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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
for HBS. Steve Taylor (MBA ’71) Park City, UT Is Current Capitalist Model Sustainable? The March Bulletin was uplifting. I was very pleased with the news about Al Gore visiting the campus and Garry Emmons’s article addressing the problem... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 28 Feb 2025
- News
Joy to the World
world through this work? And then the other is how do we operationalize it? The difference that we're seeking to make is to significantly, measurably increase joy and well-being in the community of East Boston, but in so doing also to demonstrate a View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Students Forecast Climate Change’s Impact
this past fall with an open challenge: choose an organization whose operating model will be significantly affected by climate change, and tell us what it should be doing to address it. Students posted... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
whole thing (shout out to Thales Teixeira!), which has been incredibly helpful in figuring out our business model and buying advertisements. Until very recently, we were the ones designing all of our ads, buying all of our search terms,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
for iPhone and Android. The timing was great as mobile apps were starting to take off. However, my Bessemer team and I became fixated on the pricing model and passed on the Series-A round. Just a few years later, the company sold to... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
Umeda visits. Sato-san’s right lung has failed; morphine helps ease the pain, but it’s hard not to worry as the weekend nears. The clinic is always a phone call away, Dr. Umeda reassures them. Matsubara is one of eight clinics operated by... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
14 for '14
and 13 drift leftward. We will see what works. A controlled experiment in governance." —Grover Norquist (MBA 1981), president, Americans for Tax Reform "TV networks and streaming providers will experiment more with 'weekly installments' versus 'available all at once'... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
model were the subject of a Harvard Business School case study. An inspirational story of grit and determination, Lift Off is also an uncommon lesson in best business practices—and proof that they are sound strategy. Courage and... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
the breakthrough development of Liquid Tide in 1984, is proud that most of P&G's growth in recent years has come from core products that are household names around the globe. "I really believe you should play to your strengths," he says. "Our business View Details
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
insight into how the business model might work. And so by seeing several industries in a very short period of time, then it really did teach me how to think strategically. And I think it's something that's served very well the rest of my... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Case Study: The Speed of Light
(Photo courtesy of KDC Solar) Launched in 2011, QE solar is an operations and maintenance company focused on servicing large-scale, commercial solar energy structures—the kind typically owned by large utility companies. The company is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
that involves much more than getting goods from point A to point B. We all work to support that model from the operating department to marketing and sales to finance." "There's a zealotry in railroad... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The View from the Pit
Illustration by Steve Bjorkman When the Class of 1974 returns to campus to celebrate its 25th Reunion, at least three of its members won't have far to travel. From their base of operations at Soldiers Field, faculty members and classmates... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
do business the same way — with identical processes, functions, and operations — while approaching this elevated stage; but by the time they attain it, successful companies do share certain qualities and practices not observed in firms... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
management practice has evolved since the "benevolent, high-growth environment" following World War II. That era provided fertile ground for the growth of Alfred Sloan's "strategy, structure, systems" model of the divisional corporation... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
A New Platform for Alumni Engagement
alumni to inform future research. “HBS is applying the innovation model to teaching, which will make it possible to creatively inspire engaged learning ...” —Morgan McKenney (MBA 2003) “HBS is applying the innovation View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
Technologies for Innovation, Thomke argues that many companies are not yet making the best use of breakthrough technologies for experimentation — including simulation and computer modeling — to generate and test new product possibilities.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
Harvard’s Kennedy School, argue for serious corporate soul-searching: “As a society, we have bought into a system in which we ask little of corporate leaders beyond the aggressive pursuit of short-term self-interest. For two decades, this View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Internet Tsunami
had operating profits of $1.9 million on sales of $4 million. Mikitani, formerly a banker at the Industrial Bank of Japan, became a man with a mission after attending HBS: He founded Rakuten, he told the magazine, because "I wanted to set... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
There’s a theme over the past twenty years of American companies creating more horizontal business models that require depending on others for fundamental things. A lot of businesses overdid it, as we did on the 787. So one of the lessons... View Details