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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
stint at Ford Motor Company and with the network equipment provider Linkabit, he decided to enroll at HBS. "I wanted to get the best education, and I felt that Harvard was the best business school," Ranadivé states, citing the case method and the View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Calling the Tune: Negotiation as an Improvisational Dance
parties involved do not know one another. "Profit can be much higher for both parties when negotiating face-to-face, because vital information is shared," she said. Trust and understanding are much less likely to be found when... View Details
- 04 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon
panel discussion held at Harvard Business School, where several experts talked about how to treat the troubled industry at a time when the year-old Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 is still in its relative infancy. “Health care is the most View Details
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Addressing Gender Equity In Business And Society
June of 2015, 124 undergraduates from 14 women’s colleges attended PEEK, a new two-day on-campus academic experience designed to give applicants an introduction to HBS and to business. Ultimately, Ely hopes the School will become the go-to destination for relevant... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
creating the best cost structure in the market. But the company wanted to compete primarily on quality not price. To that end, it struck exclusive deals with suppliers and marketing partners. Where they are today: The company continues to... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Case Study: Declawing the Competition
leadership position?” The Answers: Create an Etsy-like program for subscribers to sell and distribute their own cat products. After being vetted for quality and fit, independent producers receive distribution and a percentage of sales.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
qualities that define a leader? Where does one find a mentor? What are the ingredients in the recipe for success? Getting beyond Better: How Social Entrepreneurship Works by Roger L. Martin (MBA 1981) and Sally R. Osberg (Harvard Business... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
234,629 In 1971, T.J. Dermot Dunphy (MBA 1956) became CEO of Sealed Air Corporation, a fledgling New Jersey protective-packaging company. Under his leadership, Sealed Air soon became known for its quality products and technological... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
expected profits. Using an extension to the newsvendor model, we focus on a relatively common scenario in which the firm's investor has imperfect information concerning the quality of the firm's investment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Rediscovering America
a path to success in many schools. What business could survive if it didn’t have the resources to buy supplies and attract and retain quality employees? What retail store could motivate customers in a dingy, outmoded building where even... View Details
- 09 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming the Challenges of Selling Brand New Technology (Hey, Need a 3-D Printer?)
company’s profits and cash flow. In addition, the founders worried that Amazon might cannibalize sales from its own website. In the end, Formlabs co-founder Max Lobovsky decided that control was more important than speed or ease. The first generation of Formlabs’... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Rethinking Call Centers: Effective Delivery of Service is Key
call centers, with their attendant voice response units, need not be frustrating. When a company manages its call center well, effectively linking a triad of service, information technology, and internal processes, both the customer and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Q & A: Gustavo Herrero
that we want to collaborate with local academics will gain us a lot of goodwill. The payoff for HBS faculty will be a better understanding of developments in the region and an increase in the amount and quality of teaching materials about... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Repurposing Leaders to Attack Social Problems
of service.” Kanter was followed by Harvard Kennedy School professor David Gergen, an adviser to several presidential administrations. Gergen cited polls that reveal Americans’ deepening discontent with the quality of leadership across... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Better Care at Lower Cost
As the opening presenter at the two-day conference, sponsored by the HBS Health Industry Alumni Association, Christensen made the case for how disruptive innovation could give consumers access to simpler, less expensive, quality care.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Alumni Eager to Help Shape School’s Future
Kelly By the time you are reading this, HBS will likely have named Dean Jay Light’s successor. Since Dean Light announced in December his plan to retire, there has been much discussion about the qualities a new Dean should possess and the... View Details
Keywords: Ann Kelly
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
students "get it." Bistany decries four "myths" in education: The smaller the class size, the better (when what matters is the right structure for teaching and assessing a concept effectively); The profit motive will undermine educational View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
belief that to prepare managers well, we have to change. What we're doing in Asia has grown out of that belief. We need to create new intellectual capital to underpin our goals at HBS. Thus, we must deepen and extend the quantity and View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Raymond Hwang (MBA 2010)
people will experience significant spine-related symptoms at some point. The ability to improve the quality of many lives makes spine surgery relevant. Contemporary spine surgery is also heavily technology dependent, which makes for... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
New Fitzhugh Professorship Celebrated
in his footsteps. His life exemplified the finest qualities of leadership." Fitzhugh came to HBS after graduating with honors from Harvard College, where he was one of four African Americans in a class of one thousand. He excelled in his... View Details