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- 26 May 2022
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Bidding Up
working with consulting clients—Wilson was able to move on to his studies with Raiffa and others who were developing a new approach to using economic theory and mathematics to drive strategy and management decisions. JH: And tell me what... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Summit Sound Bites
is, ‘What is your strategy for going global?’ ” —Robert Higgins (MBA ’70), Senior Lecturer, HBS; Founder, Highland Capital Partners “Advice, help, experience — you have it to give. You don’t have to have money to be involved in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Opinion: Making It Better
communication—is widely used, and cancer care is now delivered in a hub-and-spoke model, a system that is much cheaper and more convenient for patients because it is built around local treatment. At the hub, expensive advanced radiotherapy is available around the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Reinventing Marketing
year, one of several new electives will be the course Distribution Channels, which Professor Rangan is currently developing. Technology The School's first paperless CD-ROM case, on an Intel TV marketing strategy for the United Kingdom, as... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
directions. Fads can be mistaken for trends; the flavor du jour can masquerade as a time-tested recipe. An ephemeral stock price can be made to seem a permanent achievement, an unwavering final verdict. The temporary opinion rendered by... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
found the prices so reasonable that he returned to consider — and, eventually, purchase — something in the ten-carat range. Birnbaum notes that this particular client first made contact with the firm five years earlier. In a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
housing prices were rising, derivatives and mortgage-backed securities produced handsome returns. “Until about eighteen months ago, this strategy worked well,” Rose said. But when the housing bubble burst,... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Short Takes
Reinhardt writes that for a company to be sustainable, it must have a strategy or development path that maintains an undiminished level of net assets. He argues that if the prices in the firm's accounting... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
the fastest-growing competitive local exchange carrier in the world, adding 500,000 customers in 10 months, and the stock price tripled. Then we learned that 40 percent of our customers couldn’t pay their bills. The capital markets... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 08 May 2019
- News
Lessons from the Ashes
subscriptions. So it was doing well, but there’d been friction within the family, as there often is in family businesses, over the last few decades. Kind of towards the end of my time at HBS, my dad died in January '87. And the stock View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Making Strategy Work Using the Balanced Scorecard by Sanjiv Anand (AMP 163, 2002) (Wiley) This is a hands-on guidebook for making strategy work with effective Balanced Scorecard design, deployment, and... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
logistics to web services—will be disrupted, with experts predicting that quantum machines will rapidly perform tasks that would take today’s fastest digital supercomputers years to complete. Quantum computers will be able to carry out complex financial chores like... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Decoding the Promise and Perils of Generative AI
can veer from routine memos to unexpected management questions to high-stakes strategy development. They wanted to know if GPT-4 could guide entrepreneurs through these disparate tasks. To answer this question, they made the tool... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
fully answered in advance. "Executives from each side may have different assumptions about which strategy and management practices will be best for the new company," Beer says. "These issues are often hidden and not discussed during... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
beginnings of the genomic research industry and all the companies that grew —and are still growing —from that. It was also the time when the concept of diagnostic related groups DRGs was introduced. DRGs essentially redefined health-care services as products that could... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
he has known during his career. He elucidates the extraordinary lessons that can be learned from everyday experiences and shows how, by altering our perceptions, we can better overcome the challenges we face at work and in family matters. The Three-Box Solution: A... View Details
- 17 Jan 2019
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
defining value in different ways, or from LEAD about placing a strong emphasis on emotional intelligence as a core value in conducting business. I love the lesson from strategy about defining blue oceans instead of competing in red... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
is that bad guys have so much data that they just haven’t gotten to yours,” says Thomas. It’s easy to steal your credit card. “The only hard part is using it without tipping anybody off.” There is evidence of the relative ease of these crimes in the View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?
appropriate to try to understand what major problems might lie ahead for market capitalism. By market capitalism we mean a system where decisions about what to produce and at what price are made by private firms operating in free markets.... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
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Case Study: Up in the Air
whether to build the supply of talent to attract clients first, or vice versa. Building the supply side has been straightforward, but convincing enterprise clients to leverage talent as a service as part of their strategy has been more... View Details