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- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tips to Reinvent the Department Store
Retail and Luxury Goods Conference on April 3. Chadwick noted that while department stores used to be where shoppers went for everything from baby clothes to furniture to power tools, many stores have now limited their assortment and... View Details
- 21 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Grundfos: Innovation & Inspiration for Sustainable Product Design
essays posted on the HBS Business and Environment Initiative’s Blog that highlights their reflections. Learn more about this IFC course on Decarbonization and Sustainable Production by watching this five minute video summary. Visit Date: January 5, 2023 Twelve days,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Starting Off on the Right Foot
Waldroop, the former codirector of MBA Career Development Programs at HBS who is a principal and cofounder of Peregrine Partners of Brookline, Massachusetts. “You need to familiarize yourself with the hierarchy. Who has the power and... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria
product. In four-drive terms, we would argue that brands would be stronger to the extent they come to represent an implicit promise to the customer that can be trusted, a promise that to some extent addresses all four primary drives. Take Coca-Cola, for example. What... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Faculty Books Published in 2020
flip them in your favor, you create an edge—and your hard work works harder for you. Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments by Stefan Thomke Don’t fly blind. See how the View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 31 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories of 2012
Power of Conversational Leadership Published: July 23, 2012 Communication is always a challenge, especially in multinational corporations. Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind discuss why it makes sense to adopt the principles of... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 15 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Exploring the World of Electric Adventure Vehicles
high-performance SUVs and pickup trucks are as powerful as they are eco-friendly, and are designed to inspire people to get out and explore. “I appreciate what Tesla has done in terms of showing the world how enjoyable electric vehicles... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Shareholders' Value?
Regulation FD, which impairs the free flow of information between companies and their owners. Discipline. Selling can be said to discipline managers by driving the stock price down, but it's hard for one shareholder to have a discernible... View Details
- 07 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence
is all this misconduct occurring now? A: I think it's the confluence of several factors: the use of powerful incentive packages, an exuberance that pushed equity prices to heights that were hard to justify... View Details
Keywords: by Harvard Management Update
- 02 Nov 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
material wealth, but we believe it also leads to a powerful contribution to familial wealth, country wealth, and ultimately, wealth for the continent,” says Royster, cofounder of Maarifa Education, a pan-African education holding company.... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 16 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
The Rise of The Sixes: Interview with CEO and Founder Franci Girard
cater to tall women and make them the center of the shopping experience. Impressed, the team then gave Girard a choice - she could come work with them directly or they would support her in launching The Sixes. Girard was all in as founder and CEO, and the View Details
- 10 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Become a Value Creator
to copy certain colleagues on pertinent emails. "People want to increase their power by keeping that information confidential," Hall says. "But you have to make sure you cc the right people. It's important to keep in mind... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
What Fellowships Make Possible
the salary, sector, or location. The impact of the fellowship program is hard to overstate. In addition to the significant benefits to the recipients themselves, there are countless indirect beneficiaries, including other HBS students,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Bright Future for Green Business
panelists were collectively bullish on solar energy, electric drive technology that powers hybrid and electric cars, and biofuels (including ethanol). By contrast, they were cautiously optimistic about clean coal, nuclear power, and... View Details
- 14 Nov 2012
- News
Remembering His Roots
invest in the educational and professional potential of men and women whose young lives were spent as migrant farm workers. Living by the cycle of fruit harvests, a basic education for these kids was often out of reach or incomplete, and dreams were deferred. Curiel... View Details
Keywords: farmworkers
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Realizing a Dream
who applied, was waitlisted, and then rejected. “I gave it everything I had,” he recalls. He was ready to give up, but his then wife encouraged him to follow up with a call to HBS’s admissions director, Laura Gordon Fisher. “I know who you are. We had a very View Details
- 12 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs
In the 1920s, on pitch black nights in rural eastern Montana, the farmhouse owned by the parents of brothers Marcellus and Joe Jacobs stood out for one reason: it had light, although located far from power lines and gasoline supplies. It... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2017
- News
Finding Purpose in Profit
Photos by Scott Clark Kim Riether Coupounas (MBA/MPA 1995) has an easy laugh. It erupts when the opera-trained singer and accomplished martial artist is asked whether hitting a high C helps power her fist through a stack of boards. “I... View Details
- 01 Apr 2020
- Blog Post
How Scott Linzmeyer Crafted a Business He Loves at Reveler Beverage
needed for work and family life so he could prioritize what mattered most to him. With that in mind, he has worked hard to develop a team he can trust, planned business growth around his family needs, and modeled to his employees the... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998
for cosmetics needed to be more customer focused, so in 1999 she launched Bluemercury, a retailer of high-end beauty products. Perhaps the most obvious evidence that Beck’s thoughtful strategy and hard work have disrupted the beauty... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young