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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
John Mulroney: Center Stage at the Opera
training, and dramatically lower compensation. (Mulroney provides his services pro bono.) "The nonprofit world can be difficult for executives who are accustomed to efficiency and large-company, big-budget solutions to problems," Mulroney... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
tax-averse citizens. Turning over water operations to private companies that can offer economies of scale, financial resources, expertise, and efficiency is an attractive option. Privatization, however, troubles some consumer advocates... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
likely to continue due to privatization, deregulation, and globalization. “In an increasingly global business environment, achieving minimum efficient scale in production requires massive capital investment,” Esty explains. In one case... View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- News
Living the Legacy
and more marketable to employers,” says Paul. While his favorite module was economics, he is already utilizing the business analytics tools he mastered in CORe. “Being able to create histograms to quickly visualize data makes me more... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
In a predawn phone call on October 14, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences informed HBS professor Robert C. Merton that he had won the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics. Merton's work evaluating risk has changed the nature of financial View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program
provide more efficient and customized services. What are some of the changes in the Admissions area? This year we are putting more resources into marketing - both to the world in general and, in particular,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Faculty Research Online
HBS Cases: Lady Gaga What goes into creating the world’s largest pop star? Before her fame hit, Lady Gaga’s manager faced decisions that could have derailed the performer’s career. A new case by Associate Professor Anita Elberse examines the strategic View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Alumni Books
reader to imagine a workplace where everyone speaks openly about their weaknesses and are committed to overcoming them, where colleagues help each other become more efficient and less disruptive by speaking the truth about what detracts... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Optimizing search technology
Olivier Dumon (MBA 1998) is managing director of academic and government markets for global publishing giant Elsevier, where he’s working on optimizing online search protocols. He believes that the more the technology is improved, the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
huge inefficiency.” It was while attending HBS that Makarim formed Go-Jek, a more efficient ojek service that organized 20 or so drivers through a call center; he relied on word of mouth to market the idea... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Better Hiring Through Brain Science
the difference between consulting and finance and marketing and entrepreneurship,” says Polli. Career paths in accounting or consulting, for example, usually correlated to attention to detail and a lack of impulsive behavior, she says;... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
recent U.S. real estate history can’t help but notice unsettling parallels between the red-hot commercial market of the late 1980s and today. Then, as now, money gushed into the market, driving office and retail property values to... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
process, just grueling. Public and, you know, Jack was like the most famous business leader probably in the history of the world. Because, you know, the markets were booming. He was really famous. And so, you know, it was all like... View Details
- 19 Feb 2020
- News
Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change
federal policy would really be helpful to create a uniform landscape for the capital markets and the technologies to respond to.” Matt Sonnesyn (HKS 2002) and VP of infrastructure, energy and environment at the Business Roundtable—which... View Details
Keywords: April White; photos by Jack Conroy
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
Prescriptions: Free the Data! Build a Killer App Measure Health Care's Real Costs Make Medicine Personal Leverage Human Nature Integrate Preventive Care and Payment BUSH: A passionate advocate for improving health care efficiency and... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
contribution health care by employers will result in a more cost-effective and efficient system. Participants submitted papers that were read in advance of the conference. These papers will be edited by Herzlinger and published later this... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
back to basics," said Bruce Harreld (MBA '75), SVP of strategy at IBM. "Our goal is to increase the efficiency of organizational systems by creating software that remaps how processes work together." Steven Elterich, president of Fidelity... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
the cracks. But for the most part, the money is spent in a legitimate way. We are always trying to do a better job, but we still have the best, most effective, most efficient government in the world. What are your proudest... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
markets in developed nations. But by the mid-1980s, the Yangs decided the time had come to differentiate themselves. They would concentrate on quality and meeting the needs of the most discriminating designers and retailers in areas such... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
can cause pneumonia; it had previously only been recommended for children. (The recommendation was later softened when it became clear that vaccinating children naturally led to fewer cases in older adults.) But few believed that the underlying fundamentals of the... View Details