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- 01 Sep 2010
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RX for Change
Medical Center in Heerlen, the Netherlands. “There are two jobs at Toyota,” Bohmer agrees. “The job. And making the job better. Improvement is the real work.” At Virginia Mason Medical Center, TPS leads to a number of process changes in... View Details
- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
evolution. So what makes carbon capture special? Why is it commanding so much attention and capital? JM: It really is a math problem. DM: And the big number in climate change calculations is 1.5 degrees Celsius or about 2.7 degrees... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
efforts—dubbed the Meth Project—and a decline in drug use, surveys showed the number of Montana high school students who said they’d used the drug declining by 45 percent between 2005 and 2007. Now Shaw wanted to import Siebel’s strategy... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Turning Point: In Good Company
around the world, and perhaps most important, signed up for an undergraduate creative writing class across the river. It gave me the space for self-expression that I needed. More than any number of cases, those two years taught me how to... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Wide Screen Approach
says. “They were watching five times the amount of video content as the average US consumer.” She took the numbers and the direct-to-consumer streaming plans to WWE chairman and CEO Vince McMahon, who had been planning to launch a linear... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
No Bull — Nancy E. Havens-Hasty (MBA 1971)
female corporate finance associate at Kidder, she became an equity analyst two years later, covering the computer industry. Joining Bear Stearns in 1979 as a risk arbitrage analyst, she rose to number two in the worldwide risk arbitrage... View Details
Keywords: Linda Goodspeed
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
Clark will also brief attendees on the School's efforts to build intellectual capital around these ideas and integrate them into the curriculum. He will report on some of the early work of HBS's California Research Center, our new facility in Silicon Valley. We will... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
Lovepop Woos The Sharks
our whole team was going to be focused on making sure the website was up and fielding customer service calls. We were all hands on deck—we even had a whole bunch of extra people come on to help us out. We just set up a whole response center in our office, and we... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Truth in Lending
take them to answer each question? Do they change their answers? (Men are more likely than women to change their number of dependents or marital status, DiDonna has observed.) In the last five years, the Entrepreneurial Finance Lab has... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Fast Forward
same, but the scope has expanded from just research to helping business leaders take action to make America more competitive. The number of faculty involved has grown from 15 to almost 25, and a host of HBS alumni and corporate partners... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Revitalizing America
people in dedicating a year to national service far outpaces the number of available slots. In 2009, Congress passed the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act to expand the opportunities provided through the federal agency that oversees... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Home Sweet (Modular) Home
cracks began to appear in its carefully crafted production plan. The first order of modular homes languished on the assembly line for months as Greentech struggled to resolve a number of serious production-control issues. Stuntz now has... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
practices to lead some 150 consultants and employees in the building of the aquarium against almost impossible financial odds. "I started the early design meetings with a nondenominational prayer," says Stuart, an Episcopalian who also draws on the tenets of a View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
those numbers. And it has become steadily less patient for results, in part because now you can get the numbers back from the market overnight. Private equity firms, with their short time horizons and relentless pressure for results, are... View Details
- 22 Jan 2020
- News
What It Takes
Abington High School in suburban Philadelphia, Stephen Schwarzman (MBA 1972) got waitlisted at Harvard College. So he found the number for Harvard’s dean of admissions and called him up to plead his case directly. When told by the dean... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Cold Call Horror Stories
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes During Fall Reunions, the podcast team set up our microphones in Spangler Hall and asked alumni to tell us about those terrifying moments when—as is tradition at HBS—they got Cold Called by a professor.... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
services and quality of life. “The HBSCP projects gave me an exciting opportunity to help San Francisco break through a number of short-term challenges to be the world-class city it is rapidly becoming, while also being a great place to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
that offers a $24 million prize pool for one tournament, bracketed levels of competition, and tournaments that yield almost $17 million in sponsorship revenue? These numbers aren’t referring to golf or tennis, but eSports. ESports... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
1970s," says Andrews, "a number of firms, many headed by HBS alumni, set an example for other companies by eliminating racial discrimination and, in certain cases, by deliberately ignoring discriminatory laws." Andrews notes that several... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
Entrepreneurs supports the growing number of leaders who are helping expand civic and grassroots engagement, providing resources and connecting leaders in pursuit of these goals. Rob Zeaske (MBA 2002), president and cofounder Issue One is... View Details