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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
their supply chains in the developing world. I wanted to get involved in that.” During his year as a Leadership Fellow at the WWF, Murphy served as director of enterprise planning and got to know the organization well enough to make a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
learned about the effects of one-to-one tutoring—that in a live environment with one great teacher and one student, you get amazing outcomes relative to group instruction. The challenge is that we can't afford one great teacher for each... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
in “water-stressed” countries, where either the quantity or the quality of water supplies will have sunk to levels ranging from inadequate to economically crippling. At the same time, another valuable water-infrastructure system, the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
brilliant, effective innovators have forced sluggish U.S. industries to become more productive. Sam Walton’s exquisitely detailed supply chain management, coupled with his daring decision to locate Wal-Marts... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
large food brands have earned accolades for recent decisions to eliminate GMOs from their supply chain. It was into this market that Haven Baker (MBA 2009), Simplot’s VP of plant sciences, launched the first direct-to-consumer produce... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
– our scientists and engineers have delivered massive design improvements and our manufacturing and supply chain leaders have delivered unbelievable cost improvements. If you take the cost competitiveness of renewables, the increasing... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Books
of uncertainty and where assets are often difficult to value. Second, because the various stages of the venture capital process are related, the entire function is best viewed as a cycle. Finally, unlike most financial markets, the venture capital industry adjusts very... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
resources. It exposes the fact we need to think about effective pooling mechanisms that would allow for these supplies to be held regionally. In a well-functioning system, one would hope not that each... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
Development program. This program is more effective than a typical microfinancing program because it lets the beneficiary cooperatives become part of our supply chain. They provide Manila Water with products... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
dealmaking both inside and outside the corporate environment. Participants then took part in an interactive workshop on developing an effective professional network, led by HBS associate professor Herminia M. Ibarra. As part of the... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
total. The final frontier, it turns out, might just be the last great market. The Orbital Effect David Thompson President and CEO, Orbital ATK When Thompson launched Orbital in 1982, it became the first corporate space contractor in... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Class of 1974: Timed for a Change
how it all happened. I have been a traveler and a student of a world that has become more complex and more diverse." Jack of Many Trades Since graduating from Harvard College in 1963, Chuck Mercer has worked as a textbook editor, encyclopedia salesman, ship broker,... View Details
Keywords: Charles B. ("Chuck") Mercer
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Raymond A. Baxter: Sweet Smell of Success
creating new products for giant brands such as Keebler and Nabisco, Interbake is the oldest producer of Girl Scout cookies and the primary source of ice-cream sandwich wafers in the United States. ABC Bakers, a division of Interbake Foods, manufactures about half of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 24 Sep 2020
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The Race for a Vaccine
safe and effective vaccine. But the ultimate goal is even more ambitious than bringing an end to the current pandemic as quickly as possible. True success, say those involved, will be building the infrastructure necessary to prevent the... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
she says. For a company the size of McDonald’s, it posed a massive operational challenge. Hurdles included everything from structure—McDonald’s kitchens were designed to operate in two separate “day parts,” breakfast and everything else—to securing global View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
best thinking to the task of building stronger and more effective nonprofit organizations,” says Tierney. “Think of it as a Bain & Company for the nonprofit sector.” Bridgespan’s services focus on three main objectives: to increase social... View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
impacted the most vulnerable, especially children, and how to deliver the most effective aid. The event will feature firsthand accounts from HBS and Harvard community, with a focus on emergency survival, safety, health/medicine, shelter,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
and retaining faculty as well. On the incoming side, the tightening supply of new faculty is a concern, not just for us but also for business schools more broadly. At HBS, we seek out faculty candidates with a strong commitment to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
challenge of getting supplies into the country, you may be able to refer her to someone with relevant experience shipping your own company’s products around the world. The best thing is if companies stucture these types of opportunities,... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
stacks of the white foam growing racks—she lays out the challenge. Climate change and its progenies, drought and flooding, are threatening traditional agricultural systems. And even when those systems work, they still rely on carbon-intensive shipping View Details