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- 01 Feb 2017
- News
New Regional Offices Broaden HBS’s Intellectual Reach
to Save the World,” a case by Geoffrey Jones, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, featuring Olivia Lum, founder and CEO of Singapore-based Hyflux Group, one of the world’s leading desalination companies Tel Aviv: Various... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Fred Newman (MBA 1978)
Video Embed How “the human fly” saved Newman from a cold call. I wasn’t unique as a kid. In small-town Georgia, all the guys did sound effects. We’d swap them like baseball cards: Show me how to do a finger whistle, and I’ll show you how... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 28 Jun 2011
- News
Beyond Case Writing
interest in global health to the realization that an estimated 13 million people die each year for lack of low-cost products that could save their lives. Over the past seven years, she has conducted research projects in Zambia aimed at... View Details
- 06 Dec 2011
- Op-Ed
Greater Fiscal Integration Best Solution for Euro Crisis
profligate governments off the hook. But if it really does come down to risking that consensus or saving the euro, it is likely Draghi will choose the latter, and the results of the summit might give him enough justification for doing... View Details
Keywords: by Dante Roscini
- Web
VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Value-Based Health Care Delivery Read more about Measuring Costs Action Research The Harvard Business School VBHCD team helps provider sites: Implement time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) to measure costs over the full care cycle, and then identify cost View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Complete Package
pallets and numerous other custom-designed packaging options. “I started with the vision of saving the world,” she says, “and the first question everyone asked was, ‘How much will it cost?’” Chong saw the need for more environmentally... View Details
Keywords: April White; entrepreneurship; sustainability; packaging; leadership; women; Manufacturing
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Reinvigorating Democracy: A Vote for Change
Politics Industry, How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy, the authors apply Porter’s renowned “Five Forces” business framework to the realm of politics. Gehl, the former CEO of Gehl Foods, and Porter,... View Details
Keywords: Young, Susan
- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Innovating for International Aid
businessperson, or academic trying to address the developing world’s greatest challenges.” He believes this is the perfect opportunity to bring all his skills together in one project. “USAID itself has, at a high level, a mission to end extreme poverty, to potentially... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Sheila Lirio Marcelo, MBA 1998/JD 1999
way to class each day, discussing coursework and cases in their spare moments. After working as a teaching fellow at HBS for a year and delivering her second son, Marcelo joined Upromise, a start-up that helps families save money for... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 08 Aug 2013
- News
Cause Marketing Gets Personal
department. He saved my life." Langer gave NABCO eight more years, until the nonprofit, which struggled with funding post-9/11, closed its doors in 2004. "We made the decision with $2 million in the bank and gave away intellectual... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Brick by Brick
back in-house for quality control. Emphasizing simplicity, clarifying the core of its business, and engaging the larger community helped save the LEGO Group. Although Kundstorp was not a Kristiansen by birth, his management style and... View Details
- 25 May 2015
- Blog Post
RapidSOS Wins the HBS New Venture Competition
conversation where you articulate your precise location and type of emergency. Recent investigations by NBC News and USA Today found that 60% of mobile 911 calls can’t be accurately located. A 2013 study cited by the FCC estimates that over 10,000 lives could be... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Accelerating a Gas-on-demand Startup
customer delivered pizzas. “If you can save me 20 minutes,” he told Frist, “you are saving me money.” Yoshi estimates that it can return 30 hours a year to the average car owner. Today, president and COO... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Opportunities Realized Through Fellowships
Michailidis says. “I studied with incredibly competent people and two of them became my business partners. We founded Pushpins while we were still at HBS.” The Pushpins application enables users to scan items in grocery stores and receive instant View Details
Keywords: fellowships
- 10 Jan 2017
- News
Sir David Clementi Named BBC Chairman
broadcaster be run by an external board rather than the BBC Trust, which currently governs the organization. Analysis from a BBC media editor notes some of the challenges Clementi will face in the new role: Foremost is funding. The BBC needs to find hundreds of... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Providing lessons in financial literacy
and personal finance curriculum to 5 million students. “It’s not just that (they) should save money. It’s about learning to make informed decisions, such as ‘should I go to college?’ And what are the tradeoffs for those decisions?” says... View Details
- 24–26 Aug 2016
- Reunion
HBS Executive Education Global Alumni Leadership Summit
This special two-day summit is designed exclusively for members of our HBS alumni community. We hope that you will take part in the global conversation, and look forward to welcoming you back on campus for the celebration. View Details
- 21 May 2016
- News
Homegrown Heroes
a recent article. Five years later, with events in 11 countries, including Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia, and China, Sityodtong oversees a sports media company with 90 percent regional market share and triple-digit percentage annual growth. In a March 2015 HBS... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Pitch for Change
The “Pitch for Change” wasn’t a case of saving the best for last, because all that came before was so good. But the elevator-pitch, business-plan showdown did close February’s 11th annual Social Enterprise Conference on a high note:... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
One-on-One with Tom Oreck
Katrina knocked out operations at the New Orleans headquarters and the Long Beach plant, pushing the business to the brink. Advanced planning saved vital data and operations, but Oreck credits employees with actually View Details