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- 19 Apr 2018
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One Last Pitch
The 2018 New Venture Competition started last fall with 360 teams. By Wednesday, April 18, just 12 teams—four finalists from each of the Alumni, Student Social Enterprise, and Student Business tracks—were left standing, vying for $315,000...
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Jennifer Myers
- 01 Apr 2001
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William Fung: E-Commerce and Efficiency
Ask fund managers covering the Hong Kong market about smart technology plays in these days of crashing dot-coms and you’re likely to hear one company name repeated often. Li & Fung has become the firm to watch for post-frenzy investors....
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- 01 Jun 1997
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A Better Way to Go on Strike
costs at $200 million a day. What's more, a strike would cost the pilots and other employees their salaries. The airline would lose tens of millions of dollars daily and risk losing market share to its competitors. Yet the pilots were...
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- 01 Oct 1999
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Four Promoted to Full Professor
Clayton M. Christensen has a joint appointment in the Technology and Operations Management and General Management units. His research focuses on the management of technological innovation, developing organizational capabilities, and finding new View Details
- 27 Jan 2023
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Turning Up the Volume
When the executive director of Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America (LEDA) stepped down in June 2020, Ilana Goldman (MBA/MPA 2002) stepped up. As chair of the board and a political and nonprofit consultant, she saw it as her duty to fill the role until a...
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Maureen Harmon
- 01 Oct 1998
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Supplying Demand
whopping $5.2 billion. In creating Staples, Stemberg drew on the knowledge of modern distribution techniques he had acquired during his twelve years in the grocery business. As a vice president with the Jewel Companies' Star Market chain...
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Paul Michelman
- 01 Oct 1998
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A Career to Smile About
Foods, joined Colgate in 1988 as head of its Far East and Canada operations. "How do you take an idea or product that may work in Latin America and introduce it into Asia or Africa, instantaneously? All multinationals are working on this problem because speed is of the...
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Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 01 Mar 2015
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Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow
brand shouldn’t be about erecting barriers to keep consumers out; indeed, growth requires the welcoming of new faces,” concludes HBS marketing professor Anat Keinan in a July 2014 Harvard Business Review article, “How ‘Brand Tourists’ Can...
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- 01 Jun 2001
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Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
IBM PCs in advance of their market introduction. We used Lotus 1-2-3 for spreadsheets, and we proudly whipped out our HP 12C calculators with their vast array of financial and statistical functions (which we mostly didn’t need but still...
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- 01 Dec 2000
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Books
new competitive era." Breaking the Code of Change Edited by Michael Beer and Nitin Nohria (Harvard Business School Press) With the restructuring and upheaval that has characterized life in the corporate world over the last two decades,...
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- 01 Dec 2019
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Case Study: Farming It Out
to tackle more complex tasks like pruning and picking. The Question: For now, AGR is focused on nailing the initial market fit, Andersen says, but at some point he’ll have to face the question of empire building. Other companies have...
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- 26 Apr 2011
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BioMine Strikes Gold
Entrepreneurs Win in Global Competitions BioMine CEO, Privahini Bradoo (MBA '08) Related Links View photos from the contest Meet the 12 regional finalists Listen to the faculty webinar series Learn about the 2011 host clubs Winners of the...
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- 01 Mar 2019
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In My Humble Opinion: Easy Rider
native knew an icon—and a challenge—when he saw one. In 2009 he stepped into the role of managing director, Harley-Davidson India. Entering the Indian market had plenty of challenges related to tariffs, accessibility, and brand...
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- 12 Apr 2012
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HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups
HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups With more than a 40 percent increase in Alumni New Venture Contest entries this year, our 11 finalists overcame stiff competition to win their local regions. On April 23, they travel to campus to...
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- 01 Sep 2015
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Ink
strategy and assessing your place in the competitive landscape. Tool 15, “Taming Co-opetition,” helps one determine the risks and rewards of sleeping with the enemy. Essentially, the advice is, don’t. “With few exceptions, being in View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
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Trade Off
trade and capital flows created a world that looked in many ways like ours. Yet even in the early 20th century, there remained tensions of increasing inequality and wage competition in a context of ruthless international rivalry....
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- 01 Dec 2018
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Case Study: Your Data, Your Health
otherwise take a decade to diagnose. But NextGen Jane is building more diseases into the pipelines. “There are so many understudied areas in women’s health we could explore,” Tariyal says. Illustration by Marcos Chin The Question: “The first test I bring to View Details
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 1997
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Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
In a predawn phone call on October 14, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences informed HBS professor Robert C. Merton that he had won the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics. Merton's work evaluating risk has changed the nature of financial View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
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New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program
eliminated the Foundations II program and moved its content elsewhere into the required curriculum. The Society and Enterprise module, for instance, has been integrated into the General Management course, and the Economics and Markets...
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- 01 Jun 2017
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Life in Lockdown
to handle daily chores like picking up dry cleaning, watering plants, grocery shopping, and making their beds. Doorman morphed into Hello Alfred, which went on to win the School’s New Venture Competition in 2014 and then, later that year,...
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