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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Harnessing the Tools of the Digital Age
It wasn’t necessary to understand the technology that powered the company’s washing machines, turbines, or jet engines. “But executives now need to understand the technologies behind their products and think about their implications on... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
6.4 million residents, 440,000 who were previously uninsured have become covered, with 191,000 of those securing private, nongovernment insurance. At 2.6 percent, Massachusetts now has the lowest rate of uninsured residents in the nation.... View Details
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
says Kendall, executive director of the Henry P. Kendall Foundation, his family’s philanthropic organization, which is dedicated to creating a “resilient and healthy food system in New England that increases the production and consumption... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
James E. Burke, MBA 1949
within a year of the crisis, thanks to decisions by Burke and his team to recall millions of bottles and replace them in a matter of weeks with pioneering tamper-resistant packaging while keeping the media and public well informed, the View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
dynamism. China's economy, he reported, has been growing at a rate of over 10 percent a year in this decade, on a scale the world has never known. China's chaos stems from the lack of preparation before reforms began - including a lack of... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
average compounded growth rate over that time has been about 22 percent. Acquisitions have been an important part of your growth strategy since the mid-1990s. How do you manage to fold an acquired firm into Li & Fung? To be bigger, we... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
making something from nothing had long been part of the cultural mindset. Today's startup scene in Egypt is hopping. Venture capital funding reached $491 million in 2021, with a compounded annual growth rate of 117 percent between 2017... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
here to be the partner to the employer. But at the end of the day, the employer is the one who decides what a good finished product is, not us. And so thinking through how do we design a degree that has them getting that experience, that... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
demands of increasingly sophisticated Chinese consumers is a more complicated challenge. One approach Chinese manufacturers are using is to acquire companies around the world in order to get fast access to the technologies they need to modernize their View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
American economic system.” Castaldo's own path to the industry began in brand management for Clairol; in 1980, he was recruited by Burger King Corporation and left five years later as vice president of advertising. Explaining the leap from hair View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, it’s Dan. Today, we are sharing a brief excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, the critically-acclaimed podcast from my colleagues at Harvard Business School. Each episode, HBS professors Bill Kerr... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
One of the country's most renowned venture capital firms, for nearly four decades Greylock has emphasized building businesses rather than stocks, providing hands-on assistance to entrepreneurs, and helping companies contribute new View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
development, much like the move into dog food and supplements. Non-nutritional products are growing at a very high rate and now account for roughly half of SmartPak’s revenues. A retail location in Natick,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
the highest “yield” rates in higher education. And on the other side of graduation, HBS alumni traditionally enjoyed astonishing success. It seemed an easy job to walk into. McArthur, however, knew better. He had spent more than two... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank; Wood Product Manufacturing; Wood Product Manufacturing; Wood Product Manufacturing; Wood Product Manufacturing; Wood Product Manufacturing; Wood Product Manufacturing; Wood Product Manufacturing; Wood Product Manufacturing; Wood Product Manufacturing; Wood Product Manufacturing; Wood Product Manufacturing; Wood Product Manufacturing
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
support for technological innovation. A 1961 article covering a conference on "Technological Planning on the Corporate Level" asserted that "the accelerating rate of change - our expanding technology - is the single most important factor... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Case Study: On the Record
cool and only go-to source, then make the leap to the next level after market share growth rate has peaked. You can prepare for the shift but don’t dilute your momentum yet. You will be able to raise more capital more cheaply once you can... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
United States and five other countries. "We definitely think of ourselves as an entrepreneurial company, even though we've been around for a while," says Thompson. "It's been a productive and exciting time." Many observers believe that... View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
listening to this Skydeck series. If you liked what we've put together here, please rate and review us. This episode of Skydeck was co-produced with contributor April White, with additional production by PRX... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
(MBA 1984) and Dan Olmsted Skyhorse Publishing Even as the autism rate soars and the cost to our nation climbs into the billions, a dangerous new idea is taking hold: There simply is no autism epidemic. The authors believe autism is new,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping the Beat
and has depth to it is deeply important to most folks I know who are making their own music and spreading their own lyrics. And then even on the production side, whether you’re here in the studio by yourself or you’re even in a... View Details