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- 08 Sep 2011
- What Do You Think?
What’s Apple’s Biggest Challenge: Replacing Steve or Wall Street?
pursue opportunity and successful new product development in spite of investor impatience. The real challenges may lie elsewhere, for example "the market place," as Jasper Ojongtambia suggests, or competition from companies like... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Making Eco Easy
opportunity to create products that enable consumers to easily do the right thing,” says Paiji Yoo. It’s a sentiment shared by founding member Gina Pak (MBA 2015) who, as Blueland’s head of Marketing and Experience, was the one to deliver... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 26 May 2016
- News
W. James McNerney Jr., MBA 1975
find its way forward after a series of mergers and acquisitions, high-profile ethical missteps, and some tough business challenges. His job was to build on strengths, connecting what was good with what could be better. “Boeing had... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Short Takes
to ensure that environmental resources are replenished for future generations - as there are people discussing the issue. But with increased pressure on businesses to consider the costs of their actions to society and the environment... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors
15–17 in Shanghai. The forum presents a terrific opportunity for alumni to hear from Fortune 500 global business leaders, government officials, HBS faculty, and prominent U.S. and Chinese leaders. Outside the conference, attendees have a... View Details
- 19 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Privacy Protection Notices Turn Off Shoppers
Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. “When people weren’t presented with a privacy notice, their purchase interest was about twice that of those who had... View Details
- 05 Oct 2016
- What Do You Think?
Can the US Economy Regain the Growth and Prosperity of the Past?
very proficient in mobilizing capital to stoke innovation and create new industries for sustained growth. It should focus on immense global market opportunities ” Tip Parker suggested what those new global View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Jan 2015
- What Do You Think?
SUMMING UP: What Are the Limits On Workplace Transparency?
the business to 'roughly' understand what a person was earning . Each role was assigned to a pay range. The greater percentage of that range was awarded dependent on performance, benchmarked through goals and objectives agreed earlier in... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
Day in IFC: Meghana Dhar (MBA 2017), Japan - MBA
driver of purchases – “It will always be important for the customers to touch and feel our products.” In an interesting change of tone, Yanai-san then asked us for our opinions on Japan’s place in the global market and how View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Andrea Silbert
realize their potential. “I find running a mission-oriented business incredibly fulfilling,” says Silbert, seated in a CWE conference room in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood. She is surrounded by posters depicting her organization’s success... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Entrepreneurs Speak at HBS
companies with estimated annual revenues of $4 billion, is one of the world's most colorful business leaders. His oft-repeated message: "If your business isn't fun, it's ultimately going to be worthless to... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
chocolate-chip cookies. Fox, who owns Community Bakery in Little Rock, Arkansas, says he never imagined he'd one day make his living absorbed in the business of food and its many challenges, including long hours, the unending demand for... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- Profile
Eric Sonnier
As a resident of Houston, Texas, it may have been inevitable that Eric Sonnier’s first business experience as a co-op student during his junior year in college was related to the oil and gas industry. At Caterpillar Global Petroleum... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
INK: The Bookshelf
is not a general book about public speaking. ...It is a guide for business leaders and, in particular, people on their way up.” —Tim Calkins (MBA 1991), clinical professor of marketing at the Kellogg School... View Details
- 17 Feb 2011
- News
Field Report: Rwanda
relating to the radio company, which was completely fascinating because it gave us an excuse to talk to eight of the biggest firms in Kigali about their marketing strategy and to compare how they did business,” says Barry, a former... View Details
- 11 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #2: Sam Steyer, Greenwork
U.S - he was struck by the owners’ lament that they just couldn’t hire enough skilled trades people, industrial painters and welders, for example. Their pain point led Sam to start researching the world of green skilled trades. Initially, Sam and Gautam saw their View Details
- Profile
Phillip Michael Strazzulla
triggered a desire to become an entrepreneur. He did sales at a startup marketing company and thought, “I can do this. This is really fun.” He graduated with the belief that building something would be far more fulfilling than... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The Climate Needs Aggressive CEO Leadership
Corporations are facing great uncertainty. For the world to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the United States eventually will have to put a price on carbon dioxide emissions, as has been done by Europe, parts of Canada, and California. To plan for the... View Details
- 11 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices
American lawmakers attempting to stem spiraling drug costs might find inspiration in Germany, where the government’s regulatory model has been curbing price growth without thwarting innovation or access, says research from Harvard View Details
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
spending needs as well as economic factors such as rising interest rates that affect different assets in different ways. Viceira's research analyzes asset allocation strategies for personal and institutional investors. He teaches investment management and capital View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen