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- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Books
Objectives in Unpredictable Times studiously avoids a discussion of what the authors call “the S-word” — strategy. Instead, the book offers “a no-excuses, in-the-trenches perspective” that lets managers take existing realities and View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Decoding the Promise and Perils of Generative AI
ChatGPT burst into the public consciousness on November 30, 2022. Within two months, the generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) software, which leverages a large language model (LLM) to produce human-like, text-based conversations, had reached an estimated 100... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
Chartered Bank) in India in 1982, rising through the ranks in a variety of merchant, retail, and investment banking assignments before moving to Morgan Stanley’s India operation in 1994. Through a joint venture with the investment bank JM... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
in-person pitches to miners and smelters around the world—estimating that they personally reached about 80 percent of the market—explaining how Open Mineral would make them more efficient and profitable, as well as collecting their... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
- 08 Dec 2015
- News
Living the Legacy
and more marketable to employers,” says Paul. While his favorite module was economics, he is already utilizing the business analytics tools he mastered in CORe. “Being able to create histograms to quickly visualize data makes me more View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
start seeing the strategic benefits of remote work? Prashanth Chandrasekar: There’s actually been, in some ways, a rise in productivity because people are able to focus and be very efficient with their time. We have not seen any kind of... View Details
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
Chief Operating Officer. It’s a company that really advanced the technology of beamed energy propulsion and that technology has since actually transitioned over onto NASA’s roadmap. Can you talk a little bit about the significance of that... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
contribution health care by employers will result in a more cost-effective and efficient system. Participants submitted papers that were read in advance of the conference. These papers will be edited by Herzlinger and published later this... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
he always remained open to a better idea if someone truly believed in it. I only had a few days before I would have to cancel my HBS trip. Knowing that Grove by reputation was, above all, a manufacturing maven, I called Professor Bob Hayes, who was head of the... View Details
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
INRIX analytics offer similar benefits to corporate customers, Mistele adds, providing greater efficiencies to company fleet operations, commuting time estimates to realtors and home buyers, hourly traffic patterns to retailers and... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
of future generations to meet their own needs," it is slowly becoming a part of the lexicon of business leaders around the world. Easy Being Green? "One of the problems with turning the idea of environmental sustainability into a viable View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Better Hiring Through Brain Science
activities than scanning a résumé for six seconds—which is what the average recruiter does,” she says. But just as important as efficiency to companies like Unilever is the diversity of applicants that Pymetrics delivers—a trait unique to... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
unchallenged position in the marketplace until Japanese firms such as Hitachi and Fujitsu flooded the market with less expensive alternatives. In a bold opening move, Gerstner slashed the price of mainframe systems and pushed the development of a more View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Bringing It Back Home
conjunction with the Social Enterprise Initiative, gives nonprofit leaders the tools to look at their operations from a strategic level. The giving goes both ways, however. The faculty—including Alnoor Ebraham, Allen Grossman, Janice... View Details
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Searching for a Better Society
help searchers get to the best content as quickly as possible. We publish 20 percent of the world's scientific content. If we can help medical researchers, for example, search better—help them get access to content faster, aggregate information in a more View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
since 2007 by Cynthia Carroll (MBA ’89), the first woman and first non–South African to hold the firm’s top spot. In addition to South Africa, from which it derives roughly half its profits, Anglo operates in some 45 countries, employing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
vacant. "The country stops. The days that Brazil plays, it will be a national holiday," Sender says. This year, though, Sender won't have much time to celebrate. As CEO of TAM Airlines, Brazil's largest, she'll be managing operations at... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
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Sizing Up Social Impact
technology to promote land registration and security, improving access to capital, and creating a more efficient judicial system. Tanzania, 2008–2013. Investments of $698 million (the largest MCC commitment to date) will improve roads,... View Details
- 28 Mar 2018
- News
Fueling the Future
they’d ask, ‘Who are you?’ I’d reply, ‘I’m your Schlumberger engineer.’ They’d say, ‘No, you’re not. Send a guy out.’” This was in 1994, and after explaining a replacement would not be coming, Kovatch would get to work. By the end of the job, seeing the quality and... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
between the multinational company, which adjusts its products and practices from country to country (at great cost), and the global corporation, which operates “as if the entire world (or major regions of it) were a single entity; it... View Details