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- 11 Oct 2024
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Highlights from the Fall 2024 Alumni Board Meeting
purpose of the firm in society and how this can generate new models of capitalism. The day’s programming closed with a series of updates on entrepreneurship at HBS, with presentations from Thomas Eisenmann... View Details
- 01 Aug 2014
- News
A closer look at the industry of beauty
entrepreneurial imagination: the ability to understand values and trends and to shape them into brands people want," says Jones. Jones describes how, as the industry gained momentum, it played a significant role in standardizing beauty ideals on a Western View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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A commitment to conservation supports the bottom line
Protecting the country’s conservation land while also turning a profit guides the business model at The Lyme Timber Company. David Hoffer (AB 1990, MBA 1995, JD 1996), managing director at the timberland investment management firm, says... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Of Value and Values
trillion in assets in 2008. One such member of PRI is Generation Investment Management, a company founded by David Blood (MBA ’85) and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, with offices in New York, London, and Sydney. View Details
- 23 Jan 2019
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The Promise of Personalized Medicine
broadly, let’s take this process, prove that it can work in a very tough case of Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and then generalize the model so that somebody comes in with a son, a grandson, a brother, and... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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Outside-the-box innovation for off-the-grid energy
model for delivering electricity to off-grid populations in the world. “There are 1.2 billion people who have no access to electricity,” Jaegle says. “Millions cannot afford grid power or rely on it; elementa uses proven technology in a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
emerging technologies, new business models resulting from broadband deployment, security concerns, regulatory obstacles, and other subjects. In Their Time The Greatest Business Leaders of the Twentieth Century by Anthony J. Mayo and Nitin... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
data, Kimble says: “We need to justify the higher prices of our drugs, and we need to do a better job of helping hospitals understand that by using a more extensive antibiotic up front compared to the older generic version that has some... View Details
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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms
world’s top corporations. Why do some of these organizations enjoy generations of success while so many others flounder? “The answer,” say Lorsch and Tierney, “lies in the ability to develop and motivate star talent, while explicitly... View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
and insurance and asset managers and banking to collaborate on the issue that gives us the best chances. Because this is going to be a this is not a linear path, this is going to be a very bumpy road to solving this kind of View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Excellence At The Intersection Of Disciplines
that draw on the School’s expertise in general management, leadership, innovation, and business models to advance new ideas. photo by Russ Campbell “In the process of sharing, you make each school better,... View Details
- 24 Feb 2023
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Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Palm Beach
inclusion—and then sharing that research with students, practitioners, policy makers, and the general public to affect meaningful change. The desire to produce thought leadership at a fast pace, the Dean said, is the catalyst for the new... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
New Releases
practical solutions some have developed in response. Bradach explains that traditional chain enterprises comprise two organizational units: company and franchise. The company-owned unit is run on a military model - the superior exercises... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
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Edwin Yu: Bidding on the Future
model seems to be catching on. In the first run, Goldbank attracted over twenty thousand bids for products such as brand-name electronics, cosmetics, golf equipment, and automobiles, racking up $500,000 in sales. In the second round, the... View Details
- 29 Apr 2021
- News
Equal Partner
working in the fashion and retail industry—as the director of Global Strategy at Donna Karan (a division of LVMH), the general manager of Shop Your Way and the founder of Mintbox, a flash sale and loyalty startup—she helped to organize... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
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Knowledge Integration Rules at Yale
JOEL PODOLNY: New courses reach across disciplines. Yale set out in the fall of 2006 to create a distinctive new model of management education, one that eliminated traditional discipline-based courses and replaced them with courses... View Details
- 30 Apr 2019
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Leading Schools That Change Lives
country helping low-income kids beat the odds,” he explains. “I didn’t plan a teaching career, but I loved that job.” Often Jesuit-supported, the Nativity model offers low-income middle school students the advantages of small classes and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
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Sizing Up Social Impact
government and individual donors may have different priorities and demands, and soon a nonprofit trying to please too many (including the general public) pleases no one—least of all those constituents they were hoping to help.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
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Water for Life
has invested over $1 billion in laying 2,000 miles of water lines and building 33 wastewater treatment plants while returning strong profits for shareholders. Equally important, the company has emerged as a model for integrating financial... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
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Hope for Reform Dims
By contrast, he continued, not enough attention has been paid to improving risk management. Risk models widely used before the crisis relied too heavily on historical data that turned out to be flawed, he said. Most models, for example,... View Details