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Leading with Creative Problem Solving: Ron Kurtz (MBA 1967) - Recruiting
entrepreneurial inclination fostered by growing up in a family that owned retail stores and enjoyed telling stories of their sales. Advertising was a popular career with a certain amount of glamour in the 1950s and 1960s. I, too, liked...
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Transforming Health Care Delivery - Course Catalog
understanding the fundamental improvement challenges facing the health care sector and developing strategies for addressing them. Students may have career interests in organizations that provide health care (e.g., hospitals, medical groups, View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
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Net Positive
to launch a six-team professional league in January, with games broadcasted on ESPN. “We intentionally designed this league to be community-up,” notes Gao, who has worked at numerous retail brands, including Lululemon, where she saw the...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2012
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Where Innovation Rules
computing to social impact bonds, from industrial robots to personal finance, from Internet retailing to Internet radio—a plethora of products and services that could well bear the stamp “Made by HBS.”
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- 01 Jun 2017
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Case Study: Something New
expertise in various parts of a complex supply chain and high efficiency (to keep lead times down and costs manageable). But that is valuable precisely because it is difficult and thus very hard to replicate. —Ankur Daga (MBA 2005) What makes this online View Details
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April White
- 01 Sep 2003
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Globalization Revisited
what firms make of it.” How global retailers enter local foreign markets — and then what they make of them — was the subject of “Globalization of Retailing,” with HBS professor Rajiv Lal leading a discussion of a paper he authored with...
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- 01 Oct 1999
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Q & A: Jeanne P. Jackson: A New Regime at Banana Republic
reading a case between serving cocktails, an Executive Education participant who was a CEO in retail gave Jackson a tip that would change her future. "He told me that anyone who worked as hard as I did was made for retail," she recalls....
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- 01 Jun 2014
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@Soldiers Field
Famed designer Donna Karan's keynote closed the Retail & Luxury Goods Club's annual conference, but some of the 400 attendees wanted more: Karan reportedly stuck around to chat with students for more than an hour and a half. Former US...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Fueling a sustainable enterprise in Brazil
almost entirely fossil fuel independent, relying primarily on hydroelectric energy for its grid electricity and sugarcane ethanol to fuel its cars. Diniz, formerly a high-level executive at retail giant Companhia Brasileira de...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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An Excerpt from The Innovator’s Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care
“The current health-care system generally is modular. Specialized companies operate hospitals, process paperwork, negotiate blanket service contracts, and manage outpatient and retail clinics. Most doctors’ offices are set up as...
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Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Dec 2019
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Accelerating a Gas-on-demand Startup
Model T owners—and it was basically the last major innovation in gasoline retailing for more than 100 years, says Bryan Frist (MBA 2015). “The gas station was stuck in the 20th century.” That revelation led to a question: If you can get...
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Michael Kaplan
Fullbeauty brands by Goldman Sachs and Oaktree; negotiations for a potential debt refinancing by a major US department store; partnership with a leading private equity firm to purchase a national specialty retailer and brand; investment...
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- 01 Dec 2007
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Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho
Investment Banking: 10.5% Investment Management: 7.3% Hedge Funds: 5.3% Private Equity/LBO: 12.4% Sales & Trading: 2.0% Venture Capital: 2.5% Other: 4.4% Consulting 21.1% Manufacturing 17.3% Biomed/Pharma: 3.7% Consumer Products: 4.9% Technology: 6.0% Other: 2.7% View Details
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Nielsen data: access?
addition, only certain Nielsen data sets are included: consumer panel, retail scanner, and ad intel data. Contact data-licensing@hbs.edu if you are an HBS faculty member or doctoral student interested in using this resource.
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- 15 Jun 2015
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Giving Small Boutiques a Global Reach
- 04 Aug 2014
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The Best and Worst of Family Businesses
- 01 Jun 2006
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Sleight of Hand
Camirand Photo Courtesy Guy Camirand It turns out that sawing ladies in half or pulling rabbits out of hats doesn’t worry professional magicians nearly as much as a bad case of dry hands. High-performance legerdemain, such as palming coins or making cards disappear,...
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Meet the HBS Women’s Association - MBA
Government Health Care / BioTech Manufacturing Private Equity Real Estate Retail Social Enterprise Technology Venture Capital Audiences Audiences FirstGen+ College Diverse Perspectives International LGBTQ+ Military Socioeconomic Inclusion...
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- 15 May 2018
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Spreading the Safety Net
paid sick leave and the flexibility to work from home, or even abroad. Our hourly employees, working in Rent the Runway’s warehouse, on the customer service team and in our retail stores, had to face life events like caring for a newborn,...
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- 19 Sep 2016
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Sustainable Farming in the Arid World
inputs. Our flagship project is a $200 million farm in Australia where we grow tomatoes specifically for an end-retailer. We fix the price with that retailer over a 10-year period and we do so growing only using sunlight and sea water as...
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