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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Downtime
surmount them or succumb to them. Memorable childhood books? The Laura Ingalls Wilder series that begins with Little House in the Big Woods, for their vivid reconstruction of a world gone by and a child’s... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
"Our big opportunity lies in operating efficiency—with billions of dollars invested in locomotives and maintenance, there are hundreds of millions of dollars available for the bottom line if we can innovate... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
way it’s been for more than 100 years. Cars today, he says, are essentially produced the same way Ford made the Model T. “But what if we made cars differently?” Rogers gathers speed. What if we assumed that people didn’t care about steel? What if we assumed that... View Details
- 09 Jun 2017
- News
Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China
one line and say, some onions, some beef, some this and that, and cook for 10 minutes or whatever. It's very simple, and I couldn't really follow it. So I said, look, I'm going to go home and actually study... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Well Matched
or job descriptions. Every day, new opportunities are coming up at Serena Ventures; we’re thinking of multiple timelines and different lines of business. I might get a text from Serena about a deal we... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Matter of Opinion
Victor Navasky of The Nation magazine has spent his life taking on the Establishment. So what did he hope to accomplish at Harvard Business School? Call it what you will — the conventional wisdom, the status quo, the official line — and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
business endeavors through the lives of ten titans of commerce. Beginning with the Tudor merchants who transformed England’s economy via trade with the New World, the author traces an entrepreneurial golden line through men such as Thomas... View Details
- 02 Jun 2021
- News
On the Road Less Traveled
myself in.” What did that mean for you in practice? How were you doing that? Hajim: Well, one of the things I developed somewhere along the line is I didn't become a victim. I always looked forward. I felt that, you know, and maybe that... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
(MBA 1988) is cofounder and COO. She is also the founding CEO of Mediva, the company’s consulting arm. Platanus clinics share overnight resources and electronic medical records, so their combined 2,500 at-home palliative care patients always have a direct View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
personally transporting several patients to local COVID wards. “Instead of giving people numbers, we do the work for them,” he told India Today. “If someone needs a nebulizer, a medicine or oxygen, we get it to them.” The article goes on... View Details
- 16 Jul 2019
- News
The Making of a Movement
making decisions that could advance treatment options for patients with rare cancers. Neither of the Linns worked in science or medicine. A few years earlier, rare cancers had not even been on their radar. Now it was possible their... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
support lined up, Tierney and Bradach faced a final hurdle, writing a business plan. “There was no analysis that could have been done that we hadn’t done,” recalls Tierney. “But it’s one thing to help somebody else write a business plan.... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
Not so long ago in the business realm, diversity and social justice issues were consigned to a dim, neglected area somewhere at the corporation's farthest perimeter, or locked outside the company gates altogether. Earlier this year,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
campus in 1971, a campus which today is 115.5 acres. Clean-room standards became stricter. No more putting pizzas on top of diffusion furnaces to keep them warm. But the hair and shoes of people working there were uncovered. The smocks worn were not as clean as they... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
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Sizing Up Social Impact
government and individual donors may have different priorities and demands, and soon a nonprofit trying to please too many (including the general public) pleases no one—least of all those constituents they were hoping to help. "Accountability and impact are the two... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
customers, in other words — and its position vis-à-vis competitors. If an enterprise had different lines of business, it might view these in historical terms — “First we got into radio, which led us into television” — View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
tackle a mission as big as ending poverty, and Mercy Corps has relied on partnerships to get there. Its global team members, 85 percent of whom are from the countries where they operate, collaborate with local leaders View Details
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
the foundation now for a bit over a year, and we didn’t get oriented around this personalized medicine mission until a few months in. So, more or less, we’ve been at this personalized medicine bit for about a year. I have to say the... View Details
- 15 Jun 2018
- News
Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life
the sky. The pilot glides into the air. He actually likes flying, so he flies it for about 12 or 15 minutes before he reaches over and he turns on the autopilot. And as he turns on the autopilot, he hears this noise like thousands of... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
can be little doubt that New York City currently reigns as the undisputed champion of the world. Perhaps Mayor Michael Bloomberg says it best, when he speaks for his eight million constituents and several thousand fellow HBS alumni who live View Details