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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
video, all to improve the at-the-game experience and to keep pace with the coverage enjoyed by fans at home. Engineering Excitement If the NFL has seemed preternaturally blessed by good fortune and smart management, some of its success can be traced to a View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
DonorsChoose: Teaming Up with Teachers
their contribution to help cover the organization’s administrative expenses. Praised for its simplicity and effectiveness, the organization has been hailed as an innovative model for citizen philanthropy. Goldman arrived on the scene just... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
She’s Got Your Back
want things to be done right, but we don’t want to invest a lot of thought and process in finding a solution.” Online reviews are nothing new, of course. But Angie’s List was early to the game and operates under an almost unthinkable View Details
- 27 Aug 2019
- News
A Shot at Success
Feickert says. And the things she learned on the basketball court—drive, endurance, teamwork—served her well in the business world, too. The pressure of tax season at Ernst & Young in New York, where she moved after graduation, was... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 30 Mar 2017
- News
Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest
this problem was a good fit to my personality. What I found powerful is that for me I had to have a model of how each of the different parties to the negotiation saw the world, what their pressures on them were, where their funding was,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
information technology companies, as well as in complementary areas such as marketing, branding, and design—all of which can help nascent businesses gain a foothold in the marketplace. Plus, the way fintech straddles the broader... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
Broughton (MBA 2006) (Macmillan) Having the drive, ambition, and inspiration to start a new business takes a particular mindset: the ability to disrupt the status quo, use design thinking to generate fresh... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Father of Modern Advertising
copywriters at Lord Thomas invented the “salesmanship in print” business model that sustained the industry for decades to come. In short, the firm convinced clients that print ads should follow a salesman’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Social Enterprise Visionary
management education as a way of achieving that goal.” Over nearly two decades, SEI has developed from a visionary concept to a mainstay in the School’s mission of developing business leaders who are concerned not only with the bottom... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Crisis and Creativity
creates an opening for entrepreneurs who can meet the profitability challenge by reexamining the whole business model — a process that might involve customer acquisition or retention, or pricing innovations.... View Details
Keywords: Bhaskar Chakravorti
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Feedback
innovative HBS community. We also want this new magazine to be a conversation. You'll see more of your voices throughout the stories, weighing in on everything from business challenges to classroom revelations. And we want to hear from... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 30 Apr 2019
- News
Leading Schools That Change Lives
country helping low-income kids beat the odds,” he explains. “I didn’t plan a teaching career, but I loved that job.” Often Jesuit-supported, the Nativity model offers low-income middle school students the advantages of small classes and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Case Study: Alumni Advice for a Health Care Startup
businesses are switching their benefit packages to establish a selection of coverage and benefits. The model of every person contributing to the cost of a benefit that few need is diminishing. I favor... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
addressed one of four topics: different models of consumer-driven health care; the role of consumer-driven health care in supporting innovative solutions to chronic problems in the industry; the new breed of consumer information and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
HBS Alums Help Jailhouse Entrepreneurs Go Straight
Whether it’s an upfront enterprise on Main Street or illegal dealings on Mean Street, competition, risk management, and profitability are primary concerns in both business venues. That’s the theory behind the nonprofit Prison... View Details
- 13 Jun 2018
- News
The First Five Years: Momchil Filev and Ben Faw (both MBA 2014)
age. Combining this market opportunity with the huge waste of returned goods from e-commerce, we saw the business case—and from there it was all execution.” What short- and long-term goals do you have for the company? Momchil:“The... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Books
Back to the Drawing Board by Colin B. Carter and Jay W. Lorsch (Harvard Business School Press) Corporate boards are frequent targets of criticism in the wake of recent corporate scandals. But in their new book, Back to the Drawing Board:... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
at Fidelity Investments to launch a venture aimed at providing analytical information to bond traders. He showed Sahlman his business plan for a company that he was calling Technical Data Corporation. Basically, Parker had figured out a... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
model we're looking to replicate." Professor Richard H.K. Vietor, faculty chair of the event, expressed the hope that the School's activities in sub-Saharan Africa, such as the conference, new Executive Education initiatives, and... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Professor Ramchandran Jaikumar Remembered
Ramchandran Jaikumar, the School's Daewoo Professor of Business Administration and a renowned authority on manufacturing management and technology, died on February 10 of a heart attack while mountain climbing in Quito, Ecuador. He was 53... View Details