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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Admit It: You’re in Denial
the line in order to retool his factories for its successor, the Model A. To make the change, he shut down production for months, at a cost of close to $250 million. This chain of events was disastrous for the company because it allowed... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
underground hacker marketplaces. Credit card numbers—from premium cards, some offered with money-back guarantees if they don’t work—go for as little as $9. That’s just one segment of a booming hacker market: Attempts to knock a particular website offline can View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 20 Jan 2015
- News
Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized
the cost of care. The records are secure—encrypted, password-protected, HIPAA-compliant, and not stored on a server. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Bushkin read of displaced New Orleanians whose paper medical records had been... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Fostering a Supportive Community
“Many people aren’t comfortable sharing that they don’t have much disposable income.” Fetter adds, “Socioeconomic status is such a salient and stressful part of many people’s lives, although there’s not a lot of open conversation about... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Mele
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Alumni Books
The Masters of Private Equity and Venture Capital: Management Lessons from the Pioneers of Private Investing by Robert A. Finkel (MBA ’89) with David Greising (McGraw-Hill) Ten investment and management masters share the wisdom they... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Two Kinds of Green
to its current home in Durham, North Carolina, in 1993 and focused exclusively on personal care; by 1998, its product line included more than 100 items and annual sales exceeded $8 million. In 2003, Quimby (who had bought out Shavitz ten years earlier) sold an 80... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Capitalism’s False Mantra
Related Links Martin discussing his book One of the most influential papers defining the role of business, “Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure,” was coauthored in 1976 by Michael Jensen, the... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Dream Job: Higher Ed’s New Hire
costs are fixed. The pandemic has made it a very challenging time in the life of universities. People are thinking really hard about the value proposition of tuition costs when many students are virtual. I... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Mickey Herbert (MBA 1969)
was absurd, a notion not shared by Professor James Bright. He would look around the classroom for a guy not wearing a tie, and three days in a row he called on me first to start the discussion. At the end of the third day, he actually... View Details
- 12 Jul 2011
- News
Phone Fun
cited Phones 4u’s claim “to be the UK’s fastest-growing independent mobile phone retailer” and Braterman’s role in helping the company double its share of pay-as-you-go cell phone customers last year on a marketing budget that was “less... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Private Equity under Investigation
dramatically downsized or announced their intention to cease operations after experiencing investment missteps and succession problems. Meanwhile, new organizations have amassed enormous sums of capital in short periods. Even a quick glance at the annual market View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Insight: Yenball
geographic: Japanese stars who come to US cities with a large Japanese population—Los Angeles and New York, for example—can convert those populations into increased ticket and merchandise sales. (All major league teams share national TV... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Professorship Brings Brierley's HBS Connection Full Circle
NFL, Nokia, Sony, UPS, and United Airlines. "Well-crafted programs have generated hundreds of millions of dollars of incremental revenue for some of the world's leading marketers, while ill-conceived programs have simply raised the cost... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
entrepreneur; your Airbnb host is an entrepreneur; your Etsy craftsperson is an entrepreneur. Because of technology, individuals don’t need to work for a company, and the cost of entry is just plain easier. “Number two: Everything at the... View Details
- 26 Nov 2019
- News
Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream
customer bases and a low cost of capital. In 2016, the landscape shifted even further when major platform players such as Amazon, PayPal, and Square entered the space. In spite of these disruptions, Mills says that one can’t discount the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Case Study: Farming It Out
versus Apple terms: Should AGR adopt a Microsoft Windows–style ecosystem, where it focuses on its core platform (Burro) but shares data with partners that could build out additional tools? Or should it take the Apple approach of owning... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.
TO CURRENT STUDENTS "While facts and knowledge are important, interpersonal skills, respect for others, and the ability to establish mutual trust are equally significant-and sometimes more so-as you move ahead in your career. To succeed in any endeavor, make sure that... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges
the program using HBS’s distinctive online platform to enable accessibility in an affordable way (each course costs less than $500). “One of the things that we know about the most effective school leaders and business leaders is that they... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
An Authentic Leader
to share ideas with MBA students next semester when he joins the HBS faculty to teach the new required first-year course Leadership, Governance, and Accountability. Did the recent parade of corporate scandals inspire your book? No, I had... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
reflects the same flawed assumptions shared by many otherwise astute individuals having no experience or expertise in the power industry. I am an energy industry professional of 28 years, one who has no quarrel with nuclear in principle.... View Details