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- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Victory Lap: Frazier, Olympics COO, Reviews the Games
countries won medals than ever before, befitting the record number of athletes and nations that took part. What were the problem areas? For an event of this magnitude, perfection is elusive. Transportation delays were inevitable, considering the sheer View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
units a year, but back when volumes were small, one full container of product would be everything I would have to sell for a quarter. And I had an entire container of goods that came damaged. I had to call up the customers who I fought so... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Short Takes
since the beginning of the twentieth century, the number of consumer bankruptcies has been influenced much more by changes in the volume and distribution of credit than by any changes in the bankruptcy law." The researchers found that... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Capitalizing Poetry
director of SG Barr Devlin, a New York firm that provides strategic and financial advice to clients in the electricity and gas industries. Barr, the foundation’s president and a poet in his own right, has published six volumes of verse... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Full Stream Ahead
David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Tina Turner, Paul Simon, and John Legend made headlines for catalog sales in 2021, a year that was noteworthy both for the volume of deals and their valuations. When Sony Music Entertainment bought Bruce... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
pricing model, you can try a tiered pricing structure. Option 1: Refundable deposit paid up front plus a loyalty discount. Option 2: Equity participation (noncontrolling stake) plus volume discounts. Option 3: Combination of 1 and 2 plus... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Good Odds
chain, and lower the carbon footprint,” Behn says. Business more than doubled in the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, when many consumers were looking to avoid grocery stores. Then volumes doubled again a month later. In May the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Leadership: Getting Down to Fundamentals
spring Harvard Business Press will publish an edited volume of the colloquium papers, which we expect to serve as the foundation for a doctoral course on leadership research and scholarship. We’ve also established the Leadership Research... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Faculty Books
cost-effective responses to climate change. The studies are part of a discussion of how such acceleration might best be accomplished and the role that public policy and government might play in supporting innovation. Henderson, the John and Natty McArthur University... View Details
Keywords: Utilities
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964
of disobedience. "To lower my costs while improving the price and quality of my products, I needed economies of scale," he explains. "Ignoring a government regulation, I increased my volume by more than the permitted 25 percent of my... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Class of 1942 Chair Honors Paul Lawrence, Promotes Leadership
work in the field. Perhaps best known for his landmark volume Organization and Environment (with HBS professor Jay W. Lorsch), Lawrence also produced the definitive work on matrix organizations (with Stanley Davis). Lawrence, who retired... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Q&A: Donna Dubinsky
successful, but we didn’t know to what degree. We knew that the utility would be universal and that the price point was right. That combination can mean a large market. At the same time, we worried that the product would need revisions in order to achieve a high View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
growth. Four of the five papers in this year’s volume highlight the increasing role of the Internet and digitization in our understanding of the changing nature of innovation and entrepreneurship and the impact of innovation policy.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
A New Path for Alumnae
offering, A New Path. Hart’s survey of HBS alumnae indicates that 60 percent of respondents between the ages of 35 and 45 dialed down the volume on their professional careers to care for their young families. Although 40 percent continued... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire
the potential to transform a company or industry and to invest in the people who really do epitomize breakthrough thinking. If a second volume of Giants of Enterprise were to be written in fifty years, would there be more diversity among... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
rating. But the issuer would still pay for the fees of the rating agency after it was selected by the third party. You note in your book that loan securitization collapsed at the end of 2008. Has it revived yet, and why is it important for a healthy economy? The... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The View from the Pit
interdependencies." In addition to her professorial and administrative roles, Baldwin, with coauthor Dean Kim B. Clark, has completed the forthcoming first volume of Design Rules: The Power of Modularity, which examines the interaction of... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Case Study: Paper Chase
that resonates with them (e.g., they love Hawaii, so pick the palm tree option), but it’s not one more thing they don’t need. The problem with the kiosk as an option is volume and scale. I’d recommend a PR blitz as the fastest way to gain... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Faculty Books
long haul? The essays in this bilingual volume discuss this question in four interrelated themes: polities, social transformations, wealth and well-being, and culture, belief, and practice. The Fund Industry: How Your Money Is Managed by... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
stronger country for everyone. Univer-Cities: Reshaping Strategies to Meet Radical Change, Pandemics, and Inequality—Revisiting the Social Compact? Volume IV Edited by Anthony Soon Chye Teo (MBA 1969) World Scientific The Univer-Cities... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley