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- 16 Feb 2011
- News
Healthy Growth
the customer and to innovation” than he was in his previous job as president of Carrier Corporation, a division of United Technologies. He also relishes being “pure play” in one industry—animal health—which he describes as “a target-rich environment for View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
the Board, and I'd like to briefly review the activities of our committees and update you on how each has worked to improve and enhance alumni services. Continuing Education for Alumni In response to the... View Details
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Facing the New World Order
continuation of the process of globalization. I think this is a safe bet, although one has to be rather nervous right now with the higher costs of trade, the difficulties of moving people around, the difficulties of crossing borders, the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 13 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
Cash and the Woman-Owned Business
financial resources available. In spite of improving conditions, a wage gap has persisted for more than thirty years. Professional women currently earn approximately 73 percent of what their male counterparts are paid for the same work at... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Alumni Relations Gets a New Director
outreach in three ways: continuing to expand lifelong learning programs, such as The Entrepreneur’s Tool Kit and Charting Your Course: Discovering Working Options, aimed specifically at HBS alumni; improving... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
South Africa's Lucille Meyer: Shaping a Practical Presidency
"South Africans expect a lot from the president," says Meyer, a recent graduate of the School's Senior Executive Programme for Southern Africa (SEP). "They are looking for the presidency to improve day-to-day living conditions." Meyer's... View Details
Keywords: Morgan Baker
- 17 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Many Small-Business Employees May Be Close to Losing Health Insurance
additional relief—and soon—providers and policymakers should expect much greater disruption in insurance coverage going forward.” Some 60 percent of small businesses offered health insurance before the pandemic. Through June 15, 95 percent of those View Details
- 14 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Are You Managing To a ‘T’? Time To Break With Tradition
Despite their best efforts, most companies continue to squander what may be their greatest asset in today's knowledge economy: the wealth of expertise, ideas, and latent insights that lies scattered across or deeply embedded in their... View Details
Keywords: by Morten T. Hansen & Bolko Von Oetinger
- 14 May 2013
- Blog Post
Alumni: Where are they now? Featuring Matt…
among cities.I co-ran our inaugural Mayors Challenge, a competition to inspire American cities to generate innovative ideas that solve major challenges and improve city life. (We launched a second competition in Europe this fall.) I also... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
are delivering, and as a tool to continuously improve their processes. Innovative providers will market their areas of excellence and will grow geographically as opposed to growing solely by offering new... View Details
- 25 Jul 2024
- News
Mentorship Program in Singapore is Still Lighting the Way to Success
perspectives I wish I’d heard when I was younger is what motivated me to create this program, and is what continues to excite me most.” After high school, students in Singapore are assigned to either a trade school or a university, based... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
markets continued to underperform. Indeed, some analysts had suggested that Walmart retreat to its U.S. home base to improve performance. Many feared that this was the end of the 50+ year inexorable rise of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Who Sets Your Benchmarks?
Reaching Your Potential. Kaplan continues his theme of self-directed assessment and improvement with his new book, to be released in early May, What You're Really Meant to Do: A Road Map for Reaching Your... View Details
- 05 May 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is This a Golden Era for Marketing Productivity?
'voice' into action is the way to reach a 'golden era' in marketing productivity." Whether the real potential for improvement in marketing productivity primarily lies in the minds and behaviors of existing or potential customers will... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
opportunities,” Leger says. “I believe the idea that there is an inevitable tradeoff between profit and impact is fundamentally flawed and can be challenged through innovative social enterprises that will tackle markets and needs previously ignored.” Leger is the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 10 Nov 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Making Lincoln Center Cool Again
and subscriptions. By 2010, for example, nearly 75 percent of Lincoln Center's $53.5 million operating revenue—excluding revenue from facilities operations—came from contributors. Attendance continued to decline for the youngest Americans... View Details
- Portrait Project
Jared Simon
Industrial Revolution and the Green Revolution were predicated on eliminating mankind's age-old struggle with nature. Starvation, exhaustion, succumbing to the elements; all were to be tragedies of the past. In many ways, mankind succeeded. View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
An Atypical Case — Robin G. Berglund (MBA 1971)
soberly. "I think the best way I can help children is to work to improve the emotional health of their parents and families." "I think the best way I can help children is to work to improve the emotional... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- Profile
Thomas Grenier
case method is something of a shock," Thomas admits. "I thought I'd learn a lot of content — formulas and models. Here, the emphasis is on skills, which is great, because you can read content on your own. But the section experience and the case method View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Instilling Production with Principles
Hilfiger. But chairman Marjorie Yang doesn’t spend much time talking about apparel anymore. Instead, she’s talking about the importance of improving the livelihood of workers (which reduces turnover) and reducing water and electricity use... View Details