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Drone Policy Purpose Statement HBS community members have requested information on using UAS or drones on campus. The FAA maintains strict regulations on commercial UAS flights; the purpose of this policy is... View Details

March 2017
Case

Cantel Medical

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

Cantel Medical Corporation provided infection prevention and control products and services for patients, caregivers, and other healthcare providers. In 2016, Cantel generated sales of $665 million and net profits of $60 million, double the levels of five years earlier.... View Details

Keywords: Cantel; Charles Diker; Furniture Industry; Matrix Organization; Acquisition; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Conglomerates; Business Units; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Organization; For-Profit Firms; Chemicals; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Scope; Multinational Firms and Management; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Business History; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Structure; Problems and Challenges; Research and Development; Opportunities; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Diversification; Expansion; Information Technology; Biotechnology Industry; Chemical Industry; Health Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States; New Jersey

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Educators

Purchase

01 Dec 2006
News

Inside Intel

but of the whole information processing industry, arguably the most important industry of the second half of the twentieth century. Intel was... View Details

Keywords: Richard S. Tedlow; Hanna, Julia; technology; manufacturing; innovation; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing

31 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: Jan. 31

competitors apparently have strong incentives to adopt them and a well-developed understanding of how they work-remains incomplete. In this paper we suggest that competitively significant capabilities often rest on managerial practices... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 2005
News

Transforming the IRS

think it’s fair to say that the IRS successfully copied many of the things that well-run big companies do. It’s an objective that’s often articulated but not often implemented in government. — Ann Cullen... View Details

Keywords: Ann Cullen; IRS; Many Unhappy Returns; reform; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

01 Sep 2010
News

Letters to the Editor

Individual Donors Enrich Fellows’ Experience As a beneficiary of the HBS Leadership Fellows program, I was excited to see the June cover story about the program and the profiles of several colleagues... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

01 Dec 1999
News

Ted Anthony

attitudes and objectives of students and faculty at HBS had been fairly consistent from one year to the next, but the early '70s marked a turning point. The School was not immune to the unprecedented social... View Details

Keywords: Ted Anthony

21 Sep 2016
News

Fashion’s Transparent Translator

(BoF) was born. Nine years later, the London-based website attracts 1 million unique monthly users, with a social media following of 3.5 million. Nearly 250,000 subscribe to the BoF newsletter, which many see as a source View Details

01 Sep 2009
News

E Ink’s Wild Ride

outcome. But it’s not going to happen in this one.” Two cases authored by HBS professor David Yoffie and taught in the elective course Strategy and Technology track E Ink’s evolution and highlight some of the challenges it has faced over... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; e-books; e-reading; Information; Information; Information; Information

25 Jun 2018
News

A Philanthropic Eye Reframes Abstract African Art

trustee for the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago. Alongside a successful financial career, Joyner has collected objects ranging from abstract to figurative to 3-D sculpture made from... View Details

01 Sep 2005
News

Predictable Surprises

how can a CEO avoid making decisions that favor short-term results, even if those choices lead to predictable surprises? What I would like to take out of corporate decision-making are situations where a special-interest group within the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Dec 2008
News

A U.S. Turnaround?

Wien In 1945, the United States was clearly the world’s leader militarily, economically, and politically. Its universities were preeminent, and its cultural life was enriched by the migration of Europeans during the previous decade. This... View Details

Keywords: Byron Wien; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

13 Oct 2020
News

Running a Decathlon

Bill and Sandra Patton (photo by Tony LaBruno) While serving on the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee in 1979, William Patton Jr. (PMD 21, 1971) met Orange County superintendent of schools Robert Peterson, who told him about his... View Details

17 Nov 2008
Research & Ideas

Decoding the Artful Sidestep

topic to understand better. Q: How did you go about designing your study in order to get a handle on this topic? A: It actually took us a couple of tries to come up with this design. The challenge was coming up with an experimental design... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

November 2017
Teaching Note

Reinventing Best Buy

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

Teaching Note for HBS No. 716-455. On March 1, 2017, Best Buy Company, Inc., North America’s largest retailer of consumer electronics and appliances, announced a third year of comparable-store sales increases and a 20.8% increase in domestic comparable online sales.... View Details

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Purchase

01 Dec 1999
News

Pearson Hunt

was in addition to my duties as an assistant professor of finance. The objective was to generate reader interest in the issues beyond alumni notes. We often did this by printing faculty members' thoughts on... View Details

Keywords: Pearson Hunt

01 Oct 1998
News

New Releases

of thinking about complex choices. They suggest that the decision-maker start by probing his or her objectives (including interests, fears, and aspirations) and use these reflections to help generate... View Details

01 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 1, 2007

possibility that the effects of FDI differ by sector. Second, we differentiate FDI based on objective qualitative industry characteristics including the average skill intensity and reliance on external... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2018
News

September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

Does realizing the American Dream deliver a good life? In this book, Kaufman develops a fundamentally new understanding of how elite undergraduate educations and careers play out in lives, and what shapes happiness among the prizewinners... View Details

05 Apr 2018
News

A Philanthropic Eye Reframes African American Abstract Art

Solitary,” a traveling exhibition of African-American abstract art that opened at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans in fall 2017. Now on view at the Nasher Museum View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

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