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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
to name just a few parts assembled at the company’s plant in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Unfortunately, the plane’s original engines failed to meet expectations, necessitating a redesign and switch to a new supplier. Plagued by delays and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
take 20 pages on paper. Sometimes I just sit at a piano, working out chords, coming up with a concept. Sometimes I’m in my studio in LA with a producer, building a track and writing at the same time. And sometimes I’m writing to a ready-made track. The tough View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
as a Baker Scholar, in his spare time Rogers honed a system for trading over-the-counter stocks and left HBS with his bills paid and $50,000 in the bank. Eager to return to the Bay Area where he grew up, Rogers accepted a job offer from... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
Frese's financial accounting class. I didn't even know what that day's case was but this was a supposed "safe class"—no cold-calling. Suddenly through my haze, I heard Professor Frese say: "Well, Mr. MacKinnon, perhaps you can tell us all how General Motors prices its... View Details
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
the car kicks the jack out. The car falls on them, and there's text that says that this person who is from Maine broke his back so that he could get more prescription opioids. How effective do you think... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
OPM Celebrates 21st Anniversary at Gala Florida Reunion
H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking. Drawing on his extensive research on a subject he calls his "passion" - customer loyalty - Sasser led a lively discussion on the topic of customer retention that included a videotaped segment on a Texas View Details
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
sales forces, and phone-based payment services using power from car batteries, because often they have no electricity,” says Duch, who once described his job in a Class Notes update as “making competitive businesses out of ‘lost causes.’”... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: The Kids Are All Right
the right thing. We also found that their expectations in this vein are often higher than other generations’ expectations. In the automotive category, for instance, millennials expect car companies to create vehicles that will get more... View Details
- 04 May 2018
- News
How to Win the Kentucky Derby
ago. Hanna: I'm guessing that you were probably part of making the barn clean—that you were picking stalls and stuff like that, which is pretty tough work really. Finley: Well, I didn't answer the second View Details
Keywords: horse racing
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
foreign-corruption legislation extant. High-level bribery is part of the fabric of many societies, Wells says, because in a number of developing countries, the scarcity of well-paying jobs, among other reasons, encourages officials to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
evident, once again, last summer. The country was mired in the fifth year of a costly, bloody war in the Middle East, a conflict many believed was driven in part by a desire to secure access to Iraq’s petroleum reserves. “Black gold”... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
faculty and staff. One employee who was seriously injured in a car accident was astonished to receive a visit from McArthur in the hospital even before his family could get there. “While part of this was... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
have expected an American to have to be going through. And part of it had to do with drugs. Part of it had to do with not having enough money. But even just the spending decisions that they made when they... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
fiber-optics for landlines, and now seeks new ways that wireless networks could run everything, including cars and refrigerators. It has projects in development with GM’s OnStar and in cloud computing. In addition, Verizon CEO Lowell... View Details
- 18 Oct 2024
- News
My Worst Job
muck. Somehow chicken wing bones would find their way into my shoes. When my mother would pick me up, the stench was so bad, she would roll down all the car windows, even in the dead of winter. It was easily the worst job I ever had. But... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
Bertini (DBA 2006) and Oded Koenigsberg The MIT Press Would you rather pay for health care or for better health? For school or education? For groceries or nutrition? A car or transportation? A theater performance or entertainment? In The... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
the demands of highly defined and idiosyncratic groups such as “Newly Released Ex-Cons” and “Christian Zionists.” The country may have been built on the idea of individualism, but we have come to expect that it be factored into practically every aspect of our lives.... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
the eighth grade, and played football. Another classmate, Rich Eustis, later became an Emmy-winning television writer; Eustis confessed to TV Guide that he based the character of Eric Mardian — the leather-jacketed genius in the ABC series Head of the Class — in View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
Foundation Clinton Fellows. Part-time, we also have an urban planner working on policy and an architect. Our annual budget of about $200,000 is part grant-funded and part fees-generated from consulting... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
outlook. Since its inception in 2001, 89 MBAs have taken part in the program, working at 43 organizations as diverse as the City of Boston Mayor’s Office, Teach For America, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Mercy Corps. Fellows... View Details