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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA: Chris Howard (MBA 2003)
the military, I took those lessons with me to Bristol-Myers Squibb and then to HBS. We were in class when 9/11 happened. I was a reservist. A few weeks later I got a call saying I was being returned to active duty, and then my activation was View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
presented themselves, and I go with my gut,” says Bandourian. “You’ve got to live your life in a way that you don’t regret anything.” — MK Alex Andreichuk Civil engineer, soldier, investment banker Andreichuk An unexpected tour of duty in Iraq may have View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Rationale for Non-Rationality: Why We Make Bad Choices
principles to help counteract this trait: seeking truth persistently, accepting personal responsibility, and delaying gratification (i.e., accepting present pain for future benefit). These ideas, he acknowledges, are stressed in nearly... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA '88)
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
creates delay and duplication. Individuals must own their record, and the health plan is the place to assist each subscriber by pulling all the parts of his or her record together. What do we do about 45 million uninsured people? We need... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Case Study: Moment in the Sun
brand as it marches into other segments. I recommend that Ario delay entry into other markets. It should first define a segment, build strong enthusiasts, and then branch out. Just as Under Armour has coined or leveraged the term... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Massport, Back on Course
meetings. Thousands of people have participated. And there have been a number of court cases. The judges who have reviewed the evidence have all essentially come to the same conclusion: The new runway is necessary to fix the delay... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Faculty Q&A: Price Check
inventory. The problem with that is you might have strategic consumers who delay their purchase of a pair of sandals, for example, to take advantage of the discounted price. Whereas if you didn’t use a markdown, then—who knows?—maybe... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
they shouldn’t unionize. The employer’s legal right to coercively interfere with employees’ choices is at work in a way that’s completely inappropriate. The election process itself allows for long delays in litigation and uncertainty. I... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Better Mousetraps: At Product Design Fair, Student Ideas Get Real
It delayed our timeline two weeks." A few tables away, Christopher Gilligan (HBS '00) was dressed in hospital scrubs, reeling in passersby to show them his new service, EKGStat.com. The brainchild of Gilligan, a surgical resident at... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
(twenty years in the United States), and the other is the solidity of the patent. Regarding length, it’s a sensitive point. If we have delays in FDA regulatory approval because more questions are being asked, or if we are more diligent... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
research ecosystem have delayed the delivery of lifesaving advances. Think of it as a plumbing problem: The third-floor shower in an old house doesn’t have enough water pressure. The problem may be with the third-floor pipe, but it’s far... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 18 Nov 2021
- News
Strength in Numbers
but the delay between the onset of mental illness and treatment is typically 11 years. Those figures convinced the Verdis and the Swartzes to focus their nonprofit’s efforts on young people—among them, the 1 in 6 children under the age of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
creates jobs back here. It’s not a matter of us or them “winning.” Fewer people will be employed in the United States if we don’t investigate what’s happening in Asia and the Middle East. That’s where the markets are now. One issue that’s dogged you recently is a... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
is going to help us -- one of our four new divisions will work exclusively with small businesses. With the technology improvements that will soon be up and running, we'll be able to get to problems quickly before delays complicate things.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
providing for their stewardship? The age-old question! One of the biggest traps organizations like ours can fall into is acquiring property even before developing a stewardship plan, out of concern that further delay might mean that the... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
who spent six years commercializing drugs and diagnostics in East and West Africa before earning her MBA. “There are frequently delays in diagnosis, where the turnaround time for a biopsy could be several weeks or months.” That lag time,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 20 Mar 2019
- News
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
assets and support the development of fossil fuel–free infrastructure globally, especially in Africa, Latin America, and China. Even approaching the 12th hour, alumni participants seemed ready to address climate change now, versus debating the causes of View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
there are major benefits to working for an institution whose stakeholders are not shareholders. Bob Fri notes one such advantage when discussing the NMNH's opening of one of its newest exhibit halls. After several delays and despite a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
Crawford. “I’m proud that 50,000 of the President’s supporters voted for me,” Edwards says. Moreover, he’s the only Democrat to survive a 2003 redrawing of Texas congressional districts by state GOP legislators and orchestrated by former House Majority Leader Tom View Details
- 26 Aug 2016
- News
Connecting with the Past
1952)—convinced him to delay his application to HBS and hired him for Red Comet, their decorative-ceiling business. “My bosses said, ‘You’ll get in. You will have the background and experience,’” he recalls. “When my mom called to say the... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken