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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Harnessing the Tools of the Digital Age
It wasn’t necessary to understand the technology that powered the company’s washing machines, turbines, or jet engines. “But executives now need to understand the technologies behind their products and think about their implications on... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Digitalization: The Key to the Future of HBS
the power of shared data, and what alumni can do to drive this vital change. How does HBS define “digital transformation”? Oftentimes, when people think about “transformation,” they think about complete change. But there is a mathematical... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
leverage the power of the private sector. In some developing countries, people are spending up to 40 percent of their meager incomes on cell phones, which proves that corporations are pretty good at figuring out how to build a market for... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories
spartan, vinyl-floored office in a former communist-run railroad repair yard, and Jeanne Hilsinger insists that is precisely where she wants to be. Now CFO of Mavel a.s., a Czech manufacturer of turbines and turnkey hydroelectric power... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
and animist south, on and off since the mid-1950s, has mostly ceased as a result of a peace agreement between rebels in the south and the Arab-dominated Khartoum government. But as the major powers squabble about what to do in Darfur,... View Details
- 02 Aug 2021
- News
Cracking the Code
applications, connecting data sources and other software together in one place. Its tools are designed to be as powerful as they are straightforward. In fact, the company’s proposition is that many large, venture-backed companies could’ve... View Details
- 26 Jul 2016
- News
HourlyNerd Rebrands as an Enterprise Talent Platform
co-CEO Petitti. “For the first time, businesses are using a unified (internal, external, knowledge) approach to solve problems and capitalize on opportunities. With Catalant, they can access the exact expertise or knowledge needed in real-time.” While Catalant will... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Reunited and It Feels So Good
During several days of engaging academic programs and lively social events held in October both on and off campus, more than fifteen hundred alumni and guests from the MBA Classes of 1953, 1958, 1963, 1968, and 1973 were reminded of the scope and View Details
- 01 Aug 2014
- News
A closer look at the industry of beauty
homogenization persists, the purchasing power of emerging economies, aging populations, and increasingly multiethnic US consumers has now led to a new sensitivity to diversity. Further, Jones has found that today's generation of industry... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Creation of parks connects people to nature and each other
Will Rogers (MBA 1985) recognizes the power of the natural world. As president and CEO of the Trust for Public Land, a national nonprofit that works to conserve land for use as parks and gardens, he helps ensure that nature sticks around... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
see was frustration. I began to realize there's a greater power at work in society than we humans possess even in our most influential posts. So I started thinking, reading, and trying to discover for myself the deeper meaning of life and... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
the general culture. In other dimensions, case-method teaching has the same power as when I was a student at HBS in the 1970s—each professor develops it in his or her own way, making each classroom unique. Lynda Applegate When I started... View Details
- 02 Nov 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
Scott Royster (MBA 1992) believes higher education has the power to transform Africa if only its students have access to it. “Statistics from around the world show that individuals who are able to obtain a university degree earn higher... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
"Our goal is to triple the number of visits by inner-city Chicago children," he says. "We have the power to be a great centralizing institution." With fewer square feet, the MCA in Chicago cannot accommodate as many visitors as some of... View Details
- 02 May 2016
- News
Building Startup Skills for Business and Life
Bill Daugherty (MBA 1991) believes in the power of entrepreneurship—not just to launch successful businesses, but also to jump-start successful lives. After selling his profitable Internet search company in 2004, Daugherty created a... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Creating connections among consumers
Using the power of crowdsourcing, Angie Hicks (MBA 2000) turned neighborly advice about good service providers into a national consumer network that has transformed the world of online reviews and ratings. In 1995, Hicks cofounded Angie’s... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Leading the way in times of crisis
Joe Lhota (MBA 1980) is the kind of courageous, steady presence you want at your side when crisis hits. Consider Hurricane Sandy in October 2012, when New York City’s streets, tunnels, and subway lines were flooded, and power was cut to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Boom Times Ahead
productivity cycles drive economic booms that are further powered by the explosion of new technologies,” explained the Sacramento Bee (October 5, 2004). People get excited when Dent gets bullish, because he’s been right on the money... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Noted & Quoted
with stories of humble beginnings and noble struggles against overpowering adversaries, providing underdog narratives for consumers.” — HBS assistant professor Anat Keinan describing the market power of “challenger brands.” (Financial... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
question, and by the third class we were supposed to understand quite a lot about not only the company but also the people, personalities, power struggles, etc. Who else would have done that? I still get chills forty years later when I... View Details