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- 01 Dec 2012
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Faculty Books
professionals must make a critical shift in their mindset: from hours worked to results produced. (See page 18 for a Q&A with Pozen.) Strength in Numbers: The Political Power of Weak Interests by Gunnar Trumbull (Harvard University Press) Professor Trumbull argues that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Better Hiring Through Brain Science
was already awash with sophisticated algorithms employed to match people with the perfect Amazon purchase, Netflix binge, or Friday night date. Why hadn’t anyone applied these models to match people to their perfect career? MORE Polli... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
to invest all that money? Typically we’ll invest a new fund over a three-year period, and then go out and raise our next fund. Accel IX, which we started investing in January 2005, is very much focused on consumer Internet, mobile... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Q&A: Donna Dubinsky
in the hearts of consumers more quickly than camcorders, personal computers, or cell phones. In the Palm, Dubinsky and her colleagues created a sleek, portable tool that can be “synced” with a desktop computer to store information such as... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
that we’ve built with our community.” When exploring a new direction or partnering with a new sponsor, she says that “we’re all of a like mind: Is this going to help people find their true north?” That focus on the consumer is nothing... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Timothy G. Brier: The Price is Right
With his thorough understanding of the airline industry's complex pricing policies, Brier was the ideal person to explain to carriers how they, as suppliers, would benefit from the new venture. With the airlines on board, more than five million customers would follow,... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 18 Mar 2014
- News
The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
crunching. Acxiom, say analysts, has constructed the world's largest consumer database. Nearly 25,000 servers track data on 700 million consumers worldwide, including most US consumers, assembling... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
believes their product will gain credibility and appeal with employees. “Ultimately, it’s an easy-to-use solution that saves money and energy,” she says, noting that the modlet usually pays for itself in six to nine months. “We’d love View Details
- 29 Jan 2021
- News
Holding Business to Account
before the model Aiyer envisioned would be christened “impact investing,” she launched Walden Capital Management in 1994 to pursue these dual goals of financial return and social change on behalf her clients. Following Walden’s... View Details
- 04 Dec 2014
- News
Hacking Health Care
Yahoo, pre-Google, we were trying to think about how to have business models in those fields.” Another group of noteworthy campus visitors: Philippe de Gaspé Beaubien (MBA 1954) and his wife, Nan-B, whose deep roots in Canada inspired... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
R&D-intensive fields are likely to correctly predict the success of the firm, but that the same is not true in non-R&D-intensive sectors. Why? Perhaps because success in sectors like consumer software relies less heavily on the initial... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: On the Fly
industry. Would the industry be best served by a model in which these three entities operate under one umbrella? —Marguerite Soeteman-Reijnen (AMP 190, 2016) CARTY: The growth and development of the airline industry over the last 30 years... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
consume carbon dioxide (i.e., greenhouse gas) and turn it into raw materials that could replace petrochemicals. The energy business, it seems, is destined to become driven by biology-based innovation. Developments such as these are all... View Details
- 28 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Connections Drive Career Opportunities for Students
China, saw how social e-commerce operated there, and identified an opportunity to bring a similar model to Latin America. “In Latin America, only 6 percent of the population buys online, and as we’ve seen during the COVID-19 pandemic,... View Details
Keywords: Becca Carnahan
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Judith R. Haberkorn, 111th AMP, 1992
carriers. NYNEX later merged with Bell Atlantic—a fellow "Baby Bell"—and Haberkorn became president of Consumer Sales & Services in 1998. At the end of her career she was leading 30,000 employees. Retired since 2000, Haberkorn continues... View Details
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
provider of a whole range of services—parking, fuel-price data, intermodal routing—centered on the connected car. Although the majority of our data comes directly from consumers—think of it as crowd sourcing of traffic information—we’re not a View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015
“Performer” mind-set. Performers can excel in well-defined areas and are rewarded by big companies, but Producers think up entirely new products, services, strategies, and business models and trust their insights enough to make... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
In VMI Partnerships, the Devil is in the Data
information, it lacks advantages over the traditional model where the retailer just places orders. “When I started my research, there was a belief that these systems were unambiguously beneficial,” says Kulp, whose research on the topic... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Taking the Plunge
high-end, traditional model toilets it introduced to the U.S. market in 1989, the Washlet, as the bidet-toilet is known, has been a much tougher sell. In “TOTO: The Bottom Line,” HBS associate professor Mary Tripsas considers barriers to... View Details
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Engineering a More Secure World
Management. Harris approached the three decades after HBS as if he were tackling case studies in entrepreneurship. From executive positions at utility companies and owning a car dealership, to launching a Silicon Valley startup, each of... View Details