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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
care industry to give customers more choices, freedom, power, and information, and at far lower prices. He recommends disruption of the status quo through new business models, new payment models, and new technologies that give patients... View Details
- 22 Jan 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Why You Are Unhappy at Work
your CEO make more than the GDP of most industrialized nations? You may work less hard as a result, suggests research by Ethan Rouen. Bad At Your Job? Maybe It's the Job's Fault A poorly designed job can work against the efforts of even... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Long-Term Interest: Bill Crozier, a Banker Pegged to the Customer
BankBoston in January, is impressed not only by the size of the deal but perhaps even more by what it represents: the crossing of industry lines. "With this merger, universal banking - long the style of major banks in many other countries... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Clubs Hopping: A Healthy Dialogue
This past November, the HBS Healthcare Alumni Association held its 14th annual conference at the Charles Hotel in Boston, with more than 300 alumni coming to connect and hear from industry leaders. We asked HBSHAA president Tom Robinson... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Drug Imports a Hot Topic at Alumni Health-Care Conference
FDA Commissioner Mark B. McClellan doesn’t approve of Americans buying low-cost prescription drugs from Canada or over the Internet. But he understands what drives them to do so. At the HBS Health Industry Alumni Association’s fourth... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
United States’ most visible, influential export. But given its uncertainties, what would drive HBS alumni to enter an industry characterized in the best of times as “the business of rejection”? * * * * * In Hollywood, the spotlight... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
He Begs to Differentiate
"Information is no longer power, it's the interpretation of information that is important," Martin Sorrell (MBA '68), chief executive of London-based WPP Group, told The Times of London (November 20, 1999). "Our clients are in an overcapacity situation in virtually... View Details
- May 2024
- Case
HarvEast
By: Jeremy Friedman and Natalie Kindred
In late 2023, Dmitry Skornyakov, CEO of Ukrainian agribusiness HarvEast, was navigating the turmoil caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that began in 2014 and escalated into full-scale war in February 2022. Before the full-scale invasion, HarvEast managed 127,000... View Details
Keywords: Goods and Commodities; Natural Resources; Food; Problems and Challenges; Adaptation; Innovation and Management; Crisis Management; Logistics; Supply Chain; Risk and Uncertainty; Loss; Trust; Human Needs; War; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Chile; South America; Latin America; Ukraine
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
previously. When I was finished explaining to him where things stood, Bob pushed his chair back from the table, he looked me right in the eye, and he said, "Why didn't you tell me?" And as that question is going around in my head with no View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
surprising that the venture capital industry was essentially dormant at the time. But with the growth of the microprocessor and of biotechnology in the late 1970s, as well as the deregulation of the airline and financial services... View Details
- 28 Mar 2018
- Blog Post
Event Planning for Recruiting Success - Part 1
average attendance at on-campus presentations is 20 students. The Career & Professional Development staff coaches students to understand their personal career criteria in order to focus their job search on industries, functions, and work environments that would be... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 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
- 19 Jun 2014
- Blog Post
Exploring the World of Retail as an Intern at Walmart
consulting, and while I learned a ton, I wanted to see some execution. Thus, I knew I needed to work in industry rather than any sort of services firm, and I soon decided that I wanted to see what a large corporate environment would be... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Michelle Ross (MBA 2011)
Math and science were always a part of me. And I’m the oldest child in my family, too, so I don’t want to say that I like to boss people around—but it came more naturally to me to delegate. Kettering University had a co-op program, so as I earned my degree in View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Case Study: Your Data, Your Health
for the test with speedy release to market that would appeal to investors. The logic is that you need a win. Once you establish a good foundation, you will have the opportunity to expand to what feels morally correct. —Muthanna Al-Mumin... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
A Safer—and Speedier—Way to Name Your Startup
trenches. “The creative work is always challenging and fun, but I had become frustrated by how onerous, expensive, and slow it was to do a good job of checking the availability of new names and brands,” she says. “The whole process needed... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 24 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
evidence that “short-termism" and “quarterly capitalism” are impairing firms' ability to invest, innovate, and provide good wages. We explain why S&P 500 shareholder-payout figures provide a misleadingly incomplete picture of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Alumni WDYDWYD
Mary Dell Harrington
industry is exciting, deeply satisfying, and a logical career extension from NBC, Discovery, and Lifetime Television – where I worked for twenty years post-MBA. Launching a blog and relaunching my career – after a ten year hiatus – has... View Details
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Rocio Parra
Why was getting a business education important to you? As a consultant, I had the opportunity to work in a variety of industries from pharmaceuticals and medical devices to government and consumer packaged goods. Through these... View Details
Keywords: Retail
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Business School is based on University Professor Michae... Skillist: Changing Hiring For Good Ananth Kasturiraman Caroline Fay 17 May 2018 Fun fact - the resume is about 500 years old. It was invented by Leonardo DaVinci. Now back in... View Details