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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
HBX: Expanding Our Reach
disseminating their ideas to a broader audience. One product HBX plans to launch next year is a suite of pre-MBA courses drawn from HBS's pre-matriculation and Analytics programs. It will be designed for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
favorably if they decided to visit his office to verify where he worked.” Nothing in their polished business plan prepared the partners for the reality they faced from Day One. In the Beginning The friendship that blossomed into a... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Honorable Mention
Association's task force on admissions, were recognized for their efforts to help develop a long-term strategy to boost admission of women to the MBA Program. David Hughes, section president, student senator, and HBS Show production... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Streamlining the Supermarket
remake the traditional grocery store model. TakeOff’s micro fulfillment centers won’t host customers, so a supermarket-sized selection can be squeezed into a 90 percent smaller building footprint. And since mobile robots will retrieve View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
It has been a busy fall here at HBS! Reunions went off without a hitch in early October (be sure to note the photos on page 14), the Alumni Board had a productive meeting on October 16 and 17, and record numbers of alumni volunteers View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Opinion: Making It Better
health-care innovations that offer good value for the money. It was in Africa that we first saw sensible, low-cost health-insurance plans that protect people against financially catastrophic expenses and offer policies that reward the... View Details
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Zihan Lin
deliberate. "We made concessions to get the deal done so that we could learn from it. Without business acumen, you'll never get a product off the R&D shelf and into doctors' hands to benefit the patients who need it."... View Details
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Paul Lenehan
In high school, Paul Lenehan was impressed by the way economics "explained events behind the news. It gave me a lens for understanding how the world works." An attraction to business plans led to an interest in consulting.... View Details
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Linda Leung
products already created by other people,” she says. “I wanted to move into product development itself.” Leadership that recognizes potential For Linda, HBS stood out as the MBA choice that was “net present... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Giving Amazon the Boot
would ship it for us,” she says. “And you didn’t have to sell anything on Amazon. So they would store it and ship it, and it was really cost effective.” Ultimately, realizing that Amazon “is like the world’s biggest mall,” Ford decided to list her View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Case Study: On the Table
furniture design but in a warehouse, a fleet of trucks, and a staff of drivers—the type of capital-intensive vertical integration he planned for later on, after Gaia Design had established its reputation as a source for well-designed,... View Details
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Staff Directory | Baker Library
Knowledge Dina Gerdeman Senior Editor HBS Working Knowledge Karen Golden Digital Product Manager Metadata & Knowledge Systems Elliott Hadwin Accessioning Archivist Special Collections & Archives Austin Haley Information Research... View Details
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
market regulation. New Deal partnerships in planning borrowed from those efforts to manage competitive markets, yet ultimately discredited the fair trade model by mandating economy-wide trade rules that sharply reduced competition. Laura... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures
more than 3,000 American transnationals suggests that JVs are falling out of favor. Why? Increasing forces of globalization such as increasingly fragmented production processes make the decision not to collaborate pay off. That's one... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Bank of America Turned Branches into Service-Development Laboratories
Companies often use rigorous R&D processes to guide new product development, but are much less scientific when it comes to creating services. Not Bank of America, which has turned Atlanta-area branches into consumer laboratories.... View Details
- 05 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?
were not realized. Four years later, another company working on the same technology went public to great acclaim and fanfare. The firm? Netscape Communications, under the leadership of Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark. 2 Because its new View Details
Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 11 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 11
a fictional case study on new product development and improvement after the successful launch of a first breakthrough product. Topics include business planning for brand name products, finance and investment... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
'Rooted' In Innovation
team, novel biotechnology that extends cassava’s shelf life from three days to 18 months. The process transforms the cassava tuber into nutritious food products that provide alternatives to wheat flour. The first View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions
commercial activities? And if so, how? Addressing this question is crucial at a time like now, when an increasing number of organizations engage in hybrid organizing.” Battilana pursues that big question in a new paper, Harnessing View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 10 Nov 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Much Can You Ask of Your Customers?
Summing Up Is customer volunteerism combined with "ownership" a double-edged sword? It's seems okay to involve customers in providing ideas for new products and processes. Encourage them to refer new business. But beware the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett