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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
country in pieces, the residents of Mikrus adopted wooden-framed screen-printing machines that could be constructed—and quickly broken down—from everyday materials. Elsewhere in the country, a chemist had developed a process to produce... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
in the apparel industry. The afternoon featured a presentation by William A. Sahlman, Dimitri V. d'Arbeloff - MBA Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration, titled "Deals-Lessons I Have LearnedÉ Confessions of an Angel Investor," in which he illuminated the... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
an off-the-shelf software system that will work for most of their purposes,” he says. “In our case, we had to design one from the ground up.” The customized system allows SmartPak to adapt its process on an as-needed basis. For example,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
where the whole process starts. It’s all about intellectual capital. And those ideas are what become the foundation of the cases used in the classroom, plus in articles and books. We use that intellectual capital in teaching here, and we... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Case Study: Glass Half Full
leave them in bins that are collected for free by Neutrall’s partner. “In the process of building an American carbon-neutral supply chain, our partners essentially allowed us to build and scale a private, local recycling network,” notes... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
that can't tell you exactly how much our customers have on deposit. We have 35-year-old systems for maintaining records on tape files. Our collection process and compliance examinations are months or years behind, largely due to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
initiated a meeting with representatives from the last five graduating classes. Global Alumni Conferences Ellen Guidera (MBA '86) and her fellow committee members are committed to a process of continual improvement, and with each... View Details
Keywords: John Hoffman
- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
firms to develop software to complement the firm's devices. But the problem wasn't with one or two design decisions—it was likely more deeply rooted in its processes and culture, a pattern I've seen affect many successful firms. They... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
working with members of Congress to modernize the rules and processes on the internal side. It’s been about 20 years since we’ve had a commission in this country to look at restructuring the way Congress does its day-to-day business. One... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
money, talent, or pilot projects. The big banks and insurers that have since signed up as customers weren’t interested in them, and the lack of an ecosystem made the process of securing seed funding extremely challenging. (They eventually... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
recommend that a bright, young associate with five years of experience pursue an MBA, the answer was, “No, absolutely not. She would advance just as quickly staying with us.” A number of recruiters said that what they value most is the screening View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
and destruction, but we can help the victims. Help them to feel human—and in the process to heal them, ourselves and, hopefully, the world.” MARCH 23 Dr. Herbert Bleier (AMP 109, 1991), who lives in Austria, is working with his... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
formative years, his decorated career, and his postwar life. Sail the World: Everything You Need to Know to Circumnavigate the Globe by Erick A. Reickert (MBA 1965) CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Reickert explains the whole View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Case Study: Let’s Dance
comes to them. Second, they serialized the process and developed software to support it. “So rather than having one person packing to complete, we have three folks picking any individual share and passing it down the line,” says... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
student, such services may be offered months prior to the orientation program. Maureen Walker reports that "some students are identified in the admissions process as people who would benefit from prematriculation skills building." These... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
tools, models, frameworks, whatever. The suite of things we can use in our bat belts to think about how we want to improve our mindset. So, no, I'm not happy all the time, but I do think it's a process and a practice, and something we can... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- News
The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
advertising waste and noise." Howe likes to take a big-picture view of business problems, probably because of his training in economics. That process began early — at the family dinner table, he recalls — when his father, a hospital... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
had to undertake a complete transformation of how Merck operates," he said, outlining strategies that included stepping up resources devoted to scientific research and marketing, integrating divisions of the company, and heading off problems in the clinical View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
John Read
one’s job, relationship, or the amount of time spent on things that are more purposeful, for example. It’s not just a soft, conceptual proposition. Instead, it’s an application-oriented process of stretching and trying something that you... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
content consumption (e.g., mobile, direct-to-consumer); and realize gains through theNFL Investment Fund, its recent partnership with Providence Equity Partners. Grubman is also heavily involved in the process of investigating whether new... View Details