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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
there’s already a consensus in the country about how to tackle the challenges. So America is at a crossroads. We can revitalize the economy, or we can sit back and wait. Waiting will only raise the cost and difficulty View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Books
Value Shift by Lynn Sharp Paine The Support Economy by Shoshana Zuboff and James Maxim Value Shift by Lynn Sharp Paine (McGraw HIll) Were it not for the years HBS assistant professor Rakesh Khurana spent Enron, WorldCom, Arthur Andersen, Tyco. A glance at the business... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Vision: Learning Curve
through 20,000 WhatsApp groups at a cost of approximately 10 cents per child, per year. The company has raised $1 million from institutions, including Harvard, MIT, and the World Economic Forum; venture... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Making Eco Easy
HBS’s New Venture Competition (NVC) on April 23, 2019. The judges, many of them alumni, represented sectors ranging from venture capital to private equity to impact investing. Pak detailed the products’ key... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
do that. The best I could do was help it and make it better. The bet was that there would be personal and professional upside that we could fix it. It was the opportunity cost of doing something else. It was... View Details
- 20 Nov 2019
- News
Lifting Fallen Families
public assumes that the government assists them. And it does, to an extent. “There are two government programs that are designed to aid them,” says Kim, “but that aid doesn’t cover the full cost of college.... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 21 Jan 2014
- News
Climbing to New Heights
Everest ascent, he committed to raising £10,000, 20 percent of the cost of the planned shelter. To date, Petzel has raised £6,000; he hopes matching funds from Goldman Sachs... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Saving Grace
holiday—next up is a trip to the American Rockies, if the global health crisis permits it—they can withdraw the cost of the trip and leave the rest where it is to continue growing. They pay one flat annual... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 13 Nov 2018
- News
Building a New Real Estate Investment Model
small mom-and-pop operations, who often feel economic pressure themselves in rapidly gentrifying communities as taxes and other costs rise. Only 2 percent are owned by large institutional investors, and most View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Hüsnü Özyeğin, MBA 1969
2008 Opens Özyeğin University Hüsnü Özyeğin's grandfather was a Turkish clothing merchant who didn't go to college, but he instilled in his progeny an appreciation for the value of education. The younger Özyeğin pursued his studies in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Vision: Into the Breach
covers direct costs of a cyberattack and protects companies if they are sued for disruptions to their computer systems, malicious or otherwise. But the company is preparing to move beyond cyber insurance:... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
response: By providing preventive care and earlier intervention, Primedic’s network will lower costs compared with a public health system notable for its long lines and months-long wait for referrals. Rodríguez, cofounder View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Thompson Dean, MBA 1984
Growing up as the son of a foreign service officer, Tom Dean spent much of his youth in Asia and developed a curiosity about American business. After graduating from the University View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
works. The book is available at no cost to climate outreach and education organizations. Unfettered Journey By Gary F. Bengier (MBA 1981) Chiliagon Press Unfettered Journey is the story of Joe Denkensmith,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Case Study: Farming It Out
innovative product that has a potential for large cost savings, yet it is not protected from competitive developments. Hence, reaching critical mass and name recognition should be foremost in its strategy. The Microsoft approach would... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
Chernilovskiy and Eykher, Kazzinc’s CFO, were suddenly facing an urgent need to reduce costs and improve cash flows. At the same time, they were growing acutely aware of the industry’s inequity: Miners (who... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
payload—this one delivered the company’s New Shepard module that someday could give human passengers a taste of space travel—and are destroyed on the way up or crash back to Earth in pieces. With rockets View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
Thanks to the combined energy of over six hundred enthusiastic alumni, a dozen insightful HBS faculty members, and a score of respected experts, the 1997 Harvard Business School Global Alumni Conference,... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
Fortunately, says Lerner, the opportunities for entrepreneurs have probably never been better, in part because the cost of starting a business has never been lower and in part because the mania for investing... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Lillian Lincoln Lambert, MBA 1969
of its contracts. "Suddenly, I was losing a lot of money," she says "It took us three years to be profitable again." Stringent cost controls and aggressive outreach to... View Details