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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Short Takes
physicians, nurses, and other care providers to assess the progress of patients). The authors argue that the way hospitals hold care providers accountable for cost and quality... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Think Locally, Act Globally
IBM for IT and Ericsson, Nokia Siemens, and Huawei for network. If we do well, then they do well. It’s that simple.” This low-cost model helps Bharti reduce operating costs... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
almost the size of Kuwait. What’s clear, though, is that while this city is rich relative to the rest of the country , its city managers were miserly when it came to building the ribbons of roads and rail needed to bind its residents... 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... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Honoring a Legend
he says. “Right now in the world, a billion people have no electricity. But the cost of clean energy is falling. My mission is to drive broad awareness to the business side of solar energy.” He adds that solar is a real alternative to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
knowledge to other medical areas as well. As for public policy and business, the desire to reduce medical and health-care costs and the rewards... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 30 Apr 2025
- News
A Social Enterprise Talk in DC; Canadian Alumni Talk Trade; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Colorado
DC Panel Looks at Social Enterprise in a New Government Landscape The HBS Club of Washington, DC teamed up with the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) on April 2, to present an alumni panel discussion on social impact titled “New Perspectives in Social Enterprise,”... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers
agronomic data analysis, breaking the information monopoly long held by the industry. To do so, FBN began compiling data spread across 65 different versions of so-called precision agriculture software and “democratizing” the insights by... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 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... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 2022
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What We’re Reading
political, religious, and social persecution and the consequent moral catastrophe in a city that had once prided itself on its inclusiveness and... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Reinventing Marketing
Rounding out Marketing's agenda are multifaceted research projects. Professor Walter J. Salmon is looking at the costs and benefits of product variety for retailers and... 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 Jan 2007
- News
A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968
different." To achieve that, the company follows a process that features a continuous series of brainstorming sessions, where new concepts are presented to a "product planning council" representing all parts of the organization, from engineers View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
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Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
analysis at HBS. Since then, I have been a big advocate of this objective method of examining the potential benefits and costs of any decision." ADVICE TO CURRENT STUDENTS "Seize the opportunity to live,... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
to help anticipate the next flash point, putting into practice significant enforcement actions, and introducing new management structures. Although he thinks Sarbanes-Oxley needs some adjustment to lower the compliance View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
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Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
trading has been beneficial. Derivatives serve as a form of sophisticated "adapters," he said, linking economic systems together and helping to bring about a unified world economy. They have also brought about vast reductions in View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Patrick Moreton
An expert on competition in telecommunications and new technologies, Patrick S. Moreton (MBA ’91) takes the long view. Despite congressional efforts to tighten controls over media ownership and the current... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
fixation of broken bones had been produced in Switzerland by a separate manufacturing company and distributed in the United States. Wyss undertook a vigorous change of direction, first building a manufacturing plant in Colorado to... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
increasing rate" and held "long-term consequences that could include overpopulation, war/terrorism, and environmental destruction." But one respondent asserted that "the gap... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
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A New Approach to Contact Tracing
people don't want Big Brother. We’re just saying, there’s a cost to that,’” notes Weiss. The downside Bay points to is that if users don’t give the government access to their data, public health officials aren’t as able to help those who... View Details