the distributor to every content channel. Eventually the industry had to pay attention. There are currently two primary approaches to winning back cord-cutters and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
John Weber In his new book, The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World (Harvard Business Press), Walter Kiechel III (MBA ’76) traces the rise of modern management consulting from the 1960s to the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
The Campaign for Harvard Business School
$475 $500 95% *Total includes undesignated and unrestricted gifts, as well as planned gifts at present value Stamps Gift Supports Baker Reading Room A recent campaign gift of $12 million from the charitable foundations of E. Roe Stamps IV (MBA ’74) and Penelope W.... View Details
- 11 Jul 2017
- News
The Right Thing to Do
of the fraud, few people at Enron ever admitted to knowing about it. This episode tells the story of the company’s rise and fall and of one Enron employee brave enough to take her concerns straight to the top. “The Run Coal Memos,” the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
Press), HBS professor and business historian Nancy Koehn selects contemporaneous news accounts from America’s paper of record to complement her essays on the rise of business in the United States and the influence of business on the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
with the rise of antibiotic-resistant superbugs. “We are approaching a cliff,” says Anna Diaz Triola (MBA 2000), vice president of marketing at Summit Therapeutics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which is part of a cohort of small pharma... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Case Study: Tip the Scale
people at the beginning, items will stack up before person number three,” he says. Now Walden can easily increase staff, but per-order labor costs are rising due to losses in efficiency—more walking along... View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
its historical data period from 20 years to six or seven; today, Liberty looks at only the most recent three years. As climate change and the resulting rise in catastrophic weather continue to have these dramatic implications on the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
base. As a result, they get cost savings, and we get sales.” Welcome to the new reality in U.S. manufacturing, where, more than ever, intense foreign competition is driving product and strategy innovations. Even those firms without direct... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
In this business, you're only as good as the person peeling the potatoes," calls out Jerry Shafir (MBA '84) through a rising cloud of steam, as a hundred pounds of freshly chopped vegetables slide into a Jeep-sized cauldron of chicken... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
persons from 1999 to 2016. Beyond the devastating personal costs, there is an economic toll, too, caused by rising health care expenses for overdose prevention drugs and addiction treatment, criminal justice costs, and productivity loss... View Details
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Home Grown
kind of scaling itself up and mobile internet coming to the foray, developing countries will actually kind of rise because you know, now every consumer would have a computing device in their hands. And if that were to be true, then... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
dramatic rise of BPO as the primary driver of the new Indian economy. In 1990, the company was focused primarily on businesses in manufacturing, textiles, and infrastructure — its technology arm had been operating for only a year, and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
one-third of China’s GDP. “In eight years,” he predicted, “I expect the private sector to contribute three-quarters of the GDP,” as the role of local and state-owned enterprises continues to fade. Economic reforms already have given rise... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
much variety. What you’re seeing now is something similar, with the rise of media targeting specific communities that have been ignored under the “most eyeballs” ad model, which involves creating content that satisfies as many people as... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
overcrowded with flu sufferers and cancer patients alike. Doctors feel the pinch of wave after wave of government-imposed budget constraints, such as the decision to freeze the number of hospital beds in spite of the increasing percentage of aging patients. For... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
advice, insight, and perspective, and facilitating a new understanding of things." That definition neatly sums up a profession that's been shaped and populated by HBS alumni since the emerging notion of strategy in the 1960s sparked the View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
carriers that do that best will have a tremendous competitive advantage." Liz Claiborne, too, is applying technology "aggressively," Paul Charron says, to reduce the cost of operations, the time-to-market with new fashion products, and... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Health-Care Forum's Rx for US System
with per capita health-care costs rising faster than per capita GDP in all but a few countries. The gathering seemed to agree that all parties shared blame for the US system's problems, including the... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance