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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
sales of $37 billion. The company’s aggressive investment in research has made it an industry leader in new drug approvals. And when opportunity knocks, Vasella doesn’t hesitate to broaden Novartis’s business mix through acquisitions. He... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Decoding the Promise and Perils of Generative AI
ChatGPT burst into the public consciousness on November 30, 2022. Within two months, the generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) software, which leverages a large language model (LLM) to produce human-like, text-based conversations, had reached an estimated 100... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 10 Jul 2016
- News
Georgetown Dean Thomas Returns to Teaching
(photo courtesy of Georgetown University) (photo courtesy of Georgetown University) McDonough School of Business Dean David Thomas is stepping down after five years at Georgetown University with plans to move back into a research and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Thirteen years ago, Marcelo Claure, founder of wireless services company Brightstar, discussed with a reluctant Steve Jobs the idea of launching a trade-in and recycling program for iPhones. It was a business move that expanded the market and created a new profit... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Meyers
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Who Owns Yoga?
Rohit Deshpandé, the Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing, often asks his students a show-stopping question: Is everything brandable? And next: Should everything be brandable? In “Branding Yoga,” cowritten with HBS Global Research... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
What Industrial Policy?
include: Agriculture, which receives massive government subsidies. Universities, which enjoy tax-exempt status and direct subsidies through government research grants. Health care, which receives a huge tax break (employer-sponsored... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
A Look at Olook
partnerships with everyone from fashion designer André Lima to Princess Paola d'Orléans-Bragança, a descendant of Brazil's colonial royal family. Online retail has proved to be a healthy market. Brazilian research firm e-bit estimates... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT
The following article is the ninth in a series on the activities and research taking place in each academic unit at HBS. The information technology (IT) industry, for which rapid change has been a constant for decades, has reached another... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Inbox: From Das’s Desk
research has focused on various aspects of customer management in B2B contexts, including customer selection and portfolio management; managing a spectrum of customer engagements, from transactions to long-term relationships; developing... View Details
Keywords: Das Narayandas
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Case Study: Bionic Banking
approach for the masses. Investment management startup Alpha Architect, cofounded by COO Patrick Cleary (MBA 2010), is considering the launch of an affordable, active robo-advisor that would seek to outperform a passive, globally diversified View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Betting big on star power can be a winning strategy in business—not just show business
Researching the entertainment industry, Anita Elberse, the Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration, has found that blockbuster strategies work. Content producers who pursue these strategies make huge investments in a small... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
the next decade, so I guess if you want to blame the system, blame me! The problem may be more nuanced. In 1984, I met with a senior manager at AT&T who said they had done market research and concluded,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
(formerly known as Project Antares), a collaboration between HBS and HSPH that intends to use business and markets to break the perverse synergy between poverty and poor health. Says HSPH professor and Antares cofounder David Bloom, an... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
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Newman's Own Brand of Charity
profits would have to go to charity. "To make money off that would be so tacky," he noted. From the outset, Newman eschewed costly market research and ignored industry wisdom that new product launches... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Dhruv Agarwala, MBA 2002
real-estate marketing service headquartered in New Delhi. In appreciation of the part HBS has played in his life as well as his ties to India, Agarwala designated his 10th Reunion gift in 2012 to support the School’s India View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Selling Digital Privacy
If regulation won’t stop privacy invasion, what will? HBS professor John Deighton has an answer that involves convincing companies to pay us consumers to use our private information. Instead of relying on regulators to protect our privacy against telemarketers, data... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
markets that don't yet exist. How then can managers identify and assess market potential? The simple answer is that you must "sense" a market's potential by actually being where the technology is emerging.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire
tools and techniques of which their contemporaries were only vaguely aware to serve markets which, in some instances, they had to create." In a recent interview, Tedlow described Giants of Enterprise as a labor of love. "I have been... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
The Small Business Difference: How Smaller Companies Manage with Less
systematizing a business so it will run without the owner’s hands-on attention; and dealing with government, especially over tax and regulation matters. These concerns, Bowen told his audience, closely conformed with those expressed by the companies in his View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
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Faculty Symposium Honors McArthur
A faculty symposium, "Breaking New Ground: Initiatives in Management Education, 1980 - 1995," was held October 9-11 at HBS to honor former Dean John H. McArthur for the many initiatives in research and course development he instituted... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice