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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness. The Business Roundtable was no less emphatic. “This is an unprecedented preemption of state corporate law that will turn boards of more than 15,000 publicly traded... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship
I want to show my support for an institution that has made and will continue to make a valuable contribution to management practice all over the world," says Andreas Andresen (69th AMP), a retired German industrialist who recently became... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
that electric cars constitute 2 percent of all car sales by 1998, the company, along with the rest of the auto industry, protested vigorously. "The role of government should be to provide incentives for people to embrace sustainable development View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms
research plus their own wealth of practical and academic experience to examine the unique challenges of leadership in professional service firms. The result of what may be the first-ever collaboration between an HBS faculty author and a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
an exciting time for opportunity in the logistics industry. “It’s going to raise a lot of questions, none of which are without consequence for the Postal Service,” he says. Through his consulting practice and now as director and strategic... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
intense, markets tend to form, with supply responding to demand, in spite of controversy. Thus, with the potentially huge, lucrative, and beneficial industry that could emerge from embryonic stem-cell research, the question seemingly... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 22 Jul 2021
- News
Mentoring Fashion Startups in Singapore; Rising Star Accolades for Mid-Career Women
mentors are pre-matched to each startup team and given detailed information and problem statements in advance so they can provide practical solutions to the challenges the startups are facing. The June session was the fourth one that... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
practical guidance, and cutting-edge research, author Maria Ellis offers readers a comprehensive and compassionate understanding of Alzheimer’s disease—from its emotional toll to its scientific frontiers. More than just a reflection on... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
theoretical and practical challenges related to an organization's philosophy and operations. According to Associate Professor Karen Wruck, an expert on finance and firms in crisis, acquisitions often fail to create the value anticipated... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
been unable to adapt and grow. The authors present a set of practices to guide firms as they adopt ambidexterity. Readers will understand how to improve their existing businesses through efficiency, control, and incremental change while... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
After the Revolution: Putting the Internet in Perspective
This is truly a revolution." Nolan underlined the advantage that new-economy companies have over their incumbent competitors, using drugstore.com as an example. Taking only a year to build, drugstore.com has become the fastest-growing company to reach $1 billion in... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Rowing Upstream
individual rowers, lose regularly in practice to the supposedly less talented Army JV boat. The two big questions facing Coach P are: Why is this happening? What can be done about it? And that’s what the students must grapple with as... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
market might be ready for the introduction of a particular category and brand .The practice of using deodorants, for example, was much slower to spread in Europe than in the United States. There was... View Details
- 20 Feb 2019
- News
Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs
prosperity,” says Elumelu. “That is at the heart of Africapitalism.” The retired chief executive officer, now chairman of the United Bank of Africa (UBA) and the founder of Heirs Holdings, Elumelu has put the tenet of this community-focused philosophy into View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Class of 1949 Gift Supports HBS Faculty Development
Harvard Business School's mission to bring cutting-edge business practice to the classroom." According to Dwight B. Crane, senior associate dean, director of Faculty Development, a number of factors are exerting new pressures on the HBS... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
(formerly known as Project Antares), a collaboration between HBS and HSPH that intends to use business and markets to break the perverse synergy between poverty and poor health. Says HSPH professor and Antares cofounder David Bloom, an... View Details
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Book Smart
technology to deliver books to children all over the world. “I always think life is this combination of romance and practicality,” he explains. “And the romance was, maybe we can do something really big and really affirming and life-changing for millions and millions... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
How Deep Brain Stimulation Could Change Medicine
he performed in the operating room as doctors tinkered inside his brain. All the while, Bennet and his team monitored the tremors as neurosurgeon Lee inserted the electrodes, making sure that each found its target. The procedure was a success; Frisch was View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Short Takes
competitive edge. As one example of a winning strategy, Nolan cites Cisco Systems, a twelve-year-old company that makes routers for networks. In 1998, Cisco reached a market value exceeding $100 billion in record-breaking time. It did so,... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Alumni Books
how companies use innovative business models to achieve transformational growth by fulfilling customer needs in current markets; serving new customers and creating new markets; and responding to shifts in market demand, government policy,... View Details