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- 01 Apr 2002
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Professorship Brings Brierley's HBS Connection Full Circle
"Effective use of the computer for segmentation and personalization has allowed organizations to increase dramatically their annual giving. In the years ahead, effective use of e-mail will again revolutionize how these organizations raise... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Batteries Included
modern container shipping, the ship is really a relatively small part of costs,” observes McCown. “Everything ship-related might only be 30 percent of the carrier’s total cost. The biggest cost is fuel.” Both economics and environmental... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
The Influence of Geography on Work and Innovation
effects of organizations allowing employees to “work from anywhere” and why geographic mobility has led to increased innovation. The movement of employees, Choudhury found in one study, promoted tacit knowledge transfer across... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?
work. “There is some visceral discomfort with simply giving poor people money,” says Faye, now chairman of the board. “But the evidence, overwhelmingly, is that cash is one of the most effective ways of alleviating poverty.” In its... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Stephen Covey's Successful Habits
Recognized as one of America's 25 most influential individuals by Time magazine, Stephen R. Covey (MBA '57) is the author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, which has sold more than 10 million copies in 28 languages in 40... View Details
- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
effect from the Apple and then the Google Android ecosystems had overwhelmed them. Alan D. MacCormack, MBA Class of 1949 Adjunct Professor of Business Administration: Blackberry was in a jam well before Heins stepped in. By the time he... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Terrorism, Insurance, and Uncle Sam
In the wake of the September 11 attacks, business in general and the insurance industry in particular are examining ways to manage the high cost of insurance against acts of terrorism. Appearing before the Senate Committee on Commerce,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rwanda Provides Students with Hands-On Learning
in Rwanda’s most impoverished villages. To help improve the function of the Rwanda Development Board, another team examined the cost to business of governmental bureaucracy. “I believe that people learn the most about another country and... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
payload—this one delivered the company’s New Shepard module that someday could give human passengers a taste of space travel—and are destroyed on the way up or crash back to Earth in pieces. With rockets costing tens of millions of... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Alumni Books
times. Rigby ex-plains how to craft an action plan tailored to the specific situation, providing tools for cutting costs intelligently, sustaining margins and the brand, boosting revenue by refocusing the sales force on the right... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
with the burden of integrating their new systems. Then, in the early 1990s, the rise of desktop computing saw IBM lose the PC race to a raft of new competitors. By 1992, IBM was feeling the effect of its sluggish reaction to these... View Details
- 18 Aug 2014
- News
Closing the Education Gap
Anne Dias Griffin (MBA 1997) “Everyone deserves a fair start regardless of their zip code,” says Anne Dias Griffin (MBA 1997). Reforming that start is what motivates her. “The effects of income disparity start early in our society, and... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rx for Too Big to Fail
attractive, but ultimately unrealistic, plans to end too big to fail. It might feel good to declare that we can eliminate too big to fail once and for all through a simple act of reform. But the cost of such short-term satisfaction will... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Books
Johnson. Understanding College and University Organization: Theories for Effective Policy and Practice. 2 vols. by James L. Bess (MBA ’60) and Jay R. Dee (Stylus Publishing) The authors aim to show how college and university... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
Greenstein, and Catherine Tucker (University of Chicago Press) As the cost of storing, sharing, and analyzing data has decreased, economic activity has become increasingly digital. But while the effects of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
David Horgan: Iraqi Briefing, 21st November, 2003
but resistance becomes more deadly. Coalition military morale has collapsed. The outcome will be decided by approaching US elections. High economic and political costs force rethinks. Oil drives all. Production averaged about 2 million... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Sustaining Business And Society For The Long Term
partnerships, values-driven leadership, fi duciary duties, and the blurring of lines between government and business. Three cases focus on issues encountered by Unilever—one of which examines how the multinational conglomerate deals with uncertainty, including... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Case Study: On the Record
“completely revolutionized our business in terms of operations and streamlining,” Cleary says. With a relatively small $20 million in robo-advised accounts, “the effect on the revenue side was minimal, but the positive View Details
Keywords: April White
- 21 Oct 2010
- News
Hell? Maybe Not.
companies expect only one or two hires to come out of the process. “Our team works hard to provide a seamless experience, and we manage all the logistics and details at no cost to the employer,” Fitzpatrick points out. On the student... View Details
- 20 Aug 2014
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With No Time to Lose
developed a way to measure electrical impulses in muscle tissue, and therefore measure changes in those impulses as the disease progresses. This one achievement can effectively reduce some costs associated... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley