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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Faculty Research Online
Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model Associate Professor Tarun Khanna examines a “Robin Hood” cardiac hospital in India, which treats patients regardless of their ability to pay. His findings? A solvent, successful View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998
decision to buck the industry standard and invest in employees. “Our business model gives employees a career path,” she says, noting that half of the company’s top managers started as sales associates. As she expanded Bluemercury beyond... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Flexibility Is Key to Product Development in Internet Time
When the number of Internet-based businesses took off in the mid-1990s, many long-standing rules for product innovation were blown away. Previous models of development based on a sequential process of planning and execution are not... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Male Consumers as Man-of-Action Heroes
be like the man–of–action heroes they find everywhere in the mass media. For the white working– and middle–class men in the study, these are the most potent role models — heroic figures who defy institutions but, in the end, actually... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Uncovering The Secrets of Mittelstand Success
HBS professors Ramon Casadesus‐Masanell, left, and Sunil Gupta, listened to a presentation about the layout of the Siemens Electronikwerk Amberg manufacturing facility during the faculty immersion in Munich. (photo by Willy C. Shih) The remarkable success of the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Research Brief: Where Top-Down Tops Out
recent study, “The Impact of CEOs in the Public Sector: Evidence from the English NHS,” Associate Professor Raffaella Sadun and her coauthors conclude that a singular leader is far less effective in these large and complex public hospitals. The decentralized management... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Liberal Smarts
discipline teaching across all institutes. We are also "incubating" the concept of a Mahindra University, modeled after the US university system, with different schools teaching different disciplines—a school of public health, a business... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Rethinking Call Centers: Effective Delivery of Service is Key
institutions, Frei, Evenson, and Harker created a model demonstrating precise links between three main elements (or "drivers") of superior service delivery: effective people, effective internal processes, and effective information... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Innovative Loan Fund Yields Big Returns
Through its use of Harvard’s innovative Green Campus Loan Fund, HBS has cut energy expenditures and provided a model for conservation-minded schools around the University to follow. The loan fund provides capital for projects that reduce... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
since 2007 by Cynthia Carroll (MBA ’89), the first woman and first non–South African to hold the firm’s top spot. In addition to South Africa, from which it derives roughly half its profits, Anglo operates in some 45 countries, employing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Elevator Pitch: First Byte
March, the company announced $5.5 million in funding. COVID-aware: “Our business model is CapEx light; business owners pay on a commission basis for every meal the robot makes, which alleviates a lot of risk. And in terms of health and... View Details
- 16 Feb 2022
- News
Holding Business to Account
realized, and they had a say in how a company ran and the ability to influence everything from labor practices to environmental policies. It would be years before the model Aiyer envisioned would be christened “impact investing,” but she... 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
- 07 Jan 2022
- News
Learning to Fight
helped more than 1,200 people around the United States. Sontag thinks big. “If this model works for brain cancer, this model can work for other serious diseases,” he says of the Sontag Foundation’s... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Taking MBA know-how on tour across America
mobile consultation service for entrepreneurs called MBAs Across America. “We felt a responsibility to use our resources for a nobler purpose,” says Gerald. The MBA students met with American business owners, advised them on everything from business View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Working World
policymakers in a way that leads to improved choices and decisions. The more analysis informs this debate, the better, so that we can more easily understand and model the outcome. When we make changes to immigration policy, what is the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 20 Jul 2022
- News
Wired to be Inspired
in? What's our long term vision for why we are here? Just like ancient mariners used compasses to kind of direct themselves, purpose was an orienting scheme. The second was: Purpose became like an operating system. It’s the way... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Case Study: The Credit Bureau
—Simon Pellas (MBA 2019) I’ve spent quite a bit of time on the B2B2C model in this industry. There are many stakeholders: Brokers will only adopt tech that will change the listing price or their fee structure. A free SaaS tool with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Fast Casual
Cherng: Panda’s process designer. Peggy Cherng (OPM 25, 1997) and her husband, Andrew, share the titles of cochairman and co-CEO of Panda Restaurant Group (PRG), “one of the fastest-growing and most successful restaurant chains in the U.S.,” according to Bloomberg... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Faculty Books
from choosing experiences over stuff to spending money on others. They describe new research revealing that luxury cars often provide no more pleasure than economy models and that commercials can enhance the enjoyment of watching... View Details