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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Alumni Books
pressing business challenges, such as managing creative employees, navigating the IPO process, and protecting intellectual property. Raising Venture Capital for the Serious Entrepreneur by Dermot Berkery (MBA ’91) (McGraw-Hill) This sourcebook explores the basics of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
shoppers deliberating over a luxury goods purchase. “Marketers can convince consumers that buying their product is actually a farsighted behavior,” she observes. “In that sense, consumers are investing in future memories.” —JH Tsedal... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
Ickis (MBA 1971, DBA 1978) REISNER: One of the hottest areas of investment growth is in cross-border shipping, but there are two core problems: In an age of terrorism, customs are commercial constraints and also valuable public safety... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
costs, transforming the country over the past decade into the world’s workshop. In 2003, China ranked as the world’s major recipient of foreign investment — nearly $53 billion. It is on pace this year to attract even more. Long-term... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
INK: The Lessons of Blitzscaling
Bhartia and Raamin Mostaghimi (both MBA 2014). The book gives early readers insight into how to add value and avoid checked luggage, plus lessons on the language they’ll need to manage up: When a partner asks for 15 hours of work in the next hour, for example, “P is... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
how each of them had a great influence on the way my thinking has been applied in my chosen field." "C. Roland Christensen had the greatest impact on me," notes Feeley. "He got me focused on strategy and policy issues. I've spent all of... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
"Today's top management needs to move beyond its focus on strategy that defines a rational product-market position to a sense of purpose that captivates employees' attention and commitment," Bartlett asserts. Managers, he says, "need to... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
India, and other countries in Asia and the Middle East will no doubt continue to have very competitive manufacturing capability. Europe and America will have to continue to invest in manufacturing innovation to keep up. I’m confident that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Case Study: Alumni Advice for a Health Care Startup
might make the employer wonder whether your product(s) will in fact do a better job. —Teg Rood (MBA 1976) I would recommend building some detailed customer use cases to solidify your value proposition. If you can establish some new variables on the View Details
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
classmates for two years built poise, which is incredibly important when you’re constantly in front of customers, retailers, investors, or even the Sharks! Wiegele: “We also took a digital marketing strategy and e-commerce class... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
president of corporate development and strategy at the Madison Square Garden Company, which now hosts esports events in its venues across the country. “But, to use a basketball analogy, esports is still in the beginning of the first... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
a decent profit decently. Venture philanthropy, which applies principles of venture investing to social enterprises, has become a hot topic lately. Is venture philanthropy a good idea? The first generation of venture philanthropy had its... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
putting users at the center of strategy leads to an almost unfair competitive advantage; ways to build an organizational system that delivers a superior user experience that is replicable, consistent, and scalable; common shortfalls that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
efforts—dubbed the Meth Project—and a decline in drug use, surveys showed the number of Montana high school students who said they’d used the drug declining by 45 percent between 2005 and 2007. Now Shaw wanted to import Siebel’s strategy... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
Reform, taught by HBS lecturer Stacey Childress (MBA 2000), who later served on Given's board. And Childress, now at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—which invested heavily in Hall's Growth Fund—has provided funding for a charter run... View Details
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Wired for Innovation
Working in a small fishing village on the Panama-Costa Rica border, Skelly helped to make decisions about micro lending in order to generate small-business growth. “I didn’t know much about business, but when you’re trying to figure out where a $500 View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
priorities for most people . The well-established mass market for skin creams also continued to grow .A new marketing strategy for Pond’s Vanishing Cream and Pond’s Cold Cream sought to persuade women to incorporate both creams into a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
seemingly more risky — than innovation. In business today, in nearly every industry, the imperative to grow has driven managers to try any number of new strategies and technologies to gain an edge. The trouble is, just because you change... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
to clarify the characteristics of successful investment and financing decisions," says Sahlman, who has taught the course for the past eleven years. "The goal in the course," he adds, "is to provide students with an accelerated dose of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
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Making Their Way
Chirchirillo was able to establish a foothold in China. That import model, however, was only intended to be an interim strategy to build a global capability, and in 2008, Chirchirillo purchased a precision metal-stamping company in... View Details