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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
Boston's Legal Sea Foods restaurant chain, where he met his future partner, Christopher Nessen. A production chef at the company, Nessen provided the culinary and technical expertise for Kettle Cuisine. He was well acquainted with the View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
same department in my new dealership. He did, until he retired for the second time. The great lesson learned for me was, anyone can go fire someone. It takes more effort, but the rewards are so much greater, to solve the problem that exists-- whether it's a... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
topics including financing new ventures, deal structuring, valuation, initial public offerings, leveraged buyouts, and financial distress. "Entrepreneurial Finance looks at the acquisition and deployment of resources at each stage of the entrepreneurial View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
and in a few cases by economies of scale. The Chemical/Chase merger is an example of the latter; there was so much overlap in back office costs and overhead that the new entity will save hundreds of millions in those outlays alone." The... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
the research has been far slower than it should be.” Van Etten is committed to improving the process on the business and management side. He is promoting the concept of “team science” and trying to increase the sharing of data and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
and the costs sometimes associated with implementing "green" strategies - strong government regulation at home and abroad will continue to be necessary in order to motivate many businesses to become more environmentally accountable. He... View Details
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
for N=1, individuals, that customizes therapeutics. If you look at drug development thus far in the history of mankind, we’ve focused a lot of our efforts on small molecules, like pills that you would take every day—Lipitor, Viagra, these types of things. You’ll also... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
work is not just the pricing but also the cost. What are you doing on the cost side to make your business viable? SS: I looked up a lot of public 10-K forms of pure media companies like the New York Times and saw that they’ve been doing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
Jennifer M. Koen (MBA 1997), director of innovation for Godiva Chocolatier, explains that Godiva is in the process of a top-down refresh of its brand that will involve retooling its product, packaging, advertising campaign, Web site, and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
our capital so that we can get a return on it. Potentially, we can even garner some strategic advantage from the relationships.” When evaluating offshore deals, cost saving isn’t the primary motivating factor, explains Breyer of Accel... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
turn back. “This historic reform process will not stop,” Long observed. Advice for Business and Investors The rapid pace of change not only creates new opportunities, it shapes new ways of doing business. In a session titled “Modes of... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
visits a noodle shop with an unnecessarily long wait, for example, she’ll reengineer the process in her mind: move the food there, put one employee here instead of two to reduce the line by half. “I’m pretty sure the owner would not... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
In addition to its growth in manufacturing, India began grabbing headlines in the United States a few years ago for its sudden surge as a center of offshore IT work and business process outsourcing (BPO), industries unto themselves that... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
high-tech approach to managing information on the soil composition of pastures and the quality and yield of beef from various genetic combinations. Each calf is tagged at birth and tracked through its life cycle. After it's been humanely slaughtered and View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
activity-based costing (TDABC), a model that identifies the time of people and equipment used to perform a service and their cost. TDABC relies on accurate mapping of all the processes patients go through in... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
HBS Business Plan Contest Keeps Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive
FishLogic's Javier Segovia, Patrick George, Benjamin Vigoda, and Gonçal Pagan: producing programmable signal-processing chips that cost less and work faster. Lucas Klein, Matthew Mugo Fields, and Jason Green of BEST Education Partners,... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges
in the process, they learned that of the more than 230,000 K–12 school leaders in the United States, half had no access to quality professional development, either because programs weren’t offered nearby or were cost prohibitive. To... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
Hamermesh continues. “The bad news is that the processes involved in delivering care haven’t kept pace with those advances.” “This is our way of having an immediate impact on practice,” says Professor Richard Bohmer, faculty chair of MHCD... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Taking Tailoring High Tech
the cost and time commitment of a traditional bespoke tailor. The efficiency of the technology allows Acustom to sell jeans—one of the most difficult tailoring challenges—starting at $225, about a quarter of the going price for custom... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
brothers don’t want to work in the business, and that he wants you to take over—not in a year, but next week. He wants you to deal with the unions and the aftermath of a flood that cost millions of dollars of inventory. He wants you to... View Details