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- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Innovative Course Brings Students and Alumni Together
general manager. After failing to find appropriate materials through traditional sources, Garvin went directly to the front lines for relevant information: to HBS alumni who had recently made just such a transition themselves. In a mass... View Details
Keywords: Meg Gardner; photo by Joshua Lavine
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
have been some suggestions that insurers should look back at their historical hospital spending and transfer a commensurate amount of money to hospitals during this crisis. There are different health care needs right now, and it is View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Cutting Edge
"We're reemerging as a high-margin, health-and-wellness company," says Silk, speaking from Smith Brothers headquarters in Chicago. "We'll continue to make our traditional cough drops, but we've also introduced a variety of over-the-counter 'throat drops' View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New Releases
can respond appropriately to demand, lean inventories, and the rapid replenishment of stock. "The old way was to gear planning and production decisions to forecasts and guesses made months in advance of a selling season," write Hammond... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Crisis and Creativity
Texas Instruments were also launched during this time. In fact, the odds on the success of an appropriately directed new venture during a downturn may be higher than in a competitive boom. Entrepreneurs — inside and outside of... View Details
Keywords: Bhaskar Chakravorti
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
that vision is an important part of any nonprofit and for-profit strategy. Then you can go back and see if it has the potential to be scalable, if it’s going to have sufficient impact, if the management team is solid, and if there’s an View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
Switzerland, to "spiritual anchors for the new millennium." Clearly, something of a nonmaterial nature is stirring in the corporate temple. But questions abound. Just what does it mean to bring spirituality into the workplace? Is this an View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
with a growing middle class in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, and Burundi. We hope to become the world's newest 'tiger states.' Bureaucracy and lack of appropriate infrastructure are challenges, but most African countries are now... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Finance Conference Explores Research Methodologies
field-based research. Its purpose was not to resolve issues on appropriate methodologies for research but rather to begin a discussion to stimulate thinking and debate. The conference, titled "Complementary Research Methodologies: The... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
areas: defining the School's audiences, identifying vehicles for communication, and addressing design and content. The committee's work is predicated on the fact that HBS needs to communicate its services and programs more effectively to the View Details
- 06 Oct 2020
- News
Clearing the Path to Citizenship
appropriate federal forms, which can sometimes exceed 600 pages, and independent immigration attorneys review the applications to ensure all the necessary supporting documents are included. The company tracks the application through... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Turning Point: One Step at a Time
work just as well. Luckily this meant I had plenty of places to hide. I found a tree a few hundred feet beyond the starting line and ducked for cover. Then I spritzed myself with water to ensure that I was appropriately sweaty and jogged... View Details
Keywords: Christina Wallace (MBA 2010)
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Short Takes
study included both state-owned enterprises and joint ventures and found that the latter group was consistently more innovative and market-oriented, and had a more competitive corporate culture. "One hope," the authors write, "is that through the introduction of View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey
- 13 Dec 2011
- News
Harvard Business School Launches US Competitiveness Project
role will be. There is no more appropriate time than now for us to explore this question deeply and develop answers that will allow America to remain a competitive place to conduct business in the international economy." The Project is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
value for patients, where value is the health outcomes achieved relative to the money spent. While his initial work focused on reorganizing care and measuring outcomes, he began to understand that appropriate cost information was missing.... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
The September cohort of the Class of 1998 has arrived on campus, and with the new academic year starts a fresh term for the HBSAA Board of Directors. Since the Board represents over 60,000 HBS alumni, I thought it would be appropriate to... View Details
Keywords: Cathy Connett
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Corporate Governance Conference Addresses Global Challenges
discussing their findings, Shleifer and Johnson combined business and economic statistics from these nations to illustrate the levels of investor protection achieved by the disparate models. Establishing appropriate legal support for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
and the moral hazard associated with that. Or the additional capital and regulatory requirements will put these firms at a disadvantage relative to their competitors, and you will have weakened the firms that you believe to be systemically significant. Neither is a... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Better Mousetraps: At Product Design Fair, Student Ideas Get Real
Web-based data service that will allow health providers to have instant access to patients' past EKG records, enhancing their ability to furnish appropriate care. "If you came into the ER with chest pain, the doctor would get an EKG,"... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 20 Apr 2016
- News
Steps to Success
Appropriate Technology for the Environment (CREATE!), which laid the groundwork for the garden through irrigation basins, a solar-powered pump, and, most importantly, training cooperative groups of village women: “It’s just stunning to... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken