Filter Results:
(1,100)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(6,442)
- People (3)
- News (1,100)
- Research (4,505)
- Events (35)
- Multimedia (67)
- Faculty Publications (2,936)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(6,442)
- People (3)
- News (1,100)
- Research (4,505)
- Events (35)
- Multimedia (67)
- Faculty Publications (2,936)
Sort by
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Chaotic Funding Derails Research
are potentially wasted. You have no viable research projects under way. It will take well over a year to begin a new research stream, and there is a low probability you will get funded in a new area. You may be fired. In short, your career is in danger of total... View Details
- 12 Jul 2022
- News
Expanding the Power to Prosper
paradigm via an open infrastructure that breaks down walled gardens and creates a strong, collaborative foundation for the future of global financial services. Millicent offers lightning-fast money transfers at a fraction of the traditional View Details
- 24 Sep 2019
- News
Connecting Patients and Providers
prospective patients. Patients can upload their data just once and share it with any doctor on the platform who needs access. Trustedoctor also encourages digital consultations, reducing the cost and travel demands on ill patients. The... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Latest Model
virtual environments—Barrera and Hurder find themselves fielding more and more questions from clients about the costs and benefits of doing business in virtual worlds. As they point out, the economic principles they use to understand how... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
impacted just as hard but received less assistance.” In response, Camino expects to come to market with a recovery loan that lowers the cost to borrowers and lends to nonessential industries that have been heavily impacted by COVID-19.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
causes pneumonia in ICU patients. When the drug goes to market, the company plans to have data to back up its price. “If we say, for instance, that we can wean a patient off a ventilator three days sooner and we get a patient out of the ICU four days sooner...then... 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 the racks to fill orders, in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Case Study: Sweat the Technique
digital, including allowing users access to a stream of information that they can track and sync with other performance data. While the shift would add both cost and time—and potentially push Nix into a more saturated wearables market... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Robots Are Coming to Save Your Job
becoming even more acute over time.” Beyond answering short-term labor needs, Eckert thinks these kinds of co-bots also have the potential to upend traditional factory economics. “For a generation now, you had to go to a low labor cost... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Books
new hire costs an organization in the time spent overcoming often steep learning curves. Even so, transitioning has not generally been taught as a specific management skill, until now. Most companies report that it takes roughly six... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Michael F. Cronin, MBA 1977
of skills, imagination, and interests. Harvard needs to educate the very best MBA candidates from the widest possible applicant pool. That means we have to remove cost as a barrier.” A native of Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood, Cronin... View Details
- 16 Sep 2016
- News
Gaining Ground on ALS
Bucket Challenge to support the Phase 3 trial of a promising investigational drug that is designed to slow the loss of lung function and muscle strength in patients with ALS. “Clinical trials cost tens to hundreds of millions of dollars,”... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Positive impact that hits home
of a fellowship. “I still think about money in our local currency,” Seck Mercier says, “and with the two years’ cost of Harvard Business School, in my country I could buy a lot of real estate.” Seck Mercier says her fellowship means... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Filling a Vacuum
firm (formerly MySoftware, Inc.). Since coming on board in 1997, Slayton has cut costs and sharpened strategy at the company. But perhaps his most significant impact has been rallying the firm's demoralized employees, largely through the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
In the Driver's Seat
NASCAR racing is one of the more popular spectator sports in the country, but it's a tight little fraternity that's tough to join and expensive to belong to — maintaining a competitive team costs about $15 million per season. But die-hard... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
you never have it figured out. Unlike other industries, you can't manufacture endless quantities of the product on a predictable cost curve." As the hunt for oil goes on, even optimists agree that the search will only present more... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
administration in February proposed phasing out mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two government-sponsored enterprises whose collective missteps have cost taxpayers more than $134 billion since being placed in... View Details
- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
afford these patients a better quality of life for a longer period of time. It could be the first new treatment for ALS in nearly 25 years and the first one to potentially affect muscle function and strength as well as hopefully preserve patient independence.” While... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Developing Insight that Has Power in Practice
The commitment to research that influences pedagogy, theory, and practice is inherent to HBS’s identity. The first field study, conducted in 1911 under the School’s Bureau of Business Research, comprised a comparative examination of the View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
term familiar to every good HBS student. With its relatively low price tag (about $2.8 million) and low operating costs (40 percent less than existing small jets), the twin-engine Mustang and other “very light jets” (VLJs) represent a... View Details