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- 27 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Following Best Business Practices Can Improve Health Care
Either Heal Health Care?A public insurance option could use its scale to hold prices down, but only if the approach avoids the financing gimmicks that are undermining Medicare. Research Papers Cohort Turnover and Operational Performance:... View Details
- 22 Feb 2018
- Blog Post
Five Steps to Jump Start Your MBA Recruiting at HBS
to help you make the most of your recruiting efforts. These five steps will help you get started, and our office will be here to partner with you throughout the process. Contact cpd@hbs.edu with any questions related to your recruiting needs. This blog post content was... View Details
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Yubo Cui
market, then improve upon it. I wasn’t an engineer—my job was to be a bridge between the partners.” After the development phase, Yubo shifted gears to take on an even greater challenge: streamline operations by cutting forty percent of... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy
- Profile
Jeremy Lipstein
exposure "to operations you don't see from the financial side," Jeremy looked for a program that welcomed younger candidates. "I felt it was the right time to go back to school," he says, "even though it was... View Details
- 25 Jul 2013
- News
An Engine of Education Innovation
for 10 years, taking over as CEO in 2011. Match has a three-pronged approach: it runs a system of six public charter schools, manages its own master's degree-granting graduate school of education, and operates a publishing arm that... View Details
- Portrait Project
Lindsay McGregor
facing barriers outside my control – some unavoidable, but many that were within people’s power to change. Eventually, I found workarounds, like operating a mouse by foot and "typing" with voice-recognition software. Eventually,... View Details
- 21 Apr 2014
- News
A lifetime of quiet leadership
which operated in a way that had never been done on Wall Street: Whitehead’s team proactively sought business and also became involved in facilitating mergers and acquisitions and IPOs. This spirit of innovation also informed Whitehead’s... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
An engine of innovation in public education
graduate school of education, and operates a publishing and consulting arm that distributes the results of its work in large school districts. “The goal in our schools is to break through to a situation where we can truly prepare kids for... View Details
- 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 16 Mar 2016
- Webinars: Trending@HBS
How the Internet Became Commercial: Innovation, Privatization, and the Birth of a New Network
logic. All major technologies deploy when they overcome the circular conundrum and an adaptation conundrum. The circular conundrum arises because maximum value from the commercial technology requires all components to work together. That requires coordinating... View Details
- 11 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing
of the company's actual economics. Once managers see what causes them to make or lose money, they easily identify multiple actions that transform loss or break-even operations into profitable ones. The actions include improving internal... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Students Forecast Climate Change’s Impact
MORE Watch three students discuss their approach to the climate change challenge MORE Watch three students discuss their approach to the climate change challenge Professors Mike Toffel and Marco Iansiti presented the more than 900 RC students in their Technology &... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 05 Dec 2018
Class of 2021 Application Process Q&A Webinar for Round 2 Applicants
This webinar will feature a member of the admissions operations team to answer questions submitted by registrants regarding the upcoming Round 2 deadline for the HBS MBA application. View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
necessary capital to launch and expand the business, with the first (raised during the Internet’s heyday) coming much more easily than the second. “When we launched the product, we were operating at a negative gross profit margin,”... View Details
- 30 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: Preparing to Sell
cycle(s) and get ahead of the curve. They understand the family's cash needs, now and in the future, along with its true strengths and weaknesses. They want to educate themselves about the differences between families with operating... View Details
- 05 Dec 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Marketing
Cannibalizing Direct Sales? Working Paper: Adding Bricks to Clicks—The Effects of Store Openings on Sales through Direct ChannelsConsider a retailer who operates both brick-and-mortar stores and direct channels such as direct mail... View Details
- Web
Africa - Global Activities 2020
generosity shown to them is evident through one key aspect of their work. Yeboah and Kyei started the company’s leadership development program, where they train students from top colleges in the region to succeed in operational leadership... View Details
- Web
Transforming Health Care Delivery - Course Catalog
Susanna Gallani is the Tai Family Associate Professor of Business Administration. Her research focuses on performance management systems in health care organizations and how these systems operate to align behaviors, measure, and reward... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998
customer base and needed the administrative and technical power of an established firm. In brokering the deal with Macy’s, the Becks were determined to remain part of the company. Marla serves as CEO and Barry as COO, and Bluemercury View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 17 Sep 2013
- News
Making a Difference in Health Care at HBS
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
focused in his first couple of years. He got rid of a huge number of product lines. He streamlined the operations and he bet on a very small number of products. The combination of the early success of the iMac, the booming marketing in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne