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- 07 Apr 2015
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Warrior Spirit
a fact Sityodtong has made one of the gym’s competitive advantages despite the expense involved in recruiting and relocating fighters from as far away as Brazil. (Monthly pay for an Evolve instructor ranges from $5,000 to $15,000; housing View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
numerous undertakings to roll out no- or low-emission products and processes in multiple sectors. Hence, the major auto producers, globally, have announced commitments to phase out production of new internal combustion engines by 2035 to...
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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Kumar Mahadeva
Sri Lanka and held positions with the BBC, McKinsey, AT&T, and Dun & Bradstreet before founding Cognizant — originally a joint venture with Dun & Bradstreet — in 1994. “We help companies to cut their IT and business process View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
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New Urban Order
the country have different cost structures and regulatory requirements when it comes to waste reduction, diversion, and disposal,” he says. “It doesn’t make sense for us to build a $50 million recycling facility in a market where there’s...
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- 01 Jun 2024
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Quantum Leap
“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a...
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- 01 Dec 2022
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My First Job
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Ross MacDonald Here’s the humbling truth: no matter how high your career soars, how many awards you win or companies you sell or differences you make in this world, everyone has to start somewhere. And in those first...
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- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Every year, HBS selects a small handful of outstanding alums to receive its most important honor, the Alumni Achievement Award. This year's recipients work in finance, politics, biopharma, and...
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- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
organizational behavior. "I love the intellectual hunt behind research," he says. "It's a process of trying to understand elements that initially don't seem to have any relation to one another. When they come together, it's a big...
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- 01 Mar 2004
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Derek Ferguson
York after graduating from college. Then, in 1988, Ferguson and Keith Clinkscales (MBA 1990) founded Urban Profile, a lifestyle magazine for young African-American professionals. “We didn’t consider printing costs or subscribers,”...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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Breaking News
News Sustainability and Business Models Project at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy. Her dissertation research at HBS examined institutional leadership, organizational change, and the View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
competition better than most. When asked how his $20 million, 100-employee operation has maintained its foothold when other small US manufacturers have faltered, Knott responds pointedly, “We keep our costs low.” ON A ROLL: Riverdale...
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- 01 Jun 2018
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Case Study: Tip the Scale
purchase monthly shares by weight, rather than à la carte, resulting in a fulfillment process that is “relatively complex and pretty unique,” Cummings says. Every order—with 5 to 30 items, selected from 100 products stacked on a...
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- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
brothers don’t want to work in the business, and that he wants you to take over—not in a year, but next week. He wants you to deal with the unions and the aftermath of a flood that cost millions of dollars of inventory. He wants you to...
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- 01 Sep 2014
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The Changing Nature of Research
deepens, the cost of conducting powerful, relevant, practical, and broad-based research increases. Because research today encompasses a wider range of approaches and methodologies than ever before—and often requires international...
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- 17 Sep 2021
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Clearing the Path to Citizenship
When Xiao Wang (MBA 2014) and his parents immigrated to the United States from China three decades ago, the process was a difficult and expensive one. The family spent the equivalent of five months’ rent on an immigration attorney to...
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- 01 Dec 2000
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Core Values Keep Airline Flying High
Good people are essential for success. Keep the product and the process simple. Deliver the most reliable service at the lowest cost. Invest the time to connect with employees and customers. These are the basic tenets fueling the...
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- 01 Sep 2003
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In the Running?
businesspeople say is their biggest, single problem: the soaring cost of workers’ compensation insurance.” Democrat Garamendi has twice been elected insurance commissioner — he’s also served sixteen years in the state legislature, and in...
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- 01 Dec 1996
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New Releases
Technology Fountainheads by E. Raymond Corey (Harvard Business School Press) As corporate research and development costs rise, many firms choose to participate in R&D; consortia - collaborative ventures with academic institutions and...
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- 01 Sep 2014
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In Search of Innovation
Many of the innovations needed to increase the quality of health care in the United States while reducing its cost already exist, says Professor Richard Hamermesh, faculty cochair of the Forum on Health Care Innovation. “There are pockets...
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