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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
dissatisfied 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...
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Susan Young
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
and HBS professor David B. Yoffie. Vietor's case study on GEAR - the Mandela government's Growth, Employment, and Redistribution strategy - covers the major issues the country faces as it attempts to join the global economy and shake off...
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Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
The School of Life
battled it out in an ever-increasing test of nerves, a kind of Darwinian gauntlet. Early NASA executives had decided this was how to identify who had been born with “the right stuff.” Many companies looking to make top staffing decisions...
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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
school, it had the biggest improvement in English test scores among all middle schools in the city and the biggest uptick in math scores in the state. "We've had a strong start," says Given. "Our schools are high-performing schools, and...
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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
1982. “It was incredible,” says DeWitt of that history-making moment. “It was always a dream — but you’re not sure your dream will ever come true. This year it did.” As is so often true in the game of baseball, the Cardinals tested their...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
available until late 2006, and Herp figured the small turboprop would be a good means of testing his idea in the marketplace. Linear Air began by offering point-to-point service to over 500 cities in the Northeast, the Mid-Atlantic,...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
are an entrepreneur who is selling ideas that have been tested through rigorous research,” says Akinola, who teaches the first-year MBA course on leadership development. “To me, it’s just as stressful as being in a corporation, but the...
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- 13 Feb 2019
- News
We’re All Going to Get Hacked
the network, that’s easy, calls the bad guys. They type their way in, and all of a sudden the data starts to fly. I don’t know this for a fact, but I’ll bet you they had policies that said the HVAC network should not talk to the corporate. They couldn’t View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
planning and strategy at Ford’s Asia Pacific operations in Shanghai and a panelist at HBS’s “Moving the Future” transportation conference this past February. Just as significantly, charging infrastructure is set to get a boost. According...
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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
variety of distinguished panelists and participants tested myths, inspected realities, and questioned opportunities. Rafael Hui, Hong Kong's secretary for Financial Services, delivered an upbeat presentation on Hong Kong's future after...
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Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
investment. In addition, he worked half-time with a Boston-based management consulting firm on the strategy problems of several important corporate clients. He soon decided to focus his full attention on HBS. As the first graduate of the...
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- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
on shared terminals in Baker Library, the game required first-year students to put their newly acquired knowledge of marketing, control, finance, and operations to the test in a simulated competitive business environment. In addition to...
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by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
and Exchange Commission. He also worked in the first Bush administration’s White House. Kim, 40, worked as a strategy consultant at The Parthenon Group, an investment banker at Goldman Sachs, and the COO of the Shackleton Schools, a high...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
as NEHI, a nonprofit health policy group based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that brings all sectors of health care together to work on some of the industry’s systemic challenges. “What we’ve done in Massachusetts is incredibly innovative in terms of View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
the threat, with analysts predicting it will grow to $170 billion by 2020. (In his proposed fiscal 2017 budget, President Obama requested a $5 billion increase in federal cybersecurity spending, up to $19 billion annually.) Money is one thing, View Details
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Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
military members wanted to connect with one another. At the time, there was no central place on the Internet for them to do so. Military.com was born. For Beck, the opportunity she saw stemmed from both her professional and her personal experiences. She loved business...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Making Strategy Work Using the Balanced Scorecard by Sanjiv Anand (AMP 163, 2002) (Wiley) This is a hands-on guidebook for making strategy work with effective Balanced Scorecard design, deployment, and...
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- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
As a part of his campaign strategy for the Student Association presidency, Dobron took the unusual step of creating a team of four sectionmates to help him develop a platform based on issues of importance to the student body. Once...
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- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
Education Leadership Project (PELP), a collaborative effort with the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) that employs management concepts and entrepreneurial strategies to improve student performance in large school districts. But...
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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
admissions office to develop and implement new strategies for attracting more students from the continent. Both always knew they would ultimately return to their home country to try to address hunger and build Nigerian enterprises. The...
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