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- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Going For The Summit
CANDICE CARPENTER has led some high-profile enterprises - Time Life Video and Television and the electronic retailing enterprise Q2 Inc. among them. But nothing, she says, has prepared her for the rocky... View Details
Keywords: Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
they shouldn’t unionize. The employer’s legal right to coercively interfere with employees’ choices is at work in a way that’s completely inappropriate. The election process itself allows for long delays in litigation View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Good Odds
Purchasing directly from producers instead of relying on a middleman lowers the cost of sourcing, for instance. Relying on its own fleet of trucks enables the company to pick up produce just before shipping, avoiding the cost and View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
from China’s central government amounted to almost $8,500 per vehicle, with provincial governments often matching them. The Chinese further promote EVs through additional incentives such as exemptions from driving restrictions that are meant to alleviate View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
Growing up in Sharon, Massachusetts, Andrew W. Kendall (MBA 1988) developed a natural affinity for the outdoors from family trips to the beach and from hiking, snowshoeing, and camping in New England's... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
IGNIA and a VC firm. “Our ultimate goal is improving society. If it were just to make money, we’d do things like try to delay competition,” he says. “And if [improving society] is the ultimate goal, you need... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Victory Lap: Frazier, Olympics COO, Reviews the Games
countries won medals than ever before, befitting the record number of athletes and nations that took part. What were the problem areas? For an event of this magnitude, perfection is elusive. Transportation View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
fixing the problems? And maybe my answer would have been different 15, 20 years ago, but I think increasingly I believe that the answer is no. There is a groundswell of great people who are working to solve our fundamental problems, View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
creates delay and duplication. Individuals must own their record, and the health plan is the place to assist each subscriber by pulling all the parts of his or her record... View Details
- 26 Aug 2016
- News
Connecting with the Past
1952)—convinced him to delay his application to HBS and hired him for Red Comet, their decorative-ceiling business. “My bosses said, ‘You’ll get in. You will have the background View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
also to the general public and people in the political world who were making key decisions.” The book was scheduled to come out in 1978, but delays pushed it back to 1979, which turned out to be a blessing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
there are major benefits to working for an institution whose stakeholders are not shareholders. Bob Fri notes one such advantage when discussing the NMNH's opening of one of its newest exhibit halls. After several delays View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; museums; marketing; management; nonprofits; education; facilities; Internet; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Better Mousetraps: At Product Design Fair, Student Ideas Get Real
It delayed our timeline two weeks." A few tables away, Christopher Gilligan (HBS '00) was dressed in hospital scrubs, reeling in passersby to show them his new service, EKGStat.com. The brainchild of Gilligan, a surgical resident at... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 26 Jun 2025
- News
The Vinyl Revival
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Caren Kelleher (MBA 2010) was at HBS, she started managing bands, mainly as a way to stay involved in an industry that she loved. It was right... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
than a few hearts and minds. (Arguments used for denying and delaying the remaining funding often centered around the Egyptian government's lack of stability View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
islands.) But the delays and costs involved nearly killed the company, which survived only with support from the WPTO. Capital expenditures for sources of marine energy are another stumbling block. The... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
enclosure and conjured up a storm of powdery snow inside. Huddled in his sleeping bag wearing all his clothing, Moore fretted quietly about the terrain they would encounter above. The expedition had been plagued throughout by View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
focus: patient experience, provider experience, population health, and value. “The knock-on effects of delayed surgeries, delayed treatments, and... View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
- News
Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
right now. And the weather and the terrain are an increasingly dangerous factor. And so I had to make the very heart-wrenching decision to delay... View Details