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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Come Clean
because of—the challenge: “It was basically a small manufacturing company but with an output of one product each time, because every unit we process is unique,” he says. “With each garment, there are 20 opportunities for us to screw... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Scott D. Cook
cofounder of Intuit, the world leader in software for personal and small business finance. After studying economics and math at the University of Southern California and earning his MBA, he learned the ropes of product marketing at... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News
executive at Time Warner's RoadRunner cable modem group, Farman-Farmaian had been struggling to find a specialty sofa when the idea for BuyerWeb first hit him: Why not set up an Internet site where he could View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Outside Voices
and banks that had nearly collapsed have been cleaned up and are once again fueling the economy. In late 2023, Greece’s credit rating was bumped from junk to investment grade for the first time since 2010, signaling to foreign investors... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New HBS Portal Offers Alumni Just-In-Time Business Information
(refquest@hbs.edu) to provide quick information. For alumni visiting Baker in person, librarians can facilitate searches for information on products, companies, and industries. Custom Searches Online... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
considering the source, by conferring on him the nickname “The Politician.” In recognition of his ability to handle touchy problems smoothly and effectively, FDR also offered him a number of federal appointments — including cabinet positions — and nearly View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Case Study: Tip the Scale
comes in a carcass, customer preferences, share size, order history. Formulas propose a suggested share, based on a selection of items we think will maximize this member’s happiness—within the constraints of our inventory,” Cummings says.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
DonorsChoose: Teaming Up with Teachers
primarily for public schools serving low-income families. It has created an online marketplace connecting teachers with “citizen philanthropists,” who buy supplies or services the schools can’t afford. At www.DonorsChoose.org, teachers... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
Illustration by Ken Orvidas/theispot.com In the search for culprits in the global financial meltdown, bloated executive pay and the excessive risk-taking behavior it fueled stand out as prime suspects. Of the two, pay dominates the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum
opinion, the current path is unsustainable.” Bodman explained that President Bush’s energy initiative “essentially proposes that we will start to pick some winners. That may not be the usual role for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
System, a building set for preteen girls. Ello immediately won praise from toy industry insiders and has since become a hit for Mattel. Based upon the success of the Ello project, Mattel’s chairman and CEO,... View Details
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
filing proposals for companies to add women and minorities to boards. Those proposals never got a majority vote, but they did spark the conversation. And that conversation, as... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
about forty pages long, very detailed, and very specific in its comparisons. I delivered it to Grove on a Friday and was summoned to his office first thing Monday morning. He requested that I contact Professor Hayes to introduce him and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
The Western Front
potential partners. The government is used to the request for proposal (RFP) model—an agency has a need, a company proposes to fulfill it, and... View Details
Keywords: Jason Feifer
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
the end of July, the business tribunal in Caen was considering four offers for the Jeannette brand and leftover machinery, Viana’s among them. Two focused solely on the purchase of the machinery; one View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
Investments, in 2003. A third company, Cityboxes — a service for city dwellers that stores, tracks, and delivers items to and from storage upon request — is already in the development stage. “I love all... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
For Boston, whose history is better known for its midnight rides and tea parties with attitude, this was, by comparison, a low-key moment. On a slow July day in 1924 in the Hub's financial district, a new... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 22 Jan 2020
- News
What It Takes
Abington High School in suburban Philadelphia, Stephen Schwarzman (MBA 1972) got waitlisted at Harvard College. So he found the number for Harvard’s dean of admissions and called him up to plead his case directly. When told by the dean... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
wife, Anuradha, is uncompromising when it comes to my giving priority to family and friends. Thanks to her coaching, I’ve learned how to switch off my “crackberry” and how to say no to requests for meetings.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Research Brief: If State Pensions Clean Up Their Books, Who Pays?
to the new standards often employed a heavily unionized public-sector workforce whose members would seem to benefit most from fully funded pensions. To come to this conclusion, Allen and her coauthor studied 227 letters received by the GASB when it View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson