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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Digitalization: The Key to the Future of HBS
to speed on these topics? In what way will this digital transformation affect alumni interactions with the School? We should be able to give them a much more customized experience. For example, we might ask alumni: Given your life stage...
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- 01 Mar 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
is still an industry, with economic inputs, business models, competitors, value chains, and a dynamic, challenging marketplace. Gaylin examines each of the major segments (Broadway, regional theater, orchestra, opera, and dance) along...
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- 01 Jun 2013
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Collective Wisdom
prize. In a community-based setting, you give up IP in exchange for complementary assets that create value for customers. Then there's the fear that my competitors will find out what I'm working on. Open companies have adopted a nuanced...
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- 01 Jun 2003
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Up Against The Firewall
essential steps toward achieving cyber security. Such actions include assessing the value of the firm’s vital information, the risks to it, and the appropriate degree of accessibility and protection it warrants. There should be regular,...
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- 01 Dec 2003
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Business Answers the Call
of Hazleton Laboratories Corporation, a Virginia research and laboratory-services company, Nielsen returned to his native Washington State. “I had retired early and decided to devote the balance of my working life to something totally...
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- 13 Feb 2019
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We’re All Going to Get Hacked
right here, was totally encrypted, it’d be great. A lot of it is, but not all of it. Then we wouldn’t have to worry about You could just leave the doors unlocked, if we had fully encrypted data. But we don’t. And it will be a very long...
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- 01 Jun 2001
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Q&A: Donna Dubinsky
initiatives — Apple, Claris, Palm, and Handspring — and it’s been rewarding to look back and see all the value and products created, as well as the customers served by those efforts. The Visor PDA uses the...
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- 04 May 2017
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Going the Distance
where he worked 13 years for Cisco Systems during its meteoric rise. His passion for engaging with customers led him to run a global support organization for Cisco’s biggest customers. While at Cisco, the company sent him to HBS’s...
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Jill Radsken
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
After the Storm
totally honest with you.” The charter network faced a Chicago political landscape in upheaval, with a teacher strike looming and a heated mayoral race underway with education as a focal point. And then, in the fall of 2018, the...
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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
and managing director at BCG Digital Ventures, Walter Delph (MBA 2003) works with companies to develop apps, connected devices, and online content—including video—that will engage customers on a level that goes beyond the straight sell....
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HBO;
Netflix;
Hulu;
Vimeo;
YouTube;
Telecommunications;
Information;
Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Feb 1997
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Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
Amgen people is helping to cure patients and improving their quality of life." « Back Information Plus Imagination In this era of connectivity and universal access, Michael R. Bloomberg (MBA '66) has found a niche based on customization...
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- 12 May 2022
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Onboarding
couple of hiccups on some other ones, which I won’t go into, but in fact, there was one I stepped off from because I couldn’t accept how it was being run. So you just have to do what you think is right for where you are going to play a part. And if you can’t play that...
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- 01 Jun 2005
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Do You Speak Business?
you’d be hard-pressed to tell their nationality,” says Deshpandé. “Among other distinguishing characteristics, these firms tend to have intrapreneurial cultures that encourage and reward risk. They are quick to market and invest a lot in View Details
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Apr 2000
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A Place in the Sun
Eden of 75-degree temperatures, where you can breakfast on fresh guavas and relax into a way of life that values family and friendship over keeping up with the Joneses. Such was the path chosen by Richard Evanson (MBA '62), owner and...
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Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
annual sales total $436 million—a number Birnbaum projects will climb to $1 billion by 2016. So how did the company get its fizz back? First, Birnbaum invested in product innovation, something the previous ownership hadn't touched in a...
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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
special public protections and oversight. Because it’s scarce, it has an economic value, but that value must be affordable to the communities we serve.” Based in New Jersey, American Water is part of the British multinational RWE Thames...
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- 01 Sep 2014
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Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
employer (1,100 workers) and biggest taxpayer ($500 million and counting). “If we treated the Afghans with respect, it would create a brand loyalty and empathy they’d never had a chance to experience before,” Khoja says of the company’s initial, basic strategy. “In...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
going through the process of pricing discovery over time and optimizing for the best LTV to CAC [customer lifetime value to customer acquisition cost] ratio, which brings you to questions of scale. As of...
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- 01 Oct 2002
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View from the Top
people in the company and the person who is working the assembly line or answering the phones. How do you stay in touch with those who work for you? Mühlemann: Walking around, seeing customers together with colleagues, e-mail,...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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Fair Trade
pharmacies making concoctions for their customers, could become so international. Today the ten biggest companies collectively account for over one-half of sales throughout the world. The two biggest, L’Oréal and Procter & Gamble (P&G), account for over one-fifth of...
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