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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
Vasella Illustration by Dennis Balogh Twenty years ago a young doctor with a hankering for business experience gave up his clinical practice in Bern, Switzerland, and moved to East Hanover, New Jersey, to try his hand at drug sales with... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.
primarily based on a narrow definition of 'good business,'" says Vasella. "If you can improve the way medicine is practiced, I believe you will also make money." With sales up 21 percent to $5.7 billion in the first quarter of 2003, Novartis-the Basel-based... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
the changing global landscape for business leaders Look in any closet, toy chest, or family room in a typical Western home, and you’ll find a trove of goods supplied by a century-old Hong Kong–based export trading company— View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act
shared his idea. Especially supportive was a young, then untenured professor of information technology, James Cash. "Jim told me, 'Anything you do to improve the computer's human interface has got to be good,' " Bricklin recalls. By the... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 14 Aug 2016
- News
Limit the chances of being lied to in negotiations
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
research ecosystem have delayed the delivery of lifesaving advances. Think of it as a plumbing problem: The third-floor shower in an old house doesn’t have enough water pressure. The problem may be with the third-floor pipe, but it’s far more likely that the issue... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Underwater Options May Not Sink Incentives
Executive Stock Options Still Align Incentives?" by Meulbroek and HBS assistant professor Li Jin. Their study uses the option delta, which measures how a single option's value is affected View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Donald J. Chiofaro
"Usually I land on the other side of the canyon without a problem, but sometimes I've had to hang on by my fingertips." In making such entrepreneurial vaults, he draws on ample reserves of confidence, conviction, and foresight. Explains... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The War Within
economic affairs and technology under two governors, says she had lived for 20 years with the “darkness” of the trauma she experienced working in Ukraine and Russia, dealing with depression and anxiety that profoundly affected her both personally and professionally.... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
for the limitless possibilities associated with California and the West. And in keeping with the entrepreneurial dynamism that is so much a part of today's information technology explosion, "the City by the Bay" has always been a magnet... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Conversing in Cyberspace: Students and Alumni Talk Management
the class on October 25. Garvin structured the dialogue by creating alumni-student groups, posing a series of guiding questions, and instructing participants in their roles. Support came from several quarters: Information Technology... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
How Green Is the Valley: HBS Students Explore Booming California Industries
sponsored concurrent fact-finding trips to the area. Designed both to introduce students to northern California's booming industries and to help them in their job searches, the January trips also included a networking event with HBS professor Steven C. Wheelwright and... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 25 Feb 2021
- News
Building Hope
Courtesy Mike Zapolin In the United States, military veterans—especially those with PTSD symptoms—are among the most at-risk populations for suicide. The numbers are bleak and getting worse: According to data collected by the Veterans... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Morrell
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Research Brief: Better to Be Safe with a Sorry
fault," she says. "And what we've learned here is that maybe it is in your best interest to apologize. If it helps when you are clearly not at fault, it may also help when blame is ambiguous." —Dan Morrell "I'm Sorry About the Rain! Superfluous Apologies Demonstrate... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Tata Open for Business
The architects employed open spaces and glass walls in an effort to give Tata Hall a visually light and airy feel. Ratan Tata (second from left) at his namesake building with Dean Nohria, William Rawn, and C.D. Spangler. Photos by Susan... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
MORE Listen to Donna Dubinsky explain why we shouldn't fear the Terminator, on the Skydeck podcast Google can identify a dog because the search engine has been fed millions of images of dogs—all labeled as such by humans—and it’s used... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Faculty Symposium Honors McArthur
Debate: The Business of Business Despite the need to exclude so much material, McCraw believes that the papers presented at the symposium paint a rich portrait of the many "remarkable contributions" to management education made by Dean... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Aug 2013
- News
A Cure for Cold Storage
easier," he says. Though the product is still four or five years of regulatory hurdles away from market by Schrader's estimate, Vaxess has started working with various global health organizations to figure out how to apply its silk... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
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Chances Are
Boston and a hot website fawned over by everyone from the New York Times to NPR. The financial crisis, though, forced Shapiro to shutter the site, transform Book of Odds into a data-consulting group, and put the numbers into book form.... View Details