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- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
The week before the November 2024 US elections was like so many that came before at Winning Connections, with John Jameson (MBA 1991) padding around his firm’s Capitol Hill town house in athletic shorts, trying to demonstrate that the telephone still has a role to play... View Details
- 17 Jan 2019
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
defining value in different ways, or from LEAD about placing a strong emphasis on emotional intelligence as a core value in conducting business. I love the lesson from strategy about defining blue oceans instead of competing in red... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
goal — getting the task at hand done right. This convergence among a new generation of international business practitioners has a parallel at the institutional level: International businesses increasingly are conducting themselves on common ground in order to View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 13 Apr 2017
- News
Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge
Tulip, a four-star hotel in Festac, into a position as a telephone operator at the Radisson Blue Hotel in Victoria Island. WAVE is expected to train 25,000 people by 2019. “We have to start leveling the playing field. It should matter that employees have the View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 26 Jan 2017
- News
Finding a Path out of Poverty
he says. BGIE also drove home the idea for him that a well-educated country will be better able to compete in the global economy. Magwegwe immediately set about deploying all that he had learned in the AMP and established Inspire Belief... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977
losses, improve his finance department with the help of a Wall Street private equity firm, and make it a matter of policy to pay closer attention to managing the balance sheet. Makihara then turned his attention to improving Mitsubishi's ability to View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
reforming a hierarchical, bureaucratic culture that fostered competing fiefdoms in the corporation. In addition, IBM's reputation as a paternal organization that guaranteed lifetime employment and benefits ignored economic realities. As... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
says. “Now manufacturing is back. We can compete with the best in the world because we tightened our belts during a difficult time.” “The economy has truly opened up,” Mittal remarks. “The main challenge of operating in India today is to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
ANDRUS: Unemployed at graduation, an unlikely and inspiring odyssey takes him from his parents’ basement to the corner office of a company on the cutting edge. Photos by August Miller HBS Alumni of a certain vintage might recall a BusinessWeek article from a decade ago... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
strive to compete globally, their relationships with local communities have changed, says HBS Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter. "Now that many businesses have focused beyond our borders," she says, "the ties with home communities that have... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Laurel without Hardy? A Lesson for Business
every business. The company's engineers have done a brilliant job of developing increasingly powerful computer chips. But the chip is only part of a larger system, and most of us already have more processing power than we need to run our favorite applications. Thus,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Case Study: Moment in the Sun
173, 2007) Go big or go home. Instead of competing against the “heavies” in a “land grab,” Ario should position itself as a target for acquisition or as a partner. The heavies and the IPO market value innovative tech and business models... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Case Study: Alumni Advice for a Health Care Startup
—Steven Roth (MBA 1976) It depends on how the decision makers choose their service providers. From long experience working in the early cable industry, new programming companies would price their services for pennies on the guarantee of full distribution. If a View Details
- 25 Apr 2023
- News
Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition
can win this time. It was really meaningful to us to take home one of the prizes this year, especially in the alumni competition, which is even more competitive.” Shah says competing in the NVC has yielded invaluable feedback and powerful... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Online Entrepreneur
In September, the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce announced that its 2009 Entrepreneur of the Year is Diane Hessan (MBA ’77), president and CEO of Communispace Corporation, a firm that helps companies generate customer insights via online communities. The chamber... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Clicks and Mortar
while they’re shopping. How do you compete against Amazon? You make something happen in physical stores that can’t happen online. If you think about the history of the department store in America, they were the circus when the circus... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
& Co., kicked off the first plenary session with a quick overview of factors contributing to the U.S. pharmaceutical industry's success in competing in the global market. Among other ad- vantages, Gilmartin cited the U.S. government's... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Books
Radical Innovation: How Mature Companies Can Outsmart Upstarts, by Richard Leifer, Christopher M. McDermott, Gina Colarelli O'Connor, Lois S. Peters, Mark Rice, and Robert W. Veryzer, is a groundbreaking book that identifies the new managerial View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Winning Legally
manager needs to press him or her on the broader implications of that opinion. We can’t afford the separation of business and law. We need to harness the power of both legal and business expertise to compete effectively in today’s global... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg