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- 01 Oct 1996
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New Releases
performance, customer knowledge, internal processes, and learning and growth. The balanced scorecard is a practical management tool that marshals the value-added potential of people throughout the organization toward the achievement of long-term goals while providing a... View Details
- 01 Aug 2013
- News
A Cure for Cold Storage
Tufts biomedical engineering professor who had discovered a way to employ silk to create stable vaccine storage. Schrader, with a mechanical engineering background and experience in product development, was intrigued, and joined up with... View Details
- 16 Aug 2022
- News
HBS Club of Japan Event Highlights HBS Fellowship
against these in-game lottery-like mechanisms and their broader implications for the gaming industry and beyond. Sasago, who was a recipient of the HBS Japan Fellowship in 2019 and 2020, says he was working in finance while Japan was... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Feb 1998
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New Releases
research has led to the development of a new organizational framework - the differentiated network - that will enable MNCs to succeed. Through systematic examination of MNCs, Nohria and Ghoshal show that differentiation coupled with strong integrative View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2014
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Case Study: Declawing the Competition
into a community of cat lovers. — Doris Banchik-Moxley (MBA 1984) 1) As a subscription service, invoke a simple recurring mechanism to allow faster feedback on your customers’ preferences. This will allow you to improve products and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
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Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era
renewables, in particular solar and wind, means that our electricity system is going to be Capex-driven, and the marginal cost of power will essentially be zero much of the time. Matching demand closer to supply, rather than the other way around, will then be a crucial... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
the conferences themselves. Over the next few months, the group will look carefully at the best-practices guide and think about ways in which the mechanics of hosting a conference can be streamlined rather than reinvented with each new... View Details
Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)
- 01 Mar 2014
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Everything Old Is a New Opportunity
was very different from how I had been educated in the past." Johnston found the HBS technology courses eye-opening. "There was an element of precision, but most of what we talked about was how companies had made significant changes in the world," he says. "Using... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Case Study: Power Nappy
Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez Before she had a baby of her own, Amrita Saigal (MBA 2014) kept hearing from friends that the “natural” diapers on the market didn’t hold up as well as the old standards, like Pampers. Trained as a View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
the company also donates a percentage of online customer purchases. And, most recently, Working Assets created a similar donation mechanism through the long-distance telephone and Internet services it now offers on Sprint PCS Web-enabled... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
world. Do More Than Give: The Six Practices of Donors Who Change the World by Leslie R. Crutchfield (MBA ’01), John V. Kania, and Mark R. Kramer (Jossey-Bass) The authors show how donors can increase their impact in advancing social causes. Rather than focusing on the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
failed companies. When Potentia Pharmaceuticals won the contest in 2001 with Alec Machiels (MBA 2001) at the helm, its plan hinged on a mechanism created by a team of Harvard and MIT scientists that used atomic force microscopy in drug... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
mechanical engineering courses at Northeastern University, and two years as a second lieutenant in the Army (“doing a major’s job”)—proved to be ideal credentials for Knott’s eventual role as founder, president, and CEO of Riverdale Mills... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
has also written articles for many publications, including Management Science, Public Administration Review, Annals of the History of Computers, and the Harvard Business Review. A 1952 graduate of Purdue University, where he received a BS degree in View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
decision; we have to look at our values and find the right course based on that.” The board of directors and executive team have been chipping away at a list of commitments designed to strengthen governance and build in mechanisms for... View Details
- 02 Feb 2023
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Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
and HBS senior lecturer Jim Matheson READ MORE [Sound of golf club hitting ball] In 2020, Aaron Sabin was working as a mechanical engineer at the golfing equipment company TaylorMade. Aaron Sabin: What I would do is I would design a golf... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
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Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
most part, because committed mutual fund consumers are investors who hold portfolios of diversified securities and have long-term goals, they are less likely to engage in such frenetic trading. Instead, the Internet's real impact, according to Jay Light, will not be as... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 23 Jan 2019
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The Promise of Personalized Medicine
structure, to do this yet. Pioneering this customized therapeutic is where we’re at now. But the vision is to have a system in place, a funding mechanism—either a venture funding mechanism or in the future, more ideally, a payer... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
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Life in Lockdown
get people who had different backgrounds and interests than us to make a diverse group.” Shin, a Korean-born mechanical engineer who has worked in high-tech finance, and Behrens, a software engineer from Illinois with finance experience,... View Details
- 20 Jul 2022
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Wired to be Inspired
you, but we’re still monkeys. And I think we've known this for 50 years or more—dismissed this idea that we are just mechanical automatons driven by only financial rewards. We know that. But somehow in our practice of organizing and... View Details