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- 06 Jan 2012
- News
Where Are They Now?
Mahesh checks in from the factory floor. Courtesy Krishna Mahesh Related Links Alum startup wins HBS contest New Venture Contest: Call for entries Upcoming webinars for entrepreneurs HBS New Ventures group on LinkedIn “I am still amazed by our win,” says Krishna Mahesh... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Steven Rogers
the corner store, and helped his mother, a single parent of four, sell furniture at weekend flea markets. Although his family was "periodically on welfare" and food stamps were a regular part of life, Rogers describes his upbringing with... View Details
- 26 Aug 2009
- Op-Ed
Where Cash for Clunkers Ran Off the Road
short-term incentive programs designed to shape consumer purchase behavior. It has no experience in such initiatives and proved itself incapable of forecasting demand associated with different incentive levels. And the auto industry hardly deserved special treatment,... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Short Takes
Bulletin. In her working paper, "Psychological Safety and Learning Behavior in Work Teams," Edmondson presents field research she conducted at Office Design Incorporated (ODI), a midwestern manufacturer of office systems and furniture... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
delivered to my house tonight, where it will be set up and ready to go. Lal: Furniture is often sold that way today. It's a showroom where your order is customized and delivered in six weeks. Q: What retail segments are most vulnerable to... View Details
- 02 Dec 2021
- News
Learning Curve
Melcher. She served as president and handled the business side of the growing school, from learning to write a budget to scouring used furniture stores for inexpensive desk chairs and finding ever-larger classroom spaces (the school moved... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Ink
column was a way to explore the link between a business leader’s workspace and the culture of his or her organization. Along the way, Raje—former chief executive of BP Ergo, her family’s office furniture business—featured the hotel... View Details
- 25 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
New Learning at American Home Products
Confectionery, including Wrigley's chewing gum and Brach's candies, provided another 11 percent. Household products, including Ecko hardware, Woolite (a cold-water wash), Black Flag insecticides, and Old English furniture polish, added 14... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Long-Term Investor: Dick Jenrette
1968. "Owned" is perhaps the wrong word, for Jenrette seems to be more curator than owner as he moves from room to room, pointing out the Rembrandt Peale portrait of George Washington above a fireplace, the suite of silk-upholstered Duncan Phyfe View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
As a girl growing up in Riverdale, New York, Ivy Ross (PMD 68, 1994) was surrounded by modern design — and disliked it. The home she lived in and the furniture she sat on reflected the avant-garde sensibilities of her father, an... View Details
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Commencement 2012 Address | About
their home to celebrate the person’s life, much like a Christian wake or sitting shiva in the Jewish tradition. So we emptied all the furniture out of the main living room for our guests, ordered food, and made arrangements. We figured... View Details
- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
says, executives whose companies extract resources will feel an obligation to return the favor, whether it's a furniture company that plants trees to offset its extraction of lumber or a bottling plant that initiates a water conservation... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
founded Kvadrat in the 1960s. Byriel and Bendix had joined Kvadrat in 1992, and since that time, Kvadrat had grown from 19 million in annual sales to over 86 million. It had expanded its focus on selling textiles to European architects and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
Beiersdorf, to its Nivea line, following the events of the A case, and how the commercial success of the product informed thinking by leaders in R&D for the future. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/Nivea--B-/an/614043-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The State of Customer Service Leadership
the short-sighted and inward-looking approach to marketing that focuses on the needs of the company instead of defining the company and its products in terms of the customers' needs and wants. If IKEA founder and CEO Ingmar Kamprad had simply thought of his business as... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Leslie Gold
Gold Illustration by David Cowles Leslie Goldbloom (MBA ’85), aka Leslie Gold, the RadioChick, first established herself in the male-dominated world of talk radio as cohost of Two Chicks Dishing on Boston’s WRKO in the mid-1990s. She later moved to New York’s WNEW,... View Details
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tips to Reinvent the Department Store
Retail and Luxury Goods Conference on April 3. Chadwick noted that while department stores used to be where shoppers went for everything from baby clothes to furniture to power tools, many stores have now limited their assortment and... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
to children's furniture and toys. Upon leaving the Commission six years later, Franklin joined the Wharton faculty. However, her public service continued. She served four terms as a member of the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and... View Details
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
telephones sometimes resting on the carpet where furniture had not arrived. Things seemed to be moving fast even for the placid Bussgang, who said, "It's a real challenge putting together a group of people who have never worked... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
outsource. Initially they outsourced customary household tasks, but now they are outsourcing unconventional tasks, like event help for birthdays, IKEA furniture assembly, city-to-city deliveries, and others. “As clients embrace the... View Details