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- 01 Mar 2007
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Daniel Vasella
years” in a Financial Times poll of 4,000 executives. He recently spoke about the public policy and business challenges ahead. U.S. consumers complain loudly that prescription drugs cost too much. What’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
inculcate a higher sense of ethics in the national and international leaders it anoints. There must be a countervailing force to compensate for the all-too-often glorified notion of profit at all costs —... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
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Letters to the Editor
now facing the consequences of the many failures of American and world leadership in the previous century. It appears likely that we are now in the position of standing on the deck of a sinking ship, View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 02 May 2016
- News
Can Brian Shortsleeve Fix the MBTA’s Budget Woes?
table.” The answers, Aloisi said, will have to come from Baker and from Transportation Secretary Stephanie Pollack, not from Shortsleeve, who serves as more of a chief financial officer than lead visionary. But Shortsleeve said... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
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The Road Less Traveled
Most cars in the United States weigh more than 4,000 pounds, and new models are trending larger, even in countries where people drive less. And the larger the vehicle, the more fuel required to power it, which means more greenhouse-gas emissions that contribute to... View Details
- 06 Sep 2012
- News
Fashion-Forward
to young designers. That didn’t pan out, but it did lead to consulting work for some luxury and fashion brands in Paris. At the same time, he began writing down his ideas on a blog. “It cost $100 to set up,”... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
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Letters to the Editor
may be “extraordinary,” but it runs the risk of missing the mark. Studying “meltdown,” “executive pay,” “reporting,” and “liquidity” could be useful. Those subjects, however, are consequences not causes.... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
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No Place Like Home
Illustration by Mercedes McDonald. Orchard Gardens photo by Ed Quinn/Saba In many parts of the country, housing costs and shortages have begun to show signs of adversely affecting corporations, workers,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 15 Feb 2023
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Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains
get the cost of removing and storing one ton of carbon dioxide below $100, it will be a feasible mitigation strategy. And Jonas Lee is optimistic. JL: I think well before 2050... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Alumni Books
market-segmentation scheme for reconfiguring your offerings to reduce costs while delivering new value to customers; lessening innovation risks with strategic experiments and alliances with customers; View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
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Alumni Books
Smart and Randy Street (MBA ’97) (Random House) The authors provide a solution to what the Economist calls “the single biggest problem in business today”: unsuccessful hiring. The average hiring mistake View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
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Tribute to Fellowships
School’s ability in recent years to grow fellowship aid at a faster pace than the rise in tuition and fees. “Fellowship aid has doubled over the past five years, so the real cost of attending HBS has... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
challenge, ironically, is our own success. Due, in part, to our initiatives, people have recognized the value in Southeast Queens, and the rapidly rising cost of land has become an inhibiting factor to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
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Brick by Brick
first financial loss. "Their top-line growth was slowing down, but their costs were accelerating, so they were starting to lose some significant money," says Thomke. LEGO hired Danish turnaround expert Poul Plougmann to stanch the red... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
health-care system is in critical condition: The cost of U.S. health care not only hampers its citizens’ well-being and the country’s ability to compete globally, but it also draws funding away from other... View Details
- 11 Dec 2017
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Growing from Within
Photo courtesy of Paulo Pena Photo courtesy of Paulo Pena The great majority of McDonald’s U.S. restaurants are run by external owner/operators. Paulo Pena (MBA 2004) is responsible for the rest. As vice president and managing director of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
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Fiscal Year Ends on Upbeat Note
HBS entered fiscal 2010 with an aggressive plan to reduce costs in anticipation of a prolonged period of diminished revenue in the wake of the global financial crisis. But when the books closed last June, the School’s financial... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
inadequate protection from disasters that occur infrequently and have consequences beyond the routine responsibilities of commercial enterprises. “Resilient societies need deliberate actions for the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
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Tracking a Turnaround
The newly hired president and CEO of a local medical center faces a daunting task: Under intense public scrutiny, he must save a complex, rapidly failing organization whose culture is marred by indecision View Details
- 09 Dec 2020
- News
How to Fix America
HBS alumni and a faculty member were among the respondents. Kwame Owusu-Kesse (MBA/MPP 2012), CEO of Harvard Children’s Zone, writing with the organization’s founder, Geoffrey Canada, suggested that, “[i]f we are going to break the cycle... View Details