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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Patrick Moreton
will carry the day.” An assistant professor of organization and strategy at Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis, Moreton has focused his research on economic and organizational models of business strategy,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Robots Are Coming to Save Your Job
becoming even more acute over time.” Beyond answering short-term labor needs, Eckert thinks these kinds of co-bots also have the potential to upend traditional factory economics. “For a generation now, you had to go to a low labor View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
model,” adds Weng. (Battery Ventures and a few private investors bought into FashionStake’s vision early on.) FashionStake and other consumer Internet companies have benefited from a decrease in the cost of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
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Mission Possible
“Rudy contends that if we can identify the other ten or twelve genes that are players, we can give the biotech industry so many more shots to come up with a therapy,” explains McCance, who, along with his cofounders, is privately... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
(both MBA 1996) proposed the contest as a project for Professor Josh Lerner’s Venture Capital and Private Equity elective. “We looked at it as not just a theoretical paper for class but a sustainable plan,” says Wagonfeld, who was then... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
1981. The School's Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration, Herzlinger is the author of seven best-selling books, including her landmark volume Market-Driven Health Care (1997), which analyzed the revolutionary impact of consumer awareness, View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
companies that are case studies in surmounting competitive threats and fostering community pride. Jim Knott Sr. (OPM 17, 1991) relishes a good fight. During his first prep school wrestling practice, his coach put the inexperienced... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
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Slum for Sale
Hollen, is at a critical juncture: Weighing the cost of capital, construction, and expected market prices for developed units, should Hollen meet the government’s minimum bid for one of five development contracts, submit a proposal well... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Five Honored for Missions Accomplished
helped create Citigroup; and rescued Bank One. As a manager, you are known for cost cutting. Would you say that’s a fair assessment? I never call it cost cutting because that implies it is indiscriminate. I... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Ronald P. Mitchell
"HBS Ventures." Thanks in large part to Mitchell's efforts, revenue from these businesses, now run by hired professionals, goes straight into SA coffers rather than into individuals' hands. "This benefits the entire School community... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
Donaldson’s move to Yale in 1975 to help his alma mater launch a management school that would bridge the gap between the public and private sectors. “I had seen tremendous conflict between corporate America... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
cardiovascular disease. In addition, apart from any possible therapeutic benefits, embryonic stem-cell research could play a central role in helping to understand the nature and development of disease generally. Spar, the Spangler Family Professor at HBS, and others at... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
race to win new customers and e-reader converts. It will make the company a truly global entity, bringing it closer to its customers in Asia. And the acquisition will simplify the supply chain, driving down costs (the Kindle DX,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
million to have the biotech develop it as a potential cancer drug, eventually giving up when even low doses resulted in severe nausea during clinical trials. Still, the drug became a focal point for the Secklers. "Here was this drug that... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
covering basic facts about the country and legal questions about travel from the United States. (“Which is still legal,” says Gordon, noting that the misconception is widespread.) But most of what Benedetti lays out about the challenges he faces operating in Cuba’s... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
of HBS alumni and faculty, and by the School itself as an institution. Excerpts from the book follow. The Big Bang Fifty years ago, Kiechel writes, corporate strategy did not even exist as a concept, let alone as the foundational element... View Details
- 11 May 2017
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Going with the Flow
for being the top field-hockey school in the country. Its premed program was also highly respected, and Fisher, who was majoring in biophysics, realized she had to make a choice. She chose science but ultimately deferred her medical View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The First Scrum
Edited by Linda Kush Fifty years ago, two Scotsmen started an HBS rugby team to help relieve the stress of studies. A look back at one of the School's most storied traditions. Photo courtesy of Mike Rush (MBA 1972) When the game of rugby first came to Harvard Business... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
whether through the private sector or the public sector, you have to worry that people might get the wrong incentives. Those who are relieved of risk may decide to take on more risk,” he explained. Likewise, when government manages risks,... View Details
- 19 Mar 2015
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Walter Salmon Remembered
Walter J. Salmon Photo: Harvard Business School When he died in March at the age of 84, Walter J. Salmon left behind a legacy that included seven books, several hundred case studies, and thousands of former students taught over the course... View Details