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- 10 Aug 2015
- News
A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges
In 2001, Monisha Kapila (MBA 2005) went to India to help its people emerge from the devastating Gujarat earthquake. As she worked with artisans to reach new crafts markets, she knew she had found a perfect way to use her business skills... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 20 Jan 2015
- News
Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized
the cost of care. The records are secure—encrypted, password-protected, HIPAA-compliant, and not stored on a server. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Bushkin read of displaced New Orleanians whose paper medical records had been... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
expectations with promises of same-day delivery, the logistics industry is looking to completely new models, like crowdsourcing, autonomous technology, and on-demand delivery. Robert Reisner (MBA 1971), who led the Postal Service’s... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 21 Dec 2018
- News
Bridging the Gap
The other trend in study abroad is that those experiences have become shorter and shorter. So, on average, a typical study abroad is between three and six weeks at this point, which is not long enough to sit through your discomfort, to learn a View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Pricing Paradise
eliminated; a 20 percent loss due to budget cuts was deemed a realistic possibility.) The researchers adopted the “willingness-to-pay” methodology that federal agencies such as OSHA and the FDA use to determine how much people would pay... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 15 Apr 2017
- News
Bringing Markets to Myanmar
ahead. But they had virtually no experience in the roles of government and private sector in creating a dynamic economy. Putting Myanmar in perspective, it's the size of Texas, and it has a population of 54 million-- same as California and View Details
- 25 Jun 2014
- News
A Man on a Mission
of 27 marathons, including the Boston Marathon (twice), Earls has proven that he can accomplish just about anything he sets his mind to. When Earls officially retired at the end of 2005, he was director of NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. He had been... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
unexpectedly offered Williams an ad agency internship at the conclusion of his first year. Building on that 2004 summer experience, he’s headed for an advertising job in New York City upon graduation.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Forestalling Terror
Michael Roberto and published this year, is “Managing National Intelligence (A): Before 9/11.” The case plumbs the background of what will likely be remembered as one of the most tragic organizational failings in American history: the inability of the country’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
Walmart to an African hand pump, a New York City park, and the B-17 bomber), the book explains why including the customer is an essential ingredient of success for any team, company, or organization. The Moses Virus by Jack Hyland (MBA... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
years, which had focused on new directions for the School. These included rebuilding the self-confidence of the tenured faculty, and creating a shared sense that the School’s mission was still valid and powerful. “The absence of a broad... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
tax dispute in IRS history, settled in 2006 when GlaxoSmithKline paid the agency some $3.4 billion, a case that the IRS said sent “a strong message of our resolve” in dealing with transfer pricing. Says Wells, “The manipulation of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Making It Count
capabilities, skills, and knowledge to find profitable and innovative solutions to the world’s problems, and that innovation is unleashing a new wave of value creation throughout the economy.” Serafeim also thinks that we’re due for a... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 08 Aug 2013
- News
Cause Marketing Gets Personal
her classmates, Langer began her employment in the financial industry, joining Shearson Lehman Brothers as an investment banker. "I was specializing with retail companies: Federated Department Stores, Macy's, Barneys New York. It was just... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making
chair of the Negotiation and Decision Making unit. Indeed, the field has grown so important that in 1994 HBS became the first major business school to require a full negotiation course for MBAs. In that popular new course, which draws on... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
justifiably wary of outside experts telling them how to better themselves. Since 1965, the Appalachian Regional Commission, or ARC, an economic development agency established as part of President Johnson’s War on Poverty, has poured... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Vision: A Unicorn Evolves
still loomed. As Medina saw it, the company had one valuable asset: the shockingly effective sales-engagement tool they had created. In 2014, GroupTalent shuttered, and Outreach—from the same founding team—was launched. Success wasn’t immediate. The same recruiting... View Details
- 27 Mar 2014
- News
From Marx to Marketing
the time a partner at the Athens-based Ulysses Commission Trading Company, an agency company representing foreign manufacturers in the Greek market, watched those dramatic days in late 1989 with mixed feelings. "I knew that the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Patrick Moreton
An expert on competition in telecommunications and new technologies, Patrick S. Moreton (MBA ’91) takes the long view. Despite congressional efforts to tighten controls over media ownership and the current public outcry against media... View Details
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
the corridor, which was populated with glass offices, my workmates would kind of call me in and say, it's been not so good today, Perella just kind of reamed you a new one. So that was one. I was embarrassed by that. The other is, I... View Details