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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Down the Memory Chute
(Written and Oral Communication); and MC (Management Communication). For generations of MBA students indentured to a demanding Muse, the trials and tribulations of report writing became legendary. As far back as 1914, the HBS faculty voted to require a series of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
economy, we’re living in a world where other spheres of economic activity are also becoming important. Emerging markets are certainly a key piece of it. But the unified European market has also become more... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
dynamism—change over time—that underscored the changeable nature of all the component parts. “In other words,” he explains, “who can add what elements to the mix to increase the chances of the venture succeeding over time? And conversely,... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
the School, even as HBS alumni continued to distinguish themselves in the realm of entrepreneurial practice. In 1982, acting on a marketing survey they had conducted as second-year students, David W. Thompson (MBA '81), Bruce W. Ferguson... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Duo Offers Personalized Career Assessment
determined largely by individual "interest patterns" that stabilize in early adulthood. Because these patterns are realized through specific work activities, a given job is best analyzed by examining its underlying activity structure. Looking beyond surface... View Details
Keywords: Bob Binstock
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
tempted to leave, but then I thought about the fact that I had so much riding on this decision to be here, and there were so many people who supported me. The next day when I arrived on the HBS campus, for a while I didn’t see any blacks at all. Eventually I saw one... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
Steven B. Belkin (MBA '71) began his highly successful travel and financial services marketing enterprise, Trans National Group, a few years out of HBS. G. Peter Bidstrup (MBA '59) started to put together the Doubletree Hotel chain in the... View Details
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
Initiative at the Stanford Distinguished Careers Institute. This episode of Skydeck Live is an excerpt from a conversation recorded at Golden’s recent Reunion, where she and I spoke about her new book, Stage [Not Age]: How to Understand and Serve People Over 60, the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
current home just outside the French Quarter, the musicians mix with concertgoers. The relationship, orchestra members say, is like that of a sports team: The people in the seats know the musicians’ names. They have favorite players. The... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
entrepreneurial powerhouse. Carolyn’s mix of pep talk and tough love got Tyra to where she is today, and here they pay it forward to empower readers. Whether they’re writing about watching Tyra’s most imperfect moment go viral or how... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
clamshells with kale and spring mix on-site. Originally occupying only 24,000 square feet of the warehouse, it expanded to take over the facility’s entire 43,000 square feet. “What surprised us was the take-up and the demand, the kind of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
companies: inconsistent supplies, opaque pricing structures, and mixed quality. But instead of turning to outside suppliers, they turned inward, building relationships directly with smallholder farmers and farmer collectives. Like Masha... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
and conducted customer research. “We learned that we needed to provide more than just services,” explains Rhyne, who added prestige cosmetics sales to the mix and wrote a solid business plan that was the only non–Internet-related finalist... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course
consideration: the first (1760-1840), second (1840-1950), or third (1950-present). The mix presented fundamental business problems involving marketing, finance, operations, and human resource management. Koehn's case on Josiah Wedgwood's... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
Future has three major premises: The 1970s oil shocks were not anomalies but part of a major transition for energy users and producers; the “externalities” of energy use (its environmental, social, and geopolitical costs) had to be factored in to energy policy; and a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Eric Schiffer
Schiffer Illustration by Daniel Vasconcellos Founded in 1982, 99¢ Only Stores is the oldest single-price retail chain in the country, with 273 locations in California, Texas, Arizona, and Nevada offering a mix of food, beverage, and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
policymaker in Europe last week, and he confirmed the Japanese auto industry’s belief that its supply chain in the United States would be disrupted should the three automakers fail. That’s because key suppliers are dependent on having a View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
ventured into Kansas City and Chicago. But that meant marketing under a different name — another of Rogers’ many war stories. A year after Rogers and Cronk bought Dreyer’s, a lawyer from Kraft Foods, owner at the time of nationally... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
Professor of Business Administration, gave the second case presentation on First Direct, a "virtual" bank in England that has built tremendous market share by providing services via telephone. MBA Class of 1960 Professor of Business... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
goal: to help big-brand marketing leaders with everything from dealing with vendors to establishing a social brand identity to managing crucial conversations at every level of the organization. The New Global View Details