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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Massport, Back on Course
meetings. Thousands of people have participated. And there have been a number of court cases. The judges who have reviewed the evidence have all essentially come to the same conclusion: The new runway is necessary to fix the delay... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
Crest and Pampers, for example, have regained market share after losing their number one positions in the United States several years ago to Colgate-Palmolive and Kimberly-Clark, respectively. Crest won back the top spot recently by... View Details
- 05 May 2022
- News
Lesson Plans
Academy is the established, go-to education platform for learners of all ages. But two years ago, the organization faced a test, one that recalled the role those video lessons played in the lives of his displaced cousins. [music] News clips: With the increased View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
The Young Presidents' Organization. There I encountered much less formally dressed people, hunched over what appeared to be the day's cases. They were crunching numbers and cramming for the work they obviously had not completed the night... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
headlines and rack up revenues in the billions, a number of smaller U.S. companies — some publicly traded, others privately owned — refuse to be overshadowed. However modest their comparative size, their market share still reaches into... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
noting that Hasbro (the owner of Parker Brothers) has come out with a number of new versions of Trivial Pursuit in the last five years. Furlong thinks that Cranium has forced other game makers to focus on new ways to gain, or at least... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
appointed joint interim directors, asking them “to step up and take more responsibility,” and gave more authority to her executive assistant to act as a gatekeeper for issues as they arose. “My number one thing is that I didn’t want to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 14 Feb 2019
- News
Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change
for change, but is not particularly optimistic. “It is the number one social, economic, and financial crisis facing the world, and you’d never know it ,” he said, noting that it is the obligation of these prominent universities to make... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Joy of Work
easy. It has more to do with the relationship between joy and accomplishment. A number of years ago I interviewed the novelist John Irving, who reported that he often spent twelve hours a day writing. I asked him why he put in such long... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.
them to move ahead with it as quickly as possible, even though some colleagues questioned his decision to pour costly resources into a drug meant for a relatively small number of patients. "If your goal is to reduce suffering and cure... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Company. In 1969, the company brought out the Duraflame firelog, made from the sawdust created by mill-ing cedar slats to make pencils. Work, Love, Pray: Practical Wisdom for Young Professional Christian Women by Diane Paddison (MBA ’85) (Zondervan) The View Details
- 09 Jun 2017
- News
Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China
teenager. I didn't like anything about Dali. I was embarrassed about being from Dali. When I got to HBS, I didn't want to tell anybody I was from Dali. Why? Because there are a couple of things that attracted, nowadays, everybody to Dali were the things that drove me... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
same time, American families flocked to locations such as Walt Disney’s Disneyland to experience new forms of leisure. Shopping itself became another form of entertainment, as the number of shopping malls skyrocketed: In 1945, there were... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
on a personal level. A growing number of HBS graduates, including many of his former students, have returned to start businesses in India (see sidebar above), and they often seek his advice. “They’re infected by the entrepreneurial virus,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
action, someone who had the energy, discipline, and charisma to bring his big ideas to fruition. Indeed, during the postwar period, Doriot went on to found a number of important institutions. In 1954, his vision of a peacetime research... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
and the difficulty of gaining access to treatment appear to be the two chief failings of the reform. Says HBS professor Regina Herzlinger, “The rise in costs is partially caused by greater than expected enrollments; the number of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
school districts fail to improve, and what can we do about it?” Coyne describes the system that has generated the challenges we face today and illustrates them with a number of case studies, based on his unique perspective as an... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
least for very long. For the last 14 months she has been running circles around Hollywood, since signing on as employee number one of a startup called Quibi. After devoting the previous two decades to Silicon Valley’s Fortune 500... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
industry revenues. (Of late, however, they have been showing considerable strength; in 1996, independents collectively rallied to grasp the number one spot in total U.S. album market share for the first time - climbing over industry... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
has outpaced the nation’s GDP in all but two years since 1950. Four years after Watson went to med school, there is Watson for radiology, Watson for oncology, Watson for diabetes, and Watson for primary care. Watson serves “thousands” of clients in the medical sector,... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page