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- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
Professor Ramanna explores the political processes determining our system of accounting rules by which corporate profits are reliably measured. He shows how some corporate interests, to increase profits, have been manipulating the...
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- 01 Jun 2002
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In VMI Partnerships, the Devil is in the Data
packaged-goods companies indicating that VMI is more prevalent where retailers deliver detailed demand data via highly reliable transfer methods. In short, manufacturers should think twice about implementing VMI if retailers are supplying...
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Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)
- 01 Mar 2012
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Social Investing Pioneers
Palandjian Photo courtesy Tracy Palandjian Cohen Main article: Where Innovation Rules Governments and philanthropies have long sought to improve the lives of society’s least fortunate and most vulnerable, often with discouraging results. Money spent doesn’t View Details
- 06 Oct 2020
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Clearing the Path to Citizenship
law firm—more than 7,000 a year—and boasts a success rate of 99.7 percent. The volume of applicants also has other benefits. Synthesizing what it has learned from its clients’ experiences, Boundless has become a clearinghouse for reliable...
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April White
- 13 Jan 2021
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Stress Test
lock, but the company soon expanded its focus to B2B sales in the health care sector. Its clients now include sites responsible for COVID-19 testing and vaccine distribution, which require both security and a reliable audit log. The...
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- 04 Sep 2019
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Deep Dive
acquire a submersible capable of diving these unexplored depths. Vescovo considered purchasing Cameron’s submersible, the Deepsea Challenger, but determined that the experimental vehicle would require too many updates to reliably allow...
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- 01 Dec 2022
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December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Pilgrimage to the Museum: Man’s Search for God Through Art and Time By Stephen Auth (MBA 1985) Sophia Institute Press In Pilgrimage to the Museum, author-curator Stephen Auth takes you on a colorful journey through the history of...
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- 01 Apr 1997
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Manager's Notebook
and improved' attributes won't be valuable to customers forever. They should therefore be aware of how the basis of competition in their industries might be changing and preempt the commoditization of their products by finding creative ways to make their products,...
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Judith Ross
- 21 Dec 2022
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HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
bravery, courage, selflessness and dedication to higher values. Yet, we have to do something! I wanted to respectfully suggest to the 87,000-strong HBS community globally how to support Ukraine: I have specific suggestions on how and where to offer support - View Details
- 12 Jul 2019
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The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
UHaul from Boston to San Francisco and we showed up in the summer of 2009 knowing basically nobody with an idea. Ten years later we have a real company with over a thousand people around the world and we helped make the Internet faster safer and more View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
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Alumni Books
self-improvement, resulting in levels of profitability, quality, efficiency, and reliability unmatched by rivals. The book shows how to build and manage such a system of dynamic discovery. The Leadership Code: Five Rules to Lead By by...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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Gazprom Goes Global
disputed pipeline fees, unsigned contracts, bad faith, and, ultimately, failed negotiations. Although other neighboring countries had had similar problems with Ukraine, the shutoff was a PR disaster for Gazprom, which had enjoyed a long-standing reputation as a View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
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Financial Services 24/7
Wallet READ MORE Breaking Down Barriers: The Electronic Wallet Operational Efficiency With more and more consumers using the Internet to conduct transactions of all kinds and with the size of firms growing, the reliability of technology...
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Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
reliable ones? Should we abandon our current business model for an entirely new one? Making bold changes demands bold leadership and, often, massive cultural transformation. Li points to organizations that beat the odds and succeeded at...
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- 01 Mar 2005
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Answering the Call
Illustration by PJ Loughran Everyone talks about how quickly business changes. yet some HBS cases remain reliably relevant decades after they are written. In the pages that follow, we take a behind-the-scenes look at five cases that are...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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Money Matters
dollar amounts per deal, now they’re looking for deals in the $10 million to $50 million range. That’s not helpful to people starting businesses.” Nor are angel investors, wealthy individuals who back start-ups, a reliable option, adds...
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- 13 Jan 2021
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Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
self, but also the innovation of the automobile industry globalized and the best place to get the sexiest sports car is probably in Italy. And the capital of raw engineering might be in Germany. And the most reliable cars come from Japan....
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- 02 Mar 2016
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The New Space Race
guy like Musk walk in saying, ‘I’ll offer you something 98 percent as reliable for one-third the cost.’ It shakes things up. The reason SpaceX can do what it does is that it’s not using 50-year-old methods.” “Space companies are starting...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Mar 2015
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A Boomtown's Echo
workers, and the city—or private actors—has to invest in resource efficiency. So how can our water, fuel, and transit go further? By having multifamily housing, by having some kind of mass transit, by having a common water extraction and treatment regime, by having a...
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- 01 Sep 2007
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To The Rescue
with huge differences in governance, language, culture, and even the reliability of local police. “Ultimately the plan is very important, because it’s a promise of security we’re giving to people. We can’t get into a situation where we...
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