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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
young consumers. I believe that will be true in our case. How would you describe the Starbucks company culture? It is highly aspirational and very people-oriented. Starbucks gives stock options to all employees (we call them partners); we were also the first in this... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
William F. Connell (MBA '63)
group, Connell gained 85 percent ownership of the industrial companies with a leveraged buyout that created the Connell Limited Partnership. Last year, the four firms remaining in the Partnership accounted... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Faculty Q&A: Price Check
application in an industry with the most room for improvement. Online retail, particularly online fashion, definitely fit the bill. Why is fashion a good place to focus? The industry faces several challenges... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
The Sparkles in Our Skies
approximately the equivalent of a year and a quarter of the average American’s carbon footprint. While it feels like a technological magic trick in an industry known for tradition rather than innovation, it may not even be the startup’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Reinventing Marketing
becoming the victim of its own success, according to the leaders of the Marketing unit at HBS. "Advances in technology and fundamental changes in how products and services are delivered are enabling other disciplines - such as manufacturing, sales, even View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Making It Count
Weighted Accounts (IWA) Project has set about tackling accountability, a major hurdle on the path to an impact-driven economy. While the number of firms reporting their own ESG data has grown exponentially, and companies of all stripes... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Research Brief: Paying the Price for Remote Work
The pandemic dramatically accelerated the global marketplace’s appetite for remote work, which had already become a $50 billion industry by 2020. But wages for the same remote jobs varied greatly, depending on where the worker lived.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
if there was a long period between song releases, they had to make sure to fill that time with new visual stimuli for the fans. BY THE NUMBERS Breaking Down the Blockbuster Between 2007 and 2011, Elberse found, Warner Bros. spent $6.5 billion producing movies. The top... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Mark Tatum
vice president of the university's Black Alumni Association. Working at Procter & Gamble after graduation, he was promoted four times in four years, eventually becoming an award-winning corporate account executive. As a regional sales... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; photograph by Webb Chappell
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group), Bloomberg sees cities as focal points in the struggle against global warming and climate change. Urban areas are now home to half the world’s population, consume half the world’s energy, and, according to some measures, View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
with a sharp pencil. I would urge all of us involved in international trade and tax accounting to do what we can to make the old shell game a game not worth the candle, just as GlaxoSmithKline learned in 2006 to the tune of a $3.4 billion... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
'96), was recently promoted to director of National Accounts with L'Oreal in Spain. "Prior to my MBA studies," says Baeza, a Swiss native, "I had been working in Switzerland for Nivea for four years as a group product manager in the... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 18 Jul 2018
- News
Ensuring HBS Remains a Dynamic Community
together,” she remembers. That interest led her to study finance and accounting at the University of Pennsylvania. After college, she joined Morgan Stanley as an analyst. “I found investment banking to be exciting and fast-paced,” says... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
Board (EDB), amazed the audience when he described how his country is building massive industrial townships in China, Indonesia, and Vietnam. "If [building infrastructure] were a gold mine, I would not be here; if it was not a nightmare... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
case studies and analyses of major corporations, Michaelson offers an in-depth view of common techniques of restructuring and discusses how to deliver increased value. A Manager’s Guide to Creative Cost Cutting (McGraw-Hill) Techniques of Management View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
No Bull — Nancy E. Havens-Hasty (MBA 1971)
When Nancy Havens-Hasty stepped onto Wall Street after graduating from HBS, her first account as a corporate finance associate was not one of Kidder Peabody's several computer company clients, despite her background as a physics major at... View Details
Keywords: Linda Goodspeed
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
of at least 51 people in Panama after they ingested medicine made with diethylene glycol, an industrial chemical similar to antifreeze that a Chinese company used as a substitute for pharmaceutical-grade syrup. In June, officials at the... View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
iStock The faculty, students, and staff of Harvard Business School are thinking about the people of Turkey and Syria who were impacted by the recent earthquake. We have all been touched by the loss of life, the hopeful stories of survival, and the rapid response of... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
industry's release of an unprecedented total of twenty thousand new titles. Is there trouble brewing for the business with a beat, a virtually recession-free industry for the past fifty years? To shed some light on the situation, the... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
turn, moving ideas on new paths to market and perhaps even publishing research to enhance industry knowledge will provide new and important ways for companies to realize the value of their discoveries. — Laura Singleton (MBA ’88) Artful... View Details