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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
increasingly scarce. How serious is the problem? It's a tale of two Americas, the best of times and worst of times if you're a consumer in the current U.S. housing market. On the plus side, thanks to the 1990s' economic boom, some... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
apparent, however, is her passion and drive, whether she’s describing a recent IPO, her work with the Food Bank for New York City, or her relationship with God. Whatever the topic, her words come thick and fast, demonstrating the impressive View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group), Bloomberg sees cities as focal points in the struggle against global warming and climate change. Urban areas are now home to half the world’s population, consume half the world’s energy, and,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
social change campaigns to the rest, Crutchfield reveals powerful lessons for change-makers who seek to affect society and the planet for the better. Corporate Diversification: Opportunities Created by the Winds of Change by Brooks Fenno... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
were looking at an icon.” Photo courtesy Joan Levitt In interviews with Levitt’s HBS marketing colleagues, all brought up his love of a provocative argument and a good discussion, as well as the powerful breadth and depth of his mind. “He... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
What Barna wasn’t fully prepared for, though, was the additional obstacles that came from fundraising while female. “Trying to explain the needs and consumer behavior of women buying beauty products to investors who are predominantly... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Speak English, Please!
proficient in English, or risk demotion. “I was simply astonished,” said one engineer interviewed after the announcement. “Many Rakuten employees are allergic to English.” At Rakuten, an online shopping mall that does not sell to View Details
- 12 Apr 2012
- News
HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups
children in real-life situations as they learn experientially through play in familiar environments using a mobile device. canada PIXIE is a website that connects passionate, small product companies, designers, and artisans with their core market while bringing the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
(MBA 1975), president of Women’s World Banking; Rena Clark (MBA 1990), chair and COO of QVS, Inc.; Judith R. Haberkorn (111th AMP), retired president of consumer sales and service at Verizon; Andrea Caren Silbert (MBA 1992), founder and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
“This is where the action is, in the zeroes and the ones.” While the kids lean forward to catch his next act, Enriquez projects on a screen an image filled with 1s and 0s. “This is digital code, the most powerful language in the world,”... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
market-based reforms that have made the country the world’s second-largest economic power. He has helped document that journey as the author of scores of cases, articles, and papers on Chinese business, as well as his recent book, Can China Lead? Reaching the Limits of... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
professional French-horn player, Brooks came to the subject of happiness by way of art. His early research focused on why people produce and consume art and beauty as well as the motives behind human generosity. He discovered that... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Q & A: Pat Russo - Focused on the Future at Lucent Technologies
Fortune magazine's "Fifty Most Powerful Women in American Business." Why has Lucent performed so well since its divestiture from AT&T? We have been growing globally faster than our markets. Our ability to focus on the hottest growth... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
regulation, consumer preferences, or technology change, managers in successful firms often respond with more of what worked in the past — a trap the author refers to as “active inertia.” When new realities call for new approaches, some... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: The Kids Are All Right
also be enduring as they age? —Eric Martin (MBA 1990) HUBERT: There’s no denying 15-year-olds have a very different daily reality than 34-year-olds. But powerful forces have shaped the contours of the generation, tectonic plates acting on... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
arrival at LC in 1994 that the company had done relatively little consumer research, he immediately launched an intensive survey of customer needs. He also performed an asset inventory of the entire organization, which revealed "a lot of... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Jr., and other leaders to become larger-than-life figures; why society works the way it does, and what you can do to positively impact it, and the importance and power of close relationships. Fin Tales: Saving Cadillac, America’s Luxury... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
(PMD 41, 1981) (F.X. Biasi Jr.) This novel tells a story of illegal drugs, murder, and a 150-year-old rivalry between two of North Coast California’s most powerful and affluent family dynasties. Dragons: 10 Entrepreneurs Who Built Britain... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
founding CEO. When the duo partnered again at Handspring, they launched another foundational tech revolution with the smartphone. But long before she redefined consumer technology, Dubinsky customized bowling shirts. When overcrowding at... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
1981. The School's Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration, Herzlinger is the author of seven best-selling books, including her landmark volume Market-Driven Health Care (1997), which analyzed the revolutionary impact of View Details