Other Technology - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2007
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The Plight of the Global Poor

approaches, distribution networks, product packaging, and financing instruments to meet the needs and requirements of very poor customers. As members of the School’s Global Poverty Project (GPP), Kash Rangan, John Quelch, and other... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; bottom of the pyramid (BOP); Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

30 Nov 2017
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Happy Meals (Are Here Again)

demarcation. Now the workers are on the floor, delivering orders or helping customers with the new kiosks; Karavites has updated his employee training to include a focus on customer interaction. Average customer count is up at this location, he says, outpacing his... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Saverio Truglia

12 Nov 2019
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Seismic Shift

business? “In the past, it seems like for many companies, the answer has been ‘no,’” says West. West and other HBS grads believe that’s the wrong answer. With the help of Andrea Hoffman, the founder and CEO of Culture Shift Labs, they are... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Feb 2000
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Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care

micromanagement - of health care from government agencies, among other reforms. Herzlinger noted that the U.S. government currently funds over 50 percent of health care in the United States, which prompted some participants to decry the... View Details

01 Apr 1999
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Spirit at Work

in a variety of ways, Khalsa says. "First of all, the roughly 15 percent of the staff who are Sikhs come to the office centered and focused after our morning spiritual practice, which gives us the clarity to make better decisions," he explains. "Second, valuing View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Dec 2014
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014

Publishing) With Murder You Get Sushi: A Miss Information Technology Mystery by Diane Davidson (MBA 1980) and Mary Ann Davidson, collaborating as Maddi Davidson (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) Destiny’s Child: Memoirs of a... View Details

25 Mar 2021
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Alumni Honor Nitin Nohria and Support His Legacy

looks at how the company built a digital organization that leverages AI and other technologies to speed its operations, manage its processes, and ensure quality across research, testing, and manufacturing in... View Details

01 Jan 2002
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Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)

President & Chief Executive Officer Starbucks Coffee Company Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page Earlier Education University of Washington, 1965 B.A., Finance, Economics, Accounting, and Statistics Other Jobs Touche Ross & Co.,... View Details

01 Dec 2020
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New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books

from their purchases. Revenue models anchored on the ownership of products, they argue, are patently inferior. Bertini and Koenigsberg explain that advances in technology have made it possible for firms to collect “impact data” that tells... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 1996
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Class Acts

administrators, and students," he notes. Toward that end, Dobron and SA Technology Committee chair Judy Stahl (MBA '96) helped put into place the School's new information technology platform, which included... View Details

01 Sep 2008
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Building a Better MBA

given the seriousness of the topic at hand. Some of the schools represented had already implemented major MBA program reforms. Others were considering them. But everyone had one thing in common: Each had assisted HBS professors Srikant... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

02 Sep 2018
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Havana Rising

them. In other words, Cuba was open for business. Cuba Educational Travel (CET) was perfectly positioned to take advantage of the opening. Founder Collin Laverty had first visited Cuba on a family trip as a teenager, later completing an... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North

01 Jun 2018
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The Long Run

with a team of fellow alums to create a $2.5 billion technology company. Today, Langford’s focus falls under an entirely different category of urgency: As executive director of the Georgia Prevention Project (GPP), he leads a nonprofit... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Melissa Golden

01 Dec 1998
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Managing the Business of Life

European consumer products business. In her first Bulletin interview in 1983, Dodi envisioned the future ideal of "a pregnant CEO of a corporation walking into a board meeting" while her other child was down the hall in daycare. But she... View Details

02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word

nuts, bolts, and other people involved. The trappings of potential success alone aren’t worth the sacrifice. And finally, understand that there is life on the other side, regardless of the outcome. Ken Towl... View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

01 Dec 2008
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Back to the Future

is remarkably prescient in other ways as well: Global warming was seen as a potentially game-changing threat; Middle East instability, particularly in Saudi Arabia, was an ever-present danger, with Islamic fundamentalism even hinted at as... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

16 Dec 2020
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A Creator in the Era of Disruption

have the chance to build their credit history other than the loan that they were being provided. So, it felt as if you needed to build infrastructure to actually help the village move up in their economic livelihoods and loans weren’t it.... View Details

25 Aug 2022
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September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

celebrated and learned of their new rights as citizens. As Black Texans moved to other parts of the country, they brought their traditions along with them, and Juneteenth continued to grow and develop. Juneteenth’s powerful spirit has... View Details

01 Sep 2004
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Promise & Perils

Events: Dancing dragons greeted alumni at the closing gala inside the new Science and Technology Museum. Photos by Philip Chau Standing before nearly 1,000 HBS alumni, faculty, and guests in a packed Shanghai hotel auditorium, HBS... View Details