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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
In Brief
counter basic assumptions. Several HBS professors consider the cost to organizations when dissent does not or cannot surface, and suggest ways to make sure it does. To the Rescue. In India, there’s no such thing as calling 911 in an... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
treatments and toward value for patients; he defined “value” as “health outcomes per dollar spent.” Instead of the current system of disjointed, episodic medical interventions, Porter argued for an... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Hair Today
extensions market. Today, Upgrade is an e-commerce site where customers can create a customized wig at an average cost of $500; it also has a brick-and-mortar location in Houston’s Third Ward, where Winters... View Details
- 16 Nov 2021
- News
Getting Back Together for Global Networking Night; Healthcare Conference Draws New Interest
event. GNN, HBS Club of Austin The HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) saw this year’s GNN as an opportunity to introduce its membership to Terrill L. Drake, the inaugural Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at HBS, through... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 10 Apr 2019
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Rakuten’s Mikitani Bets $5.5 Billion To Shake Up Japan’s Telecom Industry
A recent feature in Forbes outlines Rakuten CEO Hiroshi Mikitani’s plan to disrupt Japan’s mobile phone market. Named Rakuten Mobile, the company hopes to build the network in “half the time and at a cost of... View Details
- 12 Jul 2018
- News
In the Market for Environmental Change
Carl Ferenbach (MBA 1972) is cofounder and retired managing director of the Boston-based private equity firm Berkshire Partners and chair of the Environmental Defense Fund. In... View Details
- 11 Apr 2018
- News
The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)
grateful to Professor Nick Retsinas for supervising me in my HKS Policy Analysis Exercise; and Professor Rebecca Henderson had a great way of framing ethical challenges and decisions in LCA. “But I’d have to say that Nori Lietz left the... View Details
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
Despite New England’s long traditions of farming and fishing, only an estimated 5–10 percent of the food consumed in the region is actually produced there. That’s a fact Andrew Kendall (MBA 1988) is working... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Good Odds
industry, Behn says. “We know that nature doesn’t produce perfectly homogenous output,” he says. “The variability is normal, and it’s actually endearing.” It’s also less costly. Imperfect fruit and vegetables cost about 30 percent less... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
matched? If fixed revenues cannot cover all of an organization's expenses, says Herzlinger, they should at least be matched with fixed expenses; variable revenues should be used to cover variable expenses. Many GSUSA councils that... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
New Loan Program Signals Breakthrough in MBA Financial Aid
Imagine being accepted into the Harvard MBA Program only to realize you can't afford to enroll. This unfortunate scenario is quickly becoming a thing of the past, thanks to an unprecedented new loan program introduced last spring. HBS... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
cognitive problem. The PCs simply did not make sense to DEC, given their customer context and their cost structure/business model. “Disruptive Tech 101” When Clay Christensen speaks of disruptive and... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Skydeck Voices: For My Next Act
always worse than you think they are and take longer to fix and cost more. But the goal of what I do is like building community. I've been a real estate developer since the early 1980s and it's always about... View Details
- 01 Feb 2018
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HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
restructured John’s Island’s management company, Community Condominium Services, Inc., by reducing costs while improving services and its hurricane protection practices. At the John’s Island Club, he was a regular speaker and co-chair... View Details
- 05 May 2022
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Like-Minded
for Morgan Stanley and leading the Japan office of Clay Finlay, a New York–based asset management company. Matsui was the vice chair for Goldman Sachs Japan and the chief Japan equity strategist. On these... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Dream Job: Higher Ed’s New Hire
costs are fixed. The pandemic has made it a very challenging time in the life of universities. People are thinking really hard about the value proposition of tuition View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
John (“Bo”) Kemp
For someone who considers himself an "idea guy," Bo Kemp distinguished himself as a man of action at HBS. Friendly, outgoing, and at ease with fellow students, faculty, and administrators alike, Kemp demonstrated a remarkable ability to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Core Values Keep Airline Flying High
procedures, boost innovation, and keep costs down while retaining a high degree of teamwork, communication, and coordination across functions. While its top-ranked customer service ratings have established... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
repairs, in addition to billing for repairs to the personal vehicles of district employees, for a total of $785,195 from 2005 to 2017. The mechanic and his wife—neither employees View Details
- 11 Feb 2021
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Retraining for a Post-COVID Workforce
“Instead of traditional loans, these programs use income-share agreements that are repaid based on future salaries, with graduates earning higher wages subsidizing the cost for those not working or making... View Details