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- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Every year, HBS selects a small handful of outstanding alums to receive its most important honor, the Alumni Achievement Award. This year's recipients work in finance, politics, biopharma, and... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
analysis at HBS. Since then, I have been a big advocate of this objective method of examining the potential benefits and costs of any decision." ADVICE TO CURRENT STUDENTS "Seize the opportunity to live,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
wholeheartedly in “the teachability of teaching” and that “a good class discussion can be developed, rather than merely left to the randomness of chance or genetics.” He described the essential challenge of the case method as “exchanging the View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Admit It: You’re in Denial
"The motion has been made and seconded that we stick our heads in the sand." © Mischa Richter/The New Yorker Collection/www.cartoonbank.com If any business leader could stare facts squarely in the face, it would seem to have been Henry Ford. His hardheaded View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
scenarios early on in the product development process, while the financial and organizational costs of changing course are still relatively low. In Experimentation Matters, Thomke defines six principles that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
was created and popularized by the global facilities management company JLL [Jones Lang Lasalle]. It’s intended to show a company’s relative per-square-foot costs across three factors—utilities, rent, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Books
implicit in the book’s title, the authors interviewed more than forty CEOs from both industry and the nonprofit sector, studied what successful managers do right, and drew on their own years of experience at Bain. They came up with four principles: View Details
Keywords: Management
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Short Takes
care by encouraging effective communication among care providers. In their working paper, "Networks and Organization Design: A Framework for Improving the Coordination of Patient Care," Gittell and Weiss argue that organization design needs to be paired with View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
considered the fourth sister for the protection they provide from damaging winds. Their seeds also distract birds from the corn.) Keen wades into the mass of foliage, checking the corn's progress: "Oh, cool. A little bird relative dropped... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
relatively high costs for labor and energy as well as the investment and time required to build factories in a country that has much more stringent environmental standards. “COVID-19 has changed only a few... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Delivering the Power to Dream Big
lightweight, transparent solar panels, which can be integrated seamlessly into everyday objects, like windows or electronic displays. The technology's promise could lead to widespread adoption of solar power and reduce its cost by... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
analysis of eleven business school programs. To complete the picture, they also interviewed leading academic critics and 28 executives and recruiters. The findings presented a mixed diagnosis of the health of MBA programs but on balance... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
and his team—which included Kristy Cunningham—to get to the heart of what exactly had happened to the 62-year-old icon. The redesign is part of an initiative by McDonald’s corporate to modernize the customer experience, which began in the US as a pilot in early 2016.... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
information junkie, but I did generally know every answer to every nit-picking question that the higher-ups threw at me (e.g., the cost of capital at Playboy was 10 percent). I even developed a working knowledge of things as abstruse as... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 08 Apr 2011
- News
Management Matters In Health Care, Too
MBA students alike, the implications of that view are huge. For policymakers, the message is that cost cutting alone does nothing to improve the quality of care and probably will reduce it. Is anyone in Washington listening? For MBA... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Value of Difficult Conversations
particular people: Do the descendants of those who died or lost property deserve reparations? The relative recency of the Tulsa Massacre and the economic loss—estimated at $26.1 million in today’s dollars—accompanying the tremendous human... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
each time we added seats, average attendance and contributions increased. I made a cash-flow analysis and revenue projections that helped lenders understand our business model. We’re now able to negotiate and secure reasonable financial... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Publishing The 2008 financial crisis triggered a worldwide recession. Unlike the American banking system, which experienced massive losses, takeovers, and taxpayer-funded bailouts, Canada’s banking system withstood the crisis relatively... View Details
- 19 Apr 2017
- News
Chicago Becomes a Hub of Startup Action
position as “capital of the heartland” (making it a magnet for graduates of the Midwest’s top universities), its relatively low cost of living (number 10 in the nation), and its position as a central... View Details
- 15 Feb 2023
- News
Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains
get the cost of removing and storing one ton of carbon dioxide below $100, it will be a feasible mitigation strategy. And Jonas Lee is optimistic. JL: I think well before 2050 the cost per removal of a ton... View Details