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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
HBS Professors Pearson, Thurston Remembered
his home in Palm Beach, Florida. He was 80. While a partner at McKinsey, Pearson was recruited by PepsiCo to be its COO, and soon became its president as well, serving the company for fifteen years. During... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Carving a Niche
strategy for building Faction embraces that aura of distinction (“for the few” is one tagline) while leveraging several key retailing trends. “The average size of an interesting, exciting brand is smaller and more premium than View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 12 May 2016
- News
Food Rescue Is on a Mission
drove it to Sacred Heart Mission in nearby St. Kilda where it became soup and solid meals for hungry families in need. “The role of the food is not just feeding people. It also... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 24 Mar 2021
- News
Clubs Reaffirm Equity in Community Partners Work; Alumni Angels Invest in Member Education
companies worth $306 million since its launch in 2019. Moderated by Betsy Odita (MBA 1998), Executive Director of Ultra-High Net Worth Strategy at Morgan Stanley and Deal Co-Chair, Alumni Angels, HBS Club of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
Alfred M. Zeien
When he became CEO of Gillette, Zeien immediately began coordinating a change in the firm’s overall business strategy as well as in the mission statement. He aimed to have every one of Gillette’s products, which range from razors to... View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs
competitive move would probably trigger retaliation from the attacked retailer, who would subsequently try to steal the focal retailer's loyal shoppers. It can easily be seen that such a strategy would... View Details
- 20 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Moving from Supply Chains to Supply Networks
Moreover, in today's world, we're already beyond the point where supply chain is the right term because it denotes a linear set of linkages between firms. I'm just waiting for the time when people no longer say "supply chain"... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Debora L. Spar
and law. Is Lewis being premature in his "Internet changes everything" scenario? Spar: I think he is. Lewis is right, I believe, in arguing that the Internet is a radical technology and that it has showered both wealth and power... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
global standard. This was historically contingent on the unique circumstances prevailing at that time, but once the standard was in place, the marketing and branding strategies of firms helped to make it... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
has been growing 30 percent annually since 2006. In the years ahead, athenahealth announced, it would nearly double the size of its workforce, to some 5,000 employees. It would... View Details
- Profile
Rocio Parra
With a father who has a PhD in electrical engineering, and two older siblings who also pursued engineering degrees, it seemed only natural that Rocio Parra would continue the family's engineering tradition. "I always assumed that I... View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making the Most of Government Upheaval
Beginning with Chile more than twenty years ago, Latin America has experienced a wrenching yet exciting transformation of its predominantly inward-looking, state-driven economies to a robust acceptance and practice of open-market... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
- 26 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
Climate Week NYC 2023
Climate Week in NYC makes my head spin. But I’ve decided that, at this moment, head-spinning is a good thing. There is just so much activity at the intersection of business, policy, creativity, and society more broadly when it comes to... View Details
- 06 Aug 2020
- News
Defining Flex Work
The COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the workplace has been seismic, causing many companies to completely rethink their strategies and models. It was especially disruptive, says Anna Auerbach (MBA 2010),... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar
facility. Instead of building or acquiring a facility, as it might have done in the past, the company could establish "swap-type" contracts with perhaps multiple parties, in which it would deliver crude oil... View Details
Keywords: Elizabeth McNair
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep
testing and implementing quantitative strategies could become much easier. That could make it tougher for quant managers by introducing more competition, or it could help them... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- Web
Impact on Research & Curriculum | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
critical new approach in the management consulting field. Kenneth R. Andrews. The Concept of Corporate Strategy . Homewood, Ill., Dow Jones-Irwin, 1971. Show caption Hide caption Societal forces also propelled changes in the HBS... View Details
- 09 Mar 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
In This Classroom, Beer Can Improve Your Grade
outside vendor for the Strategy course, but Casadesus-Masanell said that there were several shortcomings in that arrangement. It was hard to alter the model to align closely with the objectives of View Details
- 27 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Development while Decarbonizing - Understanding India’s Agriculture Landscape
across the country. It is no surprise to most that human activities are taking a toll on the composition of Earth’s atmosphere. These changes have been linked to not only adverse reactions in environmental systems, but also significant... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Commitment to Leadership
At its core, HBS is committed to educating leaders who make a difference in the world. In the early 1990s, I had the privilege of leading the development of an MBA course on leadership which was introduced into the required curriculum... View Details