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- 01 Jun 1996
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Reinventing Marketing
The following article is the fifth in a series on the activities and research taking place in each academic unit at HBS. "With the time-honored marketing maxim "the customer is king" now reverberating throughout all parts of the firm, the traditional corporate... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
particularly business travelers, will appreciate the efficiency of this scenario. But can “air taxis” really take off in the current economic climate? Will companies economize by placing an even greater... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
look ridiculously easy, but it's not. It involves hard work that takes a considerable amount of focus and dedication." HENRY McCANCE Yale University, 1964 B.A., Economics "At HBS, I remember the challenge of analyzing difficult problems,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
Illustration by Dan Page In a company as large, complex, and prestigious as Lehman Brothers, one would expect to have found seasoned, astute, well-informed directors to oversee the managers and the risks the firm undertook with... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
most companies, the financial risk remained too high to justify the potential reward—a situation that too often led to dangerous vaccine shortages. It was at this moment that Moderna turned its attention to vaccines. The company had been... View Details
- 09 Oct 2015
- News
Balancing Progress and Preservation
than just financial gain,” he stresses. Some of his most successful deals have involved conservation easements that minimize investment risk while creating economic value from parcels that merit... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
of diversification (vertical, horizontal, and tangential) available for growth and explains how they might be identified, evaluated, and effectively pursued. He also addresses the opportunities and risks of each category. Choosing the... View Details
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
identify risks and issues, and develop the business case. The two-month recruiting process for the first cohort included reaching out to organizations such as Autism South Australia, targeting verbal individuals age 20 to 30, either with... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
part, to the sector’s famous reliance on personal relationships and pattern matching. “We’re already seeing the current economic changes impacting women disproportionately as some women have to drop out of the labor force to look after... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
School. There was a range of feelings about the fact that out of a class of 700 students there were only 6 African Americans. LAMBERT: We had absolutely no idea of whether Dean Baker would be receptive to even discussing a change with us, or whether we’d be kicked out... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
to unplug. Decker Susan Decker (MBA ’86) came straight to HBS from Tufts University, where she majored in economics and computer science. As an analyst at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Decker covered Yahoo!, a company she would join as... View Details
- 28 Oct 2021
- News
Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity
society. Applegate, an entrepreneurship expert, broke down the steps that Pivotal Ventures has taken to “bend the curve” with gender equity, including developing an ecosystem model, managing risks and measuring the impact of investments.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
grow their business. Stewart, an award-winning CFO and veteran entrepreneur, shares his expertise and insights to help entrepreneurs more fully understand how a bank thinks about them and their business as a credit risk and a loan... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
that drives economic advancement and development. It’s a process she’d eventually like to go home and be part of: “I believe,” she says, “in South Africa and its future.” —GE Rob Sundy Sundy at Harvard Stadium. Rob Sundy describes himself... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
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... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
persons from 1999 to 2016. Beyond the devastating personal costs, there is an economic toll, too, caused by rising health care expenses for overdose prevention drugs and addiction treatment, criminal justice costs, and productivity loss... View Details
- 18 Nov 2020
- News
Networking Goes Truly Global; Confronting Institutional Racism with Case Method Webinar
to recent political and economic shifts or part of a deeper social and cultural history? What can be done to address this crisis in our criminal justice system? The HBS Association of Boston (HBSAB), in partnership with the HBS... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
The Baby Business
health, morality, and fairness, it is high time, she says, to consider how to bring order to this chaotic arena. Is this really a “market,” and if so, how big is it? We don’t like to think of children as economic objects, and yet over the... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
multiple sectors. But I also continued to have this desire to look for ways to have impact and to make a difference. And in building businesses, we do that. We create jobs. We create economic growth. We do have an impact. I continue to be... View Details