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- 01 Feb 2013
- News
Growth Strategy Has Double Bottom Line
Hoffer and Hourdequin: Managing Directors at the Lyme Timber Company in Hanover, New Hampshire. Photo courtesy of the Lyme Timber Company LP It can be difficult to craft a business model that enables both investors and society as a whole... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Benaree Wiley
class in Boston, purchased a home in the city's Roxbury neighborhood. "It was the ultimate '60s dream," Wiley says with a smile. "After college, we were committed to going back to the community and working from the inside to make a... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Ron Shaich’s Café Society
the attention of consumers on the go, fresh bread fans, and people looking for a place to relax with a cup of coffee in the afternoon. Expected to top $1 billion in sales this year, the publicly held Panera has also satisfied the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
Courtney, outlines a new approach to strategy making that enables managers to move beyond outdated prediction-based models by embracing — not fearing — uncertainty. Courtney argues that most executives suffer from an all-or-nothing view... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Rethinking Call Centers: Effective Delivery of Service is Key
that recent literature has discussed "various ways to steer customer interactions to sale opportunities," the authors assert that the topic of effective service delivery has almost entirely been overlooked. "Before being able to generate... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Passion & Purpose
photography by Susan Young See full profiles and more photographs here. In August, five HBS alumni returned to campus to accept the School's highest honor. This year's award recipients have contributed significantly to their companies and communities. They are... View Details
- 02 Jan 2020
- News
Empowering Rural Communities
more for their power than they should be.” Riley knows this terrain well. He grew up in one of those rural communities, a tiny coal-mining town about 150 miles south of Salt Lake City. He acknowledges that his business model to provide... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ink
Online, students can pace themselves, taking as long as needed to master difficult concepts before moving on. Inside the school, students are supervised, mentored, protected, and nourished. Blended learning combines the two approaches to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
most part, failed or even backfired (see chart on facing page). Nonetheless, the reform debate is fully engaged, and not just inside the Beltway. At HBS, a group of MBAs last spring crafted and sent to Washington a bold proposal to create... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
South Florida and Minnesota Launch Community Programs
’93), head of the South Florida initiative, notes that the alumni base is smaller and more scattered in that region than in Boston or San Francisco, for instance, but is pleased with the results from their first six–month project cycle. “The core View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Competencies and Credentials
positions—the supervisors, sales representatives, data analysts, and production managers, for example—tend to be less engaged in their work, have higher rates of turnover, and have lower levels of productivity, according to Fuller’s... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
baseball and football first faced in the late 1800s; more contemporary models are extreme sports and professional poker, but neither was digital-first the way esports is. You can’t take anything for granted in this new world, Kennedy... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Rehito “Ray” Hatoyama (MBA 2008)
where anyone can contribute to create a “win-win” business together. When I joined Sanrio in 2008, our market cap was about $500 million. Now it’s closer to $3.5 billion, with $750 million in sales and an operating profit just over $200... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
there so that we could replenish our water supply. As we got to the watering hole-- looking forward to the cold, fresh water-- we found a dry hole. And somehow, the inside struck me-- how dependent we are, as humans, on this planet we... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
software communities have shown that we can have a highly distributed model involving contributors from all over the world. Some people said this would never work. But open source often creates products that are better than those... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Reforming Company Boards
exceed analyst expectations. Businesses do not grow that way. If they’re managed well, they grow incrementally, with minor setbacks. The model that we have come to rely on — that companies’ earnings grow smoothly — is just not right. Do... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Services
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
because of its stellar location: Cape Town, South Africa. More than four hundred delegates came from dozens of countries, with close to half bringing partners or family members for whom a special program of events had been set up. The lively March 21-23 conference gave... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
moments of a boy’s life. Silent Winds, Dry Seas is a poetic, powerful, and universal novel of identity and place, of the legacies of colonialism, tradition, modernity, and emigration, and of what a family will sacrifice for its children to thrive. Direct Selling: A... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Road Less Traveled
Most cars in the United States weigh more than 4,000 pounds, and new models are trending larger, even in countries where people drive less. And the larger the vehicle, the more fuel required to power it, which means more greenhouse-gas emissions that contribute to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
is filling a market need, and the first-year revenue response is confirmatory. Since many events like weddings are planned far in advance, I suspect that Clay can still deploy a consignment model until it builds up the needed inventory by... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint