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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
up front, given people a discount for paying a year’s worth of services in advance, and employed a number of other innovative tactics, the company turned cash-flow positive in its third week of operations and thereafter simply coined... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
change can level the playing field. Social distancing has disrupted the traditional connection-based networks of venture capital. No one is going out for drinks anymore and there’s less small talk over Zoom. In the online environment,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Vital Signs
around for a long time but with slower adoption than what we’d like to see. COVID has provided the momentum to bring more care online as providers adapt to the situation. Especially for clinics and hospitals that are treating COVID... View Details
- 01 May 2015
- News
Celebrating and Supporting Leadership
innovation in the MBA Program, such as the field method and HBX, the School's new online education platform. Intellectual Ambition—Pursuing cross-disciplinary faculty collaboration, generating important and relevant scholarly work focused... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Giving Amazon the Boot
When the coronavirus pandemic led many brick-and-mortar retailers to close their doors, consumers turned to online shopping in record numbers—US ecommerce sales rose by 31.8 percent between the first and second quarter of 2020 to $211.5... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Evolution of Modern Pricing Models
can go really high tech, with algorithms behind the scenes that post prices at very high frequencies, or you can go the route that we took in collaboration with Zalora, which was to approach the problem by designing the online store in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Straight to the Heart
Starbucks latte but are still willing to pay $10,000 to hire a matchmaker. There’s also a backlash against online dating. I’m actually a big fan and recommend that clients date online while I’m also fixing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
deliver this spring’s Commencement address. As he greets a visitor to his bare-bones office in Mountain View, California, there’s little evidence of this former hedge-fund analyst’s meteoric rise to rock-star status as a kind of online... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
us.” Bit by bit, Wilcox eked enough money out of the customer (using “charm, logic, bluster, you name it”) to keep the company going for six more months. Coming out of that moment, he also took steps that changed the company’s culture substantially by hiring new View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
Launched in 2017, Clay is an artisanal ceramics startup for the sharing economy. Founder and CEO Rukmini Giridharadas (MBA 2014) has partnered with potters in the Bay Area to offer their wares online to the chefs, caterers, and florists... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Hybrid Learning the HBS Way
hands, and easily participate as if they were in the room, too. “This completely homegrown piece of the design is probably one of the most essential aspects of . . . [our] hybrid experience,” said Justin Fowler, an audiovisual design engineer at HBS. In all, 21 hybrid... View Details
- 11 Dec 2014
- News
Fashion's Retail Revolution
Áslaug Magnúsdóttir (MBA 2000) in the New York office of Tinker Tailor, her new online couture business. When HBS first turned a scholarly eye to retail in the early 20th century, department stores were king. Institutions like Filene’s... View Details
- 17 Aug 2022
- News
To Serve and Protect the Markets
Jones and her staff in the SEC’s Atlanta office manage the enforcement, examinations, and business operations for five states: Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Alabama. Along with SEC headquarters in Washington,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Broad Range of Interests Among Nine New Faculty
1999), who also joins the Accounting & Management unit, came to HBS after 37 years at Bankinter, one of Spain’s most successful banks and noted for its innovations in technology and online banking. Arena, who holds a Ph.D. in engineering,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 14 Jul 2021
- News
The First Five Years: Nicolas Manes (MBA 2020)
What are your long-term goals for the company? “In the short term, we are raising a new round of financing to boost our growth in Mexico and to launch an operation in Brazil and in Central America. In the long term, we aspire to be the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Losing Our Competitive Edge
high-tech industry after high-tech industry. Unless business executives operating in the United States recognize the importance of manufacturing and grow wiser about outsourcing, the industrial commons — and the country’s economy — will... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
How I Got to Google
create the elective course Product Management 101. Update: A former business operations intern at the software company Autodesk, Soheili recently landed a product manager job at design firm Homepolish. SS: What are the characteristics of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
The Cole Room: A Wealth of Resources for Job-Seekers
recruited at HBS, industry-specific directories, numerous business-related periodical databases, and video- and audiotapes from recruiting companies. Cole Room professionals, experts in finding and using career- and job-related information, guide alumni - in person,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Swimming with the Stream
get ahead of these business model disrupters and be the change yourself? For more in-depth data on the music streaming sector from Statista, see eBaker, our online research portal for alumni. View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Dressing by Number
of expertly picked goodies delivered to your door. (True story: That “aha” moment came courtesy of a delivery of farmer-endorsed seasonal veggies.) Now she’s translated that idea into Stitch Fix, the Pandora of fashion. This rapidly growing View Details