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- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975
microfinance institutions and banks in developing countries that make small loans to low-income women-and in some instances, men-so that they can build their own business and move beyond poverty. A customer in The Gambia, for example,... View Details
- 23 Sep 2021
- News
Confronting Sustainability in Business; Pro-Bono Consulting for Black-Owned Companies
“We believe, where political processes fail to come up with solutions for our society, equipping businesses with the right ideas is a very important aspect of dealing with sustainability issues. Therefore, it is of utmost importance for us to View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Vision: A Unicorn Evolves
offer workflow planning and tracking, and provide data-driven insights on customer behavior—is now used by more than 4,500 companies, with over 100,000 weekly users. That’s twice as many, Medina notes, as the competition combined. The... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
colleagues partnered with 1,222 hairdressers in 200 neighborhoods in the Zambian capital of Lusaka, breaking them into four groups: two groups that received different cuts of condom sales, one that received wall charts and stickers to show View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
Disruption doesn’t create growth; instead, growth creates disruption. Growth is always hard, and disruptive growth is exponentially harder. It requires companies to make tough decisions in the face of daunting uncertainties: Should we bet our company’s future on... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
doing their best to keep up. Many are engaged in joint ventures with Chinese manufacturers: GM plans to spend $4 billion on electrification in China by 2020, for example, while VW intends to roll out 15 NEVs over the same period. And the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
leaving their survival uncertain. Minorities are falling prey to an Islamist ideology that conveys values and customs diametrically opposed to European ones. Terrorist acts have become the “new normal,” part of daily life. The North-South... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Ink: Talking Shop
retail has been about merchants who had stuff, making it available to customers who needed stuff. As the customer, either you bought the stuff or you didn’t. Now consumers can find out anything they want to know about a product and source... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Terence P. Stewart
For more than twenty years, Terry Stewart's work has placed him at the middle of some of the world's most contentious border disputes - the trade and legal battles that erupt when countries engage in practices such as dumping or... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Ron Shaich’s Café Society
in shareholder value in the last few years. This value creation is simply a by-product of figuring out what consumers really want and delivering it. Tell us about Panera. It’s real food, served by real people in an engaging environment.... View Details
- 04 May 2017
- News
Going the Distance
where he worked 13 years for Cisco Systems during its meteoric rise. His passion for engaging with customers led him to run a global support organization for Cisco’s biggest customers. While at Cisco, the... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
care industry to give customers more choices, freedom, power, and information, and at far lower prices. He recommends disruption of the status quo through new business models, new payment models, and new technologies that give patients... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
Air by Elizabeth Muir (HRPBA 1958) Another Chapter Publishing Muir tells the stories of Canadian women airplane, blimp, glider pilots, skydivers, and balloonists for younger (ages 8+) readers, through engaging biographies and full-color... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Labs Enable Large-scale Research
Marvin Bower Associate Professor Marco Di Maggio, Ogunlesi Family Associate Professor of Business Administration Scott Duke Kominers, Professor of Business Administration SEAS: David Parkes, George F. Colony Professor of Computer Science View Details
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. I wanted to ask a quick favor. We’re running a two-minute, ten-question listener survey to help us continue to bring you these great, View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
movement, on average. It was quite controversial. When we tell microfinance practitioners about this evidence, it can be hard for them to really engage with it because of their work on the ground and the anecdotes they hear about lives... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Ink: Start Small, Rise Above
by getting them paid faster with the NowAccount, but we’re also building out the NowNetwork, a curated platform where small businesses can connect with more customers so they can engage in commerce. Our... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 15 Jan 2020
- News
The Business of Access
help,” she says. A success to be sure, but the nonprofit world, Lisle quickly learned, was more complicated than the business world: “In the private sector, a customer pays and receives something, whether it be a product or a service. In... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Happy Monday
on that day,” Bernard clarifies. For those employees whose work often requires a Friday presence, as in customer care teams, they work with their managers to take another day of their choosing. As the teams felt their way through the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Joy of Work
focused, where people feel they are on a mission, actually inspires creativity. An example might be an impending project launch or a customer with a critical need. In these instances, the creative team is concentrating on a problem where... View Details