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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Lori Schock - Listen and Learn
manufacturing workers on a computer system used for data reconciliation. The assignment proved challenging. “I was a total outsider running a class designed to change the work patterns of an experienced manufacturing team,” she grimaces. “The class was a complete... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Brill
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Think Locally, Act Globally
integration.” Within two years of buying out Zain, operating in Africa as Airtel, Bharti has added more than 14 million new mobile customers (for a current total exceeding 50 million), while investing approximately US$1 billion in network... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Do Good: Eat Chocolate
scrappy,” she recalls. “I learned a lot about the community-building aspects of consumer marketing. That experience has been totally relevant to what we’re doing at sweetriot.” When the start-up siren call got too strong, Endline began the research View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; candy; chocolate; Crop Production; Agriculture; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
Dean Light, the only participant who appeared on all three panels, gave an overview of the market events leading up to the crisis and outlined a three-part process for dealing with it. Using the metaphor of an emergency room, Light... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
DonorsChoose: Teaming Up with Teachers
primarily for public schools serving low-income families. It has created an online marketplace connecting teachers with “citizen philanthropists,” who buy supplies or services the schools can’t afford. At www.DonorsChoose.org, teachers... View Details
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
transparency in the food industry, and the iterative process that created Clover’s different look and feel. READ MORE Julia Hanna: So how would you describe Clover Food Lab to someone who’s never been there before? Ayr Muir: At its most... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 21 Oct 2020
- News
Cold Calculations
group’s current challenge well from his own VC experience: “It’s time for us to put our foot on the accelerator and really scale up,” he says. The Arctic Ice Project recently hired a new executive director and is in the process of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar
education may be able to buy a "contract" with a financial institution that will lock in the cost of tuition at today's rates. By making payments to such a contract rather than investing in growth funds, they will be able to avoid the... View Details
Keywords: Elizabeth McNair
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All
people and process as much as technology. So there's more to the Y2K problem than technology? Definitely. You can tell a lot about a company by how it's reacting to the Y2K problem. An organization whose people failed to see how it would... View Details
- 30 Aug 2018
- News
Sharing a Passion for Art
color, are an integral part of the experience. Visitors can come just to stroll or picnic on the grounds. Creating that same close-to-nature ambiance inside the building required imaginative technology and painstaking attention to detail throughout a three-year design... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Andrea Silbert
the Community Entrepreneurs Program and attend sessions that cover the basics — business literacy, planning, and launch, for example — while those further along in the process can get help through CWE’s Business Excellence Center or by... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
The Sparkles in Our Skies
approximately the equivalent of a year and a quarter of the average American’s carbon footprint. While it feels like a technological magic trick in an industry known for tradition rather than innovation, it may not even be the startup’s most impressive conjuring:... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
kicked out of the game?” The first case HBS Archives Photography Collection, Baker Library Special Collections In 1980, just as he was joining the HBS faculty, Bill Sahlman met an interesting character named Jeff Parker. Parker, then 37 years old, was in the View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Two Kinds of Green
“We wanted to find a new home for the business.” As it happens, he continues, Clorox was in the process of a significant shift in its strategic focus to brands associated with more natural, healthy, and sustainable lifestyles, such as its... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
Issue Focus: Leadership To keep pace with a fast-changing global business environment, “You’ve got to institutionalize the process of reinvention,” says William Fung. Photo courtesy Li & Fung Ltd. Issue Focus Making the Leadership Case... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
activity pales in comparison to what's happening today on the Internet," says Sahlman. "Whereas in the early days of the microprocessor, for example, it was expensive and complicated to buy computers, develop software, and break into the... View Details
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
the 1950s were purchased under this process called contract buying. My grandparents had to buy a home this way. They first bought their home and they were not allowed to get a mortgage. And so for the first... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
Founder, Co-CIO, and Chairman, Bridgewater Associates I always had little jobs. I had a paper route. I would shovel driveways. And then I started caddying. This was the 1960s, when everyone was talking about the stock market, and the market was hot. I got $6 for every... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
night watchman at nearby Spendthrift Farm. His father had begun to buy and breed a few Thoroughbreds, too. Before long, Clay had caught the bug. In 1972 he purchased a 100-acre parcel of land along the Old Frankfort Pike, about ten miles... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
Sasha Novakovich (MBA ’99) was in her second year at HBS when she and classmate Tracy Lawrence got the idea for what would become GetConnected, a company that processes voice, data, and video services transactions for retailers. Despite... View Details