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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
You Only Thought You Were Republican
party that’s worked so hard to stand up for the tobacco companies; that’s impeded stem cell research; that’s opposed the assault weapons ban (you hunt, but not with a machine gun) and that fights to keep the gun-show loophole open. No,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody dropped the girl off the bridge. And so John D. MacDonald (MBA ’39) begins another book, with an opening line so deft it makes other writers want to give View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
Abigail P. Johnson, MBA 1988
order to make room for innovation.” “It is important to figure out how to balance long-standing traditions with new insights in order to make room for innovation.” Growing up in Boston as the eldest of three children, Johnson enjoyed... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
a wide assortment of consumer durables. Two years later, Barford took Beatty into the big time, buying up a larger competitor, General Steel Wares, Inc. (GSW). As head of the new concern, Barford reorganized GSW and developed it into the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Future Vision
seashells washing up on the shore—all of which would also require time and attention, be they challenges or opportunities. You can’t ignore them; but you also can’t let them consume you, because you still have to manage the rest of the... View Details
- 31 Jan 2014
- News
Body, Heal Thyself
breakthrough in] the biotech industry takes a lot of time; it takes a lot of money; it's complicated science." And it takes a lot of people—from scientists to executives to board members. Bancel admits that people see the potential fairly quickly; the challenge will be... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
key role business leaders have to play in confronting climate change—and the power of HBS alumni to make a positive difference. Jacqueline Adams (MBA 1978) President, J Adams Strategic Communications; co-author of A Blessing: Women of Color Teaming View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
represents something quite different [from Amazon], something that’s anchored in the customer’s desire to connect, not just with a product but with a community,” Raffaelli says. That sense of “community”; a dogged attention to the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
signature cocktails, and what happens next is just what Royle and Wood had hoped for: Around the tables, people start to talk about what exactly they were tasting, just like you might talk about a wine or any other cocktail. Those who guessed correctly might have... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
If your idea of a Ph.D. in business conjures up visions of spectacled scholars toiling in solitude in the library's darkest, dustiest corners, think again. At HBS, students in the School's Doctoral Programs are doing much more than... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Venture: Time Heals All
everything from the quality of patient care to a hospital’s bottom line. “Health care executives pay close attention to how nursing time is being utilized. They strive for efficiency in fear of finding... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Evolution of Modern Pricing Models
image by John Ritter From Uber’s surge pricing to dynamic ticket pricing, it seems there’s been more awareness of pricing models and pricing strategy in recent years. What’s driving that interest? Thales Teixeira: We need to go back before the businesses started paying... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
John Doerr, MBA 1976
ages 11 and 17, Doerr puts family as his top priority. Growing up in a tight-knit middle-class family in St. Louis, John Doerr was influenced by his entrepreneurial father. “My parents worked hard to give all five of their children... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Courting the Poor
assistance of LARC senior researcher Ricardo Reisen de Pinho (PMD 74, 1999), Frei was soon on her way to researching and writing “Magazine Luiza: Building a Retail Model of ‘Courting the Poor.’ ” “Magazine Luiza has made a business of targeting the View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
“You get to the top and at first it’s just a sense of relief: Oh, thank God, we did it. Then it kind of hits you, and you’re going, Oh, my gosh, I’m actually up here. Then you get down to business: What’s here to see?” Vescovo spent more... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
HISTORY LESSONS: Ferguson shares his views on the global financial crisis with an attentive crowd at the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge. Professor Niall Ferguson, born in Glasgow and educated at Oxford and Cambridge universities, argues... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Forward Thinking
You can ask the internet anything, but getting an answer via generative artificial intelligence consumes about 10 times more electricity than a traditional Google search. Consequently, the data centers where AI tools are trained and run are guzzling more and more... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Back from the Brink
MILLS: Sometimes when the bottom falls out of the bottom line, the only place to go is up. Harold Mills (MBA ’98) is CEO of ZeroChaos, an IT staffing and human- resources outsourcing firm based in Orlando,... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Long-Term Interest: Bill Crozier, a Banker Pegged to the Customer
are important to them over and above the bottom line." As he moves into this new phase of his own life, what advice would Crozier offer to younger executives? "Don't be afraid of giving up ground in the... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
After Ozempic
meanwhile, climbed from $16.2 billion to $33 billion in that same period, riding the GLP-1 wave. Novo Nordisk’s valuation has shot up to almost $600 billion, which is more than the entire Danish GDP. And the top of the curve is still out... View Details