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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
what benefits did they get? And then the even bigger question beyond cost efficiency and effectiveness is, what impact did the organization have? Granted it is very complex to get all the way to that level, but even signposts along the... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Ray A. Goldberg (MBA '50)
at the School, John H. Davis, coined the term "agribusiness." The two men wanted a word to describe the complex value-added chain that begins with a farmer's purchase of livestock or seed and ends with a product ready for the consumer's... View Details
- 30 Mar 2017
- News
Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest
all what seems like informal stuff. If that doesn't exist, I can't imagine an agreement of this complexity could have been reached. And that also takes time. And the first stage literally took about three to four years. And although it... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
complex and a science museum, renovating the theater district, cleaning up the waterfront area, restoring the city's NFL franchise, securing the rights to house the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, and developing affordable... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
New Releases
authors. The chapter on Technology and Operations Management (TOM) opens with a vignette that illustrates McArthur's ability to "think big." After a meeting in 1984 with Kim Clark, his future successor, McArthur asked the young professor... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
as a base of operations for work in the twelve countries in the region. Yeh and her small staff are set up to provide a significant part of the intellectual and logistical support needed by visiting HBS scholars. Yet logistical help is... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
restore a five-room operating suite, considerable feats given the complexities of business and finance in post–Soviet Russia. She is now looking to expand the group's fundraising reach and hopes “someday to... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
managers' ability to put this new technology to effective use, McFarlan stated, "Making it happen is very hard. The major challenge in 1996 is much less the vision than it is the messy, complex problem of implementation." For the next two... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
compelled to focus on protective legal processes and box-checking exercises rather than on formulating company strategy, identifying risks, and evaluating executive performance. The increasing time commitment required of board members, the View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Competencies and Credentials
to better navigate the complex landscape. The research focuses on technology trends such as artificial intelligence, changing workforce demographics, the middle-skills gap, global talent, and the tensions between urban centers and rural... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
widely used? Merton: One answer is, simply, that it filled a need. It wasn't intellectual interest that made people want to apply it. In the 1970s, profit margins to options dealers were driven down, competition was going up, and options investors no longer could View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
Antonio Falato of the Federal Reserve Board, Scharfstein says many traditional banks responded by taking outsized credit risk in an effort to boost short-run performance. “The complex interplay of different types of intermediaries made it... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
student, at the Dance Complex in Cambridge. The first sixteen years of Martín Curiel’s life followed the cycles of the harvest. As migrant farmworkers, his parents moved Curiel and his two sisters from Mexico to the United States, where... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
complex chain of events, individuals, transactions, and products that feed the world. Until his retirement in 1997, Goldberg had taught many thousands of MBA and Executive Education students and was the author, coauthor, or editor of more... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
Fouraker’s Deanship (1970 to 1980), in particular, McArthur held a range of increasingly important administrative positions. He also took on a highly unusual outside-world assignment as a Trustee in Bankruptcy of the Penn Central Transportation Company. It was an... View Details
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
Services cut the ribbon on its new, modern complex at the corner of Penn and Plymouth Avenues in the predominantly Black neighborhood of North Minneapolis. It was a high point in a journey that began five years earlier, following the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA: Lance Batchelor (MBA 1993)
talked for 10 minutes with the benefit of real, personal experience about what it feels like to be on a ship at sea, operating a complex weapons system. The ex-military guys and girls brought something... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
it’s clear who does what and why. And after that, stay in your lane. Due to COVID-19 lockdowns there were no domestic flights, and you had to have special permits to travel by road. We had to think through the logistics of how to operate... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
of future generations to meet their own needs," it is slowly becoming a part of the lexicon of business leaders around the world. Easy Being Green? "One of the problems with turning the idea of environmental sustainability into a viable View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
aren’t real purple dogs.” That is what Numenta is after, says Dubinsky: recreating human intelligence by first understanding the complex way that humans learn—literally, the biological principles that guide our brains—and then translating... View Details