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- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
when they are freed from restraining pre–conceptions and inhibiting circumstances. In the book’s foreword, Eric Schmidt, chairman and CEO of Google, notes that in high tech and many other industries today, “the environment is changing so... View Details
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
The (C) case, to be handed out at the end of class, describes what the team ultimately decided and how they executed it. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/811024-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 614-023 PadFone vs. FonePad To Jonney Shih, View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
purposes. Soon after Levy joined the board of Hypres in 2010, however, his intuition told him that the most fruitful application of its technology lay in computation. After succeeding Johnson as board chairman in 2012, Levy helped steer... View Details
- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
817-068 Swagbucks In early 2016, Chuck Davis, chairman and CEO of Prodege LLC, parent company of the brand promotion business Swagbucks, and Josef Gorowitz, Prodege’s founder and president, must decide whether to acquire MyPoints, a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Online Creating Brand Value Course | HBS Online
shareholders and how to estimate a brand’s asset value and calculate its return on investment. Highlights Jill Avery – Three Brand Valuation Methods Masahiko Uotani, Chairman and CEO, Shiseido Company Show Hide Details Concepts What Is... View Details
- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
I could interest him in it. But in those days, airlines were very much of a prestigious thing, and Bob Six had his eyes set on doing something much bigger, much higher. He was not interested in lowly Texas International. AW: After the merger, you became View Details
- 05 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 5
has had to be innovative and strategic in its ability to maintain its place as the fourth largest insurer in China. Chairman Chen Dongsheng laid a strong foundation when he launched Taikang in 2006; what will he do going forward to enable... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 17, 2009
Berkshire Hathaway describes the history and strategy of one of the best known investment firms over the last forty years. The case describes the investment philosophy of Warren Buffett, its legendary chairman and CEO, the gradual... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 6, 2007
George, a Harvard Business School professor and the former chairman and CEO of Medtronic, and his colleagues, conducted the largest leadership development study ever undertaken. They interviewed 125 business leaders from different racial,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
New England elites — Massachusetts Investors Trust chairman Merrill Griswold, MIT president Karl T. Compton, and Vermont Senator Ralph E. Flanders, the first Congressman to publicly upbraid Joseph McCarthy. Fresh from the U.S. victory in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
of innovative plan.” Pozen, chairman of MFS Investment Management and the host of an HBS conference last summer that examined Massachusetts’s health-care reforms, says hordes of curious officials from across the country have come to see... View Details
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
development also involved working with the Slum Redevelopment Authority to relocate and build on the site homes in towers for at least 20,000 slum dwellers and restoring much of the site to green space. At the request of Chairman... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 23
Chairman of the Emergency Department of the world-renowned, university-based Mercy Hospital, was deeply disturbed when he read the letter from the family of John Samson, a patient who had come to the emergency room one week earlier, that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure
Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
it to market is so low that it remains a risky proposition." Profitable firms such as Genentech, Genzyme, and Biogen already have products on the market, as does Amgen, where Gordon M. Binder (MBA '62) served as CEO until his retirement last month (he will continue to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
714-510 Health City Cayman Islands Narayana Health (NH) had been successfully delivering affordable high quality tertiary care to the masses in India through its chain of hospitals for over a decade. To encourage the adoption of the NH affordable care delivery model... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 12
910-418 The world's leading Thai agribusiness corporation and largest agribusiness investor in China, CP Group, is facing another crossroads in China as the country starts to undergo rural reform. The issues at hand for Chairman Dhanin... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
Most books about the nation's financial crisis tell us what happened. In his new book, HBS senior lecturer Robert Pozen tells us how to fix the system. A financial industry veteran and chairman of MFS Investment Management, a Boston firm... View Details
- 10 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 10, 2007
of directors of Medtronic, Inc., a company known for its commitment to effective corporate governance, must prepare for the departure of Chairman & CEO Bill George and the retirement of four long-time directors. The company had... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Keeping the Faith
It has been said that the note of a Tibetan singing bowl is the sound of inner peace. That’s not something you might expect to hear in the MBA classroom. But it rings through Hawes Hall at the beginning of each session of The Spiritual Lives of Leaders, a second-year... View Details