Filter Results
:
(279)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(954)
- People (3)
- News (279)
- Research (511)
- Multimedia (8)
- Faculty Publications (87)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(954)
- People (3)
- News (279)
- Research (511)
- Multimedia (8)
- Faculty Publications (87)
Sort by
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Q & A: Jeanne P. Jackson: A New Regime at Banana Republic
look to us as a source of information to help them with that. They can be seventy years old and care about how they look, or they can be seventeen. How have your product lines evolved? We started with a core brand definition of providing...
View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
slowly—moving the ball down the field. A central pillar of the megapolis plan, it is likely to be among the first to see completion. For starters, the first 25 kilometers of a new light rail line will shrink a painfully slow commute from...
View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
One-on-One with William H. Donaldson
focus on what I call the DNA of their corporation. I want boards to answer the questions, What kind of company are we going to be? What is the moral fiber of this company? I want them to conclude that they are not going to skate up to the red View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
and a culture that values employees above all and empowers them to excel. Unlike its competitors, Dreyer’s has always insisted on delivering ice cream to grocery stores with its own trucks and drivers to ensure product quality. Early on...
View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
Relations, and one of the driving forces behind the School's Global Alumni Conferences, began by praising the conference cochairs' hard work and dedication in organizing the event. In his remarks to the capacity crowd, he quipped that Ewald Wessels had become a...
View Details
Keywords:
Susan Young
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
front line of a turnaround. “It was a chance to contribute to my hometown company, which was in great need of young, innovative leaders,” and offered proximity to family as he and his wife, Kristi Jones MBA...
View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
of yoga is alive and well at our festivals.” Corporate sponsors also want in, to get their brands in front of the primarily female attendees with the disposable income for travel, food, and lodging, on top of $100 to $500 entrance fees....
View Details
Keywords:
Deborah Halber
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
of the First World War form the backdrop for Loyd's epic trilogy, The Great War Won. The trilogy ranges from the corridors of power in London to the front lines of the Allied forces in the field. In the...
View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
in ways that are easily defined and rewarded by society,” says Steven Carpenter (MBA 2004). “But as you get older, you learn that the line between success and failure is razor thin, oftentimes invisible.” Currently executive-in-residence...
View Details
Keywords:
Walt Disney Studios
- 22 Sep 2017
- News
The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice
there. And meanwhile, on that street, South Bayshore Drive, were all these Lamborghinis and Masserattis and Porsches and Benzes and limos. And people called the pride of place to tip the valets to kind of box out the scene and make sure your car is View Details
- 27 Oct 2017
- News
The Best Business Advice I’ve Ever Received
trade-offs are, because some of them, like time with your family, you can't get back. My name is Rosy Fynn and I am class of 2007. So best piece of business advice, I would say, put your employees first and make sure that they are...
View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
opportunities? The most successful entrepreneurs I interviewed demonstrated that the key is to focus on finding customer problems first, and only then on searching for solutions that can help. “The real dividing line is simple,” explained...
View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
compromises. But it can happen.” In a unanimous decision made shortly after her concluding remarks, the school board appointed Cognetti to its vacant seat. Headlines the next day put Cognetti’s Harvard MBA front and center—a fact she...
View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
rapid urbanization, sedentary lives, and bad diets. It requires a holistic approach where engineers, designers, and clinicians work together. What lies ahead? We have a clinical trial coming up to validate our technology, and a series of market pilots View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
survey of HBS alumnae from the Classes of 1981, 1986, and 1991 indicates that only 38 percent of the respondents are currently working full-time. However, other findings from the survey suggest that a growing number of these former investment bankers, venture...
View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
20, 2007, while Gisholt, Minard, and their three young daughters were waiting in line for Test Track, an auto-testing simulation that advises riders to “Strap yourself in to race up bumpy terrain, roar through hairpin turns, speed into...
View Details
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
created for Cloudflare, because early on you have to describe what you’re trying to do to get people to sign up. We’re one year into the business —before we had any customers—and there is a line in the video that says Cloudflare is like a...
View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
people lined up outside hospitals that nevertheless had an abundance of empty beds, they studied the phenomenon until they understood it. Sometimes the solution was to shift work away from swamped doctors and on to other staff. Other...
View Details