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- 14 Nov 2012
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Remembering His Roots
happened. “My life was spared, and I felt that it was my destiny to continue going forward with full force; this included completing a higher education, providing for my family, and helping my fellow farmworkers.” Curiel wasted no time,... View Details
Keywords: farmworkers
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Short Takes
internal intranet, "thereby allowing customers to serve themselves through their own computers within their own organizations." Nolan also points to Microsoft founder Bill Gates's strategy of holding computer prices relatively constant... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Karen Tumulty Reports on America
they don't always translate well into politics, Tumulty believes, "in part because politicians are held to a level of second-guessing and criticism that no corporate executive would tolerate." Since Tumulty's days at the Light, the media... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Case Study: A Good Fit
solution is more robust? How they answered the question: “Being flexible proved to be the most effective path forward for us,” Jurist-Rosner says. Wellthy offers a range of pricing models—all informed by utilization data. The PEPM View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 09 Nov 2022
- News
Part Ownership of a Dream
future. “I wanted to shoot for glory,” he told the Philadelphia Inquirer. Flightline’s higher price tag was a risk, but respected Kentucky bloodstock agent David Ingordo had been watching the horse from the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
fundamental allocation exercise.” Bubble on the horizon? All that cash pouring into commercial real estate since the tech wreck has fueled a dramatic run-up in prices for prime properties. “Prices are at levels I never would have guessed... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Cutting Edge
Steve Silk (MBA 1978), shown here with his Smith Brothers actors, is a master at fashioning turnarounds. SILK & HIS BROS: "Iconic brands like Smith Brothers get instantaneous consumer and media respect." Photos courtesy of Smith Brothers... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
between ideas and then visualizing and building maps to explain those correlations. These cartography skills have proved vital to her career. In the late 1990s, Lo was working on innovation and ventures for a media company in London when... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
14 for '14
contrarian, the Harvard MBA Indicator is bullish on stocks for 2014 but bearish on the tech sector. If (only if) that turns out to be right, you read it here!" —Ray Soifer (MBA 1965), chairman, Soifer Consulting "The Twitter IPO is a sign of the maturation of the... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Growing Home
broadcasting station. Ibaraki prefecture had only one broadcasting station, including TV and radio, so that studio had a monopoly on the airwaves. So we bought a station from Asahi Shimbun newspaper company and turned it around, making it both an internet View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
respond to changes in their competitive environment, Sull argues that outward manifestations of success — such as impressive earnings, media attention, and monuments to their past accomplishments — can cause managers facing new challenges... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Batten’s life and career: how he grew Landmark Communications into a media powerhouse, championed racial equality, gave away more than $400 million to charity, mostly to education, and dealt with losing his vocal cords to cancer. The Art... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
She·sesh·un (noun) Ly·ing flat (verb) Post·cook·ie (adj.) Bi·o·rev·o·loo·shun (noun) Dig·i·tul no·mad (noun) Di·ver·si·ty wa·shing (verb) Meem Stock (noun) When the price of supposedly “dull” stocks like BlackBerry and GameStop hit the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Books
were being purchased, with each factory having its own suppliers and price points. While this revelation was itself startling, the manager maximized its impact by inviting the company's division presidents into a boardroom where samples... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
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Research Brief: Weatherproofing Renewables
Colombian energy firms manage frequent fluctuations in the weather by diversifying their energy sources: During the dry season, when the cost of hydropower can increase as much as tenfold, firms increase their reliance on fossil fuels. The substitution allows market... View Details
- 15 Dec 2011
- News
An HBS gift guide
Bill Roedy, Sweetriot, S’well bottle, the Nature Conservancy, Tea Collection, and Zobha) Guilt-free holiday jewels Amy Jain & Daniella Yacobovsky (MBA 2010) Co-founders, BaubleBar “As hard as we tried, we couldn’t find a place to buy high quality pieces without a high... View Details
- 30 Jan 2021
- News
Finding a Fresh Approach to Dry Cleaning
items, is about $35. Simon’s troops clean more than 100,000 pieces a year,” Heath writes. These higher volumes and higher prices helped Parkway reach almost $4 million in... View Details
- 17 Jan 2025
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Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963) grew up in Rego Park, Queens, the son of Spanish immigrants. As a boy in the 1940s, he would watch the airplanes fly over his backyard and into LaGuardia Airport,... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
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Doing Something Real
percent) that President Nixon (that laissez-faire Republican) imposed wage and price controls, to a world where each of our kids has more computing power on his or her desk, and each of us on his or her lap, than all of Harvard had in its... View Details
Keywords: Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)
- 14 Feb 2019
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Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change
need new technology, Perry said—we need to apply capitalism and government regulation to these problems to provide incentives to farmers or convince consumers they should pay for this change either through higher View Details