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- 08 Sep 2014
- News
What You Don't Know About Sales Could Hurt Your Strategy
- 12 Dec 2018
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Lesson Plan
Caravia—a store remodel that includes a new seating area, for example, or sales and marketing efforts such as branded merchandise and an increased social media presence. Caravia is a sanctuary of sorts, a space where Cognetti can recharge... View Details
- 22 Oct 2014
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Aligning Strategy and Sales with Frank Cespedes
- 01 Jun 2011
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The Best-Laid Plans
morning known as “Super Saturday,” 63 student teams present these and other ideas in the Aldrich classrooms where other people’s ventures are the usual topic of discussion. Judges — a mix of angel investors, VCs, serial entrepreneurs, and industry executives — score... View Details
- 18 Feb 2014
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Stick with Plan A
MADDY "When I have my mind set on something, I do not create a Plan B," says Monique Maddy (MBA 1993). "I feel that it lessens my commitment and my focus. If it doesn't work out, I come up with another Plan... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
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Business Plan Contest Has Many Winners
contacted the 705 alumni who took part in the Business Plan Contest between 1997 and 2004. The survey’s 269 respondents reported starting 254 enterprises, with nearly 200 businesses still up and running and generating $550 million in... View Details
- 27 Jun 2016
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Ulf Mark Schneider Has Plans to Make Nestlé Healthy
in 2015, compared with 4.2 percent rate for the group as a whole, while Nestlé is aiming to lift annual sales of health products to as high as 10 billion francs. The health operations also bring stronger profit margins. The group’s... View Details
- 09 Dec 2014
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The Discipline of Business Experimentation
- 01 Dec 2023
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Thinking Ahead
can be its own source of value.” Citing a family outing to Crate & Barrel, De Freitas describes the care a sales associate showed in packaging their purchases and loading them into the car. It could have ended with the painful process of... View Details
- 13 Jul 2023
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The Network Effect
Karan Mathur (left) and Dina Model (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Karan Mathur (left) and Dina Model (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) When Dina Model and Karan Mathur (both MBA 2015) met through mutual friends during their first year at HBS, neither was envisioning a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
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In Harmony
Kim at Seoul’s government-built Hoehyeon “Citizens’ Apartments.” Opened in 1970, it stands as a reminder of a Korea from a very different era. Like so many South Koreans of a certain age, Michael ByungJu Kim (MBA 1990) lives in a country where the past lingers,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
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Counter Intelligence
he took over, Pret, reportedly valued at $1.9 billion when it was acquired in 2018 by JAB Holdings, had more than 550 shops, with the majority in London and outposts in major cities worldwide. But just a few months into his term, the pandemic changed everything. Pret’s... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
- 01 Dec 2023
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Rounding the Bend
Illustration by Fernando Cobelo To help people visualize what a circular economy could look like and bring the challenges down to a closet-sized scale, Emily Bolon (MBA/MPA 2007) recommends the following exercise. First, make a mental tally of the number of garments... View Details
- 16 May 2024
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On the Job
Shamrock factory on Lake Erie. I also worked with her on Bonnie Bell, which is a cosmetics company, and a marketing plan for this new startup called Leggs, which did pantyhose. Then I worked for International Harvester doing tractor View Details
Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade
- 01 Jun 2023
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Buy Big, Sell Small
least 75 percent of India’s consumer goods sales despite the significant inefficiencies of an outdated business model. “Kiranas are limited-inventory, 2,000- to 5,000-square-foot shops that don’t always get on-time deliveries or access to... View Details
- 11 Mar 2024
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In Harmony
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna; I’m an associate editor at the HBS Alumni Bulletin. Last November I flew to Seoul, South Korea to interview Michael Kim (MBA 1990) of MBK Partners. Often referred to as one of... View Details
- 12 Mar 2021
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My Favorite Case
This was my favorite case in my favorite class, Entrepreneurial Management, taught by Professor Howard Stevenson. The protagonist learned the hard way that she had to plan to manage growth and, unfortunately, her operations infrastructure... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
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My First Job
the rest of the employees were safely leaving the building and that the fire was contained. I learned that real leadership means running toward the fire and being concerned about the safety of others before your own. —John Fees (MBA 1999) Dream Teen I was a View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
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High Honors
expanded into other parts of the country, added four production facilities, and saw sales top $7 million. In 1960, Barford sold his share of the business to his partners and returned home with his family to Toronto. The following year, he... View Details