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- 01 Mar 2012
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Social Investing Pioneers
rising to a maximum of 13.3 percent, but only if the reoffending rate is reduced by at least 7.5 percent. Even at the highest rate, the government is forecast to pay out only about a third of its cost savings. Fifteen months into the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Tracking a Turnaround
The newly hired president and CEO of a local medical center faces a daunting task: Under intense public scrutiny, he must save a complex, rapidly failing organization whose culture is marred by indecision and distrust — and do so in an environment of increasing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Case Study: Alumni Advice for a Health Care Startup
population like an insurance product. Wellthy is trying to solve a painful problem for employees and employers, not spread the risk of that problem. I suggest charging a fee for service only to active users, and asking employers to... View Details
- 26 Jan 2015
- News
The Ingredients for Success
cost of her much-smaller condo in Los Angeles. Markowitz, now 39, believes she’s found her true passion as NOCHI’s executive director. “I’m attracted to creative people,” she says. “I think sequentially and logically. I’m bottom-line... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
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Lords of Strategy
strategy revolution was a way of systematically putting together all the elements that determined their corporate fate, in particular, the three Cs central to any good strategy: the company’s costs, especially costs relative to other... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Streamlining the Supermarket
full-time employees, slashing labor costs by 90 percent. Those two innovations are expected to add up to a net profit margin of three times that of the overall industry. “And that is really powerful,” Pedró says. “You can actually give... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
computer to predict important properties of molecules. DM: Like how much energy it takes to bind the molecule to CO2. Or how much it costs to produce the molecule. AS: And the other part is using machine learning to connect the dots... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
"Service-Profit Chain" Links Members of Service Management Unit
The following article is the sixth in a series on the activities and research taking place in each academic unit at HBS. Why was Southwest Airlines the only U.S. airline to realize a profit in 1992? What has made crime in New York City... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Case Study: On the Table
logistics can be outsourced to a global company like DHL. Mexico has a cost advantage, so it can naturally be a production center. —Ali al Shihabi (MBA 1985) Consider researching how Indian furniture startups and food companies are... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
is perfor-mance-based and guarantees the reimbursement of our expenditures and cost of capital as long as these are prudent and efficient. The model requires us to accelerate and even advance our capital investments, roll out the network... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
Anderson was facing challenges in defining and measuring costs and outcomes. Porter introduced Kaplan to MD Anderson leaders, bringing a new dimension to the partnership. "I had done some previous work in the health care sector, and it... View Details
- 24 Feb 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Palm Beach
based on the experiences of the pandemic, he said, "we need to deliver an on-campus experience that is central to leadership development, while also leveraging synchronous learning and hybrid technology to ensure that our two-year program... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
Students take part in "living cases," where they work with an active social entrepreneur. The course concludes with an exploration of the role of business leaders on nonprofit boards. Offered three times since the spring 1995 semester,... View Details
- 28 Mar 2019
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California Alumni Explore Role of Capitalism in Addressing Climate Change
how business can help “turn our world around.” The talk was based on her popular MBA course, Reimagining Capitalism: Business and the Big Problems. From left: Alexa McCulloch (MBA 1999), president, HBSASC; Jennifer Nash, director, HBS... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
(with Richard F. Vancil and Paul W. Marshall). He also contributed the chapter"Capital Budgeting and Long-Range Planning" to the book Progress in Operations Research. Beyond HBS, Christenson has been an active member of professional... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 01 Jun 2001
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Group Therapy: The Role of Business Groups in Emerging Economies
consequences of group affiliation in Asia and Latin America for several years, often with HBS professor Krishna G. Palepu. His current research focuses on several important aspects of business groups: their effect on entrepreneurial View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
with extracurricular activities ranging from student government, to volunteer work with local schoolchildren, to rock music. On the occasion of the 1996 HBS Commencement, we salute these students and their stellar classmates as they begin... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
presidential candidates have acknowledged the need for change, and that opens up an opportunity to shift from payment based on activity to payment based on quality and outcome... View Details
- 24 Mar 2023
- News
Exploring Talent Markets; Aid for Turkey
that means for both hiring organizations and job-seekers. The conversation, titled "How to Hire Your Next Job," was based on Bernstein's ongoing research for an upcoming book on the topic, and took place in a classroom at Toronto's Juno... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Breaking Free from Fear of Change
research on high-need-for-achievement professionals — people with an insatiable need to keep achieving at all costs — DeLong took stock of the ways in which he and other driven executives can become victims of their own ambitions and... View Details