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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Carlos A. Saladrigas: Hardworking Optimist
Saladrigas managed to save $400 -- by mowing lawns, delivering newspapers, and waxing cars -- to help his parents get settled when they arrived from Cuba in 1962. Tragically, his mother then developed cancer, and Saladrigas dropped out of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 29 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Harley-Davidson’s Management Do?
a decision was made to invest about $200 million in a strategy to build motorcycles in Thailand for export to Europe. Annual savings of $65 to $75 million were expected from the move. In part, this decision was prompted by the imposition... View Details
- 12 Feb 2021
- News
How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
page turner in terms of how we were going to escape the claws of this hostile predator who in fact, had bought Lincoln Savings in New York and Union Oil in Canada. And within a year or two from the time that we were successful in terms of... View Details
Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
- 24 May 2017
- News
David G. Bradley, MBA 1977
time, print media was rapidly losing ground to its electronic competition, but Bradley was undeterred. “The happiest day of Mort Zuckerman’s career was the day I bought the Atlantic from him,” says Bradley with a laugh, noting that he was determined to View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
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Research - Health Care
save the life of her seven-year-old daughter, Jenesis, who was diagnosed with a terminal illness called Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH). At... November 2024 Article The Health Costs of Cost Sharing By: Amitabh Chandra , Evan Flack... View Details
- 01 Feb 2021
- What Do You Think?
Has the New Economy Finally Arrived?
is at least a lull in globalization. China’s economic development has increased its costs of production and reduced international price competition. Outsourcing may have seen the end of its rapid growth. And workers may belatedly be gaining wage leverage with very low... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Jan 2021
- Blog Post
My HBS Student Loan Story: Gorick Ng (MBA 2018)
consulting for two years prior to coming to HBS. Growing up in a family that prioritized saving for a rainy day, I had been contributing as much as I could to retirement savings. I was relieved to find that doing so would not hurt my... View Details
- 13 Nov 2017
- Blog Post
5 Worries I Had about Applying to HBS
“here’s how I saved the world” story. However, as I went through the process, I realized I had a story to tell. I learned that the best thing I could present was myself and not a perceived image of what I thought the good people at HBS... View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
looked to a new "profession of business" for nothing less than saving modern, industrial civilization from itself. As the professionalization project that had provided the agenda for American business education from its founding... View Details
- 11 Mar 2021
- News
Leading with Heart
And Aisha unfortunately had the same condition that Tanya did. And then we had to battle like crazy to save her. We had to fly her to the UK. I had only $2,000 in my pocket. Enough to just buy an air ticket, one-way air ticket. I didn't... View Details
- 14 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact
rights-based work, where collaboration may matter more than acting alone, an organization's resources would be better used pursuing its mission and developing approximate measures to help it improve, rather than chasing hard proof of impact. Many international NGOs... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- Web
HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
million, down 28 percent from the prior year. This amounted to 9 percent of the School's total operating costs in both fiscal years. As with other line items on the income statement, the reduction in on-campus activity due to COVID-19 resulted in significant View Details
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
bankruptcy doesn’t necessarily mean the death of a company, and in fact, it can actually be the very thing that saves a business, assuming the courts can handle the flood that is likely coming. Dina Gerdeman: What impact do you expect... View Details
- 02 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Nikki Philip
and a community savings and loans cooperative in Migori County, Kenya. At Lwala I worked in Monitoring & Evaluation, Program Design & Implementation, and Development. After two and a half years at Lwala I took a position in Player... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
new application of technology, he set his sights on winning it—and did. “AutoCAD had been around, but it wasn’t being used at Bath Iron Works,” he recalls. “I ran the numbers on the cost savings and—lo and behold—won the award. Management... View Details
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Engaged with field work in South Asia and East Africa, Professor Hussam places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the economics literature as well as relevant downstream policy implications. Her research spans four broad interests.... View Details
- 01 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Bank That Takes Parmesan as Collateral: The Cheese Stands a Loan
how the bank essentially replaces an expensive part of the operations process for dairy farmers in the Emilia Romagna region of Northern Italy. Besides holding the cheese as insurance, Credem stores and ages the wheels in climate-controlled vaults for the duration of... View Details
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Research - Race, Gender & Equity
R. Jackson and Basima Tewfik July 2023 (Revised November 2023) Case The Miccosukee Tribe and the Battle to Save the Everglades: A Miami Climate Action Story By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Joyce J. Kim The Miccosukee Indians, a small tribe... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
generally. There are potentially even greater savings to be realized in improving building efficiency, he notes, through energy audits, retrofits, and smart building software (the DOE estimates energy waste in the average US commercial... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 03 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Transforming Manufacturing Waste into Profit
It's been said that "one man's trash is another man's treasure." HBS Assistant Professor Deishin Lee, however, has taken that old adage a step further in her recent working paper Turning Waste into By-Product by showing how it's possible for companies to turn... View Details