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- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
the world after COVID-19 and will perhaps expand further. I believe that startups that offer technology and software that enable physicians to confidently practice medicine from afar will become more valuable. My sense is that this trend will likely continue in... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 25 Mar 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
HBS alums Greg Avis (Summit Partners, MBA 1984), Chad Keck (Needham & Co., MBA 1976), Tom Volpe (Prudential Volpe, MBA 1976), and Tony Blenk (Everen Securities, MBA 1976), Crane led the company in acquiring 13 companies, raised four rounds of View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
South Africa's Lucille Meyer: Shaping a Practical Presidency
deliver everyday tangible results. To that end, Meyer, deputy director general for The Private Office, has guided Mbeki's merger of the president and deputy president offices to form the Office of the Presidency. The new entity, which... View Details
Keywords: Morgan Baker
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Toolkit for Customer Innovation
regulatory, and quality control expertise. On average, the client eventually accepts only 15% of all new flavors for full market evaluation, and only 5% to 10% make their way to the marketplace. Meanwhile, margins in the flavor industry... View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
- 16 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
How HBS Supported My Career Transitions During and After Graduation
part of my post-HBS career. She has guided me through multiple resume reviews, interview practices, company discovery sessions, and tips on how to leverage the HBS alumni network. After a lot of determination and many meetings with Martha, I ended up getting a job with... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
power and the attraction of capital from unproductive government uses to free enterprise," all of which has contributed to a "globalization of markets and free-market economies." One alum issued a gloomy warning: "The new 'cold war' is... View Details
- 06 Apr 2016
- News
Raising a Glass to Life-Long Entrepreneurship
Koch first brewed the now-well known beer in his kitchen, long before the term “craft beer” was coined. In his entertaining new book, he shares 20-plus years of lessons learned since the first batch of beer—“the long arc of an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Case Study: Citizen Buffett
"Buffett's Bid for Media General's Newspapers," a new case study for Esty's first-year Finance course. Buffett's motivation is only one of the many factors that Media General's president and CEO, Marshall Morton, has to weigh in the case.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Stuart Gilson
the process. In the U.S., bankruptcy can also be used to revitalize the business—for example, by allowing companies to reject unfavorable leases, or sell unwanted assets in a competitive auction. The second reason to restructure is to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019
would find a new owner, continuing to operate very successfully to the present time. I Really Meant to Tell You : Finding the Courage for Kindness by Jeff Hutsell (MBA 1978) BookLogix Have you ever regretted not telling someone you love... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Case Study: The Credit Bureau
Illustration by Brown Bird Design Walk the streets of New York City around the first of the month, and you’ll see the symptoms: orphaned couches, credenzas, and swivel chairs that were left behind after a move. The problem, according to... View Details
- 30 May 2025
- News
Galas in NYC and Mexico City; NFL Coach Shares Leadership Insights in Charlotte
HBS Club of Mexico Celebrates Connection with Gala Dinner The HBS Club of Mexico joined the Harvard Club of Mexico in celebrating the latter’s 75th anniversary with the Harvard Gala Mexico, held on May 12 at the Club de Industriales in Mexico City. Approximately 275... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 30 Oct 2017
- News
Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success
It isn’t news that US companies have a problem with diversity, especially in the C suite. Although African Americans make up 13.2 percent of the US population, only 1 percent—that’s just five people—are CEOs of Fortune 500 companies. That... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
world's most influential women business executives gathered at Soldiers Field for Women Leading Business: An Executive Forum, the first-ever HBS Executive Education program developed for businesswomen. Anchored in the School's leading-edge research, the View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 13 May 2014
- Op-Ed
The Alibaba Effect
if today's 40 percent personal savings rate is to be reduced, thereby unleashing cash to fuel new growth in consumer spending. Creating this domestic safety net will be crucial to enabling Alibaba to grow even faster. But don't look for... View Details
- 09 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
3 Myths About HBS
is this competitive spirit that helped them to achieve success thus far in their careers. That being said, the culture at HBS is one that encourages teamwork and collaboration, very much mirroring situations encountered in the real world.... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Theory & Practice
analyses of competitive interaction to explore the uses and limits of game theory as a tool for students of business strategy. As a basis for research as well as a source of teaching materials, Ghemawat focuses on individual cases. He... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
very substantial product differentiation from their competition or, in the case of the “Truth” anti-tobacco campaign, no competition — just a villain that was an easy target. I don’t know if the agency... View Details
- 16 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Weighing Digital Tradeoffs in Private Equity
innovation, PE firms are discovering new sources of value creation, new research shows. Moreover, the PE industry itself has become more competitive as the number of PE firms... View Details
- 15 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of New-Market Disruption
In the early 1990s, both Teradyne and Hewlett-Packard identified new technologies that had enormous potential to cause new-market disruptions. As with most disruptive innovations, these technologies offered to provide smaller and less... View Details