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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ink
ecosystems—not just products. Create a network that brings together powerful partners engaged in complementary product and service innovation. Exploit leverage and power. If you have it, use your large size to advantage, but also be... View Details
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Partners & Families | MBA
partners for professional and personal development: Two 40-minute 1:1 coaching sessions, Career Leader Self-Assessment Tool, Electronic LinkedIn makeover, Job Search Resources, Harvard Job Boards, and Baker Library (1:1 consultations with... View Details
- 02 Sep 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Overlooked Forces Shielding the US from Severe Economic Downturns?
of “just in time” inventory management that led to greater speed and dependability among manufacturers and suppliers of logistics services to companies like Toyota and others. Of course, the concept was... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The Secret Sauce
impressive number of gifts and reached 53 percent participation—class best. A notable aspect of their efforts, says Hawkins, who heads The Hawkins Companies, was a reliance on email instead of phone calls or letters. "This might have been the secret sauce of our... View Details
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Guy Kamguia
Guy (HBS’ 15, Villanova’ 11, UMBC’ 08) is a Director of Strategy at TOMRA, a global leader in the design and manufacturing of advanced sorting equipment. He previously worked in private equity, driving value creation in portfolio... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
Alumni Board, continuing education is becoming an important part of the menu of services available to HBS graduates. Let me expand on that by telling you about what the Board will be addressing this year. As in past years, the Board will... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
Fitzhugh Conference Redefining Wealth: Claim It, Grow It, Sustain It January 31–February 2, 2003 Sponsor: HBS African-American Student Union Keynote speaker: Benaree Pratt Wiley (MBA 1972), president & CEO, The Partnership, Inc. Bert King Award for View Details
Jules S. Bache
Bache took over his uncle’s brokerage business and built it into one of the premier financial services firms in the early decades of the twentieth century. His operation helped to facilitate the reorganization of the American Spirits... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
Electronics: TV in an Era of Convergence From the late 1990s to 2006/2007, Samsung Electronics moved from one of 170 TV manufacturers to gain dominant TV market share year over year from 2007 to 2013. As... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
Bruce D. Henderson
Henderson founded one of the most influential strategy consulting organizations in the world. During its heyday, the Boston Consulting Group popularized such notions as the “experience curve” – the more a company manufactures a given... View Details
Keywords: Services
- 20 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making an Ally of Uncle Sam
services flow from the company to customers. Money flows in the reverse direction, from customers to the company and from the company to suppliers. Along the horizontal dimension are the company's competitors and complementors . . . . A... View Details
- July 1991 (Revised September 1995)
- Case
Eastman Kodak Co.: Managing Information Systems Through Strategic Alliances
In January 1988, Colby Chandler, Kodak CEO, created the Corporate Information Systems (CIS) and appointed Katherine Hudson head. She at once became the first head of IT and first woman corporate vice president in the company. Throughout 1989, Hudson inaugurated a... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Information Technology; Partners and Partnerships; Organizational Structure; Success; Trends; Information Management; Service Operations; Manufacturing Industry
Applegate, Lynda M. "Eastman Kodak Co.: Managing Information Systems Through Strategic Alliances." Harvard Business School Case 192-030, July 1991. (Revised September 1995.)
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
The occasion? The company, a leading supplier of cloud-based services for electronic health records (EHR), practice management, and care coordination, was expanding. In a big way. Founded in 1997,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Using IT to Heal U.S. Health Care
BRAILER: Aiming to give every American an electronic health-care record by 2014. American health-care providers may use the best technology in the world, but when it comes to patient records, the system is an inefficient maze responsible... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Emerging Information
IT WAS A CRITICAL demonstration that, if all went well, would likely land a big-time client for Gary Mueller, president and CEO of Internet Securities (www.securities.com), an online service designed to provide news and data about the... View Details
Keywords: Paul Michelman
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Plunging Into the Net
coordinates elective field studies in information technology and has developed case modules on electronic commerce and emerging Internet-based business opportunities. Applegate has worked with a number of HBS alumni who are launching... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
loads, and a price tag that starts at US$13,000—about the equivalent of a seven-year-old imported sedan. “At Mobius, we get to play a part in the emergence of a stronger manufacturing base.” “At Mobius, we get to play a part in the... View Details
Keywords: Amy Yee
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
2006 MBAs Go to Work
Equity/LBO: 15.4%) (Commercial Banking/Other: 4.1%) Consulting 21.4% Technology/Telecom 5.8% Other Services 5.7% Pharma/Biomedical 4.6% Consumer Products 4.4% Retail 4.3% Other Manufacturing 3.7%... View Details
Charles R. Walgreen
Though Walgreen was trained as a pharmacist, he was an equally astute businessman. Walgreen personally manufactured some of his drugs in order to be able to maintain profitable low prices, and he also offered Walgreens branded merchandise... View Details
Keywords: Retail
LeRoy A. Petersen
In his 22 years with Otis, Petersen helped the elevator manufacturer transition from war to peacetime production and become increasingly profitable in the process. Though the firm’s defense division still remained an integral part of... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods