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- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology, was a research model built for a different era. When groups like AT&T’s Bell Labs and Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) were formed,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Professorship Brings Brierley's HBS Connection Full Circle
relationship management or ‘customer loyalty' execution," observes Brierley. A board member of numerous organizations, including the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, The Dallas Center for the Performing Arts, KERA-TV, The Dallas Opera, and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Reimagining China and India
advantage of China’s strengths, and for Chinese entrepreneurs to reciprocate, something that has taken root. Annual trade between the two countries has raced from near zero several years ago to more than $20 billion last year. For their part, multinationals can View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
important part of the solution to these problems. Our plan for a new research center focused on the mid-US is an example of how we are expanding our ability to address a range of social issues. In this country, as in many countries around... View Details
- 22 Sep 2017
- News
The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice
was for a time the center of the universe for drug smugglers and celebrities in Miami. Farzad: I left to college in 1994. I grew up in Miami. I was born in Iran, we came to Miami just on the eve of the Iranian revolution because my aunt... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
contaminated. “We had been following the dog food recall, which centered around contaminated wheat gluten, a cheap dog food ingredient used primarily in supermarket brands,” explains Gisholt. “But we were totally shocked to discover that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
Chinese imports kept down U.S. inflation. Chinese savings kept down U.S. interest rates. Chinese labor kept down U.S. wage costs. As a result, it was remarkably cheap to borrow money and remarkably profitable to run a corporation. Thanks... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
because they came easily to me. So, in RC Marketing, I was especially paying attention because I knew I had lots to learn! One simple lesson that I certainly did not appreciate before I took Marketing centered on how to price a product.... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
underscores a new reality in the United States. At the center of this change is the fact that U.S. oil reserves have diminished from an estimated 39 billion barrels in 1970 to 21 billion today. The gushers that made Texans in ten-gallon... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
organizations with HBS alumni ties working toward bipartisan democracy reform. The following list outlines a handful of others. What have we missed? Please leave a comment to share the word about other alumni-led efforts, whether focused on the local or federal level,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
younger brother grew up speaking French and a smattering of Arabic. Cohen’s father, whose family traces its roots to the Syrian trading center of Aleppo, started a successful import/ export business at age 30. After the Suez Canal crisis... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard The private sector holds the key to reform in Latin America — but the task of inspiring and involving business at a time when profits all over the... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Why Layoffs are a Losing Strategy
off 2,300 employees and costing the jobs of another 2,000 temporary, contract suppliers’ workers. That action cost the company 700 million euros in sales and 100 million euros in profit in the German market—and at 80,000 euros per... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
step by step, before you sign your first member, all the way through to selling your profitable business or winding it down. If you’re someone who doesn’t want to reinvent the wheel, this book is for you. The Blessed Generation: Fifty... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
their families for 48 weeks a year. At the same time, they were building the massive transportation infrastructure that eventually allowed factories to relocate to the center of the country and to move goods from the factory to customer.... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
threatening to organizations—or entire industries—that they are best described as “wicked.” Wicked Strategies offers a comprehensive framework for identifying, responding to and profiting from wicked problems. Aston Martin DB4GT by... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: A Timely Tension
was an ad for Black Friday 2011 that featured an unusual entreaty: Don’t buy this jacket. The effort encouraged people to keep their gear in use for longer and repair it when required, supported by 35 Patagonia repair centers around the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
launch were exhausting but exciting as we raced to hit our deadlines. We were living the Silicon Valley dream. The afternoon before the launch, I had retreated to a quiet restaurant to work alone when my phone rang. It was our data center... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 27 Mar 2023
- News
A Sporting Chance
the National Ability Center in Park City, Utah, which provides year-round adaptive sports and recreation activities, including horseback riding, cycling, mountain biking, waterskiing, climbing, and others. Inspired, Perez de Leza started... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli