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- 01 Jun 1998
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Short Takes
the U.S. and Japanese semiconductor industries, he made a surprising discovery: Although U.S. and Japanese firms' development programs were both successful, they appeared to pursue radically different organizational strategies that showed no sign of converging into a... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Avoiding a Succession Crisis
Citigroup appear to be. One survey of human resource directors of large corporations indicated that 60 percent lacked CEO succession planning. This situation is hardly optimal — not when global competition and technical change, in the... View Details
- 07 Nov 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Tiffany Pham (MBA 2012)
kind-hearted nature and candor.” How do you use what you learned at HBS today? “At HBS, I learned to think on my feet and make optimal decisions, with limited information, while overcoming complex problems. In the media and technology... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Case Study: Tip the Scale
be maintained. —Don Cottle (MBA 1961) Try establishing several serial assembly lines with small buffers in between. The buffer is an indicator of where more staff is needed. This optimization could be done according to Kanban principles.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match
to ‘Dr. Famous,’ who was booked for 17 weeks out, while brand-new doctors only had 30 percent of their schedules filled.” Inspired by the efficiency that companies like Travelocity brought to the airline industry, Gardner created Kyruus to View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
a way to prosper in lean economic times, Scharfman says that “being a manufacturer in the United States means you’re constantly swinging back and forth between optimism and wanting to throw yourself off a cliff. It’s not for the faint of... View Details
- 15 Jun 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
political system in America is broken, right? Wrong. The truth is, the American political system is working exactly how it is designed to work; it just isn’t designed or optimized to work for ordinary citizens. Most people believe that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
midnight. You do come away feeling prepared for a business environment, which is often more about optimization than coming up with the right answer. I think since my time the focus has been more on teamwork, which makes sense. Effective... View Details
- 19 Feb 2021
- News
A Playbook for Progress
for the corporations and the economy as a whole. Chitra:Your research revealed a consistent theme of women of color never giving up and having grit and the ability to trigger optimism in times of doubt and disappointment. Give an example... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
chief Arne Duncan his secretary of education in 2008, there was great optimism in the charter school movement. Duncan, after all, had long welcomed charters—public schools operating outside the education bureaucracy—in Obama's hometown.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
going through the process of pricing discovery over time and optimizing for the best LTV to CAC [customer lifetime value to customer acquisition cost] ratio, which brings you to questions of scale. As of yesterday, we have over 8,000... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
transcend rational thinking." The course, which debuted in 1995, is designed to optimize the marketing efforts of entrepreneurs, who typically lack the time and resources for conventional marketing activity. The course is organized around... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
the developed world. And is very promising in showing a pathway to address greenhouse gas emissions in emerging markets. So yes, there are many moments of optimism and of excitement, as we see this new Industrial Revolution unfold.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
with every link in the chain benefiting with endless opportunities for continuous innovation and improvements. That, of course, translates into job creation and retention. Without this, we all stagnate and lose that uniquely American competitive drive, can-do attitude,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
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Alumni and Faculty Books
shows you how to set yourself up for investment success by creating an optimal nest-egg withdrawal strategy to ensure you never run out of money; maximizing returns through tactics like reducing your tax bill and making full use of... View Details
- 03 Jul 2024
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Surviving the Iditarod
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Sunny Stroeer: Many folks have heard of the Iditarod Sled Dog race, which is the last great race on earth where mushers compete to cover the distance from Anchorage to Nome as quickly as possible. The... View Details
- 13 Dec 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
middle part of the country say very quickly no. There's not a great sense of optimism about the future. And I think that's what people are looking for. Morrell: So Diane graciously offered to put a question to her group of voters for us... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
Vijay Govindarajan (MBA 1976, DBA 1978) (Harvard Business Review Press) Leaders understand that creating a new business and optimizing an already existing one are two fundamentally different management challenges. The real problem for... View Details
- 21 Mar 2025
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What We Can Learn From “The Oracle of Wall Street”
that feels so at odds, I think, with the expectations one might have for a Wall Street operator, right? Is this optimism about humanity a rare quality in the industry, or have I just watched too many movies? TB: Yeah, I think part of this... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
his childhood in Israel. "I said, 'Is that still around?'" The next day, Birnbaum joined Cohen for a look under the hood. It wasn't pretty: There was no distribution strategy, no real consumer approach, and no optimism among the staff.... View Details