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- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
held in the hand-glassware industry. As he writes in the preface of Westmoreland Glass, his 336-page book illustrated with many historic photographs, "Westmoreland has a story to tell that was not being told." Established in 1889 in... View Details
- 08 May 2015
- News
A new view of the cost of equity and capital requirements for banks
Capital requirements for banks, which govern the ratio of equity to debt, have come under greater scrutiny in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. A central question is how these requirements affect banks’ overall cost of capital, or... View Details
- 08 Jan 2015
- News
Healthcare strategy 2015 — Back to the basics: 12 key thoughts
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
business opportunity. In just 30 years—the span of a single generation—genealogy has grown from the domain of historical societies, microfilm, and the Mormon church to big data, artificial intelligence, DNA testing, and staggering private... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
Jessica Tisch (JD/MBA 2008) has a problem. And she couldn’t be happier about it. It’s a chilly February morning in Lower Manhattan, and Tisch, who was appointed commissioner of the Department of Sanitation (DSNY) last April, has only hours to pivot the world’s largest... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Solving for Z
unemployment has been hovering at historic lows; in April, it sank to 3.4 percent, a figure not seen since Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. US Chamber of Commerce analysis of data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for the first part... View Details
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
The Musts of 2023
fictional account, although told in the first person of growing up wealthy, dysfunctional in Beverly Hills, California. I grew up not there, but near there and right around that same period. And the level of detail around places and what was going on View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
The Exchange: Same Great Price, Now with Fewer Chips
what might lead a brand to try to disguise a price hike.—JMF John, can you give us some historical context to explain this phenomenon? John Gourville: The first instance of shrinkflation that I found was in 1988, when Chock full o’ Nuts... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
A Sustainable Solution for Fashion
demand shifts by season. Brands and retailers must correctly stock items in their customers’ preferred color, pattern, style, fit, and price without much historical data. “Most of the software out there is backward looking and purely... View Details
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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
new application of technology, he set his sights on winning it—and did. “AutoCAD had been around, but it wasn’t being used at Bath Iron Works,” he recalls. “I ran the numbers on the cost savings and—lo and behold—won the award. Management... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
not-for-profits for environmental science, law, economics, innovation, and advocacy increase at far greater than historical rates. Capital for new clean tech ventures has also increased at a rate commensurate with the resulting needs. To... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
A Legacy of Investment
capital campaign. Five historic panels recount the impact of major gifts at critical junctures. The exhibit also recognizes leadership donors to the campaign. Early gifts of confidence from the Boston and New York business communities... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
been a great friend. It makes me feel so good to know that my advisor is interested in my career and my well-being." Raman and Ton have been studying retail operation, focusing on an operational execution issue - namely, misplaced products at retail stores - that is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
The Campaign for Harvard Business School
Historic in many ways, the campaign is enabling work that is essential to the School’s core purposes: transformative teaching in both MBA and Executive Education classrooms; deep research to impact business practice; and the dissemination... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
strategy revolution was a way of systematically putting together all the elements that determined their corporate fate, in particular, the three Cs central to any good strategy: the company’s costs, especially costs relative to other... View Details
- 19 Apr 2017
- News
Chicago Becomes a Hub of Startup Action
position as “capital of the heartland” (making it a magnet for graduates of the Midwest’s top universities), its relatively low cost of living (number 10 in the nation), and its position as a central aviation hub as just a few of the... View Details
- 15 Jun 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Invisible Americans: The Tragic Cost of Child Poverty by Jeff Madrick (MBA 1971) Knopf By official count, more than one in six American children live below the poverty line. But statistics alone tell... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
took care of 1,000 children at a cost of $80 a child, which is less than $120 a child spent by comparable organizations. Even that amount of reporting would be very useful, but it is not the norm. By and large the reporting focuses on the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
European Computer Driving License, a basic requirement for any IT job in Europe, which otherwise can cost as much as $500 per course.) English language, computer skills, and business management curricula are especially popular. Explains... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
portfolio of businesses under the Ayala corporate umbrella? Ayala has historically aligned itself with the economic goals of the country. An emerging market faces many social and economic challenges, but finding a solution to those... View Details