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- 19 Mar 2012
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NFL Players to Tackle Custom Program at Harvard Business School
- 01 Dec 2023
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Thinking Ahead
also requires forethought—and some caution. “It’s important to remember that customer loyalty will be to the influencer first—not necessarily your brand—just as we go to Walmart to make purchases without a View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
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The Imposter Among Us
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Peter Arkle It was their rst day at Harvard and like the rest of his cohort, Edgar Wallner (PMD 22, 1971) will never forget meeting Robert Gaines-Cooper. Frankly, it would have been difficult to miss the Englishman, who... View Details
- 26 Nov 2019
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The Ritual Effect
savoring a meal to coping with grief, his research shows that rituals produce a truly astonishing array of psychological and emotional responses that are specific to—and often specifically helpful... View Details
Keywords: rituals
- 01 Sep 2023
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Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
Sullivan (MBA 1991), former CEO of Match.com, joined Ancestry.com as president and CEO. Over his 12-year tenure, he would oversee the company’s expansion into the global market, with geographically specific sites for Australia, China, and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
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Case Study: Testing the Waters
Illustration by Christina Spano Endurance training was nothing new to Lauren Picasso (MBA 2014), who’d raced through her younger years as a cross-country runner and swimmer. In 2017, when she was director of marketing at Jet.com and looking for a physical challenge,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
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Vital Signs
had taken aim at this market, but none had fully addressed the specific challenge of empowering front-line health workers, she adds.) Gresser had seen firsthand its potential utility: After getting her MBA and pursuing a career in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
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Curb Appeal
Jessica Tisch (JD/MBA 2008) has a problem. And she couldn’t be happier about it. It’s a chilly February morning in Lower Manhattan, and Tisch, who was appointed commissioner of the Department of Sanitation (DSNY) last April, has only hours to pivot the world’s largest... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
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In Full Flower
At Bloom & Wild, delivering a joyful experience that fits through a letter-box door slot (Courtesy of Bloom & Wild Group) When Aron Gelbard (MBA 2009) cofounded London-based Bloom & Wild in 2013, he did so with a specific goal: to make sending (and receiving) flowers... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
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Case Study: The Home Team
crop-data companies that build customized hardware and software modules that run on the platform; another category of companies is building tools for physical manipulation that the Burro can carry through the fields. “We think the fastest... View Details
- 12 Mar 2021
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My Favorite Case
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Taylor Callery Scroll the main story to read all alumni submissions or jump to a specific case here: “Suzuki Samurai” Paige Arnof-Fenn (MBA 1991) “Johnson & Johnson: The Tylenol Tragedy”... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
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An Engine of Innovation
how to lay the groundwork to build an enterprise. Propel is for students who are further along with their ventures and have revenue, investors, and customers figured out. Some Explore students will progress to Test and Propel, and may... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 11 Apr 2024
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Mission Control
founder and CEO of Spire, a global provider of space-based data, analytics, and space services.Making good on those long-term goals, Platzer says, was the result of building a very specific mission for himself while he was at HBS: "To... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
“That’s something, at least right now, that the Amazon algorithm has been unable to crack,” says Raffaelli. When the brown paper came off the windows of BookHampton at the start of the summer season in 2016, regular customers found a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
We see a strong push from customers and investors to adopt climate-positive policies and products. And we see movement to adopt policies that emphasize human consequences, these in addition to traditional approaches to compliance with... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
dollars in lost sales and customer goodwill. Ton is currently working with a nationwide chain to estimate the magnitude of this problem and identify its drivers. "We have found large and systematic variation in performance in 250 stores... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
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Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade
business metrics. Stell’s extremely specific market is a blessing and a curse. The long-serving engineers might not frequent LinkedIn, but they certainly find other ways to connect. These may be trade shows or even ancient mailing lists... View Details
- 26 Aug 2016
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Improving Wellness Through Better Nutrition
diseases—heart disease, renal disease, celiac, diabetes, cancer—are influenced by the food we eat,” Burrough notes. By providing freshly made meals with ingredients customized to meet specific nutritional... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
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Ask the Expert: Human Intelligence
early-stage venture capital firm Glasswing Ventures, Seseri is more focused on today’s “narrow” artificial intelligence: technology capable of mimicking human thought processes and learning when applied to a specific task. “If you go... View Details
Keywords: April White