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- 12 Jun 2014
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The First Five Years: Minal Mehta (MBA 2011)
meet incredibly talented fitness instructors, dancers, and entrepreneurs who are making a real difference in people's lives by encouraging and embodying healthy living themselves. "The most challenging part is building a fitness brand on...
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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
launching Anomalie in 2016, she was a supply-chain manager for Apple Watch—and a bride-to-be in search of a wedding gown. In the process, the self-described TOM nerd discovered that one city in China produces 75 percent of the world’s...
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April White
- 24 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 24
performance on immaterial issues perform the best. These results speak to the efficiency of firms' sustainability investments, and also have implications for asset managers who have committed to the integration of sustainability factors...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 May 2017
- Sharpening Your Skills
10 Harvard Business School Research Stories That Will Make Your Mouth Water
Starbucks Reinvented Nancy Koehn's case study on the rebirth of Starbucks under Howard Schultz "distills 20 years of [her] thinking about the most important lessons of strategy, leadership, and managing in turbulence." How...
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- 01 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Much Time Should CEOs Devote to Customers?
product managers spent on average only three percent of their time in contact with end consumers. Terry Leahy, CEO of Tesco, the UK supermarket chain, spends two days a week in stores interacting with employees and customers. But how far...
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by John Quelch
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?
brand over another based on their patients' requests? A recent study, Physicians Report on Patient Encounters Involving Direct to Consumer Advertising, focused on one aspect of pharma DCTA: What do physicians think about all of this? What...
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by Manda Salls
- 19 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 19
abnormal returns associated with routine traders are essentially zero. Further, opportunistic insiders predict future firm-specific news, as well as announcement returns around future analyst forecasts, management forecasts, and earnings...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Rock 100: The Summit - Entrepreneurship
Stevenson Professor of Business Administration Joseph B. Lassiter , Senator John Heinz Professor of Management Practice in Environmental Management Meredith L. McPherron , Director of the Arthur Rock Center...
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- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
Alvarez, and research associate Dan Greenberg (Harvard MBA 2012). Their new book Retail Revolution: Will Your Brick-and-Mortar Store Survive?, predicts, among many other things, the continuing decline of major brick and mortar brands...
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- 28 Mar 2019
- News
California Alumni Explore Role of Capitalism in Addressing Climate Change
Alan Horn (MBA 1971), chair, Walt Disney Studios; Roland Hwang, managing director, Climate and Clean Energy Program, NRDC. Alan Horn (MBA 1971), Chairman of Walt Disney Studios and Chair of the Natural Resources Defense Council’s (NRDC)...
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Margie Kelley
- 28 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research, February 28
success factors for managing business experiments at the “incubation moment,” which appear to improve the prospects of success. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52307 forthcoming Strategy Science...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2011
- News
An HBS gift guide
accessible travel easy to find and up to date for people with all kinds of physical challenges.” Help Brehm spread the word Previous Next Supporting African vineyards Selena (MBA 2003) and Khary Cuffe (MBA 2006) Founders, Heritage Link View Details
- 29 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 29, 2008
potential: (1) project complexity, (2) cross-functionality, (3) temporary membership, (4) fluid team boundaries and (5) embeddedness in organizational structures. We argue that effective management of these five attributes allows not only...
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries
Telesom ZAAD initially made mobile money services free and managers focused on customer acquisition and training employees to effectively explain the service to prospective customers. In addition to gaining indirect revenue from a...
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- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
decision by the Bush White House to provide more than $20 billion to GM, Chrysler, and their financial subsidiaries, the auto task force put together by President Obama managed a restructuring of both companies at a breathtaking pace....
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- 29 Apr 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
situations—gives them energy and motivation to fill out housing applications or job applications that they simply didn’t have before.” What does your role at ArtLifting involve? “A little bit of everything! As COO, my job is to work closely with our CEO to View Details
- 29 Jan 2021
- News
Holding Business to Account
Photo courtesy Geeta Aiyer Photo courtesy Geeta Aiyer In the early 1990s, Geeta Aiyer (MBA 1985) was an analyst and portfolio manager at the United States Trust Company of Boston. Among her investments was Albertsons, a rapidly expanding...
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- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Anand G. Mahindra, MBA 1981
Vice Chairman & Managing Director, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION Harvard College, 1977 A.B., Visual Studies (Film) LESSONS FROM HBS “Having seen that ninety bright minds in an...
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Jessica Gelman
looked past age 30. Today I am the Director of New Business Development for the New England Patriots, and a key strategic and operational advisor to the franchise's Executive Management team. I am thrilled to be tasked with...
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- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Risks and Rewards of the Intrapreneur
said, is that the start-up's mission was in alignment with the company's core business. For would-be intrapreneurs, the advantages to a corporate start-up versus a jump to a brand new company can include increased visibility within the...
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by Sean Silverthorne