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- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
without it. Poindexter: I talk a lot to my customers about what life is like without electricity. And one of the most profound things that they said to me was, "Life without electricity, you're always rushing." And it's because you have... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Lego Stays on Script
is the secret sauce behind this new franchise? Two alumni on different sides of the process sum it up the same way: be true to the brand’s core value of creative, open-ended play. Movie producer Dan Lin (MBA 1999) got the idea for making... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Understanding Business Firsthand in South Korea
through which . . . [to learn] about South Korea and its people,” says Nix Maasdorp (MBA 2020). “Our customer interviews enabled us to approach our objective from a much deeper and more thoughtful perspective.” The students also had to... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Open Market
that she had miscast herself in her own origin story: She wasn’t the starry-eyed tech founder, she was the architect and builder. “I realized that there needed to be someone else—the genius who had the vision to come up with the idea. But then, once they had it, I... View Details
- 09 Sep 2024
- News
Basket Chase
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. On this episode, we’re featuring an excerpt from a new HBS podcast called Think Big, Buy Small. The show is hosted by Professors Richard Ruback and Royce Yudkoff... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Research Brief: What Makes a Mobile Money Service Thrive in an Emerging Market?
convenience and security offered by mobile banking, Kenya’s M-Pesa, for example, grew to serve 15 million customers in its first five years. But for every M-Pesa, there is a company like India’s Eko Financial Services, which has struggled... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Innovation: Crowdfunding College Costs
model has evolved since its launch. "We used to charge a transaction fee, but moved away from that for strategic reasons," Cordero says. "Now it's simply about customer acquisition and building a community." (Still, GradSave is currently... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
1,500-person division is a leader in the emerging field of personalized medicine, which treats cancer and other diseases with customized therapies that take into account the patient’s specific genetic traits. With HBS professor Richard... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Hierarchy's Last Stand
meeting with critics. One CEO of the new, humbler variety published a dialogue with a customer who questioned high prices in the company newsletter, replete with pointed attacks, some of which he admitted he couldn’t answer well. Status... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
rules of commerce: Instead of selling the “means” (their products and services), they adopt innovative revenue models to pursue “ends” (actual outcomes). They show that paying by the pill, semester, food item, vehicle, or show does not necessarily reflect the View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 28 May 2019
- News
Leading Questions
successful.” The assessment trend is also driven by companies that are eager for what Schlatka calls “people data.” Businesses that have long relied on customer numbers and financial reports to make important decisions have recognized... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
buildings 10 miles east of Mexico City that is populated by some of the country’s poorest citizens. Over the past two years, though, market days have been busier than normal at the store—all thanks to a little silver service booth just outside the shop. View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
mutual funds as a means to build their retirement nest eggs. A snapshot of some industry numbers reveals that in 1964, mutual fund assets totaled $28 billion; by 1980, they had grown to some $150 billion. But by 1992, assets had soared to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
percent stake, which would have been a much smaller ownership position than we usually get. So it was an “off-strategy” investment. It was also in the highly competitive space of lead generation, where companies are paid a referral fee if they deliver a qualified View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship
leave big business in 1970 to pursue an entrepreneurial opportunity with SABO, a small manufacturer of lawn-mower machinery with a market value of some 6 million deutsche marks. "I was particularly interested in SABO because of its... 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
- 12 Apr 2011
- News
Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS
purchasers to explore categories and products, compare brands in the same category, and browse buying guides, helping customers make an informed buying decision. vinsnap is a mobile automotive marketing company. The application organizes... View Details
Keywords: Multiple alumni
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Action Plan: Whole Sale
online platforms such as YouTube or, more recently, TikTok, to discover new products, but digital sales in the category were not on par with other consumer goods. The explanation: “Beauty is a fun purchase for consumers,” observes Balbale. View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
its own members to fund future expansion. What’s in Assistant Professor Uma Karmarkar’s grocery bags? It may depend on if she’s carrying reusuable bags. In a series of experiments, Karmarkar and a fellow researcher found that when View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
compromising our values and the culture of our organization trying to keep up with competitors who were pushing products down people’s throats.” While customers hunkered down, iTrust had the breathing room... View Details