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- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
who is invested in keeping it that way. The book presents a new vision of how health care could work if it were truly designed to meet consumer needs, creating a call to action on how to demand and help... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
of realistic, technology-agnostic best practices for supporting hypergrowth in nearly any environment. In this new edition, they add many new examples, plus case studies from many exceptionally demanding sites, including Etsy, Nasdaq,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Case Study: Sweat the Technique
version first. Launch it to test real demand and to better understand usage patterns and segments. If it is successful, raising more capital for developing the digital shouldn’t be a problem. You can then position a more sophisticated... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
panels. Instead, the panels would need to come from Asia — a considerable challenge for an eighty-employee company based in suburban Boston. Sharpe’s response was equally direct. ET partnered with a company based in Singapore and shipped it panel pieces to be assembled... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
inherent in online trading. "The online consumer can execute a trade for up to 90 percent less than a traditional broker's fee," Light points out. "Consequently, the intermediaries in the financial services industry-the brokers-are really... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
you have a massive production of lithium-ion batteries––that’s the technology of choice today––which brings scale costs way down. So, as EVs grow, that’s going to drive down lithium-ion prices. “You’re going to have a huge demand for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
14 for '14
consumer data, expect social platforms to grab media dollars from TV budgets and to drive e-commerce sales. Facebook continues to grow but look for Google to get more aggressive by leveraging YouTube and Google+." —Walter Delph (MBA... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
change that. Going forward, we need to view diagnostics, devices, and drugs in terms of the objective value that each creates. What about patient attitudes? Do you think most health-care consumers are ready to place their faith in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
forth as a solution. But HBS assistant professor Daniel Snow, who studies the application of new technology, offers a caveat. Snow, who has worked with both Honda and Ford, points out that technological advances are a plus only if View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
the yield and quality of various cuts of beef to determine if he wants to repeat prior cow-bull pairings or emphasize particular traits or grazing conditions. The physical demands of farming are on par with an endurance athlete's training... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The View from the Pit
"Today's students have a more pragmatic perspective. They don't merely focus on the theory of the case, and they tend to promote more global considerations." Because his students demand substantial real-world relevance alongside theory,... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
Jennifer Rottenberg (MBA '96) Down on the Farm: Frank Burke (MBA '87) A Player's View: Gord Kluzak (MBA '98) As in any business, the sports industry's mounting costs are eventually passed on to the consumer - at the stadium, via... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
relatively pro-business government and an energetic young population and growing middle class that make no secret of aspiring to a better quality of life, complete with all the consumer goods such an existence entails. The downside,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
produce cheaper and better-quality cars than Detroit, and insisted that American consumers would buy small cars. Implementing that heretical idea, McNamara successfully introduced the compact Ford Falcon and even planned to produce a... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
moving.” Oishi had watched it all unfold as she built a career as a partner in McKinsey’s consumer goods practice in Tokyo—an almost ideal match for the sort of person who can’t not solve problems. Where some people solve crossword... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
presentations on stage, whether they are Shakespeare, Beethoven, or The Lion King, depend on a business backstage. This book provides an overview of both the product on stage and the industry that makes it possible. While the industry's product is unique, with unique... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
medical industry; shelving units for retail consumer products; and high-tolerance firing pins for military applications. When it comes to per-piece cost for metal stampings, the United States is very competitive with China because labor... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
different lender as a result?" the banker said. "I hope so." "If companies don't work on race relations," says Bob Haas, "we won't have enough qualified workers to run our businesses, and the purchasing power of a vast number of potential View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
than their share of scarce environmental resources and therefore must now consume less," observes Fri. "Another is that the developing countries, whose exploding populations threaten to tax the carrying capacity of the planet, must... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
managerial demands of the war had prompted new courses in, and research emphasis on, human relations and control. Commensurately, the School began to boost its faculty (it had 98 members in 1946). By 1950, HBS was a commanding presence in... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna