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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Faculty Books
incomes either among countries or within them. Inequalities of income and power emerge as a major societal issue alongside poverty, and the book develops alternative societal models based upon the degree of inequality in wealth and power.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Engine Charlie
WILSON: Decades in the auto business. Charles Wilson (MBA 1936) came into this world back when Henry Ford was cranking out Model Ts. Unlike those now retired roadsters, Wilson, at 100 years old, is still active in the car business,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Flexibility Is Key to Product Development in Internet Time
When the number of Internet-based businesses took off in the mid-1990s, many long-standing rules for product innovation were blown away. Previous models of development based on a sequential process of planning and execution are not... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
supporting gay and lesbian rights, and saving the rainforest. I'd like to see more companies copy our business model and become advocates for social change." Working Assets' charitable-donation model, thought to be the first of its kind,... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
is filling a market need, and the first-year revenue response is confirmatory. Since many events like weddings are planned far in advance, I suspect that Clay can still deploy a consignment model until it builds up the needed inventory by... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Internet Tsunami
had operating profits of $1.9 million on sales of $4 million. Mikitani, formerly a banker at the Industrial Bank of Japan, became a man with a mission after attending HBS: He founded Rakuten, he told the magazine, because "I wanted to set... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Rethinking Call Centers: Effective Delivery of Service is Key
institutions, Frei, Evenson, and Harker created a model demonstrating precise links between three main elements (or "drivers") of superior service delivery: effective people, effective internal processes, and effective information... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Case Study: The Credit Bureau
—Simon Pellas (MBA 2019) I’ve spent quite a bit of time on the B2B2C model in this industry. There are many stakeholders: Brokers will only adopt tech that will change the listing price or their fee structure. A free SaaS tool with... View Details
- 07 May 2020
- News
Ensuring Student Equity
need. “We have developed a unique model for providing whole child support. Components of our model are definitely transferrable to almost any public school district,” says Grumhaus about the nonprofit. Once... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 07 Jan 2022
- News
Learning to Fight
helped more than 1,200 people around the United States. Sontag thinks big. “If this model works for brain cancer, this model can work for other serious diseases,” he says of the Sontag Foundation’s... View Details
- 13 Feb 2013
- News
Everything but the Cook
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
they must do to reshape their businesses for the 21st century. The Attention Economy: Understanding the New Currency of Business, by Thomas H. Davenport and John C. Beck, presents a revolutionary model for managing and measuring... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Innovative Loan Fund Yields Big Returns
Through its use of Harvard’s innovative Green Campus Loan Fund, HBS has cut energy expenditures and provided a model for conservation-minded schools around the University to follow. The loan fund provides capital for projects that reduce... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
parking spots.” Getting fuel from earth into space is extremely costly: All costs considered, fuel in space costs more than pure gold on earth, says Landon. “Each satellite operator pays up to $50 million per ton for that fuel. That’s... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Competencies and Credentials
employees.” —Kieron Stopforth (MBA 2019) Managing the Future of Work Project Companies need to move beyond the old models of workforce development and human resources—those days have passed. The project addresses the changing nature of... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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Taking MBA know-how on tour across America
mobile consultation service for entrepreneurs called MBAs Across America. “We felt a responsibility to use our resources for a nobler purpose,” says Gerald. The MBA students met with American business owners, advised them on everything from business View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Who Owns Yoga?
yoga style. Then there’s the former model and ballet dancer Tara Stiles, who isn’t particularly interested in yoga’s roots or rules but rather in mixing up styles of yoga to create a beneficial exercise. “These are two different examples... View Details
- 06 Nov 2014
- News
Building a Startup Community Beyond Commencement
after seeing a demand for privacy. Expansion within the building is part of the short-term plans, and Goldstein hopes to move into a standalone space in three to five years. But she can see the model working beyond campus, too. “The... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
HBS Students Mentor Kids
Boston. Manville is designed for kids from ages 5 to 15 who struggle in traditional educational settings due to emotional or physical issues. A key element of the school’s approach is the big sister/big brother concept, in which an older mentor, as a role View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
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Decoding the Promise and Perils of Generative AI
ChatGPT burst into the public consciousness on November 30, 2022. Within two months, the generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) software, which leverages a large language model (LLM) to produce human-like, text-based conversations, had reached an estimated 100... View Details
Keywords: April White