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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
A native of rural Chehalis, Washington, Orin C. Smith (MBA '67) was an EVP for Danzas, an international freight shipping company, when Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz approached him in 1990 to join the fledgling company. Schultz, Smith... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
Alumni Books Out of the Desert: My Journey from Nomadic Bedouin to the Heart of Global Oil by Ali Al-Naimi (AMP 82, 1979) (Penguin UK) Until May 7, 2016, Ali Al-Naimi was the Saudi oil minister (and an OPEC kingpin), a position he held for 20 years. As global oil’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
proper nutrition. The project in India is Nanhi Kali, an organization dedicated to keeping underprivileged girls in school by providing academic and direct material support. Our Honduras project is focused on Central American Medical... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
concept of modularity -- the building of complex products from smaller subsystems that can be designed independently yet function together as a whole. It was modularity, the authors assert, that freed designers to experiment with different View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
A Message from Dean Clark
have just expanded our reach with the opening in August of the Latin America Research Center in Buenos Aires. The center will support our faculty's research on important business issues in South America, Central America, and Mexico. As... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
billions who are in poverty; solutions must be enduring and last over generations; solutions must be truly effective and make a difference; and all this must happen efficiently. Only through a commercial approach can you achieve all those... View Details
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, it’s Dan. Today, we are sharing a brief excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, the critically-acclaimed podcast from my colleagues at Harvard Business School. Each episode, HBS professors Bill Kerr... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
HBX: Reimagining HBS for the Digital Age
audiences in compelling ways. “Thoughtful engagement — with the material and among students — was at the center of our efforts in developing HBX,” says Anand. “These positive connections spur new ideas and are central to the future of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
skill of microtargeting — identifying small, intense subgroups and communicating with them about their individual needs and wants — has never been more critical in marketing or in political campaigns. The one-size-fits-all approach to the... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
exactly had happened to the 62-year-old icon. It was a massive professional challenge: Morgan Flatley (MBA 2004), who was hired as chief marketing officer last April, says that part of the reason she was excited about the gig was the chance “to work on this brand that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
social hurdles must all be overcome. But it’s the kind of model that India and other emerging nations are designing to accommodate their exploding and impoverished urban populations. Says Macomber, “As opposed to developing Dharavi over time in piecemeal fashion, this... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
entrepreneurs believe you can have an on-demand jet service, with fares about equal to a business class ticket,” Tripsas explains. “Regulatory, security, and infrastructure issues come into play here, aside from the challenges of figuring out View Details
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
created a bold and provocative vision—‘50 by 60’—that says that [New England] can produce 50 percent of our food locally by 2060. This is the organizing principle in what is a systems-wide approach to solving a problem.” Since 2011, the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
humor, however, is a no-nonsense approach to business performance that stems from Fisher’s upbringing as the daughter and granddaughter of rural central Pennsylvania entrepreneurs who taught her that great... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Enabling Students to Pursue Their Passions
case-based approach to teaching and learning relies heavily on exposing HBS students to a wide variety of perspectives because we’re preparing them to be leaders in organizations and in a world marked by vast human difference and... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
Johnson, and McKinsey and Company—discussed key decisions they have made and how they have approached these decisions. Through concrete examples, we explored the philosophical, ethical, and practical aspects of dealing with this crisis.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
start-up approach applicable to the health care sector? For heavily regulated drugs, diagnostics, and devices, a 'launch early and often' strategy simply isn't possible, although entrepreneurs can still run lean tests to gauge the level... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Path to Economic Revival
for economic development. Does the United States need one? Shih: One of the issues in developing a national economic strategy has been confusion with the term “industrial policy,” which has been anathema in Washington. “Industrial policy” involves some degree of View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
proven approach to analyzing and solving challenges and provides a common language anyone can understand. Teams That Work: The Six Characteristics of High Performing Teams by Cliff Chirls (MBA 1979), George Myers, and Tom Champoux... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
celebrate a new peace: After 20 years of negotiations, the four groups had agreed on a historic deal for land use in the Great Bear Rainforest, a 25,000-square-mile stretch of BC’s north and central coastlands—the largest intact coastal... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous