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- 04 Oct 2019
- News
Changing of the Guard at Tesco
of amazing retailers with the organization. It’s much broader, about strategy, if you understand the brand, the customer and do you have the interpersonal skills to engage with 450,000 people?” READ MORE View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Flexibility Is Key to Product Development in Internet Time
When the number of Internet-based businesses took off in the mid-1990s, many long-standing rules for product innovation were blown away. Previous models of development based on a sequential process of planning and execution are not workable in the Internet age, where... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 15 Nov 2013
- News
Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again
companies I invest in." Laguë's own desire for active involvement is really what he calls his "entrepreneurship gene" kicking in. "I've always had a bent for the finance side, but I also like to play a strong role in building companies, putting teams together, and... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Expanded Elective Curriculum Offers Students A Wealth of Choices
Management and Entrepreneurial Finance, continue to broaden their scope and impact on entrepreneurial studies at HBS. The EC also now offers many small, innovative courses such as Professor Elon Kohlberg's Analytical Reasoning, Professor... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Faculty Books
developing innovative products and services. He discusses the full range of activities required: learning about customer needs; managing experimentation and problem-solving; product-development process... View Details
- 26 Jul 2018
- News
Running the Numbers
software and approach to organization-wide data management and integration. “We help organizations develop a holistic view of their customers and operations by tracking and analyzing data gathered at... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
to hearing his executive participants vow to review cyber security safeguards and procedures once they return to their companies. As Austin tells his students, only senior management has the authority necessary to implement the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Real Conflict
words of Robert Solow, a Nobel laureate in economics and an adviser to the study, “By far the most important factor in that growth is Wal-Mart.” Second, most of the value created by the company is actually pocketed by its customers in the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Happy Monday
Illustration by Fabio Consoli Illustration by Fabio Consoli The co-CEOs noticed it right away: Early in the pandemic, staffers at the online children’s clothing company Primary.com were struggling when they logged back into Zoom on Mondays. People were not recharging... View Details
- 20 Feb 2013
- News
Thanking Veterans Online
sign-up process is easy. Service members and veterans can validate their military service against a government database or a military financial institution catering to nine million military customers through a real-time process. (For... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Vision: A Unicorn Evolves
offer workflow planning and tracking, and provide data-driven insights on customer behavior—is now used by more than 4,500 companies, with over 100,000 weekly users. That’s twice as many, Medina notes, as the competition combined. The... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Labs Enable Large-scale Research
Serafeim, Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration Michael Toffel, Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management Peter Tufano, Baker Foundation Professor Crypto, Fintech, and Web3 Lab How will crypto shape the... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
disciples, you need evangelists—you need to create situations that make it easier to model new behaviors. It’s one of the hardest things of managing any business, he says of shifting the culture. “Changing human behavior is a very... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Case Study: Welcome Aboard
manage their assets, tenants, and leasing, the software solutions that Lerner and Holder supported offered the promise of a cutting-edge solution. The implementation process once a customer signed on,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
Given success of this magnitude, why aren’t for-profit managed charter schools like Sabis in high demand? The authors rebut the charge that for-profits running charter schools are in it for the money, not the kids, and they explore the... View Details
- 25 Aug 2016
- News
Announcing the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative
and administered through Harvard, the initiative will equip city leaders with the tools, skills, and support increasingly required to tackle the complex leadership and management challenges faced in governing cities around the globe. The... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
European Computer Driving License, a basic requirement for any IT job in Europe, which otherwise can cost as much as $500 per course.) English language, computer skills, and business management curricula are especially popular. Explains... View Details
- 10 May 2023
- News
Alumna Snags an Emmy
Smith Cochrane (right) accepts the Emmy with her colleague German Cheung Smith Cochrane (right) accepts the Emmy with her colleague German Cheung Kathryn Smith Cochrane’s (MBA 2016) recent Emmy award win didn’t have the anticipatory stress of the ones you see on TV.... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Q & A: Jeanne P. Jackson: A New Regime at Banana Republic
President and CEO of Banana Republic since 1995, Jeanne Jackson (MBA '78) has been credited with transforming the faltering safari clothing brand into one of the nation's leaders in - and definers of - casual attire. In 1998, Business Week named Jackson one of the top... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Up by the Roots
brought its own challenges. Ginseng is a notoriously labor-intensive crop: Plants can take four to five years to mature, all of the seeds are picked by hand, and most of the harvesting is manual. All machinery is customized from other... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs