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- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
Chairman and CEO, Integrated Micro-electronics Inc.: “Ayala-led Integrated Micro-Electronics Inc. (IMI) seeks to bring down the cost of nursing COVID-19–afflicted patients back to health by manufacturing alternative ventilators and other... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
over $7.6 million. Public interest in Smarty Jones—hundreds of fans have streamed into Three Chimneys since his arrival—has been matched by breeders who hope their mare will produce a champion when mated with him. Those lucky enough to have purchased a share (or... View Details
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
percent of the traffic in most urban areas is caused by people just driving around trying to find parking,” says Mistele, the company’s president and CEO. All that congestion comes at a high price. Mistele says the Texas Transportation Institute estimates the View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
to maintain their moral and literal licenses to operate in these countries — requires it. “Although it may increase their cost of doing business, businesses have nonetheless taken the lead here, and strong governance will emerge,” Rangan... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
competitiveness of America’s corporations. The lesson from our financial crises may be that it is not rules that are wanting but principles. Getting people to do things right has more to do with helping them understand a set of principles than with externally imposed... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
brothers don’t want to work in the business, and that he wants you to take over—not in a year, but next week. He wants you to deal with the unions and the aftermath of a flood that cost millions of dollars of inventory. He wants you to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
service, monetizing empty seats, allowing a driver to split the cost of gas or tolls for a given trip to the airport or into work. Passengers can pay as little as half what would ring up on a taximeter for the same distance. Although... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future
There are outstanding international students from modest backgrounds who may not even consider applying here because of cost concerns. Similarly, there are students ready to come to HBS right out of or shortly after college who may lack... View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
in, in terms of with lower costs and freedom of entry and all those things. So, the question was how do you develop a strategy that is going to give you a fighting chance in this new environment? That's where C. Rowling Christensen, who... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
Chinese imports kept down U.S. inflation. Chinese savings kept down U.S. interest rates. Chinese labor kept down U.S. wage costs. As a result, it was remarkably cheap to borrow money and remarkably profitable to run a corporation. Thanks to Chimerica, global real... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
they had lost in the last five years and current owner-operators, impatiently awaiting a salve. For the latter, buy-in took a bit of pot-sweetening. Historically, when McDonald’s offered to partner on upgrades, it would pay up to 40 percent of the View Details
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
Samaras: That was part of the cost I had to take for believing very deeply in one national issue that had to do with the Macedonian issue, if you heard. The idea is that yes, we lost, but when you lose because of your own conscience, it's... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
time to avoid the unfolding civil conflict. Clashes between Sri Lanka’s Sinhalese majority and Tamil minority ran from 1983 to 2009, closing down areas of the country for extended periods of time and costing an estimated 100,000 lives. By... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
creating an environment that's beneficial to both." Lacking the pressures of a major label, such as overhead costs and stockholder expectations, independent labels sometimes have greater flexibility than the majors to nurture cutting-edge... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
also brought about change. In 1874, Dun placed an order with E. Remington and Sons for 100 of the newfangled machines at a cost of $55 each, assuring the future of the young, struggling company. After that, a report could be typed and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
Dreyer’s and ice-encrusted competitors’ brands. Today, it means Dreyer’s is still in charge of its in-store inventory. To help cover the high cost of its company-owned trucks, Dreyer’s over the years has formed partnerships to distribute... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
incentive award was announced for the best 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... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
1943, the School decided to send the Bulletin to all alumni - even those who weren't paying their alumni dues. To cut paper costs and attract more advertising, Hunt increased the trim size of the magazine. Over the next few years the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
John Gillespie (right) and David Zweig (MBA ’83) are the authors of Money for Nothing: How the Failure of Corporate Boards Is Ruining American Business and Costing Us Trillions (Free Press, 2010). Gillespie was an investment banker for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
people long into the future, long after everybody’s forgotten about any of us.” (Inspired by the story of how George F. Baker insisted on covering the entire cost of building the original HBS campus, Spangler did the same for the... View Details