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- 03 Dec 2024
- News
Magic Numbers
math achievement worldwide. The country’s performance at the elementary, middle, and high school levels cratered during the recent pandemic, and it has yet to recover. The grim statistics have experts worried about the competitiveness of our tech sector, the View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
1977) is chairman and CEO of Buenos Aires-based Velox Group, a privately held organization with a line of supermarkets, banks, and finance companies spanning five South American countries. He notes, "You need to be prescient, nimble, and adaptable while maintaining... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Case Study: Sound Check
improved long-term retention rates. In the early days, it’s best to optimize for product feedback. If it’s easier to sell to smaller customers (with more volume), stick with this segment and treat the feedback as gold. Rapidly iterate... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
HBS Posts Strong Results in 2008
business model produced a third consecutive year of double-digit revenue growth despite a slowing economy. That model is based on faculty research that brings professors into contact with business leaders across the United States and... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
Jacek Makowski (MBA 1960)
as 1792, when the country lost its independence, there was a dearth of business acumen in Poland. That history makes the growth of Polish businesses since the fall of Communism nothing short of amazing.” Makowski’s recent gift adds a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Books
Implementing Strategy. "There's the question of profit and growth versus control, for instance, or short-term results versus long-term capabilities. Managers today are involved in a very delicate balancing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
many clients haven't lived through anything like this — and neither have most money managers. It's painful to each of us. But it drives you back to a fundamental analysis: What is the purpose of my portfolio? What am I trying to encompass in my View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
politics. "It had extremely high inflation rates and extremely low economic growth rates." But then two things happened, says Domínguez: First, the government began enacting serious reforms—the kind of fiscal and public policy changes... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
best way to intelligently and successfully test and launch innovative corporate growth strategies. Through vivid stories from all walks of life, Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive through the Dangers of Leading, by Ronald A. Heifetz... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
Principles Guide You by Bill Barnett (MBA 1971) (Stanford Business Books) Barnett approaches the construction of a long-term career plan by looking at the main challenges professionals will face: developing and reaching View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
financial institutions.) Finally, prepare a long-term rehabilitation plan. For the country’s financial system, this means a new regulatory structure. “It, for sure, will be reregulated because the government had to be so deeply involved... View Details
- 17 May 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
without interactive curricula, the well-meaning movement may backfire. “Our fear is that if the schools teach entrepreneurship just as another typical subject, the kids rote learn to get high marks in the examination and that will do very little good to the View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
There are no long-term commitments, although reservations are required, especially during the busiest times. The centers are open later in the evening than most centers in the area (9 p.m. Monday–Thursday, 11 p.m. Friday) and on Saturdays... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
Capital: The Story of Long-Term Investment Excellence by Charles D. Ellis (MBA 1963) (Wiley) Ellis’s latest book takes an inside look at The Capital Group Companies, revealing the people, practices, and values that have brought this firm... View Details
- 02 Aug 2022
- News
PayPal Names Blake Jorgensen as CFO
Jorgensen has also served as CFO at Levi Strauss and Yahoo. He was named to Hasbro’s Board of Directors in April, with the toymaker’s CEO Chris Cocks noting that Jorgensen’s “expertise, leadership skills, and strategic growth mindset have... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
Australia, I think we are seen as a partner of choice. What about more bottom-line issues? We’ve identified growth opportunities and have about $50 billion worth of projects in the pipeline. We’ve launched two major profit-enhancing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?
O’Grady is cognizant that expansion will take time. “It’s not as though by the end of the year we’re going to have all of our private equity fund clients [on blockchain], because it’s still the early days of the application of this technology,” he says. View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
An Authentic Leader
everything telescoped down to the short-term earnings. So CEOs became obsessed with the short-term results? We shifted from looking at business fundamentals, like growth in earnings per share, revenue generation, gains in market share,... View Details
- 30 Jan 2021
- News
Finding a Fresh Approach to Dry Cleaning
houses, a quilt that was hand-sewn by a former first lady, and the flag from the booth at Ford’s Theatre where President Lincoln was shot. He relies on the skills of long-term employees to deliver these specialized services, such as using... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
who can really afford credits [to offset emissions] are funds like Frontier and the Microsofts of the world—organizations that want to encourage growth and development. But costs will naturally come down over time, the way most industrial... View Details