Marketplaces - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 1998
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Diversity and Community

toward attracting and retaining a diverse workforce with the skills to achieve the company's marketplace goals. The input of diverse ideas improves company decision-making. By contributing their thoughts on new business possibilities and... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Jun 2004
News

Luxe Redux

not just a $10,000 restaurant-quality stove. Creating, marketing, and selling the “killer app” product that captures that meaningful quality in an increasingly crowded, noisy marketplace is luxury’s ongoing challenge — and for alumni who... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; luxury; Retail Trade

01 Mar 2006
News

The Producers

marketplace mean studios are making fewer and bigger movies. “Corporations are about reducing risk; making movies is about taking risks,” says Zee. “The safest bet seems to be franchises and big, expensive movies. But where is the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information

01 Mar 2017
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017

to think. He describes a dramatically new organizational model, based on new technologies, which will provide organizations with unprecedented levels of self-awareness and sentience, the ability to sense, understand, and respond to View Details

01 Jun 2017
News

Life in Lockdown

marketplace for neurotechnology digital health products, was accepted into the Harvard i-lab Venture Incubation Program and the Rock Accelerator; she is now working on it full-time with cofounders Brian Smith (MBA 2017) and Sofia Warner... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; photography by Chris Churchill

01 Jun 2011
News

The Best-Laid Plans

MBA 2011) were semifinalists in the 2010 contest with FashionStake, a “community-curated marketplace for independent fashion” that circumvents the traditional department store model by giving consumers a voting voice to determine which... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; contests; Health, Social Assistance; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

28 May 2019
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019

high-speed Internet, game-changing technology, and innovative new platforms, you can go from idea to marketplace on a shoestring budget and join the growing movement of successful makers who’ve built their businesses from the ground up.... View Details

01 Feb 1998
News

Running Up the Score

the marketplace and changed the economics of the game." Fortunately for the business of sports, sports themselves enjoy a truly unique competitive advantage: despite innumerable affronts to their devotion and their gripes notwithstanding,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Apr 1998
News

World Class Learning

holds the "monopoly position" in the world marketplace it once enjoyed. "Students come here to learn, but they also have a responsibility to teach," he observes. "They have been admitted to HBS on the basis of their unique experiences -... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

01 Jun 1996
News

1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"

business practice in this area." Next year's conference will also be considering a special case of business practice, as seen from ective. From April 5 to 8, in Hong Kong, the 1997 HBS Global Alumni Conference will examine the world's fastest-growing View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

22 Feb 2022
News

March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

marketplace status quo. Demanding a voice and sometimes a hand in the products they buy, these digitally empowered consumers― “Me’s”―have inverted the traditional power dynamics of retail into metail. To put it simply, your customers are... View Details

01 Mar 2004
News

New Horizons for Iraq

Gurfein and friends at Iraqi marketplace Courtesy David Gurfein Marine Major David (“Bull”) Gurfein (MBA ’00) was a platoon commander during the 1989 invasion of Panama and the first Gulf War. He left active duty as a reservist in 1998... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; James E. Aisner; Julia Hanna; National Security and International Affairs; Government

01 Oct 1996
News

Leading In a New Era

marketplace (made up of Levi Strauss and VF Corporation, followed by Claiborne, Jones, and then a host of $50- to $500-million firms). "With the right combination of human and technological resources," Charron adds, "we can respond... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

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