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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Competition and Strategy Unit at HBS Sets Pace In Its Field
competitive strategy over the past fifteen years. Last fall, Kohlberg taught Analytical Reasoning, a new elective he developed around his research. Associate Professor Anita M. McGahan, with Michael Porter, is working on a series of statistical papers on the sources of...
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Susan Young
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Wendell P. Weeks, MBA 1987
Corning 2007 Named Chairman, Corning 2007 Corning markets Gorilla Glass 2013 Fast Company names Corning one of World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies Chairman and CEO, Corning Incorporated As CEO of Corning...
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Susan Young
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
"Service-Profit Chain" Links Members of Service Management Unit
of large corporate databases. A management information systems specialist, Professor James I. Cash, Jr., focuses on how companies use information technology to improve organizational effectiveness and how businesses are changing due to...
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Susan Young
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Q&A: Suzy Wetlaufer
who applied to the School on a lark, accepted a position at Bain & Company after graduating from HBS as a Baker Scholar. She and a Bain partner later wrote an article about leadership styles and submitted it to the Harvard Business...
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- 26 May 2016
- News
Sunil B. Mittal, OPM 27, 1999
third-largest telecommunications company in the world. Today, Bharti Enterprises is one of India’s most successful companies, with more than 30,000 employees. In addition to Airtel, its diverse concerns include realty, financial services,...
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Susan Young
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
which HBS faculty are already studying. While one faculty member, for example, might look at the role that stock options played in a company that failed after it went public, another might investigate how a medical device View Details
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Susan Young
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
Above: photo by Len Rubenstein No disease can be slowed or stopped until it is diagnosed. For diseases with available treatments, the facts are simple: The earlier they are detected, the higher the survival rates. Two companies at the...
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Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Nancy Hall (MBA 1974)
business when I graduated. We were trained to work in established companies that had tens of thousands of employees. We didn’t spend much time on international business or study nonprofit management. Entrepreneurship was a novel idea....
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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
HBS Alumni Explore Tanzania
HBS alumni excursion was organized by Global Adrenaline, an adventure travel company based in the Chicago area. The overwhelming response to the trip allowed Nancy Collins (MBA ’99), our trip leader and Global Adrenaline’s founder and...
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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match
to ‘Dr. Famous,’ who was booked for 17 weeks out, while brand-new doctors only had 30 percent of their schedules filled.” Inspired by the efficiency that companies like Travelocity brought to the airline industry, Gardner created Kyruus...
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Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Sharon Patrick
categories.” Patrick has done just that since earning her MBA. After thirteen years at McKinsey followed by, as president, a turnaround of Cablevision’s Rainbow Programming, in 1993 Patrick founded her own company to create and own...
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- 23 May 2019
- News
Michael R. Bloomberg, MBA 1966
Bloomberg spent 15 years at Salomon Brothers, where he rose through the ranks from an entry-level job counting securities by hand to general partner. When he was 39, Salomon merged with another firm and Bloomberg was fired. The energetic entrepreneur quickly launched...
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Susan Young
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Business
Karim Lakhani and Marco Iansiti (photos by Susan Young; Getty Images) Karim Lakhani and Marco Iansiti (photos by Susan Young; Getty Images) Artificial intelligence is driving the latest seismic shift in the way companies conduct business....
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Susan Young
- 21 Oct 2016
- News
The Type of Purpose That Makes Companies More Profitable
- 22 Sep 2016
- News
Words and Pictures
worked with nonprofits; and launched several entrepreneurial ventures, including AwesomeBox, the company he now runs that makes it easy for friends to collaborate on a box of personal cards to mark a special occasion. For her part, Jean...
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Susan Young
- 17 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Companies Need to Start Marketing Security to Customers
is viewed as a "must have" but not a differentiator. Volvo is one of a few brands that have relentlessly emphasized safety in its marketing, being early into seat belts, side air bags and other features that appealed especially to middle class families...
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- December 2006 (Revised October 2016)
- Case
eClinicalWorks: The Paths to Growth
By: Robert F. Higgins and Mark Rennella
In January 2006, eClinicalWorks (eCW) had an acquisition opportunity that could fundamentally change the way they had done business since the inception of the company in 1999. eClinicalWorks was a privately run business in the healthcare information technology field...
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Young Companies;
Strategic Revelation;
Strategy And Execution;
Strategy Development;
Strategy And Leadership;
Financing Strategy;
Financing Risk;
Financing;
Expansion;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Organizational Culture;
Financing and Loans;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Acquisition;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Information Technology Industry;
Health Industry;
Massachusetts
Higgins, Robert F., and Mark Rennella. "eClinicalWorks: The Paths to Growth." Harvard Business School Case 807-025, December 2006. (Revised October 2016.)
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation
First, there were changes in ERISA (Employee Retirement Income Security Act) legislation that allowed pension funds to invest in private equity; second, the growth of the microprocessor and the semiconductor; and third, the rise of entrepreneurial activity, which drew...
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by Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
restaurateur, broke, and with a wife and four young children at home, Rogers converted his aging Porsche into desperately needed cash to cinch the best deal he ever made — ownership of Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream. It’s one of the stories...
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- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
customers to take their business elsewhere. With new Internet-only banks and brokerages popping up regularly, established firms must find innovative ways to hold onto their customers. "Traditionally, strategy was institutionally driven—insurance View Details
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by Susan Young