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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: Reemerging Technologies
to the product, as well as the identity of the organizations and community that produce and sell them. For example, the Swiss redefined mechanical watches as luxury goods infused with craftsmanship and beauty. Something I’ve studied... View Details
- 01 Oct 2013
- News
Banking on Africa's Future
chemical engineering from MIT and a JD from Harvard Law School. His résumé also includes stints at Disney and the Texas Pacific Group. With some $2 billion invested in more than 30 countries, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa, Helios's focus is mainly in financial services,... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Metail Economy: 6 Strategies for Transforming Your Business to Thrive in the Me-Centric Consumer Revolution By Joel Bines (MBA 1999) McGraw-Hill Armed with computers, tablets, smartphones, and... View Details
- 01 Jan 2009
- News
Jorge Paulo Lemann, A.B. 1961; Carlos A. Sicupira, OPM 9, 1984; Marcel H. Telles, OPM 10, 1985
national economy, bringing access to consumer goods, jobs, and global markets to Brazil. Having helped build Belgium-based Anheuser-Busch InBev into one of the world’s leading breweries, Lemann now divides his time between corporate... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Amy Schiffman Langer (MBA '77)
at Shearson Lehman Brothers when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. The life-threatening ordeal inspired her to make a pact with a higher power: "If You get me through this, I will give something back." After recovering fully from her illness, Langer made View Details
- 06 Jul 2015
- News
Lights! Camera... Market!
source of good in a community that is struggling. We knew our consumers would want to learn about what goes on at a farm where we get our potatoes. Consumers ask us all the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Real Conflict
prices are significantly lower than its competitors. Assuming the company’s prices are 8 percent lower — at the low end of the estimates from various studies summarized in a recent report by Global Insight — and applying that to Wal-Mart’s domestic sales volume, U.S.... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New Releases
based on actual consumer expenditures. Lean retailing allows department stores, mass merchandisers, and other retail outlets to capitalize on information, allowing them to minimize their exposure to demand uncertainty." Given this new... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Same the World Over: Focusing on Customers and Innovation Brings Success
marketing found among the most successful Asian firms in the study appears to hold true across the board - in consumer goods organizations, industrial firms, product companies, and service providers alike,... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 31 Mar 2011
- News
Building an Online Swap Shop
Silicon Valley. Homer joined the thredUP team after HBS, but he worked closely with Reinhart, a sectionmate, during their RC year. The trust built that year was key to thredUP’s success, said Homer. “One of the things that’s really hard when you’re building a new... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
Illustration by Istvan Banyai Since 2006, Gazelle has offered consumers an answer to the question of what to do with their old electronic devices when they upgrade: Sell them to us. Customers can go to Gazelle's website; get a price for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
sporting goods companies. But Kim and Coup weren’t interested in selling the company yet. Meanwhile, Timberland, based in Stratham, New Hampshire, had been assembling a collection of brands under the umbrella of its outdoor group to... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
After the Revolution: Putting the Internet in Perspective
This is truly a revolution." Nolan underlined the advantage that new-economy companies have over their incumbent competitors, using drugstore.com as an example. Taking only a year to build, drugstore.com has become the fastest-growing company to reach $1 billion in... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
says Srivastava, recalling that he reached out to classmate and HBS associate professor Noam Wasserman (MBA 1999, PhD 2002) to get a better sense of whether academia would be a good fit. Now, Srivastava is following three streams of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
When they returned to Hong Kong from the United States in the 1970s to work side by side with their father, the company’s future was uncertain. Under the brothers’ guidance, Li & Fung today is a global leader in consumer View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
Jacinto C. Gavino of the Asian Institute of Management in Manila suggested that, given such constraints, there should be an evaluation mechanism developed to help focus research on the most important issues. “In developing economies, we have to reexamine the... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 22 Jun 2023
- News
Finding Her Place
Photo: Courtesy Chapman Partnership Symeria Hudson (MBA 1997) never expected to find herself leading a nonprofit. Hudson had spent the first 25 years of her career in the corporate world—the first 10 years in consumer View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
relatively pro-business government and an energetic young population and growing middle class that make no secret of aspiring to a better quality of life, complete with all the consumer goods such an... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 28 May 2019
- News
INK: Maker’s Manual
Since cofounding the online product discovery platform The Grommet in 2008, Jules Pieri (MBA 1986) has enjoyed a front-row seat to the launch of 3,000 consumer products—including household names like Fitbit, SodaStream, and S’well. From... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
products—and more likely to indulge in treats. Why? “You did something good for the environment,” Karmarkar says, “so you can have a cookie.” It was easy to believe Bill Gates in 2012 when he predicted that Sal Khan’s (MBA 2003) 2006... View Details