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- 01 Jun 2004
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Luxe Redux
Cashing in on the $60 billion global luxury goods market has never been tougher — or more rewarding. Competition is keen. And consumer preferences are constantly shifting, causing the concept of luxury itself to change over time. As a...
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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
combination offered by Ford Motor Company’s management training program. While he excelled at leading teams to solve engineering-based manufacturing problems, it was a stint in sales and marketing that changed his life. “I was on the job...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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Lords of Strategy
strategy revolution was a way of systematically putting together all the elements that determined their corporate fate, in particular, the three Cs central to any good strategy: the company’s costs, especially costs relative to other companies; the definition of the...
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- 01 Jun 1997
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Blockbuster Deals
year. Those megamergers, combined with thousands of smaller transactions around the country, reached $650 billion, "nearly twice the dollar volume and the number of deals of the peak year of the 1980s," according to the Wall Street...
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Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 11 Aug 2020
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Find Your Allies
making decisions to issue millions of dollars of bonds,” she says. Today, Harris is vice chairman of global wealth management and a senior client adviser at Morgan Stanley in New York, which she joined in 1987. Harris says she wasn’t intimidated by the lack of...
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- 22 Aug 2020
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Bluemercury’s Marla Beck on How Covid-19 Is Changing the Beauty Business
Marla Beck (MBA 1998) Marla Beck (MBA 1998) Bluemercury cofounder and CEO Marla Beck (MBA 1998) recently spoke to the Wall Street Journal’s Secrets of Wealthy Women podcast about how her company has adapted during the pandemic. One of...
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- 01 Jun 2014
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Spring Training for Startups
The Winners Most Innovative, Greatest Impact (via online voting) York Street Partners Transforming financial markets to support Sri Lanka's development Best Investment (via HBS Alumni Angels) Busbud Busbud...
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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
One-on-One with Thomas Riley
with programs related to strengthening education, the parliamentary system, job creation, and investment. But as the top part of society is going one way, things can still slip in the other direction if problems on the Moroccan street...
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- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
brother-in-law. Gordon works with partners like Benedetti and the Kempinski to plan events and conferences at the hotel; today, they are discussing a joint US road show to sell Cuba as a travel destination to luxury and corporate travel agents and some related View Details
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Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 24 Apr 2014
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Helping one child led to improving the lives of thousands
Gerald Chertavian (MBA 1992) volunteered as a Big Brother and saw firsthand how urban youth suffered from a lack of job options. He wrote his HBS application essay about starting a program to connect those young adults with a growing need for entry-level labor. After...
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- 19 Mar 2015
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Walter Salmon Remembered
first became interested in marketing and retailing while in college, working part-time at Bloomingdale’s and then in a New York buying office for a large group of department stores. After earning an MBA (1954) and DBA (1960) at HBS, he...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
husband and two children across the country for a job at a no-name Internet start-up. What changed your mind? I spent the day at eBay. I learned that users were deeply dedicated to the site, which had a compound monthly growth rate of 70 percent. It was a View Details
- 18 Apr 2022
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Home Grown
kind of scaling itself up and mobile internet coming to the foray, developing countries will actually kind of rise because you know, now every consumer would have a computing device in their hands. And if that were to be true, then View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
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1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
Groman said, "we are on the verge of an era in which quantitative analysis will fundamentally change the nature of marketing, much as it changed Wall Street in recent years. The 'quants' are coming to marketing, and View Details
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Daniel Penrice
- 01 Jun 2017
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Supercharged
promise of better charging infrastructure, and evolving trends in foreign markets all indicate that EVs are approaching a global tipping point. But with political winds imperiling government incentives in the United States and China...
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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
Bank after a distinguished career as a Wall Street investment banker. "I wanted a program that would stimulate their thinking and make them aware of different approaches to problem solving and implementation of alternative courses of...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
No Bull — Nancy E. Havens-Hasty (MBA 1971)
When Nancy Havens-Hasty stepped onto Wall Street after graduating from HBS, her first account as a corporate finance associate was not one of Kidder Peabody's several computer company clients, despite her background as a physics major at...
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Linda Goodspeed
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Faculty Books
must serve "the new invisible hand," powerful, pervasive markets that affect almost every decision leaders make. As a result, struggle has become a central, nagging issue. Badaracco recommends addressing this "good" struggle head-on by...
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- 01 Jun 2006
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The Baby Business
market. As an individual, you don’t want to stand out on a street corner and tap people on the shoulder and ask them if they’d like to donate their eggs or their sperm to you. You want an arm’s-length transaction. That creates a nice...
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- 01 Oct 1996
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Lasting Impressions
better." Graduating from HBS at the dawn of the psychedelic '70s, the Class of 1971 nevertheless seemed to follow in the footsteps of generations of MBAs before them, opting for careers on Wall Street or in manufacturing, real estate, or...
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Deborah E. Blagg