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- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Supplying Demand
When it opens next year, Los Angeles' new state-of-the-art sports complex will bear the name of a $7-billion international retail giant, a newcomer that will join heavyweights such as United Airlines, Anheuser-Busch, and MCI in seeing its... View Details
Keywords: Paul Michelman
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
It’s Time to Rethink Your Global Logistics
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
What Makes a Good Leader
latest developments in leadership to HBS alumni and other executives all over the world. What Change Demands of Us, a new Executive Education course developed by the initiative, will be offered later this year. The initiative draws on the... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 02 Nov 2023
- News
Seeding Startups
Shirish Nadkarni (MBA 1987) was the director of product planning for Microsoft’s MSN when he decided he was ready to become an entrepreneur. He had recently led the growing internet portal’s 1997 acquisition of Hotmail, the first free, web-based email solution, and the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Returning to the Roots
It’s not a role he sought or expected. But when his brother died of a brain tumor late last year, Florent Latour (MBA 1999) became CEO of Maison Louis Latour, a winemaker established in 1797 in the Burgundy region of France. The 11th generation of his family to lead... View Details
- 28 Mar 2024
- News
Rooms with a View
Alexander Mirza (MBA 1997) has spent two decades in the hospitality industry, opening and growing major hotel brands, including Hilton, Starwood, and Caesars, with locations around the world. And with each new project, Mirza faced the same primary challenge. “It didn’t... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
booming. Banks and companies, eager for a piece of the action, invest heavily in production capability. Not surprisingly, a market can soon become saturated with too much product; consequently, demand drops, revenues slow to a trickle,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
digital computer, a room-sized behemoth that sported 18,000 vacuum tubes and resembled the unholy offspring of a fuse box and a telephone exchange when it was unveiled in 1943. “This is the complexity you need to run five qubits,” Levy says, referring to the... View Details
- 26 Jun 2013
- News
How a Trivial Pursuit Became a Significant Case
resources beyond his current control to pull the project together. He successfully raced to get TV Guide's TV Game distributed to both high-end and discount retailers (priced accordingly) in time for Christmas 1984—and just ahead of market saturation and flagging View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Pet Project
distribution, a new brand must have high velocity (i.e., unit sales per store), which comes from frequent repeat purchases by loyal customers. Converting retail shoppers to DTC—if Maev could figure out how to do that—would reduce... View Details
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
should CEO Dan Case take to balance the competing demands of maintaining the firm's culture and positioning it for future growth? “Mine came after business school. I came back here with my best friend, who was the subject of a case by Tom... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Zone Defense
differently,’” Tseng says. “I know what that means: Someone could have gotten killed.” If Brandon Tseng was prescient about the demand for technology that could reduce the risks associated with indoor-clearance operations, Ryan Tseng... View Details
- 21 May 2024
- News
A New Chapter
Joe Wolf (MBA 1999), cofounder and co-CEO of Imagine Worldwide, wants to provide educational opportunity where it is needed most. “In the next 30 years, half of the world’s youth will be sub-Saharan African,” says Wolf. “Right now, the World Bank reports that only one... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
supporting the Global Citizens Assembly (for more on this, check out this piece by former HBS professor Bob Eccles in Forbes). How can your business support fundamental systems change? What unites these businesses and the leaders within... View Details
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
colada, the standard offerings for non-drinkers—even at special occasions—can feel like real kids’ table fare. Royle and Wood saw a demand for adult beverages as interesting and complex as a satisfying cocktail, just without the alcohol.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
of economic development that lifts all boats isn’t quite happening—yet. The next wave of change that needs to take place in Chattanooga isn’t as straightforward as cleaning up the city’s air or developing its waterfront, impressive and successful as those efforts... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
Highway As cities reshape themselves and populations increase, demand for goods will rise. And if the pandemic taught us anything about supply and demand, it’s that the trucking system—once largely unnoticed—can become a real bottleneck.... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Home Base
firms, and investment houses, to Pfizer, Disney, Lincoln Center, and even the US Air Force. “These organizations are talent-driven and operate in demanding circumstances and markets,” Dowling notes. “They want actionable, resonant... View Details
Keywords: April White