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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Latest Model
virtual environments—Barrera and Hurder find themselves fielding more and more questions from clients about the costs and benefits of doing business in virtual worlds. As they point out, the economic principles they use to understand how people interact with new... View Details
- 01 Apr 2008
- News
“Let Us Now Praise Famous Women”
their date of birth, nonprofit and corporate board memberships and years served, and multiple layers of prior employment (company, job title, and years). Even had Val, Doris, and Marianna’s duties not expanded over the years, just the fact that there are nearly twice... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
matter who funds it? How does it evolve logically over time? What insights could you derive from studying that particular set of circumstances, where there’s lots of uncertainty and lots of agency problems, meaning that one group may not... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
mutual funds as a means to build their retirement nest eggs. A snapshot of some industry numbers reveals that in 1964, mutual fund assets totaled $28 billion; by 1980, they had grown to some $150 billion. But by 1992, assets had soared to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
explains. “Any brand has the evergreen challenge,” says Vicki P. Haupt (MBA 1979), a senior advisor at Steuben Glass in New York who operates her own consultancy. “It’s a great art to define what relevancy means for your brand while... View Details
- 13 Dec 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
with, what percentage of them would change their vote if they could do it all over again out of the 400 voters? Well, there are three out of the 400 that would change their vote. But again, this is MBA's. How do you interpret this? That doesn't View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
athenahealth's work is geared toward the less glamorous tasks of administration. But less time spent on those details, of course, means more time spent doctoring. "Those first steps of connecting medical providers," Bush says, "represent... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
Everybody is like a CO-something and it’s really irksome actually. And honestly, we are one of the causes for that. Morrell: By “we” Aldi means Gojek. Gojek was founded by fellow HBS alum Nadeem Makarim in 2010. The ride-hailing service... View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
means my team is involved in a wide variety of tasks, ranging from purchasing, engaging with food donors, delivery scheduling, product inspection, and assortment optimization.” How do you use what you learned at HBS in your work? “There... View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
you want to go to the next level of regulation and oversight. And so if you’re trying to raise a $500 million fund, that means the price tag is $5 million, let’s say, as an investor. So that’s why I see a lot more women involved in angel... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
Dreyer’s and ice-encrusted competitors’ brands. Today, it means Dreyer’s is still in charge of its in-store inventory. To help cover the high cost of its company-owned trucks, Dreyer’s over the years has formed partnerships to distribute... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
consumption per person has declined from 3.5 gallons per day in 1979 to 2.9 in 2007. One dramatic way to further reduce oil use is to increase mileage efficiency in motor vehicles. Stobaugh believes that mandated fuel efficiency is a legitimate role for government and... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Q&A: William Kerr and Joseph Fuller
that the rate of change in terms of content of work has been accelerating, and the capacity of the traditional skill system—K–12, college, and other degree-granting institutions—hasn’t moved at the pace of technology or business competition. That View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness
say they want meaning and purpose in their jobs and a work-life balance. They want happiness. + ONLINE web-only content How do these ideas of time, money, and happiness play out in interpersonal relationships? AW: Much of the research on... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 05 Oct 2016
- News
Harvard to Open Life Sciences Lab
world.” She added that the Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab is a BSL-1 rated facility, which means that teams will work with materials that pose no danger to anyone outside the lab. The Life Lab will also play an important role in Harvard’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Leonard Dick (MBA 1990)
bottom up: Staff writer, story editor, coproducer, producer, supervising producer, co-executive producer, executive producer, show runner. “Titles in Hollywood mean everything and nothing. Executive producer sounds very important, but... View Details
- 18 Feb 2014
- News
Stick with Plan A
Ezuza, Inc., a Mexico City-based mobile payments company she launched in 2007 that focuses primarily on the unbanked and under-banked in emerging markets. Zuza means "gain" in Zulu; the e stands for "electronic." "Ezuza is interested in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
brings real value to our customers. “Innovation isn’t just about engineering discoveries,” Timken adds. “It also means getting close to customers, understanding their needs, and finding ways to address them.” Doing so was part of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
that means core elements such as water, transportation, and roads, as well as access to seeds, fertilizers, and new training and technology. But any funder will be confronted with a situation where a potential grantee says, 'We'd like to... View Details
- 04 Aug 2020
- News
How Business Can Advance Racial Equity
the news on any number of fronts, whether it's climate, whether it's public health, whether it's wealth and income disparities, whether it's the health of our democracy, gender equity, racial equity—I mean the laundry list of huge... View Details