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- 01 Nov 2012
- News
First and Goal
yet in high school) not play tackle football. Swearengin made the difficult decision that he could no longer support tackle football for kids 13 or under; however, his recommendation to the board that the Downtown Giants View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
New Releases
time when 30 to 40 percent of Americans switch religions during their lifetimes. A graduate of Harvard Law School and Harvard Divinity School, McLennan is a Unitarian Universalist minister and chaplain at Tufts University who has spent... View Details
- 10 Jan 2017
- News
A Side of Data with Your Dinner
Damian Mogavero (MBA 1996) was a frustrated restaurateur. The MBA grad wanted to answer simple business questions such as "Why did food costs go up?" but he was greeted, he tells Bloomberg Pursuits, with “blank stares and wrong answers.”... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Short Takes
Managing Development Flexibility in Uncertain Environments," the authors assert that increasing flexibility during the product development cycle can enable a firm to adjust to unanticipated circumstances so opportunely and cost... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey
- 29 Jul 2024
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Leading the Way
invested in me,” says Trejo. “Within two years of meeting him, I had two internships on Wall Street and was accepted to the HBS 2+2 program. It was like a light switched on for me and everything changed.” Like Trejo, Trujillo grew up in a... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
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Action Plan: Just Breathe
suffering—from chronic back pain, insomnia, and asthma. “My body was failing in response to the way I was approaching life,” he says now. “It was the cumulative impact of a long career of high expectations, View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Case Study: A Souped-Up Strategy
continue to focus only on small and midsized cities. The company seems likely to confront winner-take-all competitive dynamics at the city level, because network effects are strong—more diners will attract more hosts, and vice versa—and because hosts will confront... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Starting Now — Bruce Wasserstein (MBA 1971)
School at the age of nineteen, ultimately graduating cum laude as one of the first students to receive a joint MBA/JD degree and garnering honors as a Baker Scholar with high distinction from HBS. "Commuting by bicycle between the two... View Details
- 04 Dec 2020
- News
Hour by Hour
When Morris was in high school, his mother was given an ultimatum: Switch your nursing shift from afternoons to mornings or find a new job. “She wanted to keep her job,” says Morris. “So I ended up taking my... View Details
- 11 Feb 2021
- News
Retraining for a Post-COVID Workforce
Tracy Palandjian (MBA 1997), could create a lifeline for many of these low-wage workers, according to an article in the Boston Globe. Social Finance’s pilot program helps train low-income people for jobs that are in high demand.... View Details
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
importance decisions, they need to be automated. Automated. How do I get to work now? I have no idea, I trust Waze. What do I wear when I'm doing a media interview on stage? The same exact thing. Low time, high importance. And those ones... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HIV/AIDS and Business
social and financial cost of inaction is so high that standing by is not an option, particularly for multinational corporations doing business in countries with high infection... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Case Study: Farming It Out
understand requirements of modification and research to enhance the product. At a more mature stage or later on, to prolong the life cycle of the product, AGR could switch to a Microsoft ecosystem to focus on product only and let others... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
high costs understandable. What Wennberg and others did was to show that U.S. health care also has severe quality problems. Indeed, there is every possible quality problem you can imagine: incorrect... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Evolution of Modern Pricing Models
brick-and-mortar stores, you can’t change shelf prices that frequently. With e-commerce, that cost disappears, and nowadays with better algorithms, it becomes even easier to change prices as often as possible. Another constraint has been... View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- News
Living the Legacy
HBX CORe, a three-course online program that teaches the fundamentals of business, he knew his children would benefit from the content and the high quality of instruction that had set the foundation for his own career success. Ray... View Details
- 05 Apr 2016
- News
Don’t Send Your Kids to College. At Least Not Yet.
list of the costs of the “conveyor belt to college”: high dropout rates, increased stress levels, and massive debt. Her suggested fix? The bridge year—a key facet of Falik’s Global Citizen Year, which offers... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
New Loan Program Signals Breakthrough in MBA Financial Aid
fifteen years; and prepayment option without penalty. Previously, access to private loan programs was generally limited to U.S. citizens and permanent residents with a strong credit history. These loan programs typically required either a significant loan origination... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Drug Imports a Hot Topic at Alumni Health-Care Conference
between the high cost of developing prescription drugs and patient demand for lower prices. Speaking on “The Politics of Innovation,” McClellan acknowledged that many patients have resorted to buying drugs... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
to help our customers ‘compete with anyone, anywhere in the world,’ and that’s what we do.” Those customers can be found worldwide and in diverse industries. Examples of the range of metal-component parts CGM produces include air-bag sensor View Details