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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
codirector and mainstay of the GHD (and, with Farmer, a PIH cofounder). Building on Kim’s case presentation, Porter next outlined an emerging framework, growing out of the GHD’s work, for health-care delivery in resource-poor settings. He observed that certain failings... View Details
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
all his fault. Well, after several complaints from the customers, other staff members, I began to share with my father that I thought this manager was not doing his job. And one Friday afternoon I walked into my father's office with a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Up Side Story: HBS Show a Sold-Out Success
Jeff Gatto (both MBA ’01), shared duties that included everything from heavy lifting (they lugged about 1,500 pounds of sound equipment) to working with the administration to finding sponsors. The pair handled all the logistical and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade
that could cost a company several months of time, hundreds of millions of dollars, or both. Later, working as a product manager for a robotics and automation startup after HBS, McLemore realized that the problem wasn’t unique to the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
hard up that it’s slashing $500,000 a year in office-supply spending. With its shares near a decade low, the New York Times Company now has just 1.33 percent the market capitalization of Google. “Like most print journalists,” wrote Miami... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Priceline's Jay Walker: The Future is Wow
convenient place to shop ("7-Eleven is more convenient, but it doesn't have the retail share Wal-Mart has"), the discount retailer gained market supremacy by proclaiming, and delivering, "always the lowest price" -- typically by wringing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Breaking Free from Fear of Change
understand the executives I talk about in this book very well because I share their predicament,” notes Tom DeLong, the Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Management Practice at HBS and the author of Flying without a Net: Turn Fear of Change... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Family Matters
Lailah Thompson-Woode (MBA 2021) with her children, Antonio and Yasmina Woode. Photo courtesy Lailah Thompson-Woode Lailah Thompson-Woode (MBA 2021) with her children, Antonio and Yasmina Woode. Photo courtesy Lailah Thompson-Woode As a middle schooler, Lailah... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 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
- 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
- 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 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 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
- 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
- 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 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 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
the research has been far slower than it should be.” Van Etten is committed to improving the process on the business and management side. He is promoting the concept of “team science” and trying to increase the sharing of data and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Fostering a Supportive Community
After graduating from Cornell University, where he majored in policy analysis, Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021) spent seven years working in education and for a nonprofit that advances equity and economic mobility in the southern United States. That experience challenged his... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Mele
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
and the costs sometimes associated with implementing "green" strategies - strong government regulation at home and abroad will continue to be necessary in order to motivate many businesses to become more environmentally accountable. He... View Details
- 17 Mar 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in New York
interdisciplinary research enterprise that will position HBS as an intellectual hub for examining the most critical issues and opportunities of our times—from climate change and environmental sustainability to racial equity and social and economic inclusion—and then... View Details